New-York tribune., 1905-02-20
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1905.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-According to St Petersburg dis
patches the Russian court is in state of ter
ror. the authorities being unable to guarantee
the safety Of the members of the imperial fam
lily outside their palaces. - The strike spread
in the capital number of government factories
having been closed Indefinitely; Russia has been
compelled to order S125, 100000 worth of
munitions abroad. = a dispatch from Mos
COW said that the identity of the assassin OF
Grand Duke Sergius had not yet been discov-
cred; the people were admitted to the in
the Chudon monastery, where the grand dukes
body lay - Field Marshal Oyama reported
that the Russians continued to build defensive
works and TO shell the Japanese line; a small
infantry attack on Friday repulsed by the
japanese. =- japanese newspapers comment
IN sympathetic terms the death of Grand
Duke Sergius - The report that the engage
ment of the German Crown Prince and the
Duchess Cecilia has been broken is disCredited
at Berlin. =- Peru has protested against the
recent Chilian- Bolivian treaty
DOMESTIC.-The Senate this week will proba-
bly, send the Statehood bill 10 conference and
viii spend the time in consideration of supply
bills and in finishing the Swayne case; the House
will consider the Naval River and Harbor and
sundry civil appropriation bills. - 1t is eX-
pected that four more members of the Union
faction in the Delaware legislature will bolt
from Addicks this week - s. W. Battle.
nidshipman at ANNAPOLIS died from heart
disease while at dinner formation. == Timothy
Shea, second vice grand master of the Brother
hood Of Locomotive Firemen, announced at New
Haven that there would be no strike on the New
Haven road except as a weapon Of last resort.
- 1t was said at Albany that the present
week would be the busiest of the session of the
legislature, with a number of important hear
ings. - Herman s. Cheney, OF Southbridge,
Mass, admitted that the securities which
announced as lost by a Boston law firm be-
longed to HING the value placed at S2S5,UUU.
- The officers Of the Joy Liner Larchmont on
her arrival at Providence r. l., reported to the
police that murder had been committed on
board in the night. -= A rector at Rochester
cTiticises the Church, declaring that its essential
doctrines blocked its progress.
CITY.-The same highwayman who held up
and robbed Mrs. Cornish of a diamond brooch
assaulted and robbed an aged book dealer. =
1t announced that the Commercial Gable
Company would soon lay another Atlantic cable.
80 Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, after a visit to
the Metropolitan Museum Of Art expressed him.
self in favor of Sunday opening for the Mu-
scum. - A man accused five others Of trying
to burn him alive. St Cornelius's Epis-
copal Church was consecrated by Bishop Greer.
- The police found three trunks, full OF
plunder in the room occupied by three hotel
bellbcys who were arrested. - Part of the
crew and three women taken from a dismantled
schooner We're brought to port.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Esrtly cloudy, rain at night. The temperature
yesterday: Highest, 30 degrees; lowest, Is.