New-York tribune., 1905-07-12
Nssn.ilnrls z1sniI1p Gribmars
WEDNESDAY. JULY 12. 1905.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-Advices from Kustenjzi said that
the commander OF the Russian squadron there
was afraid 10 order his warships 10 put to sea.
the men being ready TO mutiny because of the
arrest Of number Of the Kniaz Potemkines
crew. = There was further fighting at War
saw between strikers and troops twenty per-
sons being killed or wounded. 80 Major Cen
eral Count Shuvaloff. prefect OF police at Mos
COW, was assassnated while receiving petitions.
- Admiral kataoka reported that Cape No
toro on Saghalien, commanding La Perouse
Strait, had been occupied after short lombard
ment - Captain Bougoun, the French resi-
dent OF Toxic, who was arrested spy, was
found guilty and sentenced to ten years i'm
prisonment. - More than a hundred miners
were killed by explosion in No 2 pit of the
United National CoIiery Company at Watts
town, Wales; siXty-eight bodies have been re-
covered. == France sent messenger to Fez
TO notify formally to the Sultan the acceptance
OF the proposal for conference; NJ Rouvier
and Prince Radolin are working on the pro-
gramme to be recommended. - The report
that Norway had offered the throne TO Prince
Charles of Denmark confirmed; King Ed
ward Is reported to be in favor Of the plan. -
Collins have been prepared for the members of
the crew of the French submarine boat Farfa-
det, which is stiu deeply embedded in the mud
Of the harbor near BiZerta.
DOMESTIC.-The evidence in regard to the
cotton report scandal was turned over by the
Justice. and every effort will be made to punish
those implicated. - William j. Calhoun OF
Chicago, was appointed g special commissioner
toaVenezuea by President Roosevelt. 80 The
Mayor and two policemen of Newport, KY. were
arrested on federal warrants for resisting the
attempt TO put Caleb Powers in an unusually
exclusive cell on Monday night. - Governor
Higgins declared that he reason for a
legislative investigation of the Equitable and
expressed his opinion that the public would be
satisfied with Superintendent Hendricks's re-
port when il was finished. - There were
eleven deaths from the heat in Pittsburg -
John E. Madden brought suit for divorce at Lex
tngtOn, Ky. = The monthly crop report OF
the Department Of Agriculture showed the fol-
lowing percentages of condition: Corn, S7.3;
winter wheaI. S2.7; spring wheat 81: oats
921: barley, S1-5; the acreage OF corn was given
as s4,eol0G0, an increase Of 2,0S0,000.
CITY.-Stocks were weak. - John D.
Rockefeller. through his attorney, replied to an
article on him by Miss Ida Tarbell published in
the July "McClure's Magazine" == Heat and
humidity caused death and many prostra-
fions. - over two hundred children, guests
Of the Tribune Fresh Air Fund, left New-York
for Binghamton. == The contract between the
tsthmian Railway and the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company was abrogated. - Archbishop
Farley said that the Catholic colleges must
adopt modern methods. - The report that
Miss Ethel Barrymore was to marry English
guardsman was denied by her friends. - 1t
was announced that Tarbell Wilson and Bren-
nan would be retained in the Equitable.
THE WEATHER.-Indications for to-day:
Showers light south winds. The temperature
yesterday: Highest, 81 degrees; lowest. IA.