New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-07
FOR THE BUSY MAN.
Constant Reader Tells What He
Missed inLast Weeks Papers.

Both are having their troubles" replied
Constant Reader. In Warsaw one hundred cltl-
zens were shot down on May Day. and sixty
two were killed. About TWO hundred more were
wounded. Troops wantonly fired upon a pro-
cession OF workrnen bearing red flags. An or
der had been issued forbidding such parade
Others we're killed by bombs. Many were also
killed and wounded May Day in Lodz Else
where IN Russia, however, the first OF May
PASSED with less serious disturbances than the
government had expected. Later outbreaks
however, occurred, which ended fatally. In
LODI, on May + seven Roman Catholics were'
slain by COssacks."
Chicago has hardly suffered as badly as that
"As the result Of the present strike in that
city three persons have been killed and Iot
wounded. The striking teamsters defy the po-'
lice and deny business men the peaceable use
Of the streets. The local authorities are prac-
tfcallv powerless TO control the situation. and
e committee Of prominent merchants asked the
Governor 10 stop rioting with the militia The
Sheriff Of Cook County was also called IN 10
Quen violence and bloodshed- 1t was Just nine
teen years ago. Il you remember chat Chicago
was terrorized by the Haymarket riots"
HAS Chicago's Mayor done anything yet
toward buying up the street railroads for the
city,
Mayor DUDne made a statement thai Chfcago
II
here's more news for you. There were heavy
snovstorus in the Northwest The President
has ended his hunting trip, after being storm
bound in the Rockies for three days. Congress-
man Frank I. Brandegee. Of New-London. was
nominated by the Republican members Of the
Connecticut legislature 10 succeed Orville H
Plat, as United States Senator. The Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad lost 100000 from a delay
in ordering II 900 freight cars. While it was
waiting the price Of steel went up. Captain W.
A Raiborne, Of the 29th Infantry, at Salt Lake
CITY, committed suicide after twice shooting
Lieutenant ". H Point. The railroad rate
hearings at Washington are bringing out the
views OF many prominent railroad men. Hugh
/. Bond, Of the Baltimore and Ohio, said that
the antitrust act was responsible for the con-
solfdation Of railroads. James J. Hill. president
Of the Great. Northern, said government control
of railroad rates would cripple business. The
international railway congress met in Washing
ton and was welcomed to that city by Vice
President Fairbanks. Nearly thousand dele
gates were present. Secret Service officials
rounded up q big lottery gang, which has been
flooding the country with tickets and fleeing
the people Of thousands Of dollars. An explo-
sion at Wnburton. okla, entombed thirteeng
miners"
= .I read that the Observation-Disclosures TO Venez-'
klueIa vas coming back"
y Mr.. Bowen has been recalled and w. w.
2 Russell, American Minister TO Colombia, is 10
take his place. Nj. Barrett, Minister TO Panama,
VIII take Mr.. Russers place Mr.. Bowen, on
reaching Washington, viii be asked 10 substan-
tate the charges he made concerning Mr..
LOOMS, Assistant Secretary OF State. Governor
Davis Of Panama. has also been asked to return.
but for far different reasons. He has suffered
30 much from malaria that Washington thinks
Dc cl7a IN
what a stir the legislature made at Albany"
ssha legislature adjourned amid much scandal.
The McCarrenites, by dint OF great activity,
killed the gas bill which was intended to grant
New-Yorkers most relief by cutting down the
price a thousand feet to 80 cents. All the other
bills resulting from the gas inquiry were passed.
Senator Stevens, head Of the investigating COM
mission. said the defeat Of the S0-ceut measure
was due 10 the Democrats and the lobby. The
other gas bills are those fixing the price of cleo
t-4city TO Nev-York City consumers and to the
city itself, and providing for the daily inspection
for quality and pressure Of gas by the New
York City Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas
and Electricity. and establishing a State COM
mission to guard consumers Of gas against
tortionate prices. The Niagara grab bill was
finally killed. The bill transferring the power
Of granting franchises from the Board Of Alder
men TO the Board Of Estimate was passed over
the Mayors veto. Other bills passed were the
steinway Tunnel bill. the bill increasing the
Railroad Commission 70 FIVE members, the bill
lengthening the Mayors term to four years. the
bill for State water Commission and Mayor
1IcClellan's water bin. All Of the police bills
framed by the Committee Of Nine were killed
The Assembly Judiciary Committee recon-
Taended The removal OF Supreme Court Justice
Warren 2. Hooker. P. Tecumseh Sherman was
made State Commissioner OF Labor IN place OF
John McAIackin, who was accused OF neglect In
enforcing tho child labor laws.
whats been going on Ground town."
THE third trial OF Nan Patterson ended in q
disagreement Of the jury. She had hoped to
clear herself Of the charge Of numbering Cesar
Young, the boolunaker. The girl IS said to be
nervous wreck The Equitable fight continues.
=. II. Knowles accused Gage Z Tarbell Of CIV
ing large rebates in writing insurance James
w. Alexander, president Of the corporation, re
signed as trustee Of the Hyde estate stock Mr..
Hyde and Mr. Mcintyre refused to accept his
resignation, and said they would insist on court
action = motor cycltst racing with an auto
mobile was killed by o train. The Sheriff
stopped z Sunday baseball game Members Of
6 quartet dismissed from the Rockefeller Bible
class threatened to take the case to court. Mr..
Hopper, Superintendent OF Buildings, dismissed
three and suspended two inspectors for the col
lapse Of Harlem nathOuses. Mayor Mcclellan,
n appointing magistrate, administered blow
70 President Ha1fen OF the Borough of The
Bronx. Ground was broken for q new college
hall South Field for Columbia University.
In anonymous gift Of 100000 TO the Institution
was announced The benefit for Nine. Modjeska
az the Metropolitan Opera House realized S10-
Coz. Brooklyn veterans refused TO march in the
Memorial Day parade behind ex-Confederates.
A gale wrecked a schooner On the Hudson River
and almost killed three balloonsts. Belmont
Park was opened with the letropoliian TIandf-
cap. iT which Svsonby and Race T<ing ted for
first place. Forty thousand people were present
Norris K JesUp was reelected president OF the
Chamber Of Commerce."
And what Of the war;
big rumors and little news so far. The