New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-22
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FRIDAY. DECEMBER %, 1905.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONVERSATION branches adjourned for
he holiday recess until January 4. The Senate
received the nominations Of Isthmian Conal
Commissioners back from the President and re-
ferred thom TO committee No business was
transacted IN the House.
FOREIGN-The strike at St Petersburg
opened tarely, the chief interest centring at the
railroad station where the government had TO
employ soldiers to start train for Berlin, the
railroad men ali walking out; collisions between
troops and people were reported from MOSCOW,
where workmen declared fer armed revolt -
Details of the fighting at Tukum. Lvonia.
showed that in the bomhardment of the town
400 refugees were slain after a captain and
twenty-four dragons had been killed by the
-evolutionaTies. 81 Advices from Riga dated
Saturday state that much alarm exists there, the
whole countryside of Livonia being in the hands
Of haIf-armed bands of farmers and farm labor
ers, the Diet having adjourned after appealing
to the government for prompt action - The
new British Premier, Sir Henry Campbell-Ban-
herman made his first speech in his new ca
pacity in Albert Hall, London. declaring the
dscal question the prime issue, announcing that
more Chinese would be imported into South
Africa until the people could pass on the Ques-
ton. expressing friendly foreign relations ana
deprecating huge ornaments - oroer was
reported restored at Shanghai, but q French
cruiser and Portuguese gunboat are on the
way To that port TO protect national interests
- Hugh Watt, former member of 9arlia-
ment, found guilty in London Of melting
hired agents to murder his divorced wife, ana
sentenced TO five years penal serV1tude-
DOMESTIC-The receiver for the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton Railroad announced that
pay interest on January bonds. - Anthra-
cite coal miners in Pennsylvania were ordered
10 work from Christmas 10 New-Year's instead Of
taking the usual holiday. - The bodies of two
Phiiadelphians killed by bandits in Mexico were
not surrendered TO their relatives. An ex-
Governor Of Wisconsin entered the Old Peoples
Home. near Madison. - Statements were
made by Congressman Fassett and Colonel Dunn
Ex-Governor Odells statement. = Mrs.
Ingerick, whose daughter murdered with
the Olney brothers, stated at Middletown. y. Y.
she had never seen c. H. Rogers, who had been
suspected Of the crime. "A storm killed two
men near Scranton, Penn. - Cambridge,
Thomas Taggart, at Indianapolis, issued APP
peal to the rank and file of the Democratic
party
CiTY.-Stocks were irregular - Superin-
tendent Hendricks, of the State Insurance De-
partment, testified before the investigating
committee that the work of his examiners had
largely been TO determine the solvency of the
Sergeant Eggers. trial for not raiding dens Of
vice charged Commissioner McAdoo's secretary
with using his power TO prevent a raid on a GER
teln house OF f. repute. - The designations
Of Mayor Mcclellan, John Claf1in and Joseph H
Choats from the directorate of the S. P. c. a.
q point L ths suit for divorce brought by her
husband when Vice-Chancellor Pitney decided
rat ID. Duke was a resident Of New-Jersey
49, The Fidelity Trust Company got in
1Credon at Trenton stopping the destruction of
cna s,evsted structure in Eoboken. - The
fngutrv intc the methods of the Theatrf-
Gel Trust ty the District Attorneys office
sves RhruIytlT terminated by order from the
Supreme Court
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Fair. The temperature yesterday: Highest, 81
degrees; lowest, 81