New-York tribune., 1905-02-05
Arspllork DAILY Qribrrirs
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY o, 1905.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS s-Senate: The Statehood and
Agricultural Appropriation bills were dlscusseu'
House: The Diplomatic and Consular AppTo-
priation bill was passed
FOREIGN-The situation in Russia shows
few signs of Improvement; further Strlkes are
reported from st Petersburg, and the work
mems movement continues to spread in Poland:
80 mcement weather seems TO nave halleu
operations a large scale in Manchurla; sew
eral outpost actions were reported by the Jap
auese and Russian commanders; there are ru-
rnors in St Petersburg that General Kuropatkin
has asked permission to transfer ms coillliia1a anu
to General LineVitch. =- -Four batuesnlps anu
three cruisers are expected TO leave Libau for
the East about February IA -- Money ana
arms have been obtained for a revolution IN
Venezuela according TO a report from CURACAO
- An insurrection has broken out in Argen-
tina; reports Of the spread OF the movement are
conflicting == Advices from Paris said that
no confirmation could be obtained Of reports
that the North Sea Commission inclined 10 the
from London that a British proposal to estab-
lish Christian Governor General in Macedonia
had been coldly received by all the powers ex-
cept Italy. -= Louis Ernest Barr1as, the
sculptor. died at Paris.
DOdESTIC.-Under Attorney General Moody's
drawback de ecision, it is pointed out in Washing
ton American manufacturers engaged in eX-
port trade may obtain practically free raw ma
terials. - 1t was authoritatively announced
in Washington that this government will not
assume ccntrol of the finances of Santo Donlin-
go until the agreement with that country has
been ratified by The Senate. - President
Roosevelt in q letter 10 Secretary Hitchcock
explains the distribution Of Indian school funds.
== Two tranmen were killed and more than
score of passengers were injured when an en-
gine on the New-york Central railroad eX-
ploded at Whitesboro. n. Y, and hurled all the
cars of a passing train from the rails; Justice
Warren B. Hooker was among those seriously
hurt. - One man was Killed another pIooa-
bly, fatally injured and third seriously hurt
in q collision of freight trains on the New
Haven railroad near Poughkeepsie, N Y -
Nine persons were injured in a collision Of trains
the Delaware and Hudson Railroad at Platts-
burg, n. Y. - Fears OF Goa! famine are
entertained in PittsbuTg- =- Windows twen-
ty-two miles away were broken by an explosion
Of go pounds of nitroglycerine at Mont
pelier. Ind: the men in the building will re-
cover. -= The supervisors of Fulton County
passed resolutions TO fight the bill of Assembly
man Steele for apportioning parcels of Hamil-
ton. County TO Franklin Herkiner and Fulton
counties Reu0rfs from NeW-Eneland and
New-York State showed unusually severe
weather conditions: Newport and Providence
harbors are practically ice bound. as is also the
Maine coast as far north as Mount Desert;
Vineyard Sound is frozen over for the first time
in the memory of the residents near there;
temperature Of 81 degrees below zero was re-
ported at Rome, n. Y.
CITY.-Stocks were generally lower. -
investigation by The Tribune showed that en-
Iloymeut agency crimes are as general almost
as they were before the law TO regulate agencies
passed in 1904. -= Christopher Smith,
under arrest as the "hold-up robber." was iden-
1ifed positively by several of his victims who
saw him al Police Headquarters. - The
Mayors order commanding the removal of the
subway advertising signs served the
Interborough. == George H. Wood was held
10 await extradition 10 New-Jersey on the charge
Of shooting George Williams, the grocer Of
Watching. in his sleigh. = Plans were
nounced for additional buildings for the Car
negie Institute at Pittsburg. - President
Gompers of the American Federation of Labor
replied to attacks made on ms presence at the
Civic Federation dinner at q Central Federated
Union meeting. = Ex-Governor Odell con-
tinued his conferences with local leaders.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Fair and cold. The temperature yesterday:
Highest p degrees; lowest, IL.