New-York tribune., 1905-03-07
3gesu9lo1'k Dailse Qirihn,re
TUESDAY, MARCH Z. 1900.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CoNGREss.-The Senate met in special ses-
Ion ana received from the President homlnd-
tons of Cabinet m IN bers, dors, minis
ters and others, as well as message urging
prompt ratification Of the Dominican protocol.
FOREIGN-A dispatch from New-Chwang
said that the eaveloping movement of the Jap
snese had been successful, and that scouts OF
Kuroki's and Nogi's armies mad met north CT
Tie Pass. - The action in Manchurla con-
tinUed ali day March and 6. Marquis
Oyama reported gains in the Shakhe River
section; the portions Of General Kuropatkin :
dispatches which were made public told of Jap
snese repuIses only, all descriptive accounts of
the fighting dwell on the enormous losses -
More than half the woTkmen OF ST. Petersburg
are on strike, and The attempt to settle the
labor question by means of conference has
been abandoned. - II reported from
Hamburg that the work Of fitting out the ves-
sells chartered by Russia from German line
had been suspended. - The resignation OF
Mr., wyndham. Chief Secretary for Ireland
seems likely TO produce a Ministerial crisis: the
Ulster Unionists are jubilant over the Chief
Sec-etary's action. - The government sus-
1ains Lord Selborne against Swift MacNeill
Nrish Natlonalist), who accuses the High Com
missioner Of starting the friction leading to the
Boer War. - George McCrae introduces mo-
lion in tie House of Commons regrettIng that
negotiations had not been entered into for gen.
eral reduction OF all naval arrnaments; his mo-
Iion defeated. - The demand for mill
tarp reforms in Hungarian army seems liable
70 Lead to rupture between Hungary and AUS
tris. - Rioting in Barcelona believed TO be
premature development OF anarchistic plot.
Court decided In favor Of the contention Of
James ]. HiA IN the Northern Securities suit.
= Francis Hendricks State Superintendent
nf Insurance, ir a special report made public at
Albany, arqTovos the movement to mutuaiize
fhe Equitable Life Assurance Society; he urges
that The plan u which the directors have com
mitred themselves oe carried out with all pos
slble expectancy. - Answers were filed hy
the defendants IN the suit of the United States
against The General Paper Company and minor
paper manufacturing concerns. - 4 RopVs-
lican State Senator of Colorado declared that
81 800 had been offered to him to vote for
report that Or. Dowie has q cancer caused &p-
pTehensi9u 6 Zion City. - Mrs Chadwick's
fainting brought tire first days proceedings at
her trial at Cleveland 10 a sudden snd -
Senator Grady :till further complicated the gas
situation 1T Albany by introducing a measure
propoEins the regulation oS all gas compan MES
by state commission having powers similar
20 but more searching than those Of the Rail-
road Commission in another field.
CTTY.-Stocks strong and active - At a
late hour il looked # a strike would be de-
cls-ed on the systems Of the Interborough COM
pany. == II was learned that an effort was
peing mace 10 unravel a tang1e of estates man
aged by Augustus T Giliender because his mind
gave way. - Ii was announced that Jacob
y. Schtn had given Columbia University $780,
600 70 endow a chair of social work. and that
Dr. Edward T. Devine would AlI the chair. -
II was declared 70 be likely that the INTERIOR
ough company would be fined for delay in COM
pleting the Fort George line. The Society
for the Prevention Of Crime sent letter TO
Mayor Mcclellan about the police, saying that
if Mr.. McAdoo could not relieve the situation
he should be replaced by some one who could
relieve Il. - Negotiations for the merger OF
Southern iron and steel properties were an
nounced as off for the present.
THE WEATHER.-Indications for to-day: In
-.e temperature yesterday: Highest SO de-
gEees; lowest, ..