New-York tribune., 1906-02-04
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lyn Navy Yard" said the Busy Man.
Not Brooklyn, but San Francisco" was the
response. The transport Meade about to sail
for Manila caught fire and three lives were lost.
Flames also scorched the naval arm of the na-
ton. Seven buildings of the United States Ma
val Training Station at Newport were burned.
And. by the way, Sing Sing is doomed. The
State Prison Improvement Commission recon-
mends its abolition on the ground that it is ut
terly unsanitary. Meantime. buy coal. John
Mitchell president of the United Mine Workers.
says that strike is likely
"A friend telling that some one was
killed in those auto races down South" said the
Busy Man.
Records. not bones, We're broken said the
Constant Reader. 1.-TWO motors made two miles
in less than one minute. speed unknown be-
fore"
Has the Railroad Rate bill become law
yet2' asked the Busy Man.
Such a measure has passed neither house"
was the response. "The Hepburn bill is causing
much debate. however. But this bill did not
cause as much outside interest for the time
being, at least. as the resolution adopted by the
House asking for an inquiry into the alleged
unlawful combination of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road and the Baltimore and Ohio. the Norfolk
and Western, the Cincinnati and Ohio the Bal
tinore and Western and the Northern Central
ard Pennsylvania railroads. This caused drop
in the quotations of the stocks OF nearly all
the Eastern railroads. The Assembly at Albany
voted for an investigation of the Banking De-
partment. Another ghost OF Ramapo was raised
in the introduction of bill TO prevent New
York from obtaining water from Ulster County
1t looks as IL New-York will have to give up the
idea OF getting more water from mountain res
ervoirs. The State Water Commission, in its
hrst annual report, says that this city VIII
eventually have to go to the Hudson River for
its water. Meantime the Citizens Union is
working hard to get the Board of Aldermen to
authorize the establishment of meters in all
buildings TO prevent the great waste of water"
Il noticed that The Tribune was covered with
pictures of royalty one day last week. said
the Busy Man. but 1 didn't get chance to
learn what ii was all for"
Those portraits We're of relatives Of King
Christian of Denmark. who dropped dead" was
Of Greece. the Queen of England and the En-
press Dowager of Russia, and grandfather of
the new King of Norway. The new King of
Denmark is Frederick VIII. France is all In a
turmoil because of the resistance of she Catho-
lies to tao. operation nf tla, iGgy which separates
church and state. The police had TO break
into one Paris church by force TO obtain an
inventory of its contents in order TO enable the
government TO assess the property for taxation
In Russia insurrection is fairly Well stamped
out except in the Caucasus, where racial war
has been renewed. General Griaznoff, chief of
the staff OF the Ficeroy of the Caucasus was
asSassinated. and this murder has famed the
flames Of hatred between the Tartars and Ar
Inenians still more a part of the population
is starving. Typhoid among them also is rag
ing. Our trade with Russia last year was
S5G00000 In favor OF this country. The Japan
ese are also suffering from famine in the north
ern part OF their empire The suffering is partly
the result of the war, which, il has just been
officially announced, cost Japan S5S5 1000
Admiral Togo. it is said. will visit this country
in April. In South America Colombia caused
the most talk last week. revolution has
broken out there. General Valencia. eX-Vice
President Of Colombia, and General Ospina have
started in TO overthrow President Reyes"
II didn't get glimpse at the obituary column
last week" said the Busy Man.
Among those who died" said the Constant
Reader. ''were William II. Acken, president of
the New-York Rubber Company; Philip T. D.
Hibbs, sovereign grand commander of the An
cient and Accepted Scottish Rite of the Masonic
fraternity; Paul Dresser, song writer: John
c. Kitson. oldest member of the NeW-York
Produce Exchange, and Charles H FanCher, a
banker of this city.