New-York tribune., 1906-05-09
asp71ork DAILY 91ibn1re
WEDNESDAY. MAY 9, 1906.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CoNGRESS.-SENATE: Mr.. Allison offered
the Allison amendments to the Hepburn Rail
road Rate bill, and the Elkins amendment to
cussion Of the Naval Appropriation bill was con-
finued.
FOREIGN.-Meetings OF members of Paria-
and police; the Constitutional Democrats
adopted a resolution denouncing the action;
many labor leaders have been expelled from the
capital and the police are closely watching for
members OF the terrorist organizations. -
David Lloyd-GeOrge, president Of the Board
OF Trade. replied in the House of Commons to
Mr. BalfOur's criticism Of the Education bill.
- A plot to kill President Caceres was dis
covered on Sunday In Santo Domingo; several
OF Vesuvius Is again throwing out sand and Gin
ders, the eruption being accompanied by heavy
detonations and electrical discharges. - The
Chinese customs report for 1893 shows a large
increase in American imports, and advices from
Peking say that the boycott is losing ground.
- Order has been restored in GuadelOupe
and the French cruiser Jurien de la Craviere has
returned 10 martinique. - me american
Consul at Hanlow reported a great flood, with
heavy losses of life and property in the prov
ince Of Hoo-Nan.
DOMESTIC@The President sent to Congress
a message transmitting a letter from Secretary
Taft asking for further appropriation Of $780,
600 for the relief OF San Francisco - The
finance committee of San Francisco accepted
100000 from Canada; fund. It was announced,
had been started in Paris - An injunction
was served upon Attorney General Mayer, Dis
trict Attorney Jerome and members of the State
Gas Commission, at Albany, to restrain them
from putting into effect the SO-cent gas law.
The coal peace agreement was accepted
by the miners in convention at Scranton Penn.
- Italian strikers, five hundred strong, par
AIDED through Greenwich. Conn. and caused all
their fellow countrymen TO stop work. -= II
was said IN Bevidere. Ill, that the affairs OF
Zion City would probably be ruled temporarily
by a triumYrate selected by Voliva, Dowie and
the Circuit Court. -= The United States Steel
Company let a $4.OO0O0O contract TO erect a
blast furnace at Indiana Harbor, Ind. == The
executive committee Of the policyhOlders organ
ization Of the Mutual Life met in Washington
and made plans for the extension of the organ
iZatiOn.
CITY-President Henry Evans Of the New
York Fire Insurance Exchange said he would
attend the meeting to-day and defend his oppo-
sitiOn Of increased rate. = new building
trade strike, involving about thousand men,
was ordered here Attorneys in the George
". Perkins case argued the point of criminal in
tent IN the 1904 political contributions =--
Judge" Andrew Hamilton found a technical
woman was arTaigned in the TOmbs police court
charged with forging signature TO quit claim
deed for valuable property. = It an
nounced that syndicate being formed here to
finance the rebuilding Of San Francisco was
nearly completed. == Mrs. Andrew Carnegie
laid the cornerstone Of the United Engineers
Building for which Mr. Carnegie gave 81 500 600.
- E. H. Hartman completed his trip from
San Francisco to this city in thirty-three min
Grover, OF Philadelphia, was crushed TO death in
an elevator at the Victoria Hotel.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Showers, followed by fair and cooler The tenn
perature yesterday: Highest. 90 degrees low
est, -.