New-York tribune., 1906-05-08
Ietp-21orls Daily Gtribm,te
TUESDAY, NAY 8, 1906.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS.-Senate: An anti-pass amend
ment 10 the Railroad Rate bill, offered by Mr..
Culberson, adopted; further concessions to
those who desire the passage of the Hepburn
bill unamended were made. - House: For
ty-five bills were passed.
FOREIGN.-Augustine Birrell, president of the
Board OF Education, moved the second reading
OF the Education bill in the House Of Commons;
strong opposition TO the measure was shown by
Conservatives Nationalists and Labor members;
the House adjourned without taking action.
- Additional returns from French election
districts increase the government groups in the
Chamber OF Deputies so that the Ministry VIII
no longer be dependent the Socialists. -
The Constitutional Democratic Congress at St.
Petersburg is preparing a scheme for the relleT
Of the peasants. which provides for the EXPIRE
pratiOn Of Crown and Church lands === Riots,
growing out of the excitement over the elections,
occurred in Gaudeloupe; number OF houses
were sacked; an American warship has been
ordered from Santo Domingo to the island. -=
Sir Edward Grey, Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
made a statement in the House Of Commons
defining Great Britain's attitude toward Tur-
key; England is sending additional forces TO
Eastern Mediterranean waters. = Sixteen
anarchists were arrested and eight bombs were
seized at Barcelona == The April statement
Of the British Board Of Trade shows large in
creases in both imports and export.
DOMESTIC.-The government il was said In
Washington viii cooperate with OHIO of ials
in prosecution Of the Standard Oil CO any.
- Speaker Cannon celebrated his seventeen
birthday in washington, receiving warm con-
gratulations. = E. H Hartman, coming
east on record run, gave a statement at
Omaha, Neb, regarding the San Francisco
disaster. - Judge Andrew Hamilton filed
a demurrer in Albany before the State Com
mission to the complaint of association of
citizens against the Municipal Gas Company and
the Albany Electric Illuminating Company
- 1t was announced at Indianapolis that
John Mitchell had refused to arbtTate the soft
coal differences. 1t was learned that alien
miners in the coal field were displeased at the
strike settlement. - The offices Of Joseph
Letter and the L. z. Letter estate in Chicago
were entered by burglars. who stole securities
valued at $4,000. The Southern General
Conference of the Methodist Church, in session
in Birmingham, Ala, considered a resolution
asking for the appointment OF a committee to
treat with other conference committees to OBJ
tain reform in the statement of doctrine.
CITY.-Stocks were irregular, closing strong
80 The offer of the anthracite operators to con-
unue work for thres years longer under the 1903
award was accepted by President Mitchell and
his committee. == The special grand jury to
investigate the alleged criminal acts of insur-
ance officials began its work. - One COM
pany withdrew from the Fire Exchange, and
others were believed likely to follow result
OF the recent rise in insurance rates. -
There was a good deal of mystery in the death
OF Howard Cary, a broker of this city, found
shot in London. = The chief engineer of the
maintaining a smoke nuisance, in Special Ses-
sions and sentence was postponed. - The
Ryan-Parker Company's bid of So 493 DOB was
lowest for the steel work Of the Manhattan
Bridge superstTucture. -= The jury in the
trial OF Eddie Milan in Brooklyn on a charge
coroner was convinced that Mrs. John R. Wa
ters, who killed herself and daughter at her
home here yesterday morning, was insane.
THE WEATHER-Indications for to-day:
Fair and warmer. The temperature yesterday:
Highest, 50 degrees; lowest, 40