New-York tribune., 1906-05-19
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SATURDAY, MAY 10. 1906.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS. The Hepburn Railroad
Rate bill was passed by vote OF n TO B. after
the words 'in its judgment" had been stricken
out OF the Interstate Commerce Commission
clause by a vote Of 80 to "a. House: bill TO
pay to the estate OF Samuel Lee, negro. S1O4S2
was passed after a sharp Democratic hlibuster,
the same bill having failed in eight previous
Congresses.
FOREIGN.-The Russian Emperor is not ex-
pected to reply TO the demands of parliament be-
fore Monday or Tuesday; while seeking to avoid
q rupture IL is believed that he Will clearly con-
vey the intmation that the popular representa-
tives have attempted to infringe upon the pre-
North Bay, Ontario say that the mining town
OF Cobalt has been completely destroyed by fire
and that several persons were killed by an eX-
plosion. - King Edward received the Ger
man delegation Of municipal officials at Buck
ingham Palace - The German Emperor in
a speech at Diedenhofen, Lorraine, promised the
maintenance of peace. ~ Pope Plus is suffer
ing from slight attack Of gout- - British
torpedo boat in tow of a cruiser capsized and
sank off Port Said. seven oF her crew ara
missing. - Wu-Ting-fang, who has the task
of cOdifying Chinese laws, will recommend jury
trials. practice of native lawyers and electrocu-
ton.
DOMESTIC-The State Water Supply Com
missioners approved the plan for taking water
from the Catskils. - More gifts Of stock by
coal companies to employees OF the Pennsylvania.
Railroad were brought out at the session Of the
Interstate Commerce Commission in Philadel-
phia; the railroad announced that il would in
Vestigate all such gratuities- - Forest fires
were reported raging in Michigan and Wiscon-
SIN. Talbot, IN MenOm1nee County, Mich, was
wiped out. == Five commissioners to the
Presbyterian General Assembly at Des Moines,
Iowa were hurt by the collapse Of a grandstand
= John Oscar Vaute, a pensi0ner Of the New
York Life Insurance Company, fearing loss of
income, shot himself to death at Montclair n. ].
== Five yeggnen blew open safe at Sails
bury, Md. and when they were captured one was
found to have a piece of the safe door in his
lung. ~ The brickmakers' strike at Coey-
mans, n. T.. was settled, the employers conced-
ing all demands except recognition Of the union.
CITF-Stocks were heavy ~ The I.egisla-
tive Insurance Investigating Committee dis
banded; its accounts were audited: Charles e
Hughes is TO receive $4,000 for his services
- The New York and Port Chester Railroad
Company received its franchise from the Board
OF Estimate and Apportionment after fight
which began in 1903; il expects to have its road
IN operation in three years. -= The defence
opened IN the TerranOva case, and witnesses tes-
TINED 10 intemperance and commissions in the
taniy- == II was announced that New York
University would buy thirty acres south of the
campus from the SChWab estate = CaDtain
Gibson, speaking before the Street Cleaning m
Nestlgating Committee. denied The insinuations
made against him by Messrs Cowles and S0ier
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Fair, followed by showers and cooler tonight.
The temperature yesterday: Highest Sc de-
gTees; lowest 60.