New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-05-16
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 16. 1906.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CoNGRESS-Senate: The Democrats did
not indulge in the expected outbreak against the
Mr. Tawney's amendment fixing 10 per cent
repair limit for naval vessels
FOREIGN-The lower house of the Russian
voarlfarneat began debate on the address in reply
cessions are asked. some OF the recommended
tions being in the form Of demands =
massacre Of French priests in the province OF
Ngan-Ywei was reported from Picking. -
The rush Of English pOlicyholders in the Mutual
Life TO transfer policies TO the North British ana
Mercantile Company was checked by the letter
issued by the London manager OF the Mutual
The Vigiancia arrived at Havana; her
stores were burned and the cargo was damaged
by water but the injury TO the vessel was
slight - Excitement has been caused at
Tihis by a report that Turkey is massing troops
to a dispatch received in Berlin, have been lost
of the coast of Iceland = The drydock
Dewey in tow of the Golfers. passed Perrin.
DOMESTIC President transmitted to
Congress- letter from Secretary Taft bearing
on the controverted question OF the right OF the
Tsthrnian Canal Commission TO purchase supplies
abroad. - Governor Higgins signed the Sake
bill providing for a seaside park and Gonzales
cent colony - Many legislators and poll
t!cians were in Albany to plead with the Gov
ernOr for bills In which they were interested
- The Rev. DR.. A. s Crapsey received the
verdict declaring him guilty of heresy. AT Roch-
ester. = The marine firemen at Cleveland
failed to reach an agreement with the Lake
Carriers Association, and lake traffic may De
again tied up. == Railroad officials. testifying
before the interstate commerce commission at
Philadelphia admitted that some = companies
were specially favored in the allotment of cars
Five miners were killed by an explosion
of dynamite in colliery at Shenandoah, Penn.
- whole family father mother and seven
children were murdered in their home near
Mobile.
CITY-Stocks were irregular. ~ The Cor
porati0n Counsel's Office gave Controller Metz
the opinion that he could the Interborough
Company for the payment said to be due on the
sinking fund. -- hundred or more scientists
and educators met at the Museum of Natural
History 10 organize new association of mu-
geu #= The quarterly report Of the New
Go~r city Railway Company showed an increase
o -. .:}Of the same quarter in 1903, the
combined surface and elevated earnings again
being great they were before the subway
was opened. - The r. c. Rlckmers, largest
sailing vessel in the world. arrived on her
maiden voyage. == Columbia University
granted fifty-three scholarships for advance l
work - The siX-story piano factory of Jacob
Doll & Sons. in East Both street, was destroyed
by fire. == II was announced that the offer
of SlWOW@ for a united arts building came
from Andrew Carnegie. 80 4 balloon carry
side Of the Palisades and fell in the Hudson op-
posite Yonkers. The voyagers ESCAPED with
slight injuries. = The Gaekwar of Ba-oda
expressed himself delighted with the American
university.
THE Observation-Disclosures ns for TODAY.
Fair and somewhat warmer The Temperatures
yesterday: Highest 81 degrees lowest 81