New-York tribune., 1907-02-14
aep91ork Dnilp Gribn1re
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY IA. 1907.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS.-senate: The bill giving the
government the right Of appeal in certain Grim
tnai cases and the District of Columbia Appro-
priation bill were passed. - House: The
Naval Appropriation bill was under considera-
ton.
FOREIGN-"Sufrage made determined
attempts to enter the House Of Commons, and
fought fiercely with police; sixty arrests were
made. - Augustine Birrell, Chief Secretary
for Ireland, said in the House of Commons that
he and the Premier We're in favor of a liberal
measure of Home Rule for Ireland. James
Bryce, the Ambassador of Great Britain TO the
United States, and Mrs. Bryce, sailed on the
Oceanic from Liverpool for New York -= The
Church and State dispute in France bids fair TO
be settled. according TO dispatch from Paris
% an agreeineht on a nouIned FORM OF lhe con-
tract providing for the lease OF churches. -=
The British battleships Albemarle and Common
wealth were damaged in a collision off Lagos
and went 10 Gibraltar for repairs. -= There
was an unconfirmed ruInor on the Paris Ex-
change that Premier Clemenceau had resigned
Office. 49, A number of sailing vessels were
wrecked in gale on the English Channel, and
warships were held ready at Cherbourg to
SWer appeals for aid
DOMESTIC.-The bodies of ifty-two Of the
victims Of the sinking of the Larchmont were
taken to Providence r. I; eleven bodies were
identified, and it known that 1O4 persons
who had been on the vessel were not accounted
for. - A complete solution Of the Japanese
school controversy. in the form of an amend
ment TO the immigration laws. by which coolies
viii be excluded from the United States has been
devised by President Roosevelt. Secretary Root
and Senator Lodge. - Two persons were
n
boiler exploded on the Ontario & Western Rail
road near Luzon, n. Y - Governor Hughes
ct Albany announced the death of Ex-Governor
Higgins in a procla nation to the people Of the
state. =- A conference at Albany between
Attorney General Jackson and representatives
OF the Western Union Telegraph and Manhattan
Railway companies on the question Of franchise
taxes without results. = It said
at Albany that Otto Kelsey Superintendent of
Insurance. had sent a letter TO Governor Hughes
refusing to resign. A fire which destroyed
the pattern shops and two storage rooms of the
Cramps shipyards in Philadelphia burned the
patterns of more than eight United States battle
ships. Professor A Brashear, of the Allie
gheny Observatory announced that he had dis
covered one Of the largest sun spots ever found,
and that electrical disturbances on the earth
were likely TO follow tonight.
CITY-Stocks were strong ==-= The wife of
Joseph B. Bolton. Juror IL in the Thaw trial,
was reported dangerously Ill from pneumonia,
and fears were expressed that because Of
this the case would end in a mistrial.
Schuyler Hamilton, a grandson of Alex
Two workmen We're killed and two were badly
injured when a scaffoId collapsed in the new
New York Public Library Building. == The
New Britain Savings Bank, whose treasurer, w.
T. Walker, is missing, closed its doors; it was
announced that the shortage would probably
Ceed S500000. -= II was decided, after five
years of delay, to grant the application Of the
New York Connecting Railroad Company for a
franchise == The Brooklyn Bar Association
considered the presentation of charges against
Justice Fitzgerald, of Special Sessions. -- It
was reported that a bill would be introduced at
Albany. with the consent Of Mayor Mcclellan,
to abolish the Aqueduct Commission. ==
Borough President Ahearn dropped Mayor Nc
dispensing patronage.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Warmer. The temperature yesterday: Highest
81 degrees; lowest, 8.