New-York tribune., 1907-01-29
THE VIEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESs.-senate: Mr.. Beveridge continued
his speech in behalf OF HIS Child Labor bill
80 House: The day was oeVoteo 10 Disui0'
OF Columbia business.
FOREIGN-Two hundred miners were Sillso
BIZ an explosion Of firedamp in a Prussian gov
eTnment mine near Saarbrucken. Rhenisn Prus-
sia; the bodies OF 164 men were recovered; three
engineers were killed by an explosion IN inc
Courrieres district in France. - over nun
dred Chinese were drowned In sQual at Hons
Kong. == Mining operations are said TO nave
endangered the springs at Carlsbad - Mar
Quis Saionji. the japanese Premier. IN an ad-
dress to leading business men, urged action 70
prevent imitation of values; a reassuring reply
was made BY Baron Shibusawa- - II was
reported at Berlin that the German government
was not willing 20 take definite position IN re-
gard 10 the discussion OF armafnents at tne
peace conference; W. T. Stead is in that city.
DOMESTIC-w. ]. Oliver informed Secretary
Taft that ne would be able TO complete the con-
tract for the Panama Canal within the ten days
allowed 20 him. = The Interstate Commerce
Commission ln q report 10 Congress- severely
denounced the business methods OF the Standard
OH Company. Attorney General Jackson
gave Corpora ation Counsel Ellison permission to
Intervene in the certiorari cases for the collec-
ton of back franchise taxes. - Argument on
the oonstitutionality of the Senate apportion-
nent OF last year heard by the Court Of
Appeals at Albany. == The United States
Court at Cincinnati ordered anal disposition or
balances on four Of the six Appeyerd lines, the
claimants getting up TO 10 per cent - At
torneys for the Santa Fe Railway, in court at
Los Angeles. maintained that their client Wes
exempt as the United States was without rate
legislation for sixty days. =--- falling wall
Al BufraIo buried twenty dremen. three OF whom
were proba bly, killed; the loss estimated to
be $4,000 =- The plant OF the Phelps Pub
fishing Company. at Springfield Mass. was
burned with a loss Of S1O00O00 - -Four
men were killed and hfteek others we're seriously
injured in explosion Of a refrigerating plant
at Armour & Co.'S works in Chicago
CITY-Stocks We're weak 49, Jack Bar
TymOre, the actor, was subpenaed by the Dis
tTict Attorney in the Thaw case: two more
Jurors were obtained - John Bell. a con-
ductor held on suspicion OF having been
connected with the murder OF DR.. Charles VIII
mot Townsend. the Staten Island surgeon. -
Il was announced tnst the three remaining per-
formances Of ''saioe" slated for this city would
erTnan picked Up after drifting for thirty
six hours IN an open boat. - The INTERIOR
ough Rapid Transit Company gave the city
check for s2,051. .82e 20 on account OF its fran
chise taxes a list OF the colleges hich
have drawn on the fund OF the General Educa-
tionsl Board. founded by John D. Rockefeller,
was made public -== Local copper men denied
that there was combination TO hold back the
supply of copper metal available 20 consumers.
II announced tnat over four hundred
and fifty members Of the Produce Exchange had
signed the petition aKking the board OF mana
gers 20 authorize trading on the exchange In
industrial and mining stocks. - The New
York Central began its electric train service on
ciergymen attended an interdenominational con-
ference 20 devise means Of suppressing Sunday
concerts and racetrack gambling. 80 The con-
test OF the VIII Of James A. Bailey. the show
man, was heard at Mount Vernon - A Bath
Beach builder, trying 10 freeze himself 20 death,
found that method too slow. and committed sui
eide by cutting his throat with a broken bottle.
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for to-day:
Fair. The temperature yesterday: Highest. %
degrees; lowest. ID