New-York tribune., 1907-11-22
THE NEWS THIS MORNTNG.

FOREIGN.-The unchanged Bank of England
discount rate is regarded as an evidence of :.
hopetul teelng that the American governments
efforts 10 relieve the currency famine will prove
successful. - Eight hundred bombs werc
seized and eighty arrests made in Lisbon fo-
lowing the disclosure of a plot against the die
tatorship. 80 Count Jean Recope and Coun;
Tristan de Gramedo fought duel with pistols,
at Saint-Cloud: both being wounded in the first
eXcnange OF shots reconciliation followed.
= The railroad strike has isolated SimIa
and government business is a a standstill wItr
prices Of provisions rapidly rising. - Rains
are threatened in the Vesternorrland and Yes
terbotten districts of Lapland. - The Ger
man imperial budget authorizes the borrowing
Of Sc, ,l25,OO0 and emphasizes the necessity for
imposing new taxes TO harmonic expenditures
and revenues. Seven yellow fever cases
have been reported at Bridgetown Island OK
Barbados. since November Is. The firm
of J. F. c. Moeller, operating wax refinery
al Altoona, Germany. suspended, with reported
liabilities of from S1.750000 to S2,000,0O0 and
assets of $4,000 == In support of the plan
for union of the Central American republics
President Zelaya of Honduras confirms the
statement that he is willing to resign his office.
= = : reports from Hlghcll1e Castle indicated
an improvement in the general health OF the
German Emperor.
DOMESTlC.-Congressma James r Manu.
Of Illinois. returning to Washington from Pan
anna. said the canal would be finished in 1914 and
that the cost would exceed the original esti-
mate by $4,000 900. -= Secretary Cortelyou
announced in Washington that alotments of
the new one-year treasury certificates had be-
gun -= In statement issued in Washing
ton ". J. Bryan suggested as an immediate
financial relief plan that Congress pass a law
providing for the guarantee by the government
OF all. deposits in national banks. == Senator
Hansbrough, Of North Dakota, announced in
Washington that he intends introduce a bill
establishing a federal central bank of issue
~ Mrs. Bradley, after two days and a half
ended her testimony in her trial in Washing
ton for the killing of ex-senator Brown of
Utah. - Speaker Wadsworth at Buffalo
predicted a short session of the State I.egislat-
ure- - The American Civic Association, in
convention assembled at Providence indorsed
President Roosevelts efforts to save the
Grand Canyon OF the Colorado.
CITY.-Stocks were irregular. closing strong
- Three officials OF the Borough Bank of
Brooklyn were arrested the result of ten
indictments brought yesterday. It was
learned that John 3. Mcdonald had been asso-
cfated with the Perce company in the Ashokan n
Dam bid. - 1t announced that locaI
national banks would take S20O00OOO of the
new government certificates Colonel Will
iams gave some history of the Brooklyn Rapid
vice Commission. - Heads Of the steel in
dustry met and decided to keep prices ND -
The inadequacieS Of the Staten Island trolley
service were aired before Commissioner Nc
Carroll. OF the Public Service Commission -
George II. Day, business associate of Colonel a
A. Pope, of Hartford. died at Daytona Fla
- The members Of the National Patrons Of
Husbandry decided to adjourn the convention
for the year to-day and to meet in 1908 in
washington. - Details to the grasp of
the Tobacco Trust on the tobacco business were
brought out at the hearing in the governments
suit TO break up the trust. - SulZer's Harlem
River Park was destroyed by fire - It was
learned that Commissioner Darlington was in
toilet preparations.
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for to-day:
Fair and cooler. The temperature Yesterday:
Highest, 54 degrees; lowest 40