New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-06
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WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 6. 1907
THE NEWS THIS MORNING

CONGRESS- In the debate on the
Indian Appropriation bill AIR. Depew spoke
against the practice Of attaching general legsla-
ton to appropriation bills. House: The
River and Harbor bin was considered. opposition
developing 10 the provision allowing the specifi-
cations for channels in New York Harbor to be
changed
FOREIGN.-A dispatch from a high official III
Caracas said It was believed that President Cas-
fro could not live more than twenty-four hours;
the message was dated February 4. -= An
official statement issued Toxic said that there
was no sign Of popular excitement over the Cali
fornia school question and that absolute conf
dence was placed in President Roosevelt and his
government. - Sven Hedin has reported that
he has explored eight hundred and forty miles of
unknown Tibetan country. and that the geo
graphical and geodetc results are exceptionally
rich. == A dispatch from Paris says that NJ.
Clemenceau is not in sympathy with NJ Brands
moderate polcN regarding separation. ana mat
no surprise would he felt II the Premier
forced TO retire. -= Reballots in 1870 Rechstag
t1eelioh- dlstrlclS We're attended by no disorder
except at Dresden. where number Of Socialists
were arrested. -= Russian election returns
indicate that the opposition viii nave majority
IN the next parliament. - Antoine Felix
Carlo, American consular agent al Bona. fell
three hundred feet from a bridge at Constantine
Algeria.
DOMESTIC.-Reports from Panama showed
rllat over five hundred thousand yards of earth
had been moved from the CuebTa cut in Jan
nary. Indicating the completion Of the canal in
seven wears. The Senate Committee on
T7inance reached a tentative agreement on a
riln COR financial legislation. = Senator Gil
go state Senate providing for a legislative in
IeStigatiOn Of the New York City Board of
Education. alleging the existence in the board
of system Of graft and Of favoTitisn to
tractors. == Miss Mary 6. Anthony. sister
Of Miss Susan B. Anthony. who died last year.
died her home in Rochester. -- The wife
Of William s. Jackson. Attorney General Of the
state. has retained d lawyer to bring suit
for divorce on statutory grounds. == The AS
semby passed the bill authorizing the Lenox
Library site sale. despite arguments against II
by New York City members - It
ported from Salida. Col. that seven persons
had been killed and fourteen hurt in snow
side on Monarch Mountain.
CITY.-Stocks We're strong =-= Il was an
nounced that Mr.. Gleason would he deposed
from further leadership in the Thaw defence
after a heated conference of the defendants
counsel = Eleven inches of fell be-
tween noon Monday and noon yesterday. ---
Commissioner Craven told Mayor Mcclellan
that if snow could be dumped into the sewers
the streets could be cleaned in One-third Of the
present time. -= Captain Castro. hero of the
Cherokee wreck, rescued a drifting schooner In
the storm at Atlantic City. - The Rapid
Transit Commission decided to allow the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit Company to use fits present
rolling stock I'm the proposed subway loop To
connect the bridges. =# -Four persons lost
their lives a fire in Pelham --- Admiral
Lord Charles Beresford arrived from England.
John B. Mcdonald, the subway contractor.
was elected president of the Panama Consfruc-
ton Company. - The Board Of Education
denied all charges made against ii by Senator
(5ilchrist in a resolution introduced at Albany
Inspector Schmittberger transferred from
Staten Island 10 the command OF the Traffic
Squad.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Fair The temperature yesterday: Highest 20
degrees; lowest, 10