New-York tribune., 1907-12-20
THE NEWS THIS MORNING

CONVERSATIONS: The makeup of the
committees was announced by Speaker Cannon;
the first appropriation of the session was voted.
If heing $4,000 to supply a seed deficiency
caused by the burning of the government seed
warehouse, adjournment was taken until sat
urdav -- The Senate was not IN session
FoREIGN-The foremost men in Japan eX-
pressed the kindliest feelings of friendship tow
ard the United states in discussing the sailing
of Admiral Evans's fleet -= Twenty-Five per
sons were killed and one hundred injured by the
explosion Of powder magazine in Palermo
Sicily. The British steamer Cambrian
from London for Philadelphia. broke her shaft
in rnid-ccean, - The funeral Of King Oscar
Of Sweden was held in Stockholm - C
Hauge, the Norwegian Minister to the United
States died in Norway while on snowshoeang
trip - Because of the Yaqu uprising Amer
lean mining planning to leave Mexico
According TO Peling advices China has
misunderstood President RooseveIs Boxer in
testified in the Won Moltke libel case. -
Minister -Filossofoff. of Commerce. died during
gala performance in st Petersburg theatre
DOMESTIC.-Between eco and $50 miners
were entonbed and are believed to have lost
their lives by an explosion IN the workings or
the Pittsburg Coal Company. al Jacobs Creek,
Penn. in the same soft coal region in other
parts Of which two previous explosions, with
much loss Of life, have occurred this month
= The Italian Ambassador complained to
Secretary Root of the tobacco raids in Ken
lucky and the reported assaults Italian la
heners in the South. - Representatives John
Sharp Williams and ID. A. De Almond came to
blows Immediately after the House had ad-
journed. using their fists and drawing blood
baftleship New Hampshire is reported to have
attained a eed OF 1876 knots in the fastest
mile Of hs Standardization trial The
Illinois Central hearing was postponed until
March ,. - The currency question dis
cussed at the, dinner of the Economic Club of
Boston. ex- Secretary Shaw and John De Witt
Warner being the chief speakers. - II was
announced in Baltimore that a cure had been
found for dernentia prsecox. a form of insanity
by DR. n NJ Owensby, of the Bayview Insane
Asylum
CITY.-Stccks were irregular and dull -
The motion to indorse Governor Hughes for
President was laid for a month by the
county committee -A Ahearn was reelected
Borough President by the aid of Republican and
was said, would await a court decision in the
Ahearn case little Tim Sullivan il was
said. was TO be elected Borough President if
Ahearn is removed again - Three more
charges were made against J. H SuIzbacher and
his bail was raised to $4,000 =- Counsel for
a Metropolitan stockholder impugned the mo
tfves OF receivers in asking that the Third Ave
nue. lease be dropped. - The report of the
auditors of the Westinghouse Company was
made public "A wireless message was re-
oefved here from the U. S. s Minnesota on the
way TO the Pacific - Mayor Mcclellan
signed the Douil Sunday performance ordinance
- The lnterhorough and Union Railway fare
to fonkers was raised from eight to ten cents TO
. level with the southbound rate. II be-
came known that an association of steam rail-
roaos less than two hundred miles long be-
Eng formed for mutual protection. a move
rnent was started here for law making the
forgery OF art objects a crime
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for to-day:
Fair. The temperature yesterday: Highest "a
1aGxees: lowest. IS.