New-York tribune., 1907-10-05
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

Observation-Disclosures Tower. a dispatch
from Berlin says. has written to President
Roosevelt asking permission TO retire from lne
diplomatic service next spring. --. RUSSIA
carried an amendment in the face OF brltlsh
opposition at the meeting of the comrlttee OF
maritime war at The Hague, permitting bellig-
erent warships to remain in port unul coal
enough to carry them to the nearest nome polt
had been obtained. = The American Am
bassador Mr. O'Brien, denying an utterance at
tributed 10 him in an English paper SAID that
he regarded friendly relations assured between
America and japan and indorSed aii me state
rnents made by MT. Taft on the ibject
DOMESTIC President Roosevelt addressed
the Waterways Convention at Memphis, and
started for his hunting trip in LOUISIANA -
Attorney General Bonaparte decided that for
eign vessels can be employed in carrying coal
TO the Pacific for the battleship feet. -= Ihe
statement made by President Moffett that the
Standard OIL Company of Indiana is not the
only company TO receive faVOrs from railroads
there was declared not substantiated by red
eral grand jury in Chicago. == Governor
Stuart Of Pennsylvania and President Tucker
of the jamestown exposition narrowly escaped
serious injury if not DEATH prior TO the Penn
sylvania Day celebration at the exposition. -
Governor Hughes at Albany announced that he
had established his legal residence at the Hotel
Astor in this city. ~ The fftieth festival of
the Worcester County Musical Association
closed at Worcester, Mass. - Twelve thou
sand dock workers in New Orleans struck in
sympathy with the cotton screwmen demand
ing increase in wages. - Federal officers
are TO patrol the international border in an en-
deaYor to prevent the Illegal entrance or Jap
anese into this country - On the eve Of the
Massachusetts Democratic State Convention, to
be held in Springfield to-day it said that
the result was in doubt. - party of HinduS
forced across the border from Canada was
driven back by Americans.
CITY.-Stocks were dull but steady
There were hints Of criminal prosecution in con-
nection with transit disclosures in the visit of
District Attorney Jerome to William R. Wilcox.
- committee Of the Public Service Com
mission submitted preliminary report telling of
the various ways for reliveing the Brooklyn
Bridge crush - Stuyvesant Fish expressed
sat ar ba oft tnp Oic
conference at Hartford - The Republican
State Committee nominated the two Bartletts
for the Court Of Appeals. - Tammany under
McCarren's spur. nominated the Bartletts for
the Court OF Appeals. ~ It was learned that
stockholders of the Barnes King Development
Company were seeking to recover funds they
say were Illegally used. 60 There was lively
tilt before Justice Seabury the question Of
receiverships for the traction companies
a brother of the late General Paredes issued
call TO the enemies of President Castro OF
Venezuela to unite with him in overthrowing the
present government Of the republic. Cor
poration Counsel Pendleton decided that be-
fore sewers could be installed in streets in
suburbs they must first have been formally
opened TO public use. - At meeting of the
American Silk Association resolutions were
adopted pledging the members to boycott Jap
anese reeling establishments which discrimi-
mated against foreign exporters.
THE WEATHER.-Indicatons for to-day:
Fair. The temperature yesterday: Highest, 73
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