New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-The AIoors continued their at
tacks cn the French forces outside CasaDlahca'
but we're beaten Off with great loss; the French
troops are pressing forward from their posi-
aions the walls: the situation at otaer
coast towns appears to pe menaclns. fnslsl -
ported among the American troops in garrison
at CienfuegOs. == Domain. Catholc LID
elsl organ at Lyons. suspended publication
owing 10 dislike of the recent Vatican syllabus
rllr1a ling criticism. British and Russian
Ambassadors in Constantinople have succeeded
i'm inducing the Porte TO issue orders stopping
the advance OF Turkish troops into Persia. ---
= prominent American delegate TO The Hague
peace conference was quoted as saving that
posteTity would recognize that America saved
the conference from becoming failure. --
a dispatch from Vienna said that Gustav Nah
ler. of Vienna. had been engaged by Herr Con-
--ie,l as conductor At the Metropolitan. =
King Alfonso entertained officers of the Jap
anese cruisers at Niramar Palace.
nOMESrIC-President Small Of the teleg-
raisheIs said in San Francisco that he had
made a peace offer TO Commissioner Nelil. Dut
might cali general strike Tuesday: the ma
lionaI secretary said in Chicago that general
strike would begin to-day. -= a report on
the STANDARD oil Companys prohts made pup
lie in Washington by the Bureau of Corpora
rions said that the evidence presented showed
that the American consumers had been torcen
10 nav cxfoTtionStely for the benefit OF the Tor
eicn trade --- At a meeting in Pittsburg to-
day an important report on the need OF deep
ening the Ohio River TO afford a nine-foot
channel 10 Cairo. l.l-- is expected 10 b4 mace
1lubic At the annual meeting OF the
American Bar Association. 10 be held in Port
land. Me. in the last week or august AihodS-
sador Bryce will deliver the annual address on
THE Influence Of National Character and HIS
,orical Environment the Development OF the
CANNON law - The failure Of the Presi-
dent and Ambassador Won Sternhurg TO attend
church at Oyster Bay disappointed many per-
sons gathered TO see them - The exercises
at two New England memorials are TO be held
ON August Is and 20. respectively: on 1!ie lor-
,ner date a tablet viii be unveiled at 6Iouces-
Ter Mass TO commemorate the landing OF the
first members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
there and on the latter, the cornerstone of the
monument on Cape Cod Will be laid - the
government tests Of fuels to be made at Nor
folk are expected to be of great importance
both 10 the government and TO the general
public The fight TO restore the army
canteen is 10 he renewed at the coming session
OF Congress. the Spanish War veterans organ
szation being especially interested i'm an educa-
,ional campaign on the subject
CITy-The local telegraphers decided to
postpone definite action on whether or not
strike he declared until Friday noon -=
Some Of the orders which the Public Service
Commission viii issue TO the marlborough Met
rot.oIitan were learned - Five hundred ap-
,,cals from rulings in Dingley tariff cases are
now pending. il Was learned. -- Four New
ark men were drowned in Raritan Bay as the
Nhirring engine of power boat plunged d
hilze pump through the boats bottom --
The police began investigating a fire in the
cellar of a vacant house in which matches and
oil wore found. Bellevue Hospital lost its
heroic fight with a case of rabies =- Dr-
Madison & Peters said that the crime wave
MAS due to unrestricted immigration =-
Passengers on the steamship Brooklyn, OF the
1nsular Line. reported having seen a school "f
n males a xafcrsIsout. a comet and a dereifct
on their voyage here from Ponce.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Fair The temperatures yesterday: Highest, 'S
degrees; lowest g.