New-York tribune., 1907-10-16
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-The Philippine Commission has
authorized the creation OF public service com
mission with power to adjust rates on ali utlI-
titles Secretary Taft warmly wei
coined on his arrival al Manila; he Is expected
10 define the future policy of the United states
toward the islands at dinner on Monday -
Italian railroad employees threaten another strlhe
II the government attempts to enforce penalties
against the men who quit work in Milan. --
A dispatch from Tangier said that the Moroccan
Sultan was endeaVOring TO induce France 10
assume a protectorate over Morocco. = The
condition of the Austrian Emperor was i'm
proved last evening. according to an official
statement at Vienna the catarrh and fever hav-
ing decreased. == The French Cabinet has
decided 10 press at the coming session of par
lament measures TO transfer Church property
20 communes 10 tax incomes and TO appropriate
money to relieve sufferers from floods. -
u. Santos-Dumont viii attempt 10 win on
Thursday wager that his hydroplane Will make
100 kilometres hour; the Farman aeroplane
made fight of $50 yards at Paris
. DOMESTIC.-Mr. Lane of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, told of evidence found by
MIN Thar the Southern Pacific Railroad had
given rebates since the passage of the Hepburn
law. = Rear Admiral Robley d. Evans vis-
ited the Navy Department and conferred with
officials regarding the trip of the battleship
feet TO the Pacific. - The injunction Oo-
tanned by Stuyvesant Fish in the Illinois Central
contest was modified by Judge Ball in Chicago,
Mr.. Hartman being deprived of the voting
power of the 2S6. .131 shares of stock held by the
Union Pacihc and allied interests :" Gov
ernor Hughes at Albany appointed Franklin s.
Ware, Of this city. state architect. = From
twenty-five To fifty persons were killed and
more than six hundred were injured by a series
Of explosions in the plant Of the Du Pont Pow
Ger Company, one mile from Fontanet, Ind {;
every building in Fontanet, a town of one thou
sand inhabitants wholly or partially
wrecked, and the shock felt two hundred
miles away.
CITF-There was rally in stockc. -
There was a report that Charles F. Murphy and
) Mayor Mcclellan about to bury the
ID hatchet. - President Parsons Of the Re
publican County Committee predicted a victory
for the fusion ticket by a plurality Of 10000
votes. - More information regarding the
Standard Oils system for keeping tabs on it's
competitors was brought out at the government
suit -= Speaker Wadsworth defended the
upstate Legislators in an address in Brooklyn.
= District Attorney Jerome announced the
retention of William Rand former Burnham
counsel. to conduct the criminal case against
DIR. Gillette, Of the Mutual Reserve == Will
lam NJ. WINS was busy on the books Of the Met
Topolitan Securities Company, preparing for the
inquiry which continues tomorrow. =-= It was
said that Bryan would urge the support Of the
Tammany ticket in his speech next Monday.
- 1t became known that Moses Schinasi, the
cigarette manufacturer, was being sued for
breach Of promise by a Miss Fairfield
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
FAIR. The temperature yesterday: Highest 81
degrees; lowest, ~.