New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-07

graph companies under the jurisdiction of the
public utilities commissions when they are APP
pointed
Did I hear that Kelsey had decided to re-
sign?"
Mr.. Kelsey is not resigning His friends in
the Senate have secured for him the right to
subpoena witnesses in his behalf While giving
him this latitude. it has been settled that the
hearings must be over by April II. This may
prevent the interference with Governor Hughes's
other plans for legislation which 1t has been
believed the dilatory handling of the Kelsey
case intended to Superintendent
Kelsey has acted at last. in directing an ex-
animation of the books o. the Mutual Reserve,
two of whose officers the president and vice.
president are under indictment for larceny and
forgery. The special grand jury is 10 probe
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company"
"A friend of mine says the poolroom lid is
being lifted, remarked Busy Man
Well" replied Constant Reader. "the District
Attorneys Office has secured mass of docu-
mentary evidence regarding the operations Of
five men who divided the thousands of dollars
made from poolrOom business conducted at
No. 1l2 Fulton street Checks, letters, account
books. etc. going back over a period of years
and indicating that hundreds of thousands of
dollars, perhaps millions, were handled by these
men, were secured in a raid of the real estate
office Of Charles Reilly, at No. 1l2 Fulton street
ana w. ID Miller & Co.. No los Fulton street.
Among the documents were accounts and
checks showing that one Of the FIVE men
represented varfously c., Grady IT.
Grady, Sen. G.. and Thomas F. Grady. The
District Attorneys office is working to dis
cover if this Grady is State Senator Thomas
many Hall. The Bingham Police bill, accom-
panied by a bitter attack Mayor Mcclellan
from Senators Cohalan and Frawley OF Tam
many has been passed in the Senate by a vote
Some one said that typhoid fever was more
prevalent than usual in the city" said Busy
That IS true" replied Constant Reader There
were two hundred cases reported in March. The
three years previous show that this IS a gain
over them Of more than 100 per cent The city
officials are taking all precautions in the Croton
watershed, where the presence Of typhoid was
discovered by The Tribune"
Didn't something happen in the suit brought
10 compel accounting Of the estate of Mrs
Eddy the founder Of Christian Science. last
week?'
Yes her legal advisers sprung surprise II
was revealed at hearing that she had turned
over her entire estate TO three trustees, who are
10 manage il for her and prosecute and defend
any suits in which ii becomes involved. mo-
ton was made before the court to permit these
trustees TO become plaintiffs in place Of the
next friends who had brought the suit"
when is the Thaw trial to be finished?"
1T is not safe 10 predict" said Busy Man,
but Thaw, having been declared legally sane
after an exhaustive investigation by the COM
mission TO determine this point, the trial will
be continued Monday"
Has the Russian Douma accomplished any
thing YETI"
"The budget is under discussion. but there
seems TO be some fear that il is 20 be dis
solved within few days. The Rumanian re
volt has been suppressed. An earthquake in
Bltlis badly damaged the town and killed fcW
persons.
THE strike which was threatened by the
trainmen on the Western railroads has been
settled The men will secure a total Increase in
wages of nearly 5000 900 a year For the first
time the United States government officially IN
tervened to secure a satisfactory settlement.
and apparently its good offices had a large part
IN preventing the strike.
Several gifts have been announced this
week. Andrew Carnegie has given $4,000 900
more 10 the Carnegie Institute and Technical
Schools at Pittsburg John D. Rockefeller has
offered to the city Of Cleveland. his 600-acre
place in East Cleveland for a public park to-
gether with endowment and Improvement
fund Of 100000. Radcliffe College is to have
a new dormitory costing $4,000. the gift Of Mrs.
David p Kimball, Of Boston. Among those who
died last week were eX-Congressman Gaiusha A.
Grow and Bishop J. N FITZGERALD Of the Meth
odist Church. who died at Hong Kong"