New-York tribune., 1907-01-08
aetu9ork DAILY Gribn1rs
TUESDAY. JANUARY s. 1907.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS-Senate: The Brownsville affair
was taken UP again, the Presidents course being
defended by Mr.. Lodge and criticised by Mr.
Foraker; the Massachusetts Senator offered
new resolution providing for an inquiry into the
dismissal of the Negro troops. - House:
bill providing for a judicial review of the facts
before a fraud order is issued by the Postofflce
Department passed.
FoREIGN.-Raisuli is understood to have
sought refuge with his brotheT-tn-law, who has
offered 10 deliver him into the hands of the
Moroccan War Minister for a large sum; many
tribesmen are Joining the Sultan's forces -
Two regiments have been sent from Mexico
City to Orizaba, Vera Cruz. where strikers
burned a store and threatened to destroy a tex
tile mill - Thousands of French Catholic
students and priests presented themselves for
military service in France: IL announced
that the Pope would no longer accept Peters
Pence from that country, and that all gifts from
French Catholics would he devoted to the sup
port Of the clergy. - Charles s. Fairchild
was quoted in a dispatch from Rome saying
in regard TO his Indictment that the matter was
a technical one. and that he and Mr.. Perkins
acted in good faith - The Chinese trading
quarter Of Bangkok was destroyed by fire; the
loss is estimated at So 100000. - dispatch
from London said that 1t understood that
Sir Mortimer Durand would receive colonial
appointment. - Christmas was celebrated in
Russia; the leaders of the strikers at Lodz have
ordered return TO work - The proposed
visit OF the japanese training squadron to the
Pacific Coast may be indefinitely postponed.
DOMESTIC.-Postmaster General Corteyou
announced his retirement as chairman Of the
Republican National Committee: Harry s. New
Court of the United States decided that the
payment by Secretary Shaw for the Panama
Canal was legal; It also upheld the New York
State Stock Transfer Tax law. - The cor
oner's inquiry into the Baltimore & Ohio wreck
continued at Washington. - The will
Of A. J. Cassatt, late president of the Pennsyi-
vania Railroad, fled at Norristown Penn.
- Attorney General Jackson at Albany
named Clarence J. Shearn, W. R. Hearsts spe-
cial counsel. special counsel to handle the
suit to oust Mayor Mcclellan. - The Court
of Appeals at Albany affirmed by default the
interlocutory judgment of the lower court over
ruling the demurrer OF James HaZen Hyde and
others officers Of the Equitable Life Assur
Society to the complaint OF Mrs. Mary S.
Young. 60 One man is dead and several are
injured as the result of a collision between
freight trains the Rome, Watertown & Og-
densbUrg Railroad, Red Creek, N Y. -
A real estate dealer shot and killed his aged
mother and then committed suicide. in Prov
idence.
CTTY-Stocks closed irregular. - Police
Commissioner Bingham. in his annual report,
advocated more power for the head Of the de-
partnneut, a reorganization Of the Detective
Bureau. and the appointment of a fourth dep
uty. - The board of. election inspectors OF
the Mutual Life heard arguments the ques
ton Of accepting rejecting alleged fraud"
ballots - The Mayor. in his annual mes
sage, urged the need Of placing city salaries on
an equal basis TO reduce the budget - A
man held up and robbed IN a Second ave-
nue. elevated train. - DR.. Stephen Smith, In
.arhe Medical Review" advocated the forming
of g special hospital department in this city.
- youth shot to death in rear tene-
ment in Eighth avenue. and his roommate was
held q charge Of homicide. - The Auto
mobile Club Of America was considering an ap-
peal TO the Legislature TO prevent the needless
tearing up of streets. - A practically con-
hrned ruInor had It that the Cunard Line also
contemplated abandoning Liverpool for South
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for to-day:
Rain and cold. The temperature yesterday:
Highest, 62 degrees; lowest, 45-