New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-27
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY, p. 1907.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS-Senatei The Aldrich Financial
bill and the sundry Civil bin were passed. =,
Housei The debate on the Mail SUBSIDY pliI oe.
gan and such interest was shown that the Illlie
allowed for I; was extended
FOREIGN plot to seize Celebes, in which
5000 men were said to be implicated, was as
covered at Cape Town; the organization was
said 10 have braSchet in England and the United
States 60 Twenty-four lives were reported
lost IN fire at a Montreal school: the principal
lost her life IN an attempt 10 save heF pupils'
60 LORD CurzOn urged the Unionlst party 10
undertake the reform Of the House OF Lords on
the lines laid down in Lord Newtons Dill 60
Three persons were killed and number were
injured in the wreck OF q train on the Grand
Trunk at Trainor's Cut. - A dispatch from
Genoa said that only four paintings by Van
Dyck had been sold by the family OF the Marquis
of Cattaneo to J. p. Morgan -- The rupture
between the French government and the Catho-
lie authorities the question OF church leases
So believed 10 be definite - Hamburg and
Bremen firms lost about 100000 by forged bills
of lading for cargOes on vessels from Galveston
- Judge Rodey, OF Porto Rico, held that the
Employers Liability law was applicable in all
territory over which the American Congress has
control.
DOMEsTIC.-Th rejection of ali bids for the
construction Of the Panama Canal the resigna-
tion Of Mr.. Stevens chief engineer, the ap-
pointment Of Major Coethals, an army engineer,
to succeed him. and Of two other army engineers
TO assist, and the prospective appointment OF
Senator Blackburn. Of Kentucky, on the Canal
Commission, were announced al the Nmte
House. - The Court OF Appeals, at Albany,
matter of the charge Of grand larceny made
against him in connection with the payment Of
funds Of The New York Life Insurance Company
10 the Republican National Committee campaign
fund in 1904. == Governor Hughes, at Albany,
received d presentmeut from the Kings County
Grand Jury, which told Of some Of the short
comings Of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com
pany; he said that the abuses must be stopped,
ana again advocated q new state commission TO
supervise the transit situation. - Jean L.
Burnett. chairman Of the Assembly Cities Com
mittee died from pneumonia at Albany.
CITY-Stocks closed firm. after early weak
ness. = Z H. Hartman told the Interstate
Commerce Commission about the deposing Of
Stuyvesant Fish president Of the Illinois
Central - Abraham Hunnel was not al
lowed to testify to Evelyn Nesblt Thaw's
affidavit. = President Newman Of the New
York Central testified before the State Railroad
Commission at the wreck inquiry. The
commission to make plans for city improve
ment handed in its final report. Official
advices say that General Paroles killed in
an engagement == Little Tim Sullivan bit
teTly attacked General Bingham at a meeting Of
the Board Of Aldermen. = The State Rail-
road Commission set March 10 as the date for
a hearing on commuters complaints against the
New York Central Railroad. - The explo-
sion OF a fuse a subway train set fire to a
car, caused panic and hindered traffic for
some hours.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day
Rain, warmer. The temperature yesterday:
Highest, Is degrees; lowest. Il.