New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-15
Nepalnrk DAILY Grib,1,re
WEDNESDAY. MAY Is, 1907.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN.-The Imperial Conference closed
its sessions; the preniers are reported TO be de-
1ected over the failure of their plans for colonial
preference: Sir Robert Bond left the room in
anger after the Earl of Elgin had announced
the governments inability to aid Newfound
land; the premiers are said TO support the col
ony's position. - Serious revolutionary and
agrarian troubles have broken out in the prov
ince OF Simbirsk; May Day in Russia was
marked by many strikes. - The French
Chamber of Deputies sustained the policy of
the Cabinet toward labor by a vote of 343 TO
30 - London reported scarcity of wheat,
and predictions were for q light crop in Ger
many, Rumania and Russia. Only eight
steam shovels were working on the isthmus yes
terday; efforts are being made to Al the places
OF the strikers. - Serious race riots are
ported from Delhi. and the agitation is said to
be spreading in Madras province. The
Reichstag passed the third reading Of the Ger
nan-American commercial convention. -
Cardinal Logue. Primate of All ireland, has
come out strongly against the Irish bill
DOMESTIC.-The utilities bill was advanced
at Albany. and II is expected that IL Will be
passed unanimously by the Assembly to-day;
no progress has been made with reapportion-
ment and adjournment is not expected before
June. - President Schurman of Cornell, in
an address before the Cornell Civic Club. heart
.ly advocated the public utilities bill. == The
State Senate passed Mayor McClellan's
veto, by vote of 81 to g. the New York
teachers bill designed TO equalize the salaries OF
men and women teachers in New York City.
Central Committee decided that a meeting OF
the committee to-day would do no good and
cancelled his call for it. The Chicago
wheat market feverish, with prices moving
over broad range. but the close was firm at
only a slight decline from Mondays figures
- II was announced from Washington that
the green bug. which has been ravaging the
wheat fields of the West and South, had been
nearly cxterminated by the parasite fly. -
In the Haywood trial at Boise Idaho ten tales
men were temporarily passed by prosecution
and defence. = William Johnston, publisher
of Printers Ink" died on a train while on the
way 10 the meeting OF the Grand Court OF For
eSferS Rochester
CITY-Stocks were weak. A girl stenog-
rapher admitted forging witnesses names to
New York Life ballots, and said George R.
Scrugham told her to CO 1t. - The city It
was announced, would cooperate with Mount
Kisco In sewage disposal on the Croton water
shed. - Borough President Ahearn went on
a tour of the city, examining the condition of
the streets. - Justice O'Gorman gave John
z. Ahearn and other officials in the Borough
Presidents office five days in which TO submit
themselves for examination before the Com
missioners Of Accounts or be committed for con-
tempt. == Many fremen were overcome by
smoke in q cellar fire in Broadway. The
Board of Aldermen approved appropriation
OF s9,fDO0yO to the Department of Docks and
Ferries. = Brigedier General NJ. NJ Blunt
died in Brooklyn. = Theodore F. Price dis
cussed his suit against the Cotton Exchange
- Announcement was made that holders OF
Southern Pacific common and preferred stock
might subscribe for full shares Of the new issue
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Partly cloudy. The temperature yesterday:
Highest, SO degrees lowest, 43.