New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-16
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WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 16. 1907
TIRE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS-Senate Mr.. Spooner finished
his speech on the Brownsville affair defending
the Presidents right TO discharge soldiers with
out honor and criticising Senator Timan Sc
verely for his attitude the race question: the
nominations Of 6. B. Cortelyou to be Secretary
~ the Trea sl,rv lanes r GARFIELD to be Secre-
tery of the Interior. George Won L. Meyer 10
be Postmaster General, and Herbert Knox
Smith to be Commissioner of Corporations, were
confirmed. 80 House: The Fortifcattons APP
preparation bill under discussion
FoREIGN-Kingston, the capital of Jamaica,
has been devastated by earthquake. followed
by fire; about one hundred persons, among them
Sir James FERGUSON, reported killed. So
Mr.. Peiroe, the American Minister Norway.
said that Professor Elliott's charge only a
rehesh Of old malicious attack. - Police
at Madrid discovered an anarchist plot to kill q
number % prominent persons on January 81
Eighty French Catholic prelates met at
the Chateau de ia Muette 20 consider what &C
uon 70 take for the preservation Of the Church;
The Papal encyclical wss accepted: Henri des
HouK Is attempting 10 found a national French
Catholic Church, which will accept the Separa-
ton law. James Bryce. IN a speech 81
Newcastle said that his aim at Washington
would be to cement the already strong ties be-
tween Great Britain and the United States
DCMESTIC.-Governor Hughes issued state
rnent disclaiIntng any factional purpose In tbs
appointment OF Senator stevens. and especially
any anIagoCism 10 Speaker WsGswortn. -
J. II Dickinson, Of Chicago, former Assistant
United States Attorney General, addressed the
State Bar Association at Albany on the topic of
federal and state powers, supporting the att-
tUde OF President Roosevelt and Secretary Root
49, District Attorney Jeromes racetrack bills
were introduced in tne Senate by Senator
AgneW and in the Assembly by Assemblyman
Stanley - The House Committee on Mer-
chant Marine and Fisheries voted. 20 Z. 70 re
port favorably a ship subsidy bill prepared by
Mr.. DittsUer a substitute FOR the Grosvenor
bill. - Edward J. Russell, whose recent eff
forts to secure freedom from confinement in an
insane asylum failed 81 the New York City
courts. tried 10 escape in Troy when being taken
back 20 Dsnnemora oy jumping from a moving
train, but he caught and taken TO the
insane hospital where he had been. == The
blizzard in the Northwest continued. and train
service on the railroads was almost at a stand
still.
CITY.-Stocks closed Irregular. = Alder
man William s Clifford. of Queens Borough
was arrested a charge of bribery. =- Chi
cago 6, North Western railroad stock fell TO 1870
the Produce Exchange might lead retaliatory
measures by the Stock Exchange, il was ru-
rored. - Mistakenly believing he had killed
a friend, a Northport Uong Island) man COM
rnitted suicide. - The estate of William c.
Whitney was taxed for the first time since Er.
Whitney's death - George Burnham. jr., the
convicted Mutual Reserve official. hired ex
Judge Morgan J. O'Brien 10 represent him in his
appeal TO the Appellate Division - Four
men were arrested on the charge Of setting fire
TO the Montefiore Home for COnsumptives at
Bedford Station - II learned that o.
2. Thomas slated to succeed Timothy l..
Woodruff president of the Provtdent Savings
Life. - 1t announced that District At
torney Jerome had formed a general plan 10 in
vestigate the big life insurance companies.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Partly cloudy. The temperature yesterday:
Highest, Il degrees; lowest IS