New-York tribune., 1907-07-29
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-Major Lenair continued his pub
Hcation Of exposures Of brutalities of native
troops in the Congo adding confirmatory letters
from Italian officers IN the region. "A victory
of the Shereefan troops over the Kamass tribes
men. in whose territory Raisuh Is holding Caid
MacLean, is believed TO render the prisoners
position more precarious. 60 A dispatch from
Vienna said that an attempt was made to kill
King Peter OF SeTVia by changing railway sig
nails TO cause collision between the royal
train and another at Palanka; no one was seri-
ously hurt. - A Guatemalan committee has
distributed among the delegates ct The Hague
protests against the government of President
Cabrera, accusing him Of many crimes. -
Mail advices from Toxic describe the initiation
Of securities. accompanied by the speculation of
ali classes Of inhabitants, ending in financial
crashes; the aid extended by the national and
other banks prevented heavier losses.
DoMESTIC-William D Haywood was ac-
quilted at Boise Of the murder of Ex-Governor
Steunenberg. - The jury trying Louis Glass
- Attorney General Bonaparte, at Lenox
Mass, gave out a statement the North Caro-
lima affair. = Governor Swanson of Virginia
was quoted as saving that he and the Corpora
tion Commission favored ignoring Judge Pritch-
ards order restraining the publication of two
cent rate. - A negro who was accused Of
shooting a policeman was kicked to death and
then hanged by a mob at Crisf1ed. Md. -
One man was killed In a collision between the
Florida special and another train on the Atlantic
Coast Line near stony Creek. Va. - New
York man ditched his automobile and risked his
life to the lives Of others when his
machine became unmanageable in the CatskillS.
g. woman was killed and three com panions
were hurt when an automobile ran into q Drldge
at Arnold's Mills, r l. -= Old Home week
exercises began in New England with special
services In the churches: Vice President Fair
banks spoke twice in Boston. = It said
at Auburn. n. Y, that only eight lives were lost
through the burning Of the steamboat FrOntenac
on Cayuga Lake on Saturday.
CITY Fire at Coney Island wiped out Steeple-
chase Park and about six blocks Of amusement
enterprises. music halls. saloons, restaurants
etc, causing about s1O00,000 damage TO the park
and about 900 elsewhere: the whole south
eide OF Surf avenue threatened. -= In q
report 10 Governor Hughes Commissioner Wiet-
ing Of the State Agricultural Department said
that opportunities for profitable farming were
possibly greater in New York at present than in
and other part Of the world. - About eighteen
thousand members Of the Holy Name Society
attended an annual rally at ROsyn, Long Island
g. The Church Of the Magdalene in Pocantico
Hills. celebrated the cancellation Of a mortgage
g. The committee on investigation Of the Ma
efonal Civic Federation Commission on Public
Ownership made public its final report. -=
The West Side Merchants Association warned
all dryEoods merchants that they must keep
closed on Sunday. - Six persons hurt
BY being thrown into a ditch from automo-
bile in Bayside yesterday.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Partly cloudy. The temperature yesterday:
Highest, 81 degrees; lowest, 65.