New-York tribune., 1907-01-20
Irp-21ork DaiIp Gribn,rG
SUNDAY. JANUARY 20. 1907.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS.--The Senate was not in session.
- House: Among the bills passed Was one
authorizing ST Louis 10 construct bridge
scroEs the Mississippi River
FOREIGN Admiral Evans sent 10 Washing
tcn dispatch saying that while Kingston had
been practically destroyed the steamship
harYes were intact; the greatest damage was
5one 10 the business section OF the citN. about
Four hundred bodies had been buried. and there
we're many more in the ruins. =- one dis
patch 10 4 London paper estimated kingston's s
dead AT over seventeen hundred but this report
not confirmed. \ report that the
Hamburg American steamer Prins Eitei Fried
rich ran aground Off Plum Point. Jamaica. on
January is denied by dispatch saying
that the vessel had left Kingston on the follow
Berlin outlined the position of the government
toward the political parties: gain in the So
cialist vote IS expected -= The shah "f Per
eia was crowned at Teheran. -- a dispatch
from Toxic said that tidal wave swept part Of
the eastern coast on Friday. ----- The Eaworth
Castle was ran into bp The Vadarland off the
GSOodwins. and went down with three men. ------
Great excitement prevailed at Caracas President
Castro being again reported sinking. -- The
needs OF the Russian famine sufferers were esti-
mated at s4s.O0ooOQ.
DoArEsTTC.-A letter from President Roose-
velt paying tribute TO the life and character Of
Robert E Lee, read dinner Wash
:ngton IN celebration Of the centennial of the
1stteFs birth. So The Tooth anniversary II
General Lees birth was celebrated throughout
the South. g. From eleven 10 twenty-five
persons were killed In wreck the Big Four
az Fowler. III, an unknown number OF bodies
he'ng burned. == Damage estimated at
s. 0Oc0 was done. and fifteen thousand per
lSSls were driven from their homes IN and near
Cincinnati by the Ohio River floods: many other
cities siong the river reported high wafer and
heavy damage. - Railroads were almost at
. stsndstil in Washington ana oregon because
OF the fuel famine. @=z Governor Hughes, at
Albany. received the Legislative committee ot
the Brotherhood OF Locomotive Engineers.
John D. Long, formerly Secretary = the Navy,
spoke on sThe Brownsville Incident Sefore the
Massachusetts Club IN Boston; he said that no
one doubted the Presidents honest purpose, and
ridicuied the suggestion OF impea cEulent. -
Notice OF an sppepal II the case Of Chester F..
Gillette was fled at Utica
CTTY-Stocks were weak to-day. -=--- =
was reported that the Municipal Ownership
League aldermen told the grand Jury that Al
derman II. c. Peters had directed :hem 20 vote
for eX-Judge CoW1ng Cor Recorder - Mr..
Jerome said he played -'con game" on certain
gamblers, inducing them 10 make statements
about their business under the mistaken notion
that the facts could not be used against them
- The opposition interests in she Mutual
Life gave up all hope that Distric. Attorney
Jerome would prosecute President Peabody.
- The Countess Of Yarmouth visited her
brother. Harry X. Thaw, IN the Tombs. -:
Aided by the rain, Il said that the snow
reIaoval contractors would nave The streets
cleaned up by to-rnorrc7g mory1jng. S!-
Aston Webb. the English architect, sailed Cor
home 80 DT Fagnani told Wellesley AlunlC a
that women were parasites. === The ohio
Society held its twenty-first dinner az the Wal
eorf
THE WEATHTER--IndlcatioIs fer TO-DAY:
Rain and Narras- The temperature yesterday:
Highest. 40 degrees; lowest 30.