New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-12
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FRIDAY, APRIL u, 1907.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-Lord Cromer's resignation as
British agent and consul general in Egypt was
announced in London, and Sir Eldon Gorst was
appointed 10 succeed him. == An insult by
q monarchist member to President Golovin Of
the Russian Douma promptly resented by
the suspension of the offender: the Premier
replied 70 the President in regard the exclusion
OF experts. - Fifteen lives were lost in
railroad wreck on the Canadian Pacific, near
Chapleau, Ont, two cars rolling down an en-
bankment and taking fire. == Much satisfac-
ton was expressed in Cuba with the utterances
Of Secretary Taft IN the course of his three
DAYS visit. I= NJ Emile Benoist a Paris
banker, shot and killed by a Disconnected
customer IN the Office OF financial newspaper of
which II. BenOist was editor. - A hearing
given in Paris 70 Able JOHN, charged with
inciting 10 rebellion from the pulpit in con-
nectiOn with the taking of church inventories:
he declared he had never transgressed the
laws. = The wife OF Secretary Taft arrived
at Porto Rico; Governor and Mrs. Beeknan
Winthrop viii return to this country with the
Taft party the May1ower
DOMEsTIC.-Henry II Rogers. in a pub
nshed interview, took optimistic view of the
oountry's business conditions but urged less
Rgitf don and more conservative government:
special dispatches from Baltimore and Cincin-
natl reported depression in trade. -
Many distinguished guests attended the re-
dedication OF the Carnegie Institute at Pitts
burg. - James S. Whipple, State Forest
Fish and Game Commissioner. announced at
Albany that he had denied the application of
Timothy l. Woodruff for the opening Of a
highway across state land to MI. Woodruff s
camp ia the Adirondacks. - The Senate at
Albany unanimously passed the Wainwright
Military Inquiry bill. = The Kelsey hearing
before the Senate Judiciary Committee re-
sumed at Albany. - General Eugene Griffin,
first vioe-president and manager of the sales
department of the General Electric Company
died at Schenectady, n. Y. - The North
Adams express. northbOund, was wrecked near
Canaan -Four Corners. y. Y; the fireman was
killed. but the passengers were unhurt -
Robert c. Ogden, OF New York. was reelected
president OF the Conference for Education IN
the South at Pinehurst. n. c.
CITY.-Stocks were weak - There was a
riot at the Polo Grounds, which broke I'D the
game at The end Of the eighth inning. 80
Charles F. Murphy by announcing that he
would call for an investigation of all city de-
partments - Three more cases OF typhoid
An the Croton watershed We're reported. -
BIDS Tor the construction of a section Of the
loop 70 connect the bridges were received
from merchants, steamship men and real estate
dealers confirmed the impression that business
In general was booming. == Local steamship
agents Of nearly all the transatlantic lines said
ma showed an encouraging outlook - Coun-
eel for Bensonhurst property owners told the
Rapid Transit Commissioners that A. Y. Brady
q director OF the Brooklyn Rapid Transit sys-
TEN. was the only property owner IN Benson
hurst TO oppose the Fourth avenue and Fort
Hamilton subway IN Brooklyn - The plans
Cor the new Grand Central Station were raodi-
fed TO eliminate the inclined passageway which
leads from the old station TO the suburban
trains under the Grand Central Palace.
The jury In the case Of the executors OF Major
John Byrne'a estate against c. Weidenfeld and
I 3. HewcoEnb awarded the plaintiffs S39S 600
and costs, a total OF about 100000
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day;
Fair and warmer. The temperature yesterday:
Highest, % degrees; lowest, "a.