New-York tribune., 1908-12-17
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS-Senate: 4 resolution providing
for an investigation Of the Secret service was
Presidents policy in the Brownsville a1air, ana
Mr. Forakers resolution, regarding the employ
rnent Of detectives. was adopted - house
The bill 10 revise the Penal Cooe was CoIlsIG
cred an amendment aimed at transactions IN
futures" being defeated
F=OREIGN-Dispatche from Caracas. Nenez.
slela tel Of an outbreak there on Monday against
President Castro in which mob burned MS
statues and pictures and pillaged his friends
property ~ Count Boni de Castelane with
drew his demand for an annual allowance OF
, $4,000 from his former wife, the Princess De
Sagan IN his suit at Paris TO recover the CUSTODY
81 his children - Fifteen persons were killed
and thirty injured in a railway collision in
tunnel near Limoges. France. - Ntkolal A
Khomvskoff, president of the Russian Douna'
RESIGNED his Office on account Of criticisms made
upon the floor of his conduct - Wilbur
Wright the American aeronaut sent MS areo-
plane almost directly upward 240 feet at LIE
Mans and allowed II to glide most Of the way
farE- 10 me ground - General Inouye, of the
japanese army. died in Kioto, Japan. - The
natives Of Rokahanga Island, part OF New Aea-
land, declared q republic and hauled GOVT the
British flag. - The British Parliament and
the Russian DOunla have sent CONGRATULATIONS
70 the Turkish Parliament which VIII convene
to-day
DONFSTIC-The agreement between Presi-
dent Roosevelt and the Smithsonian Institution
. public - Secretary Root made argument
IN defence Of the understanding with Japan be
fore the Senate Committee on Foreign hela-
-ions =- twas announced at Albany that the
validity Of the law prohibiting railroad COM
panies from employing telegrapheTs more than
eight hours a day had been upheld by supreme
court Justice Keogh at New Rochelle - An
increase Of S71.347,740 IN the resources and or
ss1 q6e SSs in the deposits Of the trust companies
In this state from August 81 TO November =
was reported by the State Banking Depart
,17eut at Albany. 60 The First National Bank
Ct Somersworth, n H, was closed, owing to a
defalcatfon of Ss5.O0O. = The Commission on
Country Life held meeting at Ithaca, N Y
CTTY-Stocks were strong. ~ Judge Taft.
Governor Hughes and Mayor Mcclellan were
among the speakers at the dinner or the ONO
Soc;efv - Governor Hughes also spoke at
the Mckinley memorial meeting al the Metropol-
ttsu Temple - The United States Circuit
. Court of Appeals ruled that the lower court was
In error in dlsnl1sslng the complaint OF tne
PENNSYLVANIA Sugar Refining Company against
the American Sugar Refining Company, in which
sSe,000,000 damages was asked =" 1t was
announced that the offer Of a Cabinet place 10
Congressuzu Burton had been withdrawn by
Judge Taft - Charles P. Taft, following a
conference between his brother and five of the
Republican state leaders Of Ohio. said ne. was
going To win the United States Senate seat
- from Joseph B. Foraker. == The Trinity Cor
poratfon in e statement. gave its reasons for
abandoning old St Johns Chapel, and stimuli
taneousIy q memorial signed by President Roose-
Velt- Secretary Root and others was made pub
lie. ~ William II. WINS in a report on the
city's debt limit, cut Controller Metz's estimate
pacity down 10 S8.582, ,705 -= A witness at the
legislative inquiry into the city'c finances said
the Staten Island and 3eth street ferries were
run by the city at g loss Of more than a million
dollars IN 1907. - The Pennsylvania Railroad
announced the letting Of the steel rail order OF
: 1S5,50e tons fer 1903 delivery. - Manikins
were used 10 reproduce the scene OF the shooting
sf William Z Annis et the trial of Thornton J.
Hams. - President Eliot Of Harvard spoke
on lawlessness at the meeting Of the Civic Forum
IN Carnegie Hail
Rain or The temperature yesterday:
Highest - degrees; lowest, 3S.