New-York tribune., 1908-12-31
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FORFTcN-The dead IN Calabria and Sicily
Tay number 1905 .030. II is believed that IlV'VVV
persons perished in Messina and hegglo aions' "a t
many thousands OF wounded are sun puIfeu l uil
Ger wreckage. and thousands Rore are destltute
in the oren country. == Refugees are arriving
Il points as far north Naples. the hoSptaIs Al
1ov-er norris being overcroWded. == Deputy
Tgzrsraridza one Of the eight members Of the
love brr,ss condemned to five years in Siberia
for being implicated il the dissolution OF the
te=cond D0Una. died on train in Russia
The IGOairna by a unanimous vote re1ecteu tliS
ministerial bill regulating the Gisposai ny pupllc
sale Of oil bearing tracts Of land IN Baku prov
.Dce - The petition OF Count Boni de cas-
reliance that the custody Of his three sons De
given his mother vas denied IN Pans
Wilbur Wright made d fight at lie Mans. re
naming in the air for hour 1fty-lWo MN
u1es and forty seconds and covering distance
Of sixtv miles dispatch from Caracas
via WiIleu1stad stated that W / Buchanan
special commissioner OF the American govern
,-eur had arrived there. he was most cordially
greeted by the officials Of the new government
- Senator Thomas Alfred BernieT died at
winnipeg
DOMESTIC -President-elect Taft At Augusta,
Ga announced his opposition TO the movement
10 organize Taft clubs in the South ==
Count Won Rernstorff, the new Geman Arnbassa-
dor - this country, formally presented to
the President at the White House ~ The
charges made against the tariff trainers by Dr:
iJarnes ). 0rtou were resented bE members OF
Tho TYsvs ard Means subcommittee in Wash
lsngton. -- L was said in Albany that Speaker
Wsdsworth ard Asserlbly1man Merritt We're con
eiderlns the adVisablllty OF coilSolldLliS uis
Assembly committees on Electricity. Gas and
Water Supply and Railroads. - charles n
sfseus. State ContTOer-elecI. made publlc al Al
hsnv p number of appointments =- Henry
Egezvs snd Eugene Meyer. jr- defended Wall
sE-+rzef methods IN addresses before the Ameri
can Society for the Advancement Of Science al
Baltimore =-- EK-Stat@ Treasurer William /.
AIarhues Of Pennsylvania, convicted IN a Capitol
graft case, died suddenly at his home in Media
g. Two men were found guilty in the United
States District Court in Boston OF conspiracy TO
-ErnugEie chinese into the country. == Twen-
1y-two bodies were removed from the LICK
tRTanch CVaD coal mine and II was estimated
iThat from tfir1Y-Ive 20 fifty bodies remained IN
the shaft. tyEenty-thTee miners came out alive.
s= The Voters League. investigating coTrup-
ton IL Pittsburg. issued an appeal for funds.
CTTY-Stocks were irregular at small changes.
Mayer Mcclellan refused 70 agree 10 the
purchase by the city OF the improbable Brook
Iyn ferry lines which recently ceased running
= } P Morgan sent $40 600 20 Italy for the
relief Of earthquake sufferers and the American
Red Cross prepared 70 send $4,000. == DR..
Manning denied that Trinity Corporation had
treated the cuTates ~ St Johns Chapel unfair
II Citizens Union people heartily ap-
s17roved Herbert Parsons speech on fusion. =-
Temporarily insane, a man cut off the head OF
his mother and then jumped from q window,
still holding the head in one hand. -= Con-
troer AIetZ said that by 1925 the city could be
run free Of taxes 81 big enough man could
h found TO place al its head == Mr.. Mcln-
tfvre chief counsel for the defence in the Hams
trial became sick yesterday and the trial was
.delaved- == ! bomb dropping from the Second
Evenue L" made Sicilians in the neighborhood
fhinE there was another earthquake -= W all
Efree1 heard on good authority that Frank A
Fanderlip would succeed James Stilman as
fJresident Of the National City Bank ST the next
Errlaf meeting. Attorneys for Charles ".
Morse fled with United States Attorney StimsOn
g DiI u errors preliminary to asking for a new
trial = Prominent citizens of New York
denounced the plan 10 erect stadium in Central
Park
Fair and colder The temperature yesterday:
highest - degrees; lowest, 35-