New-York tribune., 1908-08-15
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

EoRETcN-Tbe American battleship fleet
sailed from Auckland for Sydney; many eNcur-
- The balloon owned by Captain LoVeiace'
of the New York Aero Club, exploded IN Lon
DON killing two persons and ln!urlis - stA,
Venezuelan insuTgent commissioners .
reached Panama said that 2 strong movement
to overthrow President Castro was pelhs ui
.~snized II was reported from Winnipeg
that the Dominion government would intervene
IN the strike on the Canadian Pacihc ana 1hat
prospects were fair for speedy settieieIll.
The engagement Of Winston spencer
Churchill president of the Board OF Trade, ana
Ilementine daughter OF the late Slt f1GIlH flH
AIontagu HoZier. was announced ,,.;. I1ua -.
sein Kiazim Bey- the TURKISH dlhlStei
bucharest may be appointed ambassador Il
America 60 A dispatch from Paris says that
q basis has been laid for tariff treaty betWeeh
France and the United States - Americans
in Japan are indignant over dispatches sent 10
Japanese newspapers saying that Count Jl8.o ohuo
mas utterances have renewed ahu-Jdl'a9@
feeling in the United States
DOMESTIC-william H. Taft was pleased
with the news that he would be sHPpoeLea rsl,og g
,be winning of Maryland. - Secretary
Wright started for Hot Springs to confer WIN WIN
Mr. Taft War Department ana poltlcdl
matters Governor Curtis Guild. Jr, was
operate-1 on for appendicities at Boston; the
operation pronounced successful -- w
T Thomas a Washington theatrical manager
complained to the Department OF Jusuce OF tHs
so-caIled New York theatrical trust. and asked
that proceedings be begun against H.
The United States commissioners 10 the iohIo
axpositjon started for Japan on preliminary
1-iSiT W I BRYAN spent a quiet day at
TjncoIn - The Thaw case was passed IN
Pirtshurg no one appearing for him; it was re
rOrted a serious obstacle to the plans TO take
him to Pittsburg had been encountered -
Senator William W. Armstrong announced at
Rochester that he was not candidate Tor re-
nomination Clifford Pinchot. chief for
ester of the United States Department of Agrl-
culture. addressed the convention OF the lhte-
national Typographical Union at Boston
CTTY-Stocks were weak. z. R Thomas
was seriously injured in an automobile accldenI
TWO men were killed and nine others
overcome by leaking gas in a manloie. -
The Democratic State Committee met III TINS
CITY and named Rochester as the place and sep
ternher = as the date for the state convention;
there was talk of candidates for the Gov
ernorship. == It was learned that there was
a movement 70 prevent Joseph H Choate from
being permanent chairman OF the Republican
State Convention. Ira u. Sankey. the
evangelist and hymn writer. died at his BROOK
lvn home. 1t lively day Tor the
naval militia at Gardeners Bay. - j Frank
Cordova. the unfrocked Methodist minister, on
leaving the New Jersey State Prison, where he
had been serving a term for abandonment, an
nounced his intention OF reforming -= Ac-
eoF6ing Health Department officials state
meItE. thousands Of stray dogs have been
killed. =- II was learned that there would be
a conference next week between the officials Of
the Central Park. North & East River Railroad
Company and the Metropolitan systems receiv-
ers IN regard to re-estabiishment of through
routes and joint rates of fares between the lines
Of the two systems === Socialists, Anarchists
Prosperity Congress Of Commercial Travellers.
- A starving man made lively fight to
commit suicide from the Brooklyn Bridge.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Fair. The temperature yesterday: Highest, 90
degrees; lowest, 75.