New-York tribune., 1908-08-16
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN-Details Of the death Of Mylius
Erickson and Lieutenants Hagen and broehluIo
reached Bergen, where the DenInarh, peaI ii-s
the Greenland expedition, arrived - Amer
leans in London the correspondent OF Inc III
bune says. generally predict q victory for Mr..
Taft - The Brotherhood OF LOCOMOTIVE
Firemen and Engineers in Toronto applied TO
the Canadian government for an arbitration
board 10 decide the Canadian Paclhc strike cues
tions. The British army dirlg1bIe baIoon
was badly damaged while landing al marlborough,
but was repaired and made tWenty-Inlle night.
- Count Zeppelin will establish plants and
manufacture his own materials for MS new ar
ship near Friedricshafen- - James helr
Hardie q Socialist member OF Parliament, sailed
for this country. with the purpose Of endeaYor-
ing to unite the labor unionists and Socialists
into a political party. = The Manila police
discovered that copies Of the ballots used in the
recent municipal election had been stolen and
the election may be contested :" Ziu-es-
Sultan, uncle Of the Shah and claimant to the
Persian throne, made VOW Of loyalty TO MS
nephew in Teheran, but was banished from
Persia
pOMESTIC.-Judge Taft said he had received
many letters from New York, all favoring the
denomination of Governor Hughes; Secretary
Wright was caller and lnsular affairs were
discussed - second negro was lynched
at Springfield, Ill, race riots breaking out
afresh. - The cruiser Colorado went on
the rocks in Puget Sound. - A receiver
was appointed for the Pennsylvania Coal and
Coke Company, one OF the largest producers in
the btuminous region. == Governor Hughes
and family returned to Albany after spending
q number Of weeks in the Adirondacks. -
Two masked men heId up ana roDDed a Trans
continental express train on the Northern Pa
ciic line near Spokane, Wash. - At con-
ference held by Frank H Hitchcock and other
Republican campaign workers in Chicago, II
was decided that the New York headquarters
should have charge of the work in states east
and south Of and including Ohio. :" The
Public Service Comrpission granted permission
for the construction of a fifty-eight-mile rail-
road TO tap large iron deposits in Essex County.
Ex- Congressman Porter Sheldon died at
jamestown, y. Y. - Fire destroyed the New
York Central stock yards at East Buffalo and
about 1900 sheep and calves We're killed. -
The Livingston County Republican COnVen-
ton, q Cieneseo, instructed its delegates to
the state convention 10 vote for Speaker Wads
worth for the Governorship nomination
CITY-Stocks were heavy. = 4 letter by
William Jennings Bryan TO the prosperity din
ner at Manhattan Beach suppressed be-
cause il too partisan - Captain Peter
Cooper Haines Of the United States Army,
killed William E. Annis on the pier of the Bay
side Yacht Club. The conference 10 pro-
New York inspected the Manhattan waterfront
- The Women's League of New York State
announced that il had received promises from
fifty employers that they would give work to
sixteen hundred more women by September Is.
- Hungary sent q member of parliament TO
this country TO study the condition Of Hun
garian immigrants. - A young Brooklyn
wife killed her husband when he demanded that
she support him dishonesty. - Gustav
Stickley announced his plan to found a crafts
mans village in New Jersey. - Ten days
given TO the Metropolitan Street Railway
Company in which heed the complaints of
Harlem residents against the storing of cars in
Lexington avenue Timothy /. Woodruff
left the city for his Adirondack camp to rest
before the fall campaign
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Cloudy. The temperature yesterday: Highest,
IS degrees; lowest, IS.