New-York tribune., 1908-12-26
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

Foreign RoyaIist adherent attempted TO
pull the beard OF President FallieTes in Paris;
the assailaut was arrested == NJ Iswolsky'
speaking before the Douna, said that tle only
way to curb arbitrary Austrian action was
through q conference Of the powers; he warmly
rraised the AueriCan-Japanese agreement -
The Dutch cruiser CelderIand arrived at VIII
lenlstad. having been recalled from Venezuelan
,,-arers - Plans are being made at Naples to
entertain the officers and men Of the Illinois, the
Kearsargc and the Wisconsin, which are expected
20 arrive there about January II - The
faculty Of the Sorbonne closed the School or
Medicine 10 first and second year s1uaents tor
Balia- owned by Jacques Lebaudy, mutinied off
the Canary Islands; they were IorCeQ 10 put
into Santa Cruz, where they were arrested ="
A picked bodyguard is being formed TO protect
Prince ChUn. the Regent OF China, against assaS-
sinatiOn-
DO4IESTIC-The President and most Of the
other Washington officials celebrated Christmas
by family gatherings == President-elect TAFT
Won Christmas golf tournament at Augusta.
Ca and also received masses Of rnistetoe holly
and cut flowers from people of that city. -
A American cOnsuls in the Orient reported 10 the
State Department that fluctuations in the price
Of silver have seriously embarrassed business in
China, while japan, having G gold basis, mas not
suffered. H f Agar, who was supposed
to have been drowned two years ago, arrived at
his old home IN Princeton, Ind. TO face charges
N forgery: he told the story Of his life since his
Cisanrearance. - John Q. Proctor, of Read
ing. Mass. and Boston, died suddenly, following
q hockey game at Woburn, Mass. - Two
ocean freighTers reached Boston after suffering
considerable damage from gales ~ The Bos-
her riding lights set and without crew, sank
on Handkerchief Shoal, in Nantucket Shoals.
- Reports OF Investigations Of accidents on
steam railroads. made 70 the Pubilc service
Commission. I'd District at Albany, during 1908,
indicate that a large proportion OF those in
vesrigsteG have been caused by the failure or
employees TO obey standard operating rules or
special instructions which were in force for the
safe movement of ains.-=Governor Hughes
spent Christmas quietly at the Executive Man
sion al Albany with his family; he had as guests
his parents
CITY-yarious charitable organizations and
persons provided dinners and gifts for the poor,
and the inmates Of varia-= institutions, char-
table and penal received ,1- ~trnas cheer. -
The last Christmas services we're held IN st
3ohn's Chapel II was announce that there had
been q gain in communicates since last Christ
mas =- Counsel for the moving picture show
uroprietors announced after a meeting that he
would apply for injunction against the
8Iavor-s order revoEina the licenses - Tam
many Hail was denounced by the prime mOv
ers in a revolving organization, who opposed
the arbitrary control OF the sef-seeking ring"
The Public Service Commission made
public the new system Of bookkeeping for
pOrations under its jurisdiction which goes
into effect with the new year - + ltzNllllarn
Lonsdale Scannell, a nephew or Mrs Blrney
Fellowes, Of CornVall-on-the-Hu Hudson, was killed
while coasting. - George c. Hurlbut, libra
nan Of the American Geographical Society, and
his daughter were injured when their automo-
bile was in collision with surface car. -
Engineers expressed the opinion that II would
he dangerous to erect the municipal terminal
building after the present plans == General
Hains ate dinner with his two sons in the
tFat the striking cabmen employed at the Sea
man stables had surrendered == Search was
made along Long Island Sound for q steamboat
supposed 10 be on fire. The lumber
schooner Warner Moore reported a derehct off
The Virginia CaDes. =- Commissioner Btng-
ham ordered the telephone service Of the New
York and New jersey company IN Queens BOT
o1gh discontinued == II was announced that
the Belgian notes said 10 have been forged and
distributed IN America would be examined at
Brussels to-day
THE WEATHER -- Indications for to-day:
Cloudy and colder northwest winds. The tenn
perature yesterday. Highest, Il degrees; low
est, IS