New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-14
THE NEWS THIS MORNTNG.

CONGRESS- Senate: Consideration OF the
Brownsville affair was postponed on h1 T ~
Mr. Foraker until December 10, anQ MI Kay heI :
resolution for a court OF inquiry IA tIl rT. 90
colonel Stewart was referred to the CoInlllItlee
on Military Affairs: the House bill restoring tli
motto In God We Trust to the COINS va a.
r,aSsed - House: The day was devoted 20
miscellaneous routine business
FOREIGN-The British punitive force agdl1S'
the invading Afghans has reached Gdhu' tiie
+rihesrnen evidently intend TO give battle' Ihe
Amer threaten to punish severely his sub1ectS
who cross the border -- IWelty-flile oL 'iI0
prisoners who attempted to break jail at Eka-
terinoslav shot and killed by the guards;
thirty men were wounded, several OF whom VIII
dte Japan has emphatically refused
China's offer of a modification regarding the
construction Of railway line in Manchulla-
DoMESTIC.-Forty-f Governors and manv
.,-ber well known public men took part with
President Roosevelt in the conference on con
SerTarion Of natural resources, Hnlch beSdn a.
The White House. - Frank II. Hitchcock, IN
charge of Secretary Tafts campaign. issued a
statement al Washington 10 the effect that OBJ
delegates. ninety-one more than neeced TOT
nomination would be pledged to the Secretary
- Varied entertainments were PROVIDED lot
the officers and men Of the combined fleets IN
San Francisco and across the bay - botn
houses Of the State Legislature At Albany ad-
jnurned until next Monday night -= Cnn-
&. strgcred delegates to the Democratic Nauonai
convention at Denver were elected by the Demo
crats Of the nth Massachusetts Congress Dis
trict Mrs. William Thaw paid visit Il
her son Harry- X Tha7. at the Duchess County
Teelker. il was announced at Poughkeepsie. \
Y was more favorable. =- It was reported
that q tornado had DESTROYED the village 81 Gil
nan. Ia. killing or inJuring fifty persons
sCITY-Stocks we're strong - One man
wss killed and three persons We're Frustrated by
the hottest day Of the year - Henry B Sea
man did not remember having verbally reported
20 the Bridge Commission that the BlaCkwell's
Island structure was perfectly safe, and APP
proved the idea Of test TO see II it had been
overloaded - a coroner's physician said
The" Allen died from pneumonia -- Further
testimony and complaint enhanced the i'm
rortance Of the note SWindling case. - Ex-
Governor Francis Of Missouri said he sure
Taft and BRYAN would he the two Presidential
candidates. == TurfTnen said Senator Fancher
would against the anti aCetrack bill the
next roll call f. II. Hartman. when
asked why no action had been taken on the
authorized bond issue, said the Union Pacific
didn't need cash. -- Gold exports rel
e1naed with engagement of S5150,o00 to he
shipped 70 Paris. -- Cotton prices showed
ner gains of 80 points for July. q for August
and is for October II was said that 7. ?
Morgan & co. had taken the issue of $1,000 .o0C
honts about be offered by the Southern Rail
way Company. - The president of the Chase
National Bank told where the Vreeland currency
btll defective.
THE wEATHER-Indications for TO- day:
Rain and cooler. The temperature yesterday:
Highest 81 degrees, lowest, s.