New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-16
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CoSGREsS-senate: The Aldrich currency
hill was substituted for the Vreeland measure
and was passed. - House: Inc oIii i,,
public building blu and Inc ssse Miii' 4bs Currency
bin, as amended by the Senate was sent ~ 0o--
ference. -.
ro0RFIGN-Advices from Panama say that
q Mot 10 kin General Reyes has been discovered
in Costa Rica and that the Colombian Pres1-
dent is hastily returning TO Bogota- - III &c
French officers and ten men were kiheu any nv
sixtv-five were wounded in an action lasting an
day between Arabs and the force under 1ene!S
W. ;, Algeria - Elections passed quietly
in Ianan: the results will be announced in a
week - Arthur Meeker, director OF Ar
nonr & Co. denied the report that the company
,k,ord enter the retail business in England -
-Four natives were injured in Calcutta py
bomb placed on a car track = be y sl ~,
sStanier the Unonist candidate was electeu . ~
q majority Of ISL TO fill the Nacanc! IN ny
House of Commons for the North DIVISION OF
sshronstire The American schooner
Francis Cutting was seized by the Canaolah
cruiser Kestrel for fishing within the three-mlie
limit and taken TO Vancouver
DoNESTIC-Adnliral Charles s Sperry took
command of the Atlantic feet at San FRANCISCO
At the final session OF the natural r.
sources conference at the White House the
President made a declaration of policy on state
and federal rights. - on the recommends
lion of COMMISSIONS Draper. the Board of Re
gents meeting at Albany confirmed the ap-
pointment of James L WEer Jr as director OF
y Y brought suit against state and county
authorities in the West Point-Cornwan state
n
.r-r Instituted to free Harry Il Thaw from con-
fnement at the Matteawan Hospital 1or' the
CRIMINAL Insane were continued at foughheep
sic N Y Governor Hughes gave nral
hearings on a number of bills at Albany --
The Wright brothers, whose aeroplane was
wrecked near Manteo, n. c. broke inc 1nachlhe
into fragments TO conceal its plan Of construc-
fion. thew have three months to fuhl their con-
tract with the War Department - DeIe-
gates from fifty commercial and Shippers ASSN
CITATIONS of the East and Middle West IN con
ference at Chicago heard arguments both for
The plant of the Omaha Packing com
rsny at South Omaha. Neb, was destroyed by
fire: loss. s1,25o,0oo
CITY-Stocks were irregular. closing strong.
- William Clausen, an art dealer, was ar =
rested on the charge Of selling spurious paint
Chandler wilmington. chief engineer of the De
partTnent OF Finance had started 10 investigate
the safety of the Blackwell's Island Bridge. ==
The. President supported in the Browns
VILE test case 60 Frank H. Hitchcock esti-
mated that Secretary Taft now had 621 votes
sI5ooeo00 note issue heralded was said TO he
H H Rogers's method of financing the Virginia
Railv-av COMPANY Controller Metz esti-
mated that the ciIys debt margin would soon
T Cohalan as counsel for the Brooklyn ferry
companies had practically persuaded the city
u buy part Of the terminal properties. - Inc
police of BROOKLYN found boy kidnapped forty
fhree davs ago. Robert Hunter made pub
lie his version Of the incidents attending the
Desmond Dunno resigned Commissioner of
Public Works in Brooklyn.
THE WEATHER Probably showers and
warmer to-day: tomorrow fair, south WINDS.
The temperature yesterday: Highest 81 de-
grees; lowest 40