New-York tribune., 1908-03-05
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS Currency LEGISLATION
was considered and the bill for increased pay IN
the army. - House: The postofhce appro.
prfation bill was under consideration, put
sneeches were made a variety Of SUBJECTS
including one by Representative bennet OF Ne"
York on the measure providing for the oepoTld-
ton Of felon aliens.
1rOREIGN-Sixteen miners are believed TO
have perished in a fire which broke out IN a a
coIliery near Birmingham. ~ The sWeepIlS
concessions made by King Leopold regarding the
new treaty Of annexation OF the congo were
due according to a dispatch from BTuSSelS' ~
fear of Great Britain's Intervention, packed py
America - Customs receipts at Havana for
February showed the smallest monthly return.
with one exception, since the Spanish eNacua-
.;on Of the island - The Chinese govern
-nent has approved a series of laws intended TO
introduce Western banking methods- -.
King Edward. who will start for the Continent
TODAY visited Sir Henry Campbell BarnerInah' :
the Empress Dowager Of Russia arrived in Lon
don on visit TO Queen Alexandra - Inc
Swedish parIiar1ent passed the bill providing
for ferry for railway cars between IreliepoIe (
Colonial Secretary, said that a rising OF natives
was possible in the Cameroons as soon as lhe
forced development of the rubber industry
siackened.
DoMFSTTc-More than $50 children were
burned TO death in a schoolhouse fire at North
CoIlinwood Cleveland suburb - senator
Redfleld Proctor, of Vermont died In NaShlng-
ton after a brief illness. and his body VIII be
taken TO Proctor, Vt. for burial - Repub-
licsn state conventions in Ohio and Kansas IN
strccted delegates-at-large 10 the natlonal con-
vention for Secretary Taft == The hearing
on The Aenew- Hart racing bills was continued
a Albany Governor Black and Louis Mar
shall being the principal speakers. =- II WAS
snnounced at Boston that Max Fielder. of Ham
burg had been engaged as director or the bos-
ton Symphony Orchestra to succeed Dr hafi
Murt, - Senator Crane. of Massachusetts,
issued a statement at Boston saying that the
commonwealth should send uninstructed dele
gates TO the Chicago convention -- Inc
amount Of the Jeannes bequest TO SWarthmore
College contingent on the abandonment OF attn
ltics is now estimated not at S1.000000. but at
s2en 600 and il is thought the college may get
II without giving up athletics -- me olS-
covery of a planet or satellite was an
nolspced in a cable dispatch received from the
observatory at Kiel Germany, by the astrono-
nners at the Harvard observatory at Cambridge;
Mass A plan has received the approNai
Of the President for the establishment OF a park
for the preservation of buffalo in Montana --
important amendments to the insurance law
are provided in a bill introduced AT AIbany py
senator Fancher and Assemblyman Hanln-
CITY-Stocks rose in the late trading -
Nathan vidaver, one Of the Attorney General's $
special deputies. arrested on charge OF
stteupted eXtortion. -- Charles {. Dlckln-
son was elected president Of the Carnegie Trust
Company TO succeed Leslie NJ Shaw == PauI
ID Cravath made many admissions in the At
torney Generals suit TO dissolve the New York
CITY Railway Company --- A new plan TOT
liouidating the Oriental Bank was presented TO
Attorney General Jackson. -= Andrew car
negie settled upon Mrs Henry Sanger SNOW,
wife of the missing former telephone company
treasurer the income from S25,O00- == Three
women were hurt in a streetcar collision on the
Rrooklyu Bridge. = President Westinghouse
said satisfactory progress was being made
toward adjustment of the debts Of the Westing-
q prompt termination Of the receivership
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for to-day:
Fair The temperature yesterday: Highest
SIS degrees; lowest, 26