New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-10-22
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

roPE1GH-The dsv at Toxic was filed with
n round Of entertainments IN honor o. tiS - 80
snq Americans: Premier Katsura gave dinner ,I
and a hall - The Austrian government VIII
r7rohfhtt to-day the export OF arms 20 SerN4a,
Austria has ordered her minister al CelLin IL
sDoioetze for the detention at Agram OF a MOI
4eneer1n envoy 10 SeTvia- ~ 1~ord S1iIhe t
said at Toronto that he expected Great br4IaIl IAN
soon 70 grant preference TO the colonies anu
o.. - Tegs-da6 the confederation Of South
African states as assured - premier AsqulIIi
said IN the House of Commons that the govern
-oer. would provide a fund Of Sl.5oo,oOU 10 re-
1yevA distress Of the unemployed and would al
vance work on naval construction, auQllls may
the War Department was ready 10 take 14'VvV
for training in the special reserves - Al Cil
bishop Bourne viii be made q. cardlnel at the
next consistory. - British fire insurance
conpanies have offered TO pay so per cent OF the
claims for losses in the Kingston fire; the pol
scvholders' committee asks 90 per cent -
David Lloyd George. Chancellor OF the tx
cheouer. and Herbert Gladstone Home Secre-
re-v were witnesses at the trial OF suffragettes
st the Bow street police court
DOMESTIC William H. Taft passed the day
IN resting at his brothers home in Cincinnati;
he learns that he can count confidently upon
receiving the electoral vote OF Ohio. - Ihe
reports az the $3.50 national banks. filed IN
Washington, showed greatly improved business
conditions. 60 Senator Dixon Of Montana
who has been studying the political situation,
visited the White House and told the PreslGent
that Mr.. Bryan would get only southern titc-
rorai votes and would fail to carry Maryland.
Rains Of sufficient volume TO put an end
TO the forest fires in the Adirondack and Ale
gheny Mountains are predicted by the Weather
Bureau at Washington. -= Governor Hughes
had rousing meetings in Cayuga and Wayne
counties - The annual Lake Mohonk Con
ference Of Friends Of the Indians and Other
Dependent Peoples opened al Lake Mohonk. \
Y. - The fortieth annual convention OF the
National American woman Suffrage ASsocla-
ton ended al Buffalo. - Three new names,
representing blocks Of stocks controlled by John
I. Billiard, Of Meriden, Conn, were added 10 the
directorate OF the Maine Central Railroad at the
annual meeting at Portland Ne - Lieuten-
ent Governor Chanler at jamestown. said that
he 7pr IN AsyneW
Hart anti-rsCetraCk gambling laws, but that he
favored the supervision Of public service cor
porstions by elective and not appontive officers
CTTY.-Stocks We're strong and active -
II ives brought out at the Morse trial that
Charles T Barney threatened 10 retire a di-
rector OF the National Bank Of North America
unless President Curtis obtained settlement Of
an unsecured note for 100000 made by Calvin
Austin. president Of the Consolidated Steam
ship Company - President Charles s. Mel
len said that the New Haven road had never
owned share OF the Boston & Maine corpora
tion GO The Corporation Counsel advised
Police Commissioner Bingham TO instruct his
men TO Jet vote sll voters in line when time for
closing the polls The Board of Elec-
tons announced that all election districts where
there We're more than $50 voters would be split
National Chairman Hitchcock said the
Republican National Committee no longer feared
the result in New York State. - Secretary
Root permitted the case OF Jan Janon PouTen
the Russian refugee to be reopened. == The
question 81 the rehabilitation OF liquidation Of
the National Bank Of North America not
solved the stockholders meeting edtourning in
the hope that the former may be done. -
Representatives Of Harvard. Princeton and Yale
adopted the triangular system Of debating for
the coming year with the understanding that
81 successful il would be continued. - De-
tails OF the arrangements for financing the four
new steamships for the White Star Line. TO
cost slS,000,o00, were announced - Sound
steamboat picked up two men from a storm
buTeted boat one dying soon after the rescue
THE WEATHER for to-day:
Fair. The temperature yesterday: Highest. IS
degrees lowest 46-