New-York tribune., 1908-05-02
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

NGRESS-Senate: Mr.. Elkinss resolu-
tion suspending for twenty months the operation
law was discussed. - House: Consideration
of the sundry civil appropriation bill continued.
FOREIGN-A dispatch from Panama said
that Honduras was concentrating forces on the
Guatemalan frontier; many executions are said
have been carried out by Cabrera's orders in
Guatemala City, and the HOnduran Consul Cen
eral and his son are said TO have been forcibly
taken from the Uruguayan Legation. - Ad-
vices from Peking say that the boycott against
Japan is spreading and that the latter country
is seeking Great Britalns support to check the
movement. - No disorder marked the May
Day celebration in Berlin; arrests were made
in Paris, but troops were not needed to suppress
the demonstrations. - Efforts to settle the
shipbuildng dispute in the United Kingdom
have failed, and a lockout of 250,000 men will
go into effect to-day. - Winston Spencer
Churchill arrived at Dundee to contest the seat
in Parliament made vacant by Edmund Robert
is well organized but his election is regarded
certain. - The North German Lloyd
steamer K0ln was in collision with Hamburg
tank steamer off Alderney, and was badly
damaged; eight hundred passengers We're
rescued by a German steamer; one life was lost
DoMESTIC-Governor Hughes at Albany ap
pointed Harvey ]. Donaldson, of Ballston Spa
as special examiner and appraiser to appraise
lands taken by the state for barge canal pur-
poses. - Secretary Taft sailed for Panama
- William a. Stetson, of Boston, one of the
best known leather dealers in the United States,
petitioned into bankruptcy by his creditors.
- The federal Treasury's statement for
April showed excess of expenditures over
receipts of nearly sl6.OO00OO. Governor
Hughes continued his campaign for the passage
of the anti-racetrack gambling bills by speaking
at a big meeting at Ithaca, y. Y; President
Schurman of Cornell University also spoke
= Snow fell at jamestown. y. Y. TO the
depth of ten inches. - Officials and detec-
tives engaged in investigating the robbery of
the PENNSYLVANIA Railroads St. Louis express
near Pittsburg gained little information; the
loss TO the express company it was said. will
not exceed $500. = A general tie-up of the
Cleveland streetcar system. taken over by the
city Monday, indicated by the attitude
of the employees in balloting on the question Of
striking.
Brooklyn celebrated the opening Of the subway
continuation Charles +. Murphy and
Joseph Cassidy blamed John II. OBren for the
election If Lawrence Gresser. -= Professor
John J. A1CNuty, of City College, was killed by
q fall in the elevator shaft of R II. Macys store.
== one Of the missing Mcintyre stock GER
tifcates was found. == Many persons visited
Trinity Church to view the body of DR. Dix
dent Haffsn from blame in the Hunts Park pur-
chase. == May i set by the Public Ser
vice Commission for a hearing on increase Of
service on four downtown surface lines.
The Jerome hearing made rapid progress. -
The merging of the Hamilton Bank with two
other Harlem institutions was announced. =-
Malcome Delaney Magee. president OF a Man
asQuan (N. j bank. shot and killed himself on
closed pending an examination of its books.
- G. w. Morse turned $3.50 600 over TO Re
ceiver Hanna of the Bank of North America
- Plans for the march of sixty thousand
Roman Catholic laity included a review bv
prelates in front Of the cathedral === A parade
and mass meeting OF socialists in Union Square
Park held
THE WEATHER-Indica atoms for to-day:
Fair. The temperature yesterday: Highest. 80
degrees; lowest ~