New-York tribune., 1908-06-04
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

roP PFrcN-T'he announcement of penny post
axe between America and England was Warmly
welcomed by the British press and people anu
fiieh praise was bestowed Ambassadors fNeio
snd Br-rce Five Socialists won seats IN
,he P-11ssisn Diet from the Radicals, four VIC
tories being gained in Berlin; no SoclaIlsI Pc
xiously has been elected TO this booy - nc
International Cotton Congress closed lis sessions
at Paris; recommendations faVorlns cohceI!ed
action 10 curtail production and the Introduction
Of a net weight basis OF purchase III fuiol
we're adopted - Zola's body moved at
night from Montmartre TO the Pantheon; thou-
sands of persons outside the building cheerea
and hooted the arrival of the comm Ihe PolICe
r,revented disorder. - Advices from Kingston,
Jamaica, said that Governor Magoon would san
from that port on June Is for Colon to act as
referee in the Panama claims against the Cn1teo
States Leading parties IN the DouIld' d
disnatch from St Petersburg says, favor cen
slIring the Ministry of Marine for alleged M
competence; Lewis Nixon whose torpeoo @ poatS
were said to be of little value. issued a STATE
rnent in defence Of their construction - :,
Mulai Hafg has confscated and threatens TO sen
the wives OF General Bagdani and his nrotner'
the diplomatic corps may be asked 10 intervene
Observation-Disclosures Roosevelt had a
row escape from injury horse which ne was
riding rearing and falling, with the PresldenL.
into a creek - Postmaster General Meyer
announced an agreement with the British gov
eminent whereby a letter postage rate of two
cents an ounce between the two countries VIII
become effective October l Of this year
Representative Serene Payne said in Nashlng-
ton that the Ways and Means Committee would
not meet to consider tarln schedules uhtlI aIler
The election The Maryland State Demo-
cratic Convention chose delegates 10 Denver
urinstrllcted: a weak attempt at the last mo-
rnent to introduce Bryan resolution slgnally
failed - The Tooth anniversary Of the birth
of Teeerson Davis was generally celebrated
throughout the South 80 The Board or AS
SCISSORS of Chelsea Mass, announced that the
loss in the confagration in that city on April
500 The Delaware & Hud-
.on Company applied at Albany to the Public
Service Commission ID District for permission
TO issue $50. 600 600 bonds == Il was learned
at Washington that lightning exploded twenty
six tons Of dynamite in the canal zone on May
22 and two men were killed.
CITY-S1ocks Were heavy. - John d.
Rockefeller called on Cardinal LogUe at James
Buffers place in Westchester- - The first
suffering school children of the East Side =
A syndicate composed of Kuhn. Loeb & CO. and
two London banking houses bought A large part
of the sI00.o 600 Union Pacific bonds recently
authorized Thomas 4. Mcintyre testified
in the investigation into the affairs Of his bank
in the audience in Greenwich Conn. when
mad lion attacked his keeper and escaped from
the cage. W. R Hearst gained sixteen
more votes in the days recount of ballots. -
L was learned that Mayor Mcclellan would ask
the state and Hearst 10 reimburse him for his
rhe METROPOLITAN Parks Association made recon-
rrendations the borough commissioners as TO
changes in the city parks - The Charter
Revision Commission decided to recommend the
reduction of the Board OF Aldermen 70 thirty
members - II said that there would not
be cut in the prices Of finished steel following
the general reduction in bars and small structu-
raj shapes - New York University gradu-
sted class Of 81 students
THE wEATHER-Indicstions for to-day:
Showers The temperature yesterday: Highest.
y degrees: lowest, SIS