New-York tribune., 1908-04-12
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS Senate was not in session.
- House. Debate the naval appropriation
bill continued.
FOREIGN-The Tribune's London corre-
EpondenJ says that the promotion OF DaVlo
Lloyd George 10 the Treasury is regarded as
assured. Herbert Gladstone, John Morley ana
SIR Henry Fowler are mentioned for peeraSes'
Lord CreZle is expected 10 be COlOnlaf Secretary
4 dispatch TO The Tribune from Paris
said that many or the best WoTkingmen had
deserted the Labor Exchange syndicates; the
Trefect Of the Paris police has suppressed all
hand organs Wlthln CITY llnllts- -- me Oisdh
OF President Castro Of Venezuela at Caracas,
assumed mildeT tone than heretofore IN dis
CusSlng the questions pending Win TINS country
The German arTnored cruiser BlucheT-
costing S6-Sl5.ooo and having a displacement OF
$4,000 tons. was launched at Kie = The
German ana Prussian loans were several times
oversubscribed. but foreign bids were uneXpect-
edly Hsht. == The japanese steamer America
left Hong Kong Tor san Francisco without
single package Of Chinese goods owing TO the
boycott == Brazil expects q so per cent larger
coffee crop this year than was produced last
year.
DOMESTIC.-Treaties for determining the
Canadian boundary and regulating the fisheries
a the Great Lakes were signed at the State De-
partment by Secretary Root and Amba assador
3Ty ce. Supreme Court Justice Belts at Al
bany discharged the temporary receivers Of the
Borough Bank Brooklyn. and permitted the bank
l. reopen on April j. =- Arrangements for
The rehabilitation Of the Westinghouse Electric
and Manufacturing Company were practically
completed at Pittsburg. @- Governor Hughes
was the guest Of Buffalo on his forty-si2tl
birthday. =- By a decision of the supreme
Court of Tennessee the Standard OH CompanT
was barred from further business in the state.
- II vas learned that James J. Hill chair
man of the board Of directors Of the Great
Northern Railroad. would address the coming
conference of Governors in Washington ==
EX-Senato Chandler, Perry BamOnt and others
spoke At Washington in favor of the Mccall
campaign fund publicity bill = The subject
discussed by the American Academy Of Political
and Social Science. ia session AT Philadelphia,
Nation
CITY-Stocl5s closed generally lower. ==
The Republican state Convention unanimously
instructed its deiegates-at-large 10 work for the
nomination OF Governor Hughes for President
Timothy / Woodruff reelected
,hairrsn II me Republican State Committee.
heavy wind caused several deaths and
much damage. Senator Wilcox. Of the
Ca5ugs- Seneca 'ortland District. announced his
candidacy for denomination -= The Delaware
& Hudson Railroad stockholders were informed
that meeting would be held May IL TO
authorize the issuance Of s2O,00o. 600 bonds 10
cover the cost of improvements and 10 meet first
mortgage notes soon coming due -- Joseph
Lavender. ordered 10 appear before John PurToy
Mitchell with the books Of the GeisZler- Haas
Gent Hatfen Of The Bronx. was threatened with
contempt proceedings for neglecting 10 obey in
sifucupns -- Permanent receivers were ap-
pointed for the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance
Company, and the company was ordered dis
solved -= Nine Gould and Prince HeIie sailed
on different ships after giving out conflicting
statements as to their possible marriage. ==
John J. Desmond, president Of the Townsend,
Desmond & EOorhs Company. committed sui
cioe At his home in Newark. == There was
trouble when the court order stopping the issue
of transfers between the Third Avenue and Met
ropoiitan lines was put in force A run
away automobile dashed down a New Jersey
hil and covered seven miles in nine minutes
THE WEATHER. R.-Indications for to-day.
Tempera ture Yesterday: Highest, 63 degrees.
Lowest, 42.