New-York tribune., 1908-03-19
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

/ CONGRESS Mr.. Rayner announced
sshe death of his colleague, Mr. Whyte. in honor
fof whose memory the Senate adjourned. ==
iBouSe: General debate the pension appro-
irriation bill continued, the subjects discussed
Making wide range.
FoRETGN.-A dispatch from Port Prince
said that the presence of warshipS had allayed
the fears of the foreign residents and that prep
erations were being made 10 deport the rebels
who had sought asylums at the consulatesz--
General Smirnon WAS severely wounded by Gen
ersl Fock in q duel with pistols fought in the
ring of the riding school at St Petersburg ="
Lord TWee6mouth said in the upper house OF
Parliament that Great Britain would almost be
able TO assemble a fleet of battleships in 1911
which could be matched by all the powers
1n the world. - The North German Lloyd
declared an annual dividend Of Az per cent,
iegainst S15 per cent last year. - The plague
Us spreading at Guayaquil and number OF
smallpox and yellow fever cases have been re-
ported there: many buildings, including the
Town Hall. Will be burned. - The Porto
Rican Legislature adjourned: the cockfghting
and lottery bills were killed, but the public
utilities bill was passed and large appropra
tions were made for good roads and education.
DoMESTIC.-The rumor that the President
would depose Timothy l. Woodruff from the
ci3aiTmanship o. the state committee was ridi-
culed a Washington. - TIE Iowa Republican
Convention instructed for Taft. indorsed Senator
Allison for recollection and approved the tariff
revision plank in the Ohio platform. == Judge
Mood. in Boise, Idaho. sentenced Harry Orchard
10 death. bat included recommendation to the
State Board OF Pardons. - Senator SAKE in
rToduced a concurrent resolution in the Senate
al Albany for legislative committee 10 inVesti-
gate the Attorney Generals course in connection
with the financial panic == The approval of
sthe so-caiied merger of the Boston & Maine
sRaiiroad with the New York. New Haven x
Hartford system the feature Of the report OF
the special commission commerce and in
iGuStry made TO the Massachusetts Legislature.
- The practical collapse Of open opposition
TO the anti racetrack gambling bills mani
s5est at the hearing at Albany before the Senate
Judiciary Committee the bill amending the
percy Gray Law by striking the penalty
fder which racet-sck gambling has been prac-
.xically legalizcd
C1TY-Stocks broke badly in the late trading
- Chairman Conners said that Bryan senti-
,nent in this state dying Little
Tim" Sullivan acting Mayor. broke bottle
/ OF champagne on the glrdeT connecting the
Manhattan and Queens spans OF the Backweli's
tJsiand Bridge. - The IrterbCrough Rapid
Transit Company warned IFS employees TO treat
courteous3y all passengers == Word re-
ceired Of the death in Switzerland Of Gregory
A Gershunin. the Russian revolutionist-
spetectires under Deputy Commissioner Wood
'raioed three alleged poolrooms - Grover
iCseveland spent his seventy-first birthday with
sbis family at Lakewood. N J. = The tramp
fsteamer Crown Of Castle. in collision with the
I-NCrth German Lloyd liner KronpTinz Wilhelm
ripped a great hole in the stern Of the latter
Staten Island husband beater was SEN
fenced to jail for five days.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Pain s;she temperature yesterday: Highest. SO
icegreese -sowest, "a.