New-York tribune., 1909-02-19
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

oNGREsS-Sena.e: The postof1ce bill.
carrying appropriations Of more than SZSz,-
100000 was passed after stormy debate: -
House: The legislative appropriation bill was
sent TO conference and the committee autnoTlzeo
20 consider the salary of the Secretary OF state
as II I'm disagreement; the Dill amending Iis
Penal Code WIS passed.
FoREIGN-Twenty-fou sufragettes were
arrested after two demonstrations III Lonuon. IN
one cf which the women charged the police and
In the other tried to gain entrance into Rarlla-
-neat - The publication Of cable dispatches
between General Blanco and the Spanish gov
eminent at the time Of the Spanish American
Vsr showed that the government ordered the
surrender OF Santiago over Gerezat blallcO s
head. - Fifty villages were wiped out, II
was estimated by the earthquake in Persia
Premier Asouith. In the House OF COM
mons. said he knew Of no agreement oetWeen
Germany and Great Britain regarding decrease
Of naval armament expansion by the latter
A bill to incorporate the Manitoba &
Great Northern Railroad was introduced In tne
Manitoba Legislature.
DoMESTTC-President-e Taft was made
q Mason ION sight In Cincinnati. - The re-
turning battleship feet was reported by wire
less seven hundred miles of the coast OF Fir-
ginia; II viii arrive of the Virginia Capes to-
morrow. where Il viii manGuvre until the off,
sngton that Francis B. Loomis was the choice
OF W. H Taft anc P. c. Knox for Under Secre-
rary of State. - Herbert Knox Smith Com
missioner OF Corporations. transmitted 10 the
President a report on the organization or the
tobacco combination" - The North Anerl-
can Conservation Conference met at the White
House - The State Board oe Tax Comulis-
sjoners completed at Albany the tentative spe-
cial franchise tax assessments for New York
Rochester, jamestown, ithaca and Glennsville;
the total Of assessments In New York is $4S6,-
2iS5pO a decrease OF s6,279476 as compared
with the total Of 1903. - Six Alfred Univer-
sity professors and students were badly hurt in
q coasting accident at Alfred, N Y. - Six
hundred pupils were safely lnarshalled from q
burning shool al Holyole, Mass.
CTTY-Stocks were weak. - The Public
Service Commission suggested changes in the
construction of the Brooklyn loop lines. -
William Hepburn Russell said he hoped criminal
proceedings would be begun by District Attorney
Jerome against the directors OF the Pittsburg Life
and Trust Company for moving the effects of the
Washington Life 10 Pittsburg- - a confer
eElce 10 discuss the question OF q cut in steel
prices was held by heads of the subsidiary COM
panfes and officers Of the United States Steel
CORPORATION - Justice Guy. of the Supreme
Court, in an opinion, said II was the duty OF
newsDaperS to expose wrongdoing. - The
hodz of p well dressed stranger was found rid
died with bullets in some woods in Englewood.
The outstanding stockholders OF the
American Ice Company got a temporary injunc-
tion restraining the ratification OF the proposed
new stock and bond issues - Arthur kesow
finished his testimony in the trial of Carl
Fischer Hansen. - The Rev. DT. John P.
Peters. rector of St Michaefs Protestant Epis-
copai Church said the various chapels Of Trim
ftv Church should be freed from its domination.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Rain. The temperature yesterday: Highest,
~ degrees: lowest, 81