New-York tribune., 1909-07-16
THE NEWS THIS MORyING.

CcNGRESS-The Senate not in session
- House: An item Of S25ooe for the Presl-
dents travelling expenses was inserted in an
urgent deficiency bill
FoRFTGN.-The Persian insurgents continue
1n TIE ascendant, and. despite the efforts OF the
military governor of Teheran, street fighting Is
in progress in the capital. - Dispatches from
Tangier say that the government is paralyzed'
the Sultan helpless, Il not prisoner: the foreign
board without money and international interven-
ton expected at any time. -= A Brltlsn sup-
marine. known as c II, was sunk and thirteen
men lost their lives near Croner, England wheh
the war vessel was struck by cargo steamer.
Premier Clemenceau announced in the
French Chamber of Deputies that henceforth no
foreign police would be allowed TO operate on
French territory. - In an earthquake IN
Southern Greece twenty persons were killed ana
one hundred injured in one village and 1t is
expected that there VIII he long Isl or casual
ties from nearby points. ~ The Hdrlngham
Polo Team gave a dinner in London for the
Meadow Brook Polo Team which recently won
GERMANY has ordered football introduced into
the army. saying that the game as played in
England and the United States is fine training
for terY1ner as well as body - The Infante
Alfonso Of Bourbon Orleans was married TO
Princess Beatrice Of SaXe-Coburg Gotha- -
Princess Helie de Sagan. who was Miss Anna
Gould gave birth TO a SON
DoNEsTIC-Statistics received by the State
Department Of Health at Albany show an in
crease Of suicides this year for the state, but a
decrease in this CITY - The New York state
Bankers Association began two days meeting
at Saratoga Springs - By the collapse OF
z
Philadelphia, seven persons were killed and
TWENTY-FIVE injured. Riottng continued at
intervals about the plant Of the Pressed steel
Car Company, at McKee's Rocks, Penn; the
strikers asserted that they had been made VIC
tins Of a system Of graft ~ July wheat,
after advancing &c 81 20. 4 new record for the
season. on the Chicago Board Of Trade, dropped
TO 81 251L. - The town OF Eden, Ne, in which
Bar Harbor is situated voted to exclude auto
mobiles from the roads. - In q speech at the
University of Chicago Professor Edward s
Anes compared religious revivals 10 hypnotic
: unlcns and the police was predicted in Chicago
as the result OF the holding for trial Of Y. A.
Altman the alleged bomb thTower. FL Edward
Payson Weston formally ended mis- walk from
New York 10 san Francisco by delivering TO
Postmaster Fiske the letter given TO him by
Morgan.
III CITY-Sfocks were strong. - Mrs. Evelyn
Feshit Thaw testified that her husband said. q
<<srppose I viii have to kill YOU next" - The
lChesbrough pearl necklace, worth $4,000. was
placed in the Custom House safe pending the
suit for smuggling against Mrs. Fremont Ches-
brough, OF Boston =" captain Alien was ac-
Quilted OF disorderly conduct in a Brooklyn po-
lice court end went back TO the Clermont which,
however, he found attached q bill for con-
Etruction and supplies ~ If Borough Presi-
dent Haffen persisted in his plan TO run again
there probably would be a split. IL was said, in
the Democratic ranks in The Bronx ~ The
Committee Of One Hundred said that If Police
Commissioner Baker could not keep the police
ont Of politics he was not fit to retain his job.
- Steel common sold at its highest price.
71A, and there rurnors that the dividend
might be increased to even 4 per cent at
the next meeting of the directors, July q. -
II was announced that 95 per cent of the pre-
ferred stock Of the Southern Pacific had been
turned in for conversion into common. ==
New York and New Jersey Telephone Company
stockholders received the option OF exchanging
their holdings share for share for the stock Of
the American Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany, with the advantage of per cent more in
dividends - Darwin P. Kingsley. president
Of the New York Life Insurance Company, pro-
tested against the proposed federal corporation
tax on life insurance companies
Indication for to- day:
Showers. The temperature yesterday: Highest,
81 degrees; lowest IL