New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-01-24
THE NEWS THIS MORNING

CONGRESS Senate was not in session.
- House: A bill to pension the W sG 81
Rear Admiral Coghlan at the rate OF SiVO III
stead of $50 month was deteateo-
FaORFIGN.-The seismographs Of the CONT
merit England and America recorded d sever
earthquake, the centre of disturbance Oh MilIU
sE believed 70 have been in the Caspian regions
or further east in Asatic Russia - 1ntee
persons are dead and about twenty others
wounded as the result of attacks made by Two
Russians who ran anuck in a London suburb
and upon being surrounded by the ponce CON-
lnitted suicide. - Azef, formerly leader OF
the Russian Socialists, has been condemned W
death bv his one time associates on the charge
that he has been selling secrets of the organl-
zatian TO the authorities - Liang Tun-H en-
recently superseded on the Chinese Foreign
Board has been reinstated and made president
of the board. 80 Emperor William. incensed
at some recent criticisms, has decided TO aoolish
the daily court reports and issue bl-weekly
summary of his activities. to be publlshed In d
Berlin newspaper Prince Henry Of Prus-
sic brother of Emperor William, made an as
cent in a military airship from TegeL -
The Continental delegation TO the international
Naval Conference at London has suggested as d
means of breaking the deadlock, that America
be barred in reaching naval war code OF rules
DoMESTIC-President- Taft arrived at
Charleston s c. on his way to f 5 Ranb,i Si
bound from this port TO the Mediterranean, was
rammed in the foG off the Nantucket lghtshIp
by the steamer Florida and abandoned IN
sinking condition: hef passengers and crew
were rescued William Nelson CrcInWelI
was witness before the grand jury which is
ington Ex-Sherif Thomas Z. Cartwright
an accepted juror in the Cooper trial at Nash
vile Tenn was arrested on a charge of perjury
II being alleged that he had openly expressed
the opinion that the defendants should ne
acquitted - -Four men were killed and more
than score had narrow escapes in an avalanche
Al Cltrav Col - The collision on the Penn
sylyania Railroad near Summerhill, Penn, which
resulted in the death of three persons, was
attributed 10 a heavy fog which obscured the
signals Two men were killed and thlrd
IS diving as the result Of breathing coal gas In
the cabin of their barge at Vineyard Haven
Mass Two Italians who said they hailed
from, New York, were committed TO the Jail at
Goshen. N Y accused of highway robbery
CTTY-Stoeks were irregular - William
NJ WINS reported to Governor Hughes that the
debt margin OF the city had been entirely wiped
out Jacob eastman. of the firm OF Cash
man & eastman. was arrested on A court order
conining him eight months and filming him $3.50
for contempt - The steamer Plymouth Of
the Fail River Line aground in Hell Gate
and was placed in drydock- - The New
York City marlborough limited at e Public Ser
vice Commission hearing that il might have to
forfeit its franchise to a surface line in The
Bronx President Brennecke of the Cotton
Exchange testified before the commission in
vestixat.ng conditions in the financial district
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for to-day:
Rain. The temperature yesterday: Highest, As
degrees. lowest. 40.