New-York tribune., 1909-02-12
THE NEWS THIS MORNING

CONGRESS-Senate: The committee con
sidering the Presidents statements on the Se-
-ret service reported; the Hale bill. designed 70
eIlo-r Mr. Knox TO accept the portfolio OF state
under Mr. Taft. was passed and the JOINT TeSo res?
luton making February y speclaI legai
CAV in the District and the territories IN Ho-IOI
of Abraham Lincoln. was passed - HOUSE
The agricultural appropriation bill was pasSeu
FoRFIcN-A company of Rural Guards n1u-
timed in Havana because of an oroer 10 iI
Their, to the regular army; they were Isp1-el a
81 the fsaiace OF President Gomez, ana "eie
,7UsIlv sent under escort 20 Csbanas- - ~
bomb was thrown at railway Ira1h 4 pesI % po-
-s-Izpur apparently in the belief ths1 Loru
Nfn4o the Viceroy Of India, was PassenSeI'
he was on another train; 10 one was hJuIeu
Advices from Berlin say that the CONFER
er.cas between Sir Charles Hardinge ana ChaH-
selor Won Biilow covered all quesuobs u PoIICs
interesting both nations ana that t-e 49,; 80
was highly satisfactory; the King Anulspo
.sop is not serious Oscar Erlesloeh, the
German aeronaut completed q remarkable trlp
across the Alps IN the balloon Berlin, pelhs
thirty hours in air with the Thermometer aver
aging 12 degrees below zero - Inc Eftss tN
Council handed down decision SUSTAINING Ia 1io
poTninion Steel Company's suit against the DO
-7,inFoz Coal Company. - One hundred ana
TWENTY-FIVE miners. who were imprisoned near
Yuzoflza, Russia, escaped through an aPaHoooI!eo Po!
gallery, Of them died soon after Feacntlls
tie surface - The Daily Mail' says that
tie British government viii lay down hVe I'M
proved Drea thoughts next year. the SIKH oe-
roen5ing on the progress Of German construction
noArESTIC-President Roosevelt addressed
cheering gatherings at Harrisburg, Altoona and
Pfttsburg from his special train, on MS way
from Washington to HodgenVllle; Ky" WherS
he will Law the cornerstone of the memorial
building at the Lincoln farm to-day -
President-eiect Taft arrived in New Orleans
and was enthusiastically received as the city 3
guest: he stated that he approved the JOCK type
OF canal and hoped 10 see II completed Wlthlil
four wears. - X was reported at washington
that Representative Fitzgerald. of New York,
would succeed John Sharp Williams on the
Rules Committee OF the House :" 1t was
said at Albany that the immigration commits
sion appointed by Governor Hughes would rec
ormend an immigration bureau for this state
60 Another anti-vivisection bill was intro
euced at Albany by Assemblyman Murray, OF
New York - Two girls were killed woman
was fatally injured and two boys were badly
hurt IN a fire near Rexville, n Y
CTTY-Stocks were strong - Judge La
cornbe warned gas consumers against paying
for the collection Of rebates. - Commissioner
Barry Of the Department Of Correction said
after an investigation that he was not sure a
the Tombs. ~ II was expected that more
meetings would be held in celebration OF the
centennial Of Lincoln's birth than ever had been
held in connection with an anniversary --
The Protestant EpiscoDal Church elected two
bishops TO fill the posts in Wyoming and West
ern Colorado. - The Chamber of Commerce
the city's debt limit == Magistrate rim told
the legislative committee that the police force
should be headed by man who had risen from
she ranks Russell Sturgis, the architect
and =,riter died in his seventy-thrd year. -=
The Hawiey interests left the Colorado & South
ern board and entered the Chesapeake & Ohio
directorate. - Senator Brough discussed his
bill 10 repeal the charter OF Trinity corporation
It was announced that the New York So
c3erv Library would move from University Place.
60 The court ordered that the bills Of W. T.
Hutchins be paid by the committee OF his prop
erty.
THE wEATHER-Indications for to-day:
Fair. The temperature yesterday: Highest, 50
degrees; lowest, q