New-York tribune., 1909-01-13
THE NEWS THIS HORHTNG.

CoNGREsS-senate: AIr. Foraker spoke on
the use Of detectives in inVesugauns 1he
brownsville affair ana MI Lougs gtS +o CON
House: The entire session was oeNoueo 10 -; 81.
sideration Of the District OF Columbia appropTla-
tion bill.
FOREIGN-Turkey accepted the ofter OF
Austria Hungary Of Slo5oe'eg ana certain ON f
cessions as indemnify for the annexation .e ol
Bosnia and Herzegovina =- Inc dlpio1HalI lIG
corp al Peking made strong representations 20 20
the Chinese government on the usuFpatIoh VI
IRE control Of the telegraph office previously
under control Of Europeans. == The InteTLa-
Sfon.I Association Of AerOnauts planned to offer
$40 COO in prizes for airship and diriglble bal
loon cornpetirions Employees went on
strike and seized rolling stock and terminals OF
,he Great Western Railroad d, operated by Eng1sh
,-ar+-sr - -Frszff - The Cuban Congress pre-
pared TO convene and take the initial steps
toward the establishment Of independence I"r
the second time
Fred statement at Washington replying TO a
NORTON of Senator Tirnan's- speech Of Monday
- Over one hundred miners We're buried ana
probably killed, in the. second exp loslon @
within two weeks in the Lick Branch CW- NaD
col{ierv =-= -President-eleCt. Taft. decided TO
make two visits TO Atlanta. =-- The executive
council; Of the American Federation Of Labor
prepared to confer. OF the. Gonpers contempt
decision and the sppeal therefrom. =- Three
EARTHQUAKES. were recorded at the coast and
eeodetic survey observatory at Cheltenhan. Nd.
one tof which lasted half an hour. -= Mrs,
Mary Baker 6 EddE gave L,e-,,o s2ge no % ana MIS-
Hughes entertained the state officers and their
wives dinner at the Executive Mansion dI
ALBANY THE fifty-tfird annual meeting OF
The .Ne7r York State Association Of School Com
missioners and SUperinteudents was opened at
Albany - Thomas W. Allen at A AlbanX took
the oath Of Office a member OF the new state
Highway Commission. -= The Tennessee
Senate passed the statewide prohibition bill
- President c { Cameron Of the Tube City
Rsflroad Company was found guilty in Pittsburg
on a charge. OF attempted bribery ..s... ..
-CTTY-Stocks were irregular and generally
hesvvr The. receivers of the Metropolitan
Street Railway Company replied 10 the criti-
cisHls Of. the Public Service. Commission. ~
CarlrFisoher- Hansen and Alexander Michaelson,
his law partner. were arrested on charges OF
extortion. Victor M6TavetZ testified 10
the negotiations he conducted which resulted in
the conditions calling forth the government a
suit 20 dissolve the Union Pacific merger. -=
z H Hartman shown TO be the largest
holder Of railroad stocks in the country, with
Kuhn. Loeb & Co. next to him. - George F.
Baker resigned as president Of the First Ma
tional Bank and was succeeded by Francis L
Hine. lanes Stillman retired president. of
the National City Bank and Frank A. Tanderlip
tEre plea ded for the life OF Thornton Jenkins
HAMS - Commissioner Charles A. Shaw
told the. Cassidy committee that the Catskill
Aoueduct work presented greater and more
acon1plex engineering problems than the Panama
Canal - Keiran's former bookkeeper told Of
note deals at the hearing OF the defunct Fidelity
Funding Company before Referee sOIney.
THE WEATHER for to-day:
Fair and colder. The temperature yesterday:
Highest. 40 degrees: lowest, 25-