New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-02-18
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS- President transmitted 10
Congress. with special message accompany
sng. the report OF the engineers who accoinpah-
sed President-elect Taft TO the Canal Zone =
Senate. The naval bill. carrying about $3.50,
zoe. passed - House; me peI ,
code bin was considered IN committee Of the
whole
FOREIGN-The centre Of the earthquake
recorded on January % last was IN the prov
ince OF Luristan Persia; it Is estimated Inao
5000 persons lost their lives. - Grand DUKE
Vladimir Alexandrovitch. uncle Of the Emperor.
died suddenly in St Petersburg. =" II was
runored in the House OF Commons mat INC
Chancellor Of the Exchequer might impose
sRx On sugar TO meet the cost OF the new Wal :
shirs - The Women's Freedom League met
an London and decided TO continue the militant
campaign for suffrage. =" Four more cases
Of women stabbed were reported from Ber-
lin Senior Guinan, the Venezuelan For
eign Minister. said that all questions with
France and Holland were advancing toward
settlement. - King Alfonso has accepted tiie
Angio-Ger-nan proposal that he shoulo aTpl-
fra.e the dispute regarding the Walnsch bay
boundaries. - Austrians in Russia believe
that an ultinatum will soon be sent TO SerVla
regarding her military preparations
DONESTIC-TIe tender Yankton, the adj
vance guard Of the battleship feet, reported
about one thousand miles of the Virginia Capes,
arrived at Hampton Roads, va. - Behch
warrants were issued Al Washington for the
arrest Of Joseph Pulitzer, caleb NJ. Van Hamm
and Robert H Lyman, OF The New YORK
world" and Delevan Smith and Charles r.
Williams of The Indianapolis News on
charges OF criminal libel in connection with the
Panama Canal purchase. ~ The tariff con-
Verltion at Indianapolis passed resolutions de-
snanding the creation OF permanent tariff COM
the principal speaker - Geronimo the holed
Apache chief, died from pneumonia in the army
hospital at Fort Sill. Oklahoma. THE Sen
ate at Albany confirmed unanimously me nom
nations Of Robert Earl. Of Herkimer, ana VIII
lam H Hotchkiss. Of Buffalo, 10 be Democratic
member Of the new State Highway Commission
and Superintendent of Insurance, respectively
The state Highway Commission organ
ized. appointing first and second deputies and
--f~~f-f @rrf~1 "a
Association of the State of New York. elected
officers at Albany. - The Carmack murder
trial was continued at Nashville, number Of
witnesses testifying as to the feeling existing
before and az the time OF the tragedy
CTTY-Stocks closed generally lower -
Charles F. McKim declined to serve on the com
mission provided for IN the Mccall bill TO report
on a site in Washington for Lincoln memorial
George II. Hall, the artist, OF the old
est members OF the National Academy Of De-
sign. opposed the plan TO erect a fine arts
building on the site OF the arsenal in Central
Park. - Temporary receivers we're appoint
ed for the assets of the Washington Life In
surance Company by Justice Granger the
application OF William Hepburn Russell. -=
Charles w Morse was allowed TO leave the
Tombs under guard TO transact business in wall
Street; he was returned TO prison before night
The crew OF the British steamer Osceola,
which arrived in Greeapoint, said that they had
been starved and abused - witness test-
red that Carl FIscher-Han told him he had
paid $500 10 have a Jurymen fixed" in case
The witness Macaluso failed him. It was
said shat the persons indicted in connection with
tie Panama canal purchase charges would fight
sxtradieion to Washington. - Senator Nc
CarTen told Mayor Mcclellan that the new city
charter not likely TO pass the Legislature
this year. - The grand jury returned three
indictments against Joseph a. Shay, the Hams
trial lawyer arrested for trying 10 aid prisoner
20 escape from the TOmbs. - The, outstand-
ing stockholders Of the American Ice Company
objected to the proposed stock and bond issue.
THE NATURALIZATION for to-day:
Fair. The temperature yesterday: Highest, SO
degrees lowest %