New-York tribune., 1909-03-16
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

coNGREss-senate: Mr. Stephenson; OF
kS-ixcoT.sir was sworn in = House; Mi. can
nor vas reelected Speaker, and a resolution
amending the rules in important particulars was
adopted.
7oRFyGN-A general strike Of postal and
telegraph employees in Paris has been called; d
number Of telephone employees and railway ma. ma
clerks have voted TO support the movement
thouzF little confidence fn its success Is eA-
pressed - Seryia replied 10 Austria 5 hole
by referring the latter country 20 @ the ans"e, % -
March 10 which placed the annexation ques-
tion in the hands of the powers; Ausuld ht9
granted time for Servian reconslqerauoh: au-
vices from London express the oelIeI Ill@r So
Is not imminent; those from Germany are pessi-
F,istic - Further aeroplane tests were mace
Al Baddecl y. s; Dr.. Bells Cygnet No ialied
TO rise. Mr.. McCurdy made a night IN tfle soliNeI
Flarr - Thirty paintings said TO bear forgeo
signatures Of Henner Diaz Courbet ana Zlehl'
intended for shipment 10 New YORK nav -. peti'
seized AT Paris AdVices from St Peters
ourg give details OF atrocities by Persian gov
-ronerlt troops Ola the frontier: a dispatch from
-ondon said thai Great Britain and Russia hopea %
to conclude an agreement bN Wncil Itloi lII9
might be brought about without intervention
DOMESTIC.-It was announced at Washing
ton that the United States and Great Britain
mad reached an agreement on the personnel OF
The Hague tribunal which is to consider the
Newfoundland fisheries questions == Notice
# only one contest that in the 9th Virginia Dis
lrict has been fled thus lar with the clerk OF
he House OF Representatives. Bills amend
ne the Public Service commissions laws We're
introduced at Albany == The annual Fepoi |
n Clark Williams State Superintendent Of
Banks. on building and loan and cooperative
savings and loan associations, savings banks
rust companies. safe deposit companies and
miscellaneous corporations. was submitted TO
he Legislature at Albany - The steering
,orn1aittee which is drafting the Governors :
iiTect primary nominations bill continued us
conferences AT Albany. = President Lewis OF
he United Mine Workers said at his home. i'm
Bridgeport. Ohio, that the miners have S5,Oe0o0o
which can be drawn upon in case OF a hard coal
strike - Attorney General McGarn finished
he arguments in the Cooper-Sharp trial at
Nashville. Tenn the court viii charge the jury
so-dsy. - A score Of persons were endan-
zered in four fires which attacked property in
Baltimore. including the home of Mrs Nelson
Perrin
CITY-Stccks closed generally lower. ==
Mss Anne Morgan will open a restaurant in the
F3roobIEn navy ward on Nav J. il was learned.
- The sale Of the Pennsylvania Club brought
o ligh; the fact that Phil" DAILY generally be
ieved TO have died years ago, living in
West End. n J. - 1t was announced semi
officially that Henry L Stimson. the United
States attorney for this district. would resign.
- Commissioner Bingham took UP the hunt
sor she funeral were discussed == \ plan for
he radical reorganization of the public school
iysteTn, submitted by a committee Of experts,
sill probably be adopted, it said, by the
-hsrter Revision Commission - The State
Lunacy Commission was being pressed by real
estate interests to exchange the Creedmoor rife
-ange site for one in Hampstead Farms for the
Long Island State Hospital - The
price OF copper metal declined TO the lowest
pofnt Il has touched in about a year. ==
Coffee dealers said the imposition of a five
-ents-a- pound duty would mean the addition OF
saH cents a pound 10 the cost TO the consumer.
s. 4 loan covering l90. 565 shares of mining
rests were made for the Staying of the night
-ierk in the Eastern Hotel. Whitehall and South
streets
THE wEATHER-Indications for to-day:
Increasing cloudiness. with rain or snow at
night. The Temperature yesterday Highest.
q degrees; lowest, 30