New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-03-11
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

Foreign dispatch from Mombasa says
that preparations are being made TO welcome
Mr. Roosevelt. a fine season for game Is eA-
pected. and the tribes in the interior are re-
ported to be peaceful. -= The French income
tax bill promises to stir UP bitter war OF
classes: the Senate viii probably make IN
rnortaut changes in the measure. and the issue
may become the leading one at the next cleo
tiorls- The flying machine Silver Dart COW
cred nineteen miles in two flights at Baddeck
- Advices from London said that while no
alarm was felt regarding the condition Of king
Edward, his majesty had aged raplGIy IN TN, tfe
last year. American and British officials
Investigating complaints regarding meat
shipments from this country which nave oeen
held up at English ports == Senior Rolas
according TO a dispatch from Caracas, viii be
appointed Minister to the United States. -=
The Stirling divorce cases at Edinburgh We're
decided in favor Of the husband 10 WhoIn the
custody of his child was awarded
DOMESTIC.-By instruction OF the President
Jacob NJ Dickinson, soon after assuming the
War portfolio, will visit the Panama Canal zone
the President desires that the canal be finished,
if possible, by January l. 1918 =- It was re-
ported at Washington that the Democratic Rep
resentatiNes might not stand solidly with the
insurgents in the effort TO change the rules OF
the House Secretary Meyer. at Washing
ton asked Attorney General WIckeTSham Tor an
opinion whether the action Of Congress maze
necessary the reassignment of marines to war
ships Mr.. Newberrys orders causing
changes in the duties of naval bureaus have
aroused strong opposition, and some officers VIII
sppeaI TO Secretary Meyer for their repeal
-CTTY-Stocks were dull, closing strong -
hoor Of a burning building, and many others
,,.ere rescued President ShOntS OF the In
terborough- Metropolitan submitted his plan for
subway extension TO the Public Service COM
mission. ~ The Iowa Society held its annual
dinner EN-President Roosevelt made a
business visit TO the city. -= John {. LuIns-
den was found guilty Of manslaughter IN the
f-sf degree - President BenSel of the Board
Of Water Supply suggested that q bridge TO
carry the auueduct be built at Storm King as a
memorial 10 Henry Hudson. == Mayor Nc
Clellan bought a site for a new nome at Mercer
Heights Princeton y. J. == The stock Of the
CORPORATION Of Phelps, Dodge & Co. was listed
on the Stock Exchange. - Property owners
protested against the extension OF Riverside
Drive al a cost OF S5.O00.00G = Three men
shot TO death a Polish priest in Newark ==
The lawyer employed by the Mercer brothers IN
the prosecution OF accident cases was committed
20 the Tombs a charge Of subornatlon OF
perjury. - The attorney for Captain Peter &.
Tans.. ir asked for delay in his trial ==
II was announced that the city would join the
state in the action against the Passaic Valley
Sewerage Commission and the State OF New
Jersey - More than eight hundred stone
n1asons went on strike in Brooklyn TO enforce
demand for a division of time among unem-
rloved members of the union. == broker
was held on complaint Of a Brooklyn man in an
alleged bond swindle. == Frank HendTlck,
lawyer. began a suit in the municipal court
against the Consolidated Gas Company for the
recovery OF the interest on the gas rebate due
him DR.. BumpJs, director Of the American
Museum Of Natural History, said that institution
needed an endowment fund of S5.0oo.0o0
THE WEATHER-Indications for to-day:
Fair and colder. The temperature yesterday:
Highest. IS degrees: lowest, IS