New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-06
THE NEWS THIS moRyIyG.

CONGRESS-Senate: The conference report
on the tariff bill was passed and Immediately
afterward the concurrent resolution revising the
leather schedule was passed ana sent 10 the
House. 80 House: The concurrent resolution
amending the leather schedule was agreed 20 and
the committees were announced.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Valencia, the new Pres
ident of Colombia, has named his ministry. -
Russia and China are parleying over the ques-
ton Of river trade right on the Sungarl ana
Anloor; the question is affected by certain
clauses OF the Portsmouth, y. H, Russo-Japan-
csc peace treaty. - japanese newspapers
made bitter attacks on the military authorities
for allowing the Osaka Division TO march twen-
ty-nine miles in fourteen and one-half hours in
burning SUM- with fhe Thermometer at l2o
land; told the Lord Mayor and corporation Of
his faith in the Russo British entente and OF
his enjoyment during his stay in British waters
- Joseph H. Leute, American Nlce-Consul
General at Zurich, Switzerland, died in thu arms
OF his bride just as his steamer, the Marglette
entering Antwerp port.
DOMESTIC.-President Taft signed the Payne
tariff bill, saying that il represented downward
revision and fulflment of promises made by
at Washington announced that he had decided
20 stop the minting OF the new Lincoln pennies
and have the initials Of the sculptor eliminated
g. Lieutenant H. NJ Utley, United States
marine corps. spent the day the stand al the
Sutton hearing IN Annapolis; he testified that
the young Oregon lieutenant committed suicide
but said he considered man a suicide who shot
himself by mistake while trying TO shoot some
one else. - Abram c. Ely. Mayor OF Burke
Vile, Va, with 1anC1e0 corporation grievances,
was trapped in Philadelphia. at the instgation
OF President McCrea, after he had threatened to
dynamite Pennsylvania Railroad property unless
he received $4,000. - The torpedo hotilla
reached Newport. after exciting from
Vineyard Sound Lightship in which the Wor-
den won. - The Buffalo, Lockport & Rc--l-
ester Railway Company was placed in the hands
Of receivers, II announced al Buffalo. ==
The son of New York druggist drowned
started IN Chicago urging the appointment as
chief OF police OF eX-Pollce Commissioner Bing-
ham, OF this city.
CITy.-Stocks closed weak - Thaw's
mother broke down in testifying al a session OF
the White Plains court taken up largely with
testimony as 10 Stanford Whites practices. =-
The German liner Pennsylvania arrived too late
10 take advantage of the old Dingley tariff
schedules. and thus lost about $4,000 for i'm
porters. - Members OF the Lauterbach fam
1ly said they were satisfied that Alfred Lsuter-
bach did not marry Miss Cunningham. -
New York and Connecticut state troops in
maneuyres planned an attempt TO go 10 the
rescue" of Boston. - Tammany was op-
posed TO the reelection OF Borough President
I1affen il the Governor removed him. Will
lam Dreier, secretary of the Lichtenstein Aillin-
cry Company, was adjudged in contempt Of
court by Judge Hand for failing 10 answer ques-
tons OF the grand jury investigating smuggling
cases. 80 Justice Greenhaum dismissed the
suit against the Electrical Contractors Associa-
uon, brougln by the New York Electrical Work
ers Union, IN which the latter body, since super
sedeo by the Inside Workers Union. sought 10
compel the employment q members Of the old
union exclusively - The night clerk Of the
Hotel Kenwood, the Bowery lodging hous.,
whose demolition Little Tim" sullivan opposed
was convicted Of conducting a disorderlv house
- Acting Mayor MCGOWAN sent a letter 10
Borough President COler in which he said that
Colers request for a meeting OF the Board OF
Estimate while most Of its members were awav
was not made in good faith. == Relatives OF
Daniel Apologize, an eccentric Brooklyn police
man. who died recently found $1,000 in double
eagles hidden in a mattress in HIS home which
had been unOccupied since his death
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Fair The Temperature yesterday: Highest rs
degrees; lowest. So.