New-York tribune., 1909-06-23
THE NEWS THIS MORNING

CONGRESS \ duty Of Is per cent
sc valorem OF hides was agreed 70 oy q Vote OF
IS 10 80: Senators McCurnber, Gamble, hey purh
~and TAYLOR spoke in favor of duty on hides,
while Senators Burton and Foster advocated
gree hides - The House was not in session
- -=ORFJGN-Tre AIbanians won another battle
with Turkish troops whose losses We're fourteen @
2 Officers and $40 men killed: Kiamil Bey was
xuong the dead. -= The celebration Of the
lone hundredth anniversary Of DarWlns nIuh
g. began at Cambridge University - me
57rer,oF7 parliamentary committee which has beeu
snvesti eating the navy shows in its report tha'
gross ineficiency and waste Of money nave Pr
vailed A dispatch from LONDON sald IHdl
the powers withdrawing from Crete would re-
= tain guardships in those waters 10 MAINTAIN
Turkish sovereignty It was reported pIs5.ot rI,1r
. over Pratas Island ~ SiKty-one new cases
of cholera were reported in St Petersburg; the
disease has appeared in Finland -= queen
d., Victoria of Syain gave birth to daughter -=
"A Canadian Pacific train was held UP near KAN
Icons bv four bandits who fed, pursued by
many men
O0NFSTTC-A conference was held at the
White House on the proposed corporation tax
amendment. attended by President Taft. Attor-
nev General Wickersham. Secretary Knox Sen
stor Root the Republican members Of the Sen
ate Finance Committee. Speaker cannon ana
REPRESENTATIVES PAYNE and Dwight; rough
draft Of the amendment was considered AZ the
Eerni-weekIy Cabinet meeting - President
Taft pardoned Abra Rhodes, young Georgia
-bov. convicted Of stealing a Greek textbook
valued at 20 cents. -- In speech before the
Society Of Neurology and Psychiatrics at De-
1roit DR.. + c Richardson. Of Boston. said that
the strenuous American business life, allied
with the excessive use Of lntoXicants was pro
7ucine a form Of business neurosis-' -= Miss
: AIaude Adams appeared loan of Arc in the
stadium OF Harvard University. - Governor
Hughes addressed the Phi Beta Kappa Society
OF Colgate University at iHamilton, n Y eX-
rolling the value of the liberal education. -=
. The cape Cod canal was formally begun when
August Belmont turned the first spade Of earth
about half way across Cape COD == By the
terms Of the settlement the valuable collections
OF paintings belonging TO the late Frederick c
Hewitt Intended for the Metropolitan Museum
Of Art. viii so TO his sister, Mrs Charlotte h.
s. Arnot. = In a decision given out al Philadel
: Phia. the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided
: that the teachings Of Emanuel Swedenborg are
Z not in derogation Of the laws Of the state
repugnant 70 public policy. == Governor
: Stuart Of Pennsylvania approved the pardon Of
Tence for the staying of Madge York in Phil
adelphis in 1895
CITY-Stocks were irregular ~ Chung
Sin. Icons roommate. described = detail the
I murder Of Elsie SigeL =- The societies Of
the Mort theasJern Sangerfesr contested for the
Z prize offered by Kaiser Wilhelm III -
. In the greater city there were five deaths
and eleven prostrations from the heat. -=
Many witnesses testified to the sobriety and
good character Of Mrs Howard Could.
The Lackawanna adopted 2 plan TO dispose Of
its coal under the commodities law. - Chair
man Gustav Schwab declared there entire
/. harmony in the Committee Of One Hundred.
!. - Testimony was offered TO show that
!. Patrolnan Dillon, trial for murder. did not
act in self-defenCe. - A new law provided
that children under sixteen convicted Of crime
would be known Juvenile denouents" here
after and not criminals. - The Board Of
Aldermen refused TO appropriate $500 for new
automobiles for the Street Cleaning Department.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day.
Showers. The temperature yesterday: Highest.
81 degrees: lowest 10.