New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-18
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS. - Senate: No progress
was made on the railroad bill, although
several speeches were delivered. -
House: Debate on the sundry civil bill
continued.
FOREIGN-A great silent tribute was
paid 10 Edward VII. whose body was
borne on q gun carriage from Bucking-
ham Palace 10 Westminster Hall be-
tween lines OF ten thousand troops and
many more spectators; the ceremonies
we're simple The Pan-American
Conference was opened by Senior de la
Plaza, Minister Of Foreign Affairs, at
Buegos Ayres 49, There are signs Of
q serious rebellion in Kiang-Su prov
fnce: the anti-foreign feeling is said TO
be increasing. 60 An officer was
killed many persons were wounded and
fifty arrests We're made at a riot in
Valencia - Ecuador continues 10
rush troops 10 the Peruvian frontier;
Congress has been called to discuss the
situation on June /. -rs-z
DOMESTIC. Frederick NJ KERRY. the
stenoErapher discharged by Secretary
BallinseI.stoid ais story TO the Ballinger=
pinchot Investigating committee, and
was followed by Assistant Attorney Cen
cral LaWler, Mho told of the prepare ton
or the memorandum for the President
-@ Rear Admiral Eustace B. Rogers
paymaster general Of the navy. who has
signed his office as bureau chief. 49,
Opponents OF direct nominations IN AL
bany predicted the defeat of the Gov
ernor's bill and the passage of the
Meade-Phillips measure in the Senate
- There was lively debate in the
Senate at Albany on the income tax
resolution. 60 The Assembly at AL
hany passed 2 bin giving the Public Ser
ice Commission of the I'd District
jurisdiction over telephone and tele-
graph companies. =- An amendment
10 the Callan automobile bill. in the SEN
ate at Albany. prohibiting small towns
and villages from making traffic regua-
tons. has greatly improved the chances
of it's passage. - From twenty to
thirty workmen were killed and fifty
were injured when battery of seven
boilers exploded. wrecking the plant of
the American Sheet and Tin Plate Com
pany. at Canton, Ohio - Former
partners of Andrew Carnegie placed an
order with a New York sculptor for
heroic statue of the ironmaster to be
erected inside the entrance of the Car
negie Institute, in Pittseurg.
CITY.-Stocks were dull and heavy.
The jury TO try Charles Heike
secretary of the American Sugar Re-
filming Company, and several weighers
fer frauds was chosen and the trial be-
gan. =- A patrolinaf1 who already
wore two honor medals stopped a run
away horse just as two thousand chill
dren were trooping out Of school. -
The receiver for Steele. Miller & Co
charged that an attempt had been made
TO swindle creditors by false bills of lad
ing fer cotton. - II was said that
there would be no scarcity of ice this
summer. - A plan for common
concourse in the Grand Central Station
for all the subway lines was submitted
TO the Public Service Commission for its
approval. - IL WAS said officially
that communication rates in New Jersey
would be advanced in the near future
Despite protests OF minority stock
holders. the directors of the United
States Rubber Company we're upheld at
the company's annual meeting.
THE ER.-Indications for to-
day- Showers. The temperature yester-
day: Highest. 20 degrees: lowest, 30