New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-03
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

ONGRESS-Senate: in ADDITION 10
considering the railroad bill for two
hours. the Senate Today discussed at
length and passed the bill creating d
bureau of mines in the Interior Depart
rnent, and without opposition confirmed
the nomination of Governor Hughes 10
be Justice of the Supreme Court --=
House: Among numerous bills passed
We're measures to increase the personnel
of the engineer corps of the army, to
provide for additional lighthouse equip
5nent and to build a monument at Mid
way, Ga TO the memory OF General
Stewart. Of Revolutionary fame, the
sreat-grandfather Of ex-President RooSe-
welt
FOREIGN-Theodore Roosevelt and
his party arrived at Copenhagen and
were guests at dinner Of Crown Prince
Christian, acting as the representative
al King Frederick. -= Comlnander
Peary arrived in London where he Will
receive on Wednesday the gold medal OF
the Royal Geographical Society; he de-
MED that there WAS the slightest mis-
understanding between himself and Cap
tain Bartlett The Aero Club of
France presented 4 gold medal TO Louis
psulhan. and two new prizes, aggTeSat-
ing $50. o0O. offered by the publishing
company OF which Lord Northcliffe IS
The head. were announced. = The
Provincial Court at Berlin sustained the
refusal Of the Imperial Bank to pay TO
the Turkish government 100000 which
Abdul Hamid.- the deposed Sultan. has on
deposit == Thousands Of persons saw
the body of Bjarnstjerne Bjornson in the
cathedral at Christisnia.
DoMESTTC.-Pr Taft. in Pitts
burg upheld the diplomacy Of Secretary
Knox to whose wise judgment he at
sributed much that mad been accom-
plisbed in the field of foreign affairs
- The grand jury Of the District Of
Columbia heard new evidence in the
bucket shop Investigation and is eX-
pected TO present further indictments.
The United States supreme Court
handed down two decisions sustaining
state courts in their opposition TO trade
combinations Charles T. Heikc,
former secretary Of The American Sugar
Refining Company, will be compelled to
stand trial for conspiracy under q decision
OF The United States Supreme Court.
The first prize In the Carnegie art eX-
hIbit was awarded 10 William Orpen, Of
iOndcn: the second to Karl Anderson.
rf New YORK 49, ii was announced at
Albany that the action brought in 1905
against certain directors OF the Equita bic
Life Assurance Society Tor waste during
the Alexander Hyde administration had
been settled with the approval Of Attor-
ney General O'2Islley and Superintendent
Eotchkiss, and an agreement between
the society and the interests adverse to
Z had been reached
CTTY-Stoc]1s we're weak. 49, a
little boy playing on a fire truck was
killed when he fell under its wheel as il
started Eastern railroads pre-
psred for a general advance in freight
rates. following the example Of the West
ern lines -= Six indictments were
found by the Rockefeller grand jury in
connection with the white slave traf-
&c. - The police had 20 use an axe
% get into an uptown club in the seventh
important gambling raid an a week 49,
General Nelson II. Henry, 1rho was nom
mated fo- the euryeyorship, looked over
the ground with Acting Surveyor Smyth.
--isiting the Custom House and the piers
% 2 number of the big steamship lines
THE ATBER-Indicat!ons for 20
dav: Showers. The temperature yester-
day. Highest So degrees lowest, ~