New-York tribune., 1910-08-17
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FpRElGN.-President Montt of Chill
Is dead. = Sir Ernest CaSSel has
given 81 .000. 900 TO aid German and Brit
ish emisrants seeking work in each
country - Thirty mine lives were
lost by the sinking of the Spanish steam
er Martos after a collision with the Ger
man tramp Elsa, off Gibraltar. ==
Miss Elkins and her mother have taken
rooms at Nichy: the Duke Of the AbruZzl
is expected there FL lie Blancs air
ship beat the first Of forty-seVen carrier
pigeons released at Douai on the flight
Ia Amiens. by six minutes and twenty
seconds. - Thousands of cases or
cholera are reported daily in Russia;
many children are starving. - Flor
ence NlghIingale's executors declined
public funeral and burial in Westminster
Abbey. -- All the Shipyards of Ger
many. except the government works, are
idle and vessels are being sent 10 Eng
land for repairs.
DOMESTIC.-DouGl h Johnson,
chief of eighty thousand Chickasaw Ind
iars, when asked a the land hearing at
sulphur, Okla, how il was that he was
able to deposit $4,000 in Texas bank
few days after j. +. McMurray had
received S750.000 as attorneys fees, in
sisted that he did not remember -
Declaring from the bench that crooked
work is being done Judge kersten, in
Chicago, dismissed a panel Of one hun
dred venirenen called in the case of Lee
O'Neil Browne. accused of bribing
legislator to vote for William Lorimer
for United States Senator. - Mayor
Marshall Of Columbus refused to be re-
sponsible for the operation OF stTeetcars
by strike breakers at night: the state
authorities refused TO allow militia to do
police duty The Census Bureau in
Washington announced that Schenec
rady. N Y, showed an increase in popu-
lation of 1893 per cent in ten years.
== The fifty largest postoftices of the
United States showed an increase in re-
ceipts for 1919 of 3 per cent, as COM
pared with the figures of 1909. ==
Governor Hughes leased a dwelling in
Massa chusetts avenue. Washington.
which he will occupy from October ].
when he viii become A justice OF the
United States Supreme Court == Ac-
carding to Washington dispatches the
feeling exists in Central America that
the war in Nicaragua may soon be over.
Postmaster General Hitchcock
darteG on an extended trip through the
Vest and Southwest and 10 the Pacific
Toast. - The General Assembly OF
kho0c Island convened in special session
at Providence Reports from socie
tics iE all parts Of the world received by
the Esperanto international congress, in
session in Washington. showed 4 strong
sentiment against making changes IN The
rules to meet local needs
CTTY=Stocks were strong. -
6ay and his temperature became almost
normal: conflicting statements were
made as Ia the possibility of an opera
1toD day or tomorrow. - The Re
publican state Committee rejected Cole
nei Roosevelt for temporary chairman OF
the states convention and named Vice
President Sherman instead = The
legislative committee on graft was said
e have received information regarding
abuses In the appointment Of legisla tive
clerks =-= The police had sharp bat
tie with women who threw red pepper in
their faces in Z renewal OF sugar strike
rioting in williamsburg - II was
learned that a movement TO bring about
ucace in Nicaragua was on foot. -=
leading men Of the race are to address
the Negro Business Mems League con-
vertion. and Mr.. Roosevelt will speak at
.re Of the sessions. == The chief of
tie Bureau spf Weights and Measures de-
oIared that eggs must be sold by weight,
but agreed TO meet a committee OF deal
ers To discuss the reasons advanced In
orDositiun TO the order.
THE EATffER--Indication for TO-
6sy: Showers. The temperature Yester-
dsv. Highest. 50 degrees; lowest, II.