New-York tribune., 1910-05-08
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS Senate was not in
session. = House: Early adjourn
rent WAS taken as a mark CT respect Tor
tie memory Of King Edward; Speaker
Cannon's seyentE-fourth birthday was
celebrated
FOREIGN George Y was proclaimed
s<ine of Great Britain in the Throne
Room at St James's Palace and took
the oath Of Office: il IS said that the
funeral Of King Edward Will be held at
Frogmore on May L; many messages q
sympathy have been received == EX-
President Roosevelt expressed his per
senal grief over the death of King Ed
ward and issued a statement from
Stockholm in which he said the Ameri-
can people had lost a good friend: Mr..
Poosevelt's itinerary has not yet been
changed. The Finnish Diet defied
the Car TO exert his authority over + IN
land: q speedy dissolution is expected
The number of dead in Carriage
rea ched one thousand, and as many more
were injured by the earthquake. Whlch
destroyed every building in the city
except two wooden structures. = An
lnconf7rmed report received al Peking
saws one thousand Chinese soldiers have
he,7n killed at IhaSsa- - 1t was stat
&c. in the Belgian Chamber of Deputies,
that King Leopold had given the Bar
oness Vaughan $4,000, 600 in Congo bonds
before his death Commander Rob
r.
n-armlv received. - The steamer
Normandy sank twenty miles south OF
s. johns. \. F; all the passengers and
crew were saved. - President Fon-
SEGA OF Brazil who will make four
months tour OF Europe, arrived at Cher
boUrg.
DOMESTTC-PresIde Taft received
q message from King George y express
ing gratitude for American sympathy
q nd good wishes - Secretary Bal
Iinger. under oss-eXamination by Louis
ID RrandeiS announced his intention 10
Kill ali the snakes IN the interior De
r,artlnent Representative Michael
: Link indicted for perjury in connec-
iian with the Senator LorimeT bribery
charges. confessed in Chicago thus TAX
ing advantage OF the prosecutions I'M
7p1,7ftv bath Miss Helen Taft dp-
reared in q revival OF "A Midsummer
Nights Dream at the May reyels Of
1sT-yn NIaNT College. = II was said at
AEbanv that the friends of the Governor
were confident OF the passage OF the
Iginn7an-Czreen direct primary bill by
the Legislature - Governor HugneS
.5t Albany signed the Audubon bill which
was opposed by millinery interests ---=
Dr 7. Tilden Brown, a well known sur
seon Of New York committed suicide by
shooting at Bethel. Ne So Astrono-
ners at Harvard University announced
that the tail of Halley's comet had spit
snso TWO paINS
CTTY-StoekS were strong -
Brooklyn lawyer killed a six-year-old
girl and injured q boy by running them
down with his automobile - A HOOD
OF cable messages OF sorrow ana sym
nathv poured out from British societies
and individuals 10 the beredVed queer.
over the death of King Edward -
Nearly all the exchanges in the financial
district closed as q tribute 10 the mem
orv Of King Edward == The chlef OF
the so-called Tantrik order was held TOT
ylrp grand Jury on an abduction charge
Governor Fort Of New Jersey re-
fused to ask for the extradition OF j.
ogden Armour indicted in the Meat
rTr1lst crusade. -= The police rescued
two Young girls and arrested three men
in two alleged white slave" cases -
Thomas Rvrues. former Superintendent
OF Police died al his home