New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-28
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS.-Senate: Further prog
ress was made on the railroad bill, but
a final vote will not be taken until next
week. - House: Amendments TO the
sundry civil bill TO restore the canteen
at soldiers homes were defeated.
FOREIGN-Robert Koch, the noted
German physician and bacteriologist, died
at Baden-Baden from heart disease.
The French submarine Pluviose
broke away from the bottom Of the Eng
lish Channel, while divers were busy at
work, and is now derelict. - WASH
ington received advices that the Madriz
forces had surrounded Bluefelds. -
Charles Stuart Rolls made an unsuccess-
ful attempt to fly In an aeroplane from
Dover to Calais. - The PruSSian gov
eminent has abandoned its efforts to
force the passage Of the franchise bill,
owing to the popular opposition to the
measure. - State Department officials
were surprised by report from Lima
that war seemed inevitable, Secretary
Knox havir9 received advices that medl-
alton based g. the withdrawal OF troops
from the EI. ldoran frontier had been
accented. - Open valves and I'M
covered manholes caused the sinking Of
the drydock Dewey: the structure is be-
ing raised. - J. 2. Morgan started
from Paris for London; ru1nors of his
serious illness are unfounded.
DOMESTIC.-Preside Taft, in a let
Ter to James a laWIEY, W TIC
COMMITTEES on Appropriations OF the
l.s.use Of Representatives, said he was
pained by reflections on Southern hos
lifaiity made during a debate in the
Ecuse The President appointed his
secretary Fred w Carpenter. Minister
10 Morocco. - A rguments in the Bal
lfuger- Pinchot hearing before the Con-
gressional committee in Washington were
begun by lawyers on both sides of the
controversy. 80 Governor Hughes, at
Albany. called an extraordinary session
Of the Legislature, to meet at the Capitol
Gn Monday June 20 The Legis-
lature at Albany adjourned amid the
usual scenes. following speeches by and
gifts TO the leaders; number or blils
were passed. - Ex-Congressman
Jesse Overstreet. who drafted the gold
standard law passed in 1900, died at his
home in Indianapolis. - a new
worlds record for target shooting with
l2-inch guns was made by the new bat
tleship South Carolina off the Virginia
coast = The General Assembly Of
the Presbyterian Church. at Atlantic
City. adopted a report holding that the
charge of heresy against the New York
Synod had not been sustained.
CITY-Stocks were dull and heavy.
a nephew of General "Jeb" Stuart
and his wife were detained by customs
men for failure to make complete decla-
rationS on their arrival from Europe
- The New York Central announced
increases OF communication fares ranging
from TO is per cent on all divisions
Justice Brady, of the Supreme
Court cited Chairman Wilcox OF the
Public Service Commission to appear
before him and show cause why ne
should not be punished for contempt of
court. - Three Of the co-defendants
OF C r. Heike pleaded guilty TO charges
of conspiracy to defraud the government
in the sugar weighing cases. =- j. V.
,lo,-
here and abroad. cut his throat in a
sanatorium in Flushing. - The COM
rnittee on the corporate stock budget is
sued its report - Surgeons of the
Casualty Company of America began an
examination Of the body OF Charles c.
Dickinson, the banker, TO fix the cause
Of death.
THE NATURALIZATION for to-
day: Fair. The temperature yesterday:
Highest, So degrees; lowest, 3d.