New-York tribune., 1910-02-06

Bishop Cyrus D. Foss (retired), of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, one Of the
best known cIergymen in the country, died
n Philadelphia from a stroke Of paralysis,
suffered while riding in trolley car. Louis
Edouard Rod, the novelist. died suddenly
in France. George Frederick Victor, senior
member Of the old drygoods firm Of Fred
erick Victor & Achelis, president OF the
New Jersey Iron Mining Company. q di-
rector in many banks and corporations,
and member of many clubs in German and
mercantile circles Of this city, died at the
age OF seventy-one years ar his home, in
West sd street. 3. r NcAlpine, former
president of the Western Union Telegraph
Company died suddenly from heart disease
in his apartment, ct tie Dakota. Wesley
Il. Kellogg, a student at Cazenovia Sem
mary, died at the Syracuse Hospital from
paralysis. due TO an injury received while
playing football last fail with the Inter
laken High School team at Interlaken- hel-
Iogg. who was twenty years old, was a son
Of the Rev. D. B. Kellogg, pastor Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church at Burlington,
PcDE- Representative William c. Lowering,
CO Massachusetts, died in Washington.
Believing himself telepathicsily prosecuted
by leaders of the Christian Science Church,
Henry Pennington Toler. Princeton grad
uate. athlete, Stock Exchange broker and
reader in the First Church OF Christ, Sci
enlist plunged into the inrusiing Hell Gate
tide on Tuesday from the southern point
OF Wards Island and was drowned He
had been confined in the Manhattan State
Insane Asylum for the last seven months
as a victim of incurable religious mania
What else happened that 1 ought TO
remember" asked Busy Man.
America has taken the lead in subscrib-
ing relief funds for the sufferers by the
Paris flood which has now suhsiAed. Rod
man Wananaker. Of Philadelphia. offered
through American Ambassador Bacon 70
nav for a loaf Of bread for every food
victim IN Paris and It's vicinity daily for
a period OF thirty days. In Paris alone
there ara 10000 10 he fed.
The Senate clerk at Albany received the
sworn complaint OF Senator Benn Conger,
wherein it is alleged that Senator Jotham
P. Aids, the president pro tenn. and ma
jority leader in the Senate, while member
OF the Assembly in April. 1901, demanded
and received $1,000 a. a bonus not TO urge
certain legislation. 1t Is noted that, while
the charges SO filed are brief and pointed,
Senator conger does not put himself on
record as the man who. it Is said, paid the
81 900 Senator Aids filed a general de-
niai
Efforts of lawyers for Senator Conger to
look up the history OF certain legislation
pertinent 10 the AIds-Conger bribery
charges revealed the fact that the record
book of the Assembly Internal Affairs Com
mittee for 1901 had disappeared So far as
can be ascertained lis disappearance oc-
CURED after the charges against Senator
Aids had been made public. That is the
year in which Senator Conger alleges the
Aids bribe was taken. The entries in this
book might be very important in helping
10 establish the truth of falsity OF Senator
Conger's charges Of bribery.
Commander Peary has made a proposi-
ton for a South Pole expedition to the
board of managers of the National Geo
graphic Society which puts the question
Of American participation IN the race for
the South Pole-the Iast of the great earth
discoveries-squaTely up 10 that society.