New-York tribune., 1911-12-30
THr NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-The peace conference al
Shanghai decided O. national convention
should decide the form Of government
for China, that the Manchu government
IN the meanwhile should not strengthen
itself by any loan. that Manchu troops
should retire from their strategic posi-
tions and that republican troops shouio
not occupy the positions thus evacuaIeudi 3u,.ad
Tabriz, in Persia, surrendered
cornpIetelv to the Russians after a nine
days' siege. 81 A twenty four -hour
battle was reported from Trlpoh the
Turks gaining the victory. -= GeneraI
Pedro Monterp was proclaimed by the
army at Guayaquil President or EcuaooI
disorders resulted and at least ten per-
sons were killed.
DOMESTIC C.-President Taft promised
a delegation of social workers 10 90 an
he could for the appointment of com
rnission TO improve the conditions OF Ia
Dor == The Shipping, Harvester anu
Money trusts" are to be investigated az
this session of Congress by one speciai
committee OF the House. ==- DlSlrlCI
ATTORNEY Peiletfer. of Boston, sald no
compromise was. possible in the case OF
the Rev. C. V. T. Richeson, charged WIN
murder - The first positive tesu-
mony of the existence of pool was es-
tablished by a government witness at lle
trial of the ten indicted meat packers at
Chicago - The Philadelphia Bureau
of Health doctors VaCcinated two thou-
sand persons in the italian quarter; lour
cases of smallpox we're found in the ltal-
ian colony a few days ago. --- Inc
torpedo boat destroyer Warrington Whlch
was in collision with an unknown BOAT
on Thursday, was towed into Hampton
Roads, Va, by the revenue cutter Onon-
daga which also landed the crew of the
Warrington - The American His
1orical Association meeting at Buffalo
elected Theodore Roosevelt president for
the ensuing year and adjourned. --
Frank ECkhoff denied that he made dis
closures concerning dynamite outrages to
w. J. Burns: EckhOft returned to Gin
cinnati The commissioners ap-
pointed by Governor Dix to investigate
the management and affairs Of the De-
partment of State Prisons submitted its
final report = The District Attorney
of Chester County, Penn. will ask
change of venue to try the remaining
cases growing out of the lynching of
Zach" Walker at COatesville i'm August.
TY-Stocks closed higher. =
The building code planned by Tammany
was defeated with the aid of Democrats
from outlying borOughs, the vote being
90 To "a. with two absent and four not
voting and the new fusion board win
prepare s. code early I'm 1912. - EX-
President Roosevelt. i'm an editorial in
THE Outlook" commended Congress for
its abrOgation Of the Russian treaty but
said he would have preferred to have the
Interpretation of the treaty submitted
10 the Hague tribunal -= The court
decided that George Graham Rice must
remain I'm the TOmbs until the trial Of
the Scheftels clique was ended. AT
taches of the District Attorneys office
learned that one of the men quoted in
| TindellS affidavit as declaring c. II.
i Hyde guilty" had died last October.
- The Allis- Chalmers company de-
cided TO pass the interest on its bonds,
and a friendly receivership was said to
be probably the next step in the affairs
of the corporation. - Clifford w
Hartridge, one OF the Thaw lawyers, was
cleared of the charges preferred by the
Bar AsSoCia ton
THE WEATHER--Indicat for to-
day: Cloudy. The temperature yester-
day: Highest sc degrees: lowest 23.