New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-Yuan- -Shih- kai may save
the dynasty, Peking legations believe;
Wu-Chang capitulated after the occupa-
tion Of Han Yang by the imperiahsts,
at midnight Nanking had not been capt
ured. - Lord Courtney, Liberal, IN
the House Of Lords, attacked the govern
ments foreign policy; Lord Morley OF
Blackburn and Lord Lansdowne defended
II. The Berlin newspapers. COM
menting on Sir Edward Greys speech on
Monday, were pessimistic about Anglo
German relations being improved. Go
Erneralds Of the eX-Sultan Of Turkey
brought 100000 at auction in Paris.
- A rewritten version of Christina
Was successfully presented by Scottish
players IN London. =- Baron GustaVe
Samuel James de Rothschild, member of
the banking firm, died in Paris.
DOMESTIC-Preside Taft Will send
nine messages to Congress early in the
approaching session, the first dealing ex-
clusively with the trust question, the
others being devoted to the tariff and
various affairs Of the government =-
Wharton Barker testified before the Sem
ate Committee on Interstate Commerce
that shortly before the election Of 1904 a
New York financier, now dead. told him
that Wall Street interests had made a
bargain with President Roosevelt on the
railroad question. - Chairman Stan
lev Of the House Steel investigating COM
mittee, refused to subpoena witnesses
asked for by Representative Martin w.
Lttleton. - Bert II. Franklin, a
former deputy United States marshal,
now employed by the Mcnamara defence
as an investigator. was held in $4,000
bail in Los Angeles, 10 answer charges
OF bribery and attempted bribery in con-
nection with the Mcnamara case. =-
-. 80 yTlvsn
town, Kan. and the entire business sec
tion Of Glasco, Kan, were destroyed by
fire; Elbing, Kan, was saved from de-
struction by the crew and passengers or
a Rock Island train. - A Chicago
dispatch reported Mrs. Louise Vermilya
10 be 50 III that she might not live TO face
trial for the murder of Arthur Bissonette,
for poisoning whom she is held.
TY.-Stocks closed strong after early
weakness. = The Fabre liner SAINT
Anna. which locked two days overdue,
reported that four sailors were washed
overheard and three injured by a great
wave on Thursday. - Mrs. Frances
O'Shaughnessy. who killed her husband
on May b. was acquitted of murder by a
Jury on the ground of insanity. -
Various city institutions and charitable
organizations began the work of prepar-
ing Thanksgiving dinners for the thou
sands they will feed tomorrow == A
dispute over procedure concerning a
proposed moving picture ordinance
reached the personal encounter stage in
the Board of Aldermen. and while the
fist of a city father flew out IT was
denied that he tried 10 strike his oppO-
uent. == W. +. d. Stokes lost his
temper during cross examination I'm
which counsel for Lillian Graham and
Ethel Conrad tried TO make it appear he
was the pursuer and not the pursued,
end II was surmised from couusers atti-
tude that the defendants might set up
self defence. -= new plan for the
reorganization OF the Metropolitan Street
Railway Company was approved by the
various committees interested, and the
receivers will soon turn the properties
over 10 the new company.
THE ATHER-Indication for To-
day: Clearing. The temperature yester-
day Highest, IS degrees: lowest, Al.