New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-16
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS.-The Senate was not in
session - House: a deficiency ap-
propriation bill carrying, among other
items, S250,000 for continuing work on
the wreck of the Maine. was introduced.
FOREIGN-The British government
decided 70 enter into no contracts with
American meat packers against whom
Proceedings had been instituted in the
United States; the contracts were be-
reved TO amount 10 about S20,OO0OOO
year - David LLOYD Georges ma ,
ttonal insurance measure passed its third
reading in the House of Lords, and VIII
become law -- The Turkish War
ONCE complained that Italians in Tripoli
were using soft nosed (dumduml bullets.
The condition of President Elmer
titus Eliot of Harvard, i'll in Ceylon, was
reported 20 be unchanged. - a re-
mort was circulated in London and later
denied that King George had been assas-
Sinated ut Delhi. So Mexican federals
met a force OF rebels near the northern
frontier and routed them after an en-
gagement of three hours. federal colo-
mel WIS killed. - Sixty Of the crew
of the steamer Delhi were taken of; the
condition of the steamer was more pre-
carious.
DOMESTIC.-W. ]. Burns. the detec-
tive. said attempts had been maze 10
bride him and his men in connection WIN
the dynamite investigation. --- Har-
ward University showed an increase IN
student membership and in officers or
instruction and administration -
New facts concerning dynamite eXplo-
pions i'm Kansas City were revealed by
the federal grand jury investigation al
INDIANAPOLIS --- DR.. Charles w. Ehol,
of Harvard. was reelected president or
tho National Civil Service Reform
LA
- The r. w. Woolworth Company,
with principal offices at WatertoWn.
y. Y. filed articles with the Secretary
Of state At Albany 10 conduct chain
Of stores. -- Plans for the continue
ton Of the work of the Holy Ghost ana
Us Society of Shiloh after its leader, the
Rev. Frank w Sanford, is sentenced
next Monday FOR causing the deaths or
six persons on the yacht Coroner, were
announced by him al Durham Me. -
Thirty human lives were lost during the
recent hunting season in New England
and New Brunswick. - The minority
Of the House committee investigating the
Interior Department reported on the
Controller Bay fake.
CITY.--Stocks closed strong and high
or. ---- Lillian Graham and Ethel Con-
rad were acquitted of the charge OF
attempted murder for shooting w. r. ID.
stokes == \ Republican leader said
the party in New York state would favor
the denomination Of Mr. Taft -= Will
ian ]. Cmmins, the convicted Carnegie
Trust Company financieT, obtained GER
tifcate Of reasonable doubt and will be
released from the Tombs ON bail to-day.
- Attorney General Carmody began
an action al The request of the Public
Service Commission 10 establish the
rights Of the city 10 the Steinway tun-
mel. - The new Drydock is near
completion and was partly flooded al the
navy ward. The telltale fragment
of a door Of the Triangle Waist Com
pany's factory was admitted as evidence
after an all-day battle between opposing
counsel in the trial Of Max Blanck and
Isaac Harris --- The will Of General
Thomas T. Eckert was sustained. his
elder son loses the contest and legacy
left 10 him by the instrument. -
Commissioner Johnson said he expected
70 replace many of the Fire Department
horses with easolene tractors" with
which experiments were being made, by
March T. == City officials announced
plans for a municipal reference library
In the City Hall, 10 be under the direC-
ton of the New York Public Library.
THE WEATHER.--lndi for to-
day: Rain. The temperature yesterday:
Highest, ~ degrees; lowest, So.