New-York tribune., 1911-12-09
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS Senate was not in
session. -= House: The sO-called 'doi-
lar day" pension bill was discussed
the vote will be taken Tuesday, and It's
passage is regarded as assured.
FOREIGN.-Eight foreigners, includ-
ing four Americans, were reported mas
sacred in Kan-Su. == BY an imperial
edict the Chinese calendar was discarded
and the modern Roman calendar adopt
ed. - The Reichstsg was dissolved
and general elections in Germany de.
creed for January l.. = Cardinal
O'Conuen took solemn possession OF the
Church of san Clcmente, Rome, Whlch
vas assigned to him on being raised 10
the Sacred College. =- The CUBAN
Senate passed a bill which will permit
Of the removal from public ONCE OF al
persons formally hostile to the admins
tration. - Almost two hundred work
mon were plunged into the river Volga,
when a railroad bridge under construc-
ton collapsed, and were drowned.
DOMESTIC President Taft and the
Cabinet considered the Jewish passport
question at length. but found no solution
and il was said that abrogation OF the
treaty. cf 1892 with Russia might result.
--- The army and navy board, whlch
inspected the wreck of the Maine IN
Havana Harbor. reported 10 Secretary
Never tnat the battleshlp was oloWh
up by All outside explosion -- +. NJ.
Ryan. president of the International As
sociatiCn of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers. refused 10 tell how J. J. Nc
Namara spent an expense fund OF Sl,OoO
81 month. -=--- Ortie +. MCManigal com 70
pleted his testimony before the federal
grand jury AT Los Angeles; John Cruik-
shank. railroad official, was summoned
as = witness President GomperS
60 hcf o n ?
his charges I'm the courts. = SIX
Jurors To try meat packers indicted for
violations of the Sherman law had been
chosen At the close Of the Chicago court
YESTERDAY. The Rev. Frank W.
Sandford. leader Ct the Holy Ghost and
Us Society. was indicted at Portland,
Me. OH a charge Of causing the death
Of six OF his followers. -= Governor
Dix al Albany received assurances that
William 3. Hornblower of New York,
would accept the designation Of commits
sioner 70 hear the charges preferred
against District Attorney Sanford of AL
hanv = Western Governors touring
in the East visited Baltimore; Southern
Governors also assembled in Baltimore
for a conference on immigration.
CITY.-Stocks rallied in the late trad
ing. -= Samuel Gompers, who was to
speak IT Il meeting of the Workmens
Federation. failed 10 appear and no eX-
ulanation OF Lars absence was offered.
---- Thirty seven Of the fOrty-tive liv-
ing members Of the Carnegie Veterans
Association met at the house Of their
former chief for dinner and reminiscence.
-== The American Tobacco Company
announced the details for the distribution
of the securities II holds TO it's stock
holders as we'll as for the exchange of
its bonds Cor bonds Of the new concerns
into which the American Tobacco Com
p8ny is 10 be split. == 2. A. Nanderlip,
president OF the National city Bank,
made an attack on the Sherman anti
trust law. -- The Brooklyn Young
Republican Club has started a campaign
IN opposition 10 the election Of L. A.
Merritt, jr., As Speaker of the Assembly
-- a cousin of the wife Of one of the
Triangle Waist Companys proprietors
declared ne tried without avail 10 open
the Washington place door while the
fire was I'm progress. --- Lillian Ora
ham testified in her own behalf and
broke down and wept while she told Of
her relations with W. +. -. Stokes.
THE WEATHER indications for to-
day. Fair The temperature Yesterday:
Highest IS degrees, lowest A..