New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-09
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS Senate: Statehood bill
passed with an amendment requiring AT
iona citizens TO vote again on the re-
call of judges: conferrees on WOOL anu
free list still in deadlock. House: DIS,
trict of Columbia legislation considered
under a special rule.
FOREIGN-A vote Of censure was
passed on the government in the House OF
Lords By a majority of PA; in the House
Of Commons a motion TO reject the veto
bill was lost by majority Of 139. -
A recurrence of congestion of the kid
neys reduced the hope Of saving the life
of John W. Gates. -- The Pope was
reported as suffering acutely from an at
tack OF govt in the right knee. -- the
American practice squadron, Command
er r. s Coontz. sailed from Gibraltar for
Annapolis. - Twenty-six Spanish
sailors were convicted at Cadiz Of hav-
ing mutinied on board the battleship
Numancia; their execution, IL is under
stood, followed Immediately afterward.
The strike on the London docks
grew more serious; II was estimated that
10000 men were out. =- VI. l.. Slim
son, Secretary Of War; sailed from Ha-
vans for the United states
DOMESTIC.-United States Senator
William 2. Frye. OF Maine. died al Lew
iston. after a prolonged illness; he was
i'm his eightieth year, and had been a
member of the upper house Of Congress
thirty-one years. =- Secretary Nagle
addressed the Michigan College Of Mines
at HoughtOn, Mich, scoring the sugges-
ton of Judge Gary that the federal goV5
eminent should exercise control over the
prices Of commodities. - Admiral
Togo ended his trip 10 Washington, VS.
tied both houses of Congress and saw a
new 14-inch navy gun. == Three am
fiTre N
by the President in an important SHIFT
of Diplomats. - j.. W. HOlstldW and
II. J. c. Beckemeyer, formerly members
of the Illinois Legislature were VIII
nesses before the Senator LorimeT Gem
mittee Holstlaw defended his action IN
taking bribes. -- George w. Perkins
refused TO tell a Congress committee al
Washington about campaign contribu-
tions Of corporations; he described the
panic OF 1907 and told of finance meth
DDS of the United States Steel Corpora
ton. -- The revenue cutters Seminole
and Onondaga returned TO Norfolk, Va.
after a fruitless search for the yacht
Coronet, reported ~ distress with thirty
members of the Holy Ghost and Us So
eietv aboard. = The Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company filed an answer In
PHILADELPHIA to the governments allega-
ton that the Lehigh Coal Company is
merely an adjunct Of the railroad cOrpo-
ration: the answer declares the coal
company to he a separate and distinct
corporation
CITY.-StOCks were weak. "- ram
ily troubles caused Miss Mary r. Rowan
10 commit suicide according TO a note
she wrote To the Coroner before hang
ing herself ten days ago i'm the nome
of her sister, Mrs. Booth No. River
side Drive where her body was found.
Mrs A. S Hewitt and Charles >
SHEPARD, brother and sister, were the
chief benefciaries under the will Of I'd
ward NJ Shepard. whose estate was
valued for probate purposes in the sur
rogates Office, Brooklyn, at more than
100000 - There was little Nio-
lence in the zone of the Brooklyn car
strike: q committee Of the men called
on the Mayor to seek his aid i'm bring
ing about arbitration, but President
HUFF declared he would not consider ar
bitration. = Employees of various ice
companies testified that their concerns
were operating at q loss.
TIRE WEATHER.-Indic for to-
DAY: Fair The temperature yesterday'
Highest. Il degrees. lowest 81