New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-14
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-The French reply 10 Ger
many's counter proposals was dispatched
from Paris and should reach Berlin to-
night. - The German military stan
announced at the end Of the autumn
manPvres its conversion to a belief in
military aviation, all their operations
having been based on the reports OF the
aerial scouts. - The French army
sViators were declared at the end OF the
mannuvres to have observed correctly
from height of some two thousand feet
All movements Of troops and the loca-
lion of all batteries Food riots
broke out again in various parts OF
France =-== Sir Wilfrid Laurier said
that the fight in Canada against reel
procity is the most dishonest and In
aidious he has ever experienced; the
opposition appeared to be striving TO
arouse anti-American sentiment every
where. Reports received from
China announced that the foreign mis-
sionaries in the disturbed province are
safe within the walls of Cheng-tu, now
under siege: troops fired on the besieg-
ers and killed and wounded a number or
thew
DOMESTIC.--A delegation of New
England business men, representing
two million persons, pledged support 10
President Taft and bade him Godspeed
or his Western trip, which begins to-
morrow - The Governors confer
snee at Spring Lake took a recess and
The state executives went TO Sandy HOOK
and saw some exhibition shooting with
The 12-inch guns - Returns from
The Maine election showed the "drys'
had won by small margin; Governor
Plaisted left the conference Of Governors
in Spring Lake, y. j., to attend TO the
official canvass. 80 a dispatch from
Madison, Wis, stated that John A. John
son confessed to the murder Of little
Annie LembeTger last night, was SEN
fenced 10 a life term In state prison AND
was taken 70 the penitentiary at Wau-
nun. - S r. Potter. arrested at Chi
Cago for fraudulent use of the mails, was
said 10 have had a scheme under way
FOR defrauding Londoners Of a half mill
con dollars through the sale OF sailed
mine" -- Judge BordWen announced
at Los Angeles that the trial of John j.
and James J. Mcnamara would begin
October IL, and that nothing would IN
rerfere 10 postpone it. - \ heat wave
was reroried in the Middle West; al
Kansas City, Mo, the temperature was
%. at Topeka. 9S and at Wichita, Kan.
- degrees - Mayor Gaynor gave
out a statement in syria cuse in which he
said professional falsifiers' had misrep-
Aesented the New York City charter
II CITY-Stocks were weak. == James
"a. Ward left Governors Island at sos
= a. m. hoping 10 fly TO the Pacific Coast
in thirty days, but lost his way and spent
the night at South Paterson, \. j., only
fourteen miles away. - Testimony
IN the Union Bank case disclosed that
woman was used as a dummy in several
big trans9 ctions. -= In a letter TO
Brooklyn man on Monday Mayor Gaynor
wrote that the charter was now perfect,
as he had spent the summer correcting
IL. The secretary Of the syndicate
that will take over Madison Square Car
der testified that Pat Powers held no
lease in the proposed new building. =-
The plea Of nolo contendere was &C
cepted from Frank j. Could in the wire
pool case, and like the majority OF the
numerous other men Indicted on the
came charge he was fined $1,000
THE WEATHER.-Indi for to-
day: Fair and coolers The temperature
yesterday: Highest, 81 degrees; low
est. 80.