New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-25
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CITY.-stocks were irregular. -
President Taft stopped here on his way
r. Massachusetts, attending theatre
and spending the night at his brother
house. - The Bremen reported sight-
ing more than 100 bodies of Titanic VIC
tins. but didn't stop, as she coulu not
care for them. - The federal orlciais
in charge of the dispute between inc
railroads and the engineers salo they'
we're sure both sides were sincere III the
pending effort 10 avert strike:
Timothy l.. Woodruff deciare9 bIu I'm
,yn's delegates would stick TO Taft AFTER
a conference with all but Prendergas''
who insisted Roosevelt would be the
choice Of the Chicago convention. =
n o. beach and wife returned, as Mr:
Beach explained TO face the cock ana
bull" charges against him In Aiken =. =;
r. Dock Commissioner TomIuns salu
the high cost Of living In New YORK was
due largely to the ports ant1quated YER
,ninai system. - John D. Rockefeller.
Ar. and Bishop Greer we're speakers at
The closing sessions OF the Men and Re
ligion Forward Movement. - Inc
suffrasette leaders said the names on
hundreds Of men and women we're being
added daily to the lists OF those who are
10 march in the big parade on May q
pOMpsTIC.--The Senate committee
investigating the Titanic disaster was
told that Mr. Ismay was urged by tns
surviving officers to have the Cedric heid
70 take the Titanics crew to Engianu.
and that the steamships Waterusht
doors were not arranged to protect Inc
vital parts Of the vessel - Inc
cruiser MARYLAND was hit by torpedo
off the Pacific Coast, and one oompart =
mani was flooded - Mr.. Tafts tol-
lowers controlled the Iowa state conNen-
ton at Cedar Rapids. easily defeating
the Cummins party. - William b
Mckinley. director of the TAFT nationai
bureau, in a lengthy statement, attacked
the motives Of Colonel Roosevelt. -
confidential correspondence between
Theodore Roosevelt as President in 1901
ard ATTORNEY General Bonaparte, in
which Mr.. Roosevelt asked that the Har-
vester trust prosecution he delayed. was
transmitted 70 the Senate. - A
Washington dispatch stated that the
hope Of dissolving the International Har-
vester Company without fight in the
courts had been practically abandoned.
- Secretary Knox. in Washington,
approved TIE Sulzer bill placing the con-
suiar service OH a merit basis. -
Delegates instructed for President TAFT
were elected by the Rhode Island con-
yention. - An award of reparation
against the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
panv, in favor OF nVe Shippers, was mace
by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
FOREIGN-The White Star liner
Olympic was unable to sail from South
alnpton or account of a strike OF three
hundred fremen and greasers, who de-
serted the ship in a body. giving as their
reason that the cOllapsible lifeboats on
the vessel were unseaworthy. - AS
slstant Superintendent Jouin Of the Paris
Detective Department was killed and
Chief Inspector Colmar seriously wound
ed while trying TO arrest one of the gang
of bandit anarchists named Bonnet, near
Paris. - Nearly one thousand Ameri-
cans along the west coast of Mexico
were reported to be In danger. -
Many soldiers and civilians were killed
I'm an encounter between striking textile
workers and a detachment Of troops at
villa Nova dc Gaia. a suburb near
Oporto. - Charles w. Eliot, presi-
dent emeritus of Harvard University,
and William j. Calhoun. American Min
lister 10 China, were guests Of Kohechi
Midzuno, Japanese charge de affaires in
Picking.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-
day: Fair and warmer. The temperature
yesterday: Highest SIS degrees; low
est, II.