New-York tribune., 1912-02-06
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS.-Sen March was set
as the date for a vote on the peace
treaties: the LoTimer committee dis
missed it's stenographer, Milton W.
Blumenberg. =- House: The Demo-
Gratis sidestepped a vote on the Slayden
third term resolution; President IaIt
transmitted Secretary Knox's report On
sugar prices abroad.
FOREIGN.-The situation in Mexico
was reported to be sufficiently serious
to warrant the dispatch of four more
United States battalions to the Rlo
Grande and a call TO the whole Unlleu
States army to hold itself in readiness
10 move at an hours notice. - hlhs
George and Queen Mary arrived In Lon
don from India. --- A boycott Dg Ehs-
lish tourists on all German holiday re-
SORTS was proposed in London as pro-
test against the sentence Of three ana
half years Imprisonment imposed on
bertrand Stewart convicted of esplon-
ace - The first of the battleships or
the new Spanish navy was launcheu d.
Ferrol in King Alfonso's presence =.
Senator Eladio Victoria was eiec'eu
President of Santo Domingo.
Robert Hoe, builder of
printing presses, wrote TO the Senate
Finance Committee American wages
would have to be cut 90 per cent II the
steel revision bill was passed; hearings
begin in Washington to-day. - II
was announced in Washington that tiIe
TAYLOR system would be tried In the
Rock Island, ILL.,, Arsenal despite the
threat of employees there TO strike. -
II was announced at Albany that Gov
ernor Dix had commuted the sentences
of five more convicts; four of whom are
confined al Clinton prison ana the other
at Great Meadows. - Bills outlining
a scheme for the storage of water were
introduced in the Legislature. --
More firms and individuals entered pleas
Of nolo contendere in the "bathtub trust
cases at Detroit. =-- 1t was reported
Al Cordova. Alaska, that a large body
Of anthracite coal had been discovered
at the head of White River. Yukon Terri
tory Pennsylvania authorities
have asked the State Supreme Court for
2 change of venue to try seven persons
indicted for burning a negro at the stake
in Coatesville, Penn, last august; the
brief said it was impossible TO convict
white men for the murder of negro in
Chester County. - Governor Deneen
of Illinois announced himself candidate
for denomination and reelection. -
Evidence was introduced in the trial of
the packers at Chicago TO show that
they frequently curtailed shipments to
increase prices. -- The State AgTi-
cultural Advisory Board made report
TO Governor Dix at Albany.
CITY-Stocks were dull and irregular.
=- Egerton L. Winthrop, jr, was re-
elected president of the Board of Educa-
tion by d vote of "a to %. over Thomas
w. Churchill; John Greene was renamed
vice president. -- The IOlice sought
two or three men i'm the case of the
woman killed by bomb explosion. and
their positiveness regarding the guilt of
their prisoner began to waver. -- The
body Of Frederick w. Noble who killed
himself with his WIFE formerly Mrs.
Suydam will be buried in Sayville, Long
Island, and the body of his wife will be
buried in Philadelphia. =- The police,
II was said. expected an arrest in the
case Of Louis Blumenthal supposed TO
he murdered by horse poisoners. -
Stock in the Standard Oil Company Of
Indiana gained 5000, selling at $4,000 a
share, the par value being 800. -=
Justice Joseph A. Burr, of the Appellate
Division OF the Supreme Court, was
knocked down and seriously injured by
a streetcar in Brooklyn.
THE WEATHER.-Indica for to-
cay: Generally fair. The temperature
yesterday: Highest, 25 degrees; lowest, 3.