New-York tribune., 1912-02-03
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

GRESS.-President Taft sent in a
message recommending the appointment
OF an International commission to inves-
tlgate the high cost of living and federal
commission TO study the relations OF
labor and capital and suggesting legis-
lation for the development of Alaska
-1 House: The pension appropriation
hill. carrying S152,000, 600 and abolishing
seventeen agencies, was passed.
F0REiGN.--Great Britain and Russia
, II was snnounced, were about to revise
their agreement Of 1907 concerning Per-
STA the two powers meanwhile to ad-
vance another s2000,000 10 Persia. -
Fourteen men were drowned in the Brit
ish submarine AS, which sank after COM
ing into collision with submarine de-
pot ship off Portsmouth. - Yuan
Shih-kais troops continued to pour into
peking in order to secure absence OF
bloodshed at the time of the formal dec
iaration or the abdication of the ManChu
dynasty. - Fighting between mu"
tlneers and loyal troops occurred at Chi
huahua: anticipating a battle. the
Juarez garrison took up position out
side of the city. - General Manuel
Bonilla assumed the Presidency of Hon
duras. - Governor General FORBES
called an extra session Of the Philippine
Legislative Assembly.
DOMESTIC-Vice-P President Sherman
and other Republican leaders in Wash
ington declared that the denomination
and reelection of President Taft were
assured - Thirty indictments were
said to be drawn up in the bomb inquiry
at Indianapolis; the grand jury, it was
stated, would vote on them Tuesday
== The United Mine Workers of
America adjourned their convention in
Indianapolis without fixing wage
schedule == 1t was introduced in evil
In nnly n
they used a code telegram showing the
selling price and margins for sales of
dressed beef. - Governor Dix at AL
hany denied the application for clemency
made Dy Lawrence De Foulke Brandt,
former valet of Mortimer l.. Schilf, OF
| New York, who is serving thirty-year
sentence at Clinton prison for burglary.
- The body of Edward Throckmor-
ton. chief witness for the state in the
Sneed murder case was embalmed by a
Fort Worth, Tex, undertaken before the
courts order directing an autopsy was
served: Throckmorton, before dying, on
Thursday night, declared he had been
"doped." and the court had decided to
investigate the cause Of his death. -
The Court Of Appeals at Albany decided
that Edward NJ. Grout need not testify
as a witness in the investigation of the
affairs of the failed Union Bank of
Brooklyn, which is being investigated by
Superintendent Van Tuyl of the State
Banking Department. - Four bodies
were found mutilated in tenement
house in Lawrence. Mass. - a dis
patch from Nome, Alaska. stated the city
was facingsa coal famine, and that the
freightaSc on coal from the nearest point
obtainaDle was $500 a ton.
CITY.--Stocks were irregular. -
Sentiment for Taft was manifest at the
conference of forty or more county chair
men on the new Republican organization,
held at the call of State Chairman
Barnes. - The election In the Board
Of Education would make Winthrop
president, p. ]. MCGOWAN predicted,
while j. T. Mahoney was sure Churchill
would oe the next president. - The
subway negotiations between the city
and the Interborough Company were
deadlocked on a new financial point,
while a taxpayers suit was begun to
determine the legality of the proposed
preferential payment plan. - The
butter market rallied and a sensational
advance in price was predicted. -
Judge Swami, after a prisoner had been
convicted as an incendiary, wrote to the
Fire Commissioner, urging closer inquiry
into fires and saying that he believed
the majority OF the fires in the city were
OF tncendiary origin. - The grand
Jury found that the Police Department
was unable TO find definite evidence
against gambling houses - The psy-
Geological phases of childrens fbs were
discussed before a gathering of mothers.
THE WEATHER-Indca for to-
Cay: Fair. The temperature yesterday:
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