New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-27
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

cTTY.-Stocks closed higher. -
President Taft was chief among the no.
tables at the funeral of General /, y
Grant on Governors Island, AFTER WnlC.
the body was borne through the city WIN
military escort for burial at West POINT
- Judge Knapp and Labor CoIhihis
sioner Neill. the government meuia'ot .
held four separate conferences WIN tne
railroad managers and the engineers
committee, and it was said later inc
threatened strike situation was more
hopefuI. - The bodies OF John jacob
Aston. Isidor Straus and Charies NJ
Esvs are on the funeral ship bound Tor
Halifax at full speed. - klaW q
Erlanger filed an answer TO the SUIT
against them by Miss Edith ST Clalr lor
alleged breach Of contract, saying cle
contract they made with the young
woman was a blackmailing scheme, win
Mr. Frlanger az the victim. - Hear
ings on the Thaw habeas corpus writ
will he begun in New Rochelle TO-DAY.
AT an East Side fire a fren2leo
man leaned to his death, despite en-
treaties of firemen, who immediately
after saved all those with whom ne mao
stood on the fire escape. - Inc Fuo-
lie Service Commission laid down route
for a tunnel under the East RIVER, ~
he used by the Brooklyn Rapid TRANSIT
here for the International Red cross
congress. said that in their country more
than two million women were enrolleu
i'm the society. - Unusually hlsn
prices prevailed at the sale OF the j.
Hampden Robb collection Of art oolects'
A sixteenth century rug bringing Szz'VVV'
DOMESTIC. - Theodore Roosevelt
speaking ar Worcester. Mass replied 10
President Taft's attack on himself mace
at Boston and elsewhere on THURSDAY.
- Ernest Gill. a donkey engineman
on the Californian, testified before the
Senate sub committee in Washington
that the Californian saw the Titanlcs
distress signals and refused TO give ana
Captain Lord denied his statements: the
Californian's operator said the Titanic
operator rebuffed him: Senators were
said TO be anxious to close the inquiry
- Secretary Stimson transmitted 10
the House Of Representatives at WASH
ihgton q report recommending tne eN-
penditure of $1,570.000 in deepening the
Hudson River near New York. - II
was stated in a Philadelphia dispatch
that testimony in the governments SUIT
against the United States Steel Corr
poration for dissolution would be taken
in New York; the first hearing was hXeo
for May g. - Wheat prices at chi
csgo advanced into new ground and
ended at practically the top level OF the
session and of the year thus far, -
Fire destroyed more than dozen build
ings and caused loss exceeding 100000
at Brunswick, Me. - Counsel Tor
Clarence V T. Richeson, at Boston. took
final steps to have his death sentence
commuted 70 imprisonment for life, lay
ing stress on the mental condition OF the
self confessed murderer; Governor Foss,
who will lay the matter before the Exec
utive Council promised an early decl-
sion. - Many Carnegie hero awards
were announced at Pittsburgh.
FOREIGN.-Latest reports at Halifax
N S., were 10 the effect that the
Mackay- Bennett had on board the bodies
of 205 Titanic victims, OF which ninety
one had been Identified. - The White
Star liner Olympic abandoned her mid
week departure from Southampton ow-
ing to a strike OF her seanen; the latter
objected to the company having engaged
non union firemen. and were arrested
for mutiny. Desperate fighting was
reported at Topic on the west coast Of
Mexico; the United states transport
ship Buford was ordered TO Mexican Pa
cific ports TO rescue the Americans en-
6angered by the hostilities. - A
treaty OF friendship, commerce and nav
igation between Cuba and Peru was
signed at Lima.
THE wEATHER.---Indicati for to-
day: Showers. The temperature yester-
day: Highest. so degrees; lowest, As,