New-York tribune., 1912-01-22
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-A plot 10 kill an Amerl-
can official in TeheTan, in order TO IN
volye the United States i'm political in
cident with Persia, was discovered. -
Premier Yuan Shih-kai was reported 10
be convinced that the Manchu cause IN
China was lost and was anxious 10 es-
cape from Peking 10 Tien-Tsln; TWO
Manchu ex-ministers were spoken OF In
connection with the nomination OF MS
successor in the Premiership. == Herr
Won Kiderlen- Waechter, German for-
eien Secretary, had interviews at Rome
with Cardinal Merry del Val, the Papal
Secretary, and with the Italian RE
mier, leaving later for Berlln.
Cardinal Bourne made state entry INTO
Westminster Cathedral, the first cere-
mony of the kind in England since the
Reformation. - The terms OF the VIII
of Henry Labouchere, dispOsing OF
fortune estimated at $4OOOOOO were
made public. Lieutenant Boerner'
of the French army, died of burns re-
ceived on the oyerturning or MS aero
plane at Senlis.
DOMESTIC IC-PrOmoterS who obtained
S77OOO.O0O fraudulently last year were
put out of business, the report of the
chief postoffice inspector stated; OF 100
persons tried lS4 were convicted. -
Strikers committees were organized at
Lawrence, Mass, to arrange for confer
ences of employees with the mlll AGENTS
- A special dispatch from Washing
ton said it was expected in political cir
oles there that Colonel Roosevelt soon
would repudiate George w. Perkins's ef-
forts to boom the coloneis candidacy.
d. T. Myers announced at Boston
that a total of 1,019 resolutions, memo
rials and petitions. indorsing the pend
ing arbitration treaties between the
United States, Great Britain and France
20
Cornell students were seriously injured
while coasting at Ithaca, n. Y. -
The body Of Miss Florence Vogel, who
was drowned in the Lehigh River at
Bethlehem, Penn, was found ten miles
below that place. - 1t was stated in
a Houston, Tex, dispatch that the Com
mercial and Southern National banks of
that city would consolidate on March l.
- A Chicago dispatch stated that by
the action of precinct captains Theodore
Roosevelt was assured Of his first two
delegates TO the Chicago convention
those Of the 1st Illinois Congress Dis
trict. - Chairman Mack of the Dem
ocratic National Committee was in Bal
timore arranging for the Democratic
National Convention. = A cut from
10 cents q pound to less than one cent
on OleOmargarine is planned by the
House Committee on Agriculture.
CITY.-The steamship Cedric arrived
with several lifeboats damaged by big
seas which swept over her decks during
the voyage from Liverpool. - Dr.
Finley. of the City College, described an
experiment to be tried next month OF
admitting special students to courses
not leading to degrees. - DR.. Luis
NJ. Drago, author Of the Drago Doctrine,
will come here TO lecture at Columbia, it
was announced. == An appeal from
Lord Burnham TO the American Dickens
fund committee asked additional sub
scriptons to relieve the poverty, of the
nOvelist's five granddaughters. -
Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania,
praised the work of the Hebrew Shelter
ing and Immigrant Aid Society and said
the real solution Of the problem was to
cclonize the newcomers in the aban-
doned sections of the country. =- Two
women were found dead and one over
come in a room filled with gas, which
also killed three cats.
THE WEATHER.-Indicati for to-
day: Fair. The temperature Yesterday:
Highest "a degrees; lowest, %