New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-02
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CITY.-Stocks showed strength alter
weakness. - The state will oppose
Jury to pass on Thdw's sanity. content
ing the question is too intricate, ana
Jerome Will ask for three weeks 10 re-
fresh his memory Of the details OF the
case. -=- Senator Smith came IRON
Washington to run down the story that
=. j Dunn told al the Titanic inquiry
about telegram advising the White
star Offices of the wreck on Monday
morning. =-=- There was big rush u
pay taxes on The first day, and thus save
. Der cent -- Scafaring men oX.
pressed the opinion that TOO many OH
va;e night signals were exchanged at sea
between ships, and they thought ihe us'
Of rockets should be limited TO calls for
aid --=-- \ woman's marriage 10 aer
ctepsun brought about complications
which came before the SurrcgateS court
49, The son of a member OF the fash
;onable Tuxedo colony sued her Tor an
accounting Of the property left 10 him oN
his father. alleging she had tried TO de-
fraud him out of his Inheritance. -
To avoid striking q woman on cross
Ing a ta.icab chauffeur sent his car in')
the euro, slightly bruiSing two women
and q child, his fares" who were
thrown to the street. ~ May parties
have been prevented in Central Park De-
fore the 10th in an effort to save the
lawns.
DOMESTIC.-The political situation in
Massachusetts was complicated by The
refusal of the delegates at-large electc
on the Roosevelt slate 10 agree with the
colonel that they should support Presi-
dent Taft because the latter man won in
the primary - New regulations
issued by the government Steamship In
spection Service. and ordered into effect
at once. require all ocean steamships %
carry enough lifeboats to accommodate
every person on board, both passengers
and crew. - President Taft sent to
the Senate Secretary Knoxs report
showing there is no basis for suspect!ng
that Japan has planned to get control Uf
Magdalena Bay. - The House APP
propriations Committee reported the
legislative. executive and judicial ap-
prorriation bill, with provisions abolish.
ing the commerce court, cutting salaries
right and left. wiping out minis and as
say offices, elimina ting 400 officers and
diemissing aged federal employees -
The Pennsylvania Republican CONVEX
ton at Harrisburg named twelve dele
gates to the Chicago convention and IN
r+ructed them for Colonel Roosevelt; the
platform Landed Roosevelt, and omitted
mention of President Taft or his admin
istration.
FOREIGN-It was said in Londo1
mat no great puIiliCeil DIOJcSl was CNSI
debated in the House Of Commons with
less display OF interest on the part of the
members and the general public than :he
Home Rule bill. - The Council Of
Ministers at Constantinople decided 10
reopen the Dardanelles under the same
conditions as prevailed before the closure
on April Is. - II was announced at
Constantinope that the Archipelago
American Steamship Companys steamef
the Texas, was sunk in the Gulf Of
Smyrna by a shell fired from a fort, AMI
not by a mine. as at first reported. -
The work Of identifying the Titanic's
unnamed dead made practically no prog
ress at Halifax; only three seamen were
identified. = The Calais and London
Express was derailed in St Denis, sub
urb Of Paris: three persons were in
jured and fifty persons had narrow
escape from death. -= The great Ger
man steel syndicate controlling the COM
petition of German steel works by q
system of production quotas, nearly col
lapsed.
THE WEATHER.-Indicati for 10.
day: Fair. The temperature yesterday:
Highest, Is degrees lowest, 49,