New-York tribune., 1912-01-14
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN. Poincare ac-
cepted the French premiership, retaining
M DelcasSe as Minister of Marine, ana
appointing NM. Bourgeois, BRAND ana
Milerand ministers Of Labor, justice
and War, respectively. - II was an
nounced that nine hundred United States
marines were in China ready fer any
emergency; the flight Of the imperial
family TO Je-Hol was regarded as I'M
minent. - Unofficial returns received
in Berlin showed that the Socialists had
elected sixty-four members or inc
Reichstag; it was said that at the second
balloting twenty-five more were nKeiy
TO be chosen. - The brench aviator
Jules Vedrines beat the worlds speed
record for aeroplanes in his monoplane
at Pau, France; ne covered about SS Id
miles in one hour. 80 An tndecislVe
battle fought between provisional troops
and a force Of Quito soldiers near Hui
gra, Ecuador, was reported from Quay
aouil: the PROFESSIONALS, with victory
favoring them, were forced TO retlre
through lack Of ammunition. - Two
men died as the result Of a political fight
at Santiago, Cuba. - The price OF
coal was advanced in England because
of the vote of the miners said to be IN
favor Of strike
DOMESTIC.-Cold weather was gen.
eral throughout the country, many places
suffering from temperatures far below
zero. - Deaths from the cold were
reported from Utica and NeYburgh.
- Ice sank a river steamer in Ar
kansas, two persons being drowned and
fourteen badly frozen. - President
Taft accepted the resignation of Ambas-
sador Bacon, in q letter expressing re-
gret at mis- retirement from the post at
Paris. - The committee on arrange
ments for the Republican National con-
vention met in Chicago, organized and
began its work. - The Missouri Dem
ocratic State Committee decided to hold
the convention at Joplin on February 20,
q compromise in the Clark-Folk fight.
- In the trial Of the Chicago beef
packers efforts were made to trace the
sales Of by-products. - Charles w.
Morse, Washington officials said, refused
TO be transferred from the army hospital
81 Fort Mcpherson, Ca, to Hot Springs,
Ark. - The annual report Of AdJutant
General Verbeck sent to Governor DIX,
definitely announced that the national
guard OF the state would engage in
manoeuvres near here next summer.
80 The administration building at the
Massachusetts, leper colony at Penikese
Island, in Buzzard's Bay, was destroyed
by fire. - Counsel for c. V. T. Richie
son said the confessed murderer would
make no detailed confession.
CITY-Stocks were dull and heavy.
- A dream led to the discovery Of
the body Of Battalion Chief William J..
Walsh, in the Equitable Building ruins.
- Louis D. Brandeis defended the
Sherman antitrust law at luncheon in
the Republican Club. 60 Plans were
announced for the reception of Cardinal
Farley but he will not reach port it was
said, until Wednesday, a day later than
had been expected. So Edward Dwight
Shepard whose brokerage firm failed for
several million dollars in 1909, died sud
denly from heart disease Oh the sidewalk
IN Broadway. -= A man, crazed by
drink, say the police, shot and seriously
wounded his wife and their twenty one
year-old son; three policemen rescued
tho man from an angry crowd. - A
rejected suitor shot and killed the woman
he sought, and then committed suicide
=-= j. ]. McDevitt, the Wilkes Barre
"millonaire," fOrSook the Great White
Way" for Yale's halls of learning.
THE WEATHER.-Indic for to-
day: Fair and warmer. The temperature
yesterday: Highest, II degrees; lowest.
. below zero.