New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-01
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

C1TY.--Stocks showed irregular price
changes. - Former district Attorney
Jerome, retained to aid the state in OPP
posing the release of Harry X. Thaw.
said he would be ready for trial in two
weeks =- The Steel Corporation
earnings for the quarter were lower
than at any time since 1904. - IL
was announced that Chamber or COM
merce committee and the trustees of the
City College had about perfected plans
for free college of commerce. ----
State banks and trust companies re-
ceived copies of the Pujo money trust
probe schedules, with the questions
which they are requested to answer.
-. Charges Of dismissed employe
that he had compounded felony led
Controller Prendergast to admit chang
Ing the record of a defaulters discharge
to give the man new chance In NE.
=-G The French delegation to the
Champlain Tercentenary were guests at
a reception by members OF the Society
of the Cincinnati at the house of the
Alexanders, after reception on the
steamer La France. john >.
Shearer, a Cincinnati food expert, who
has Just returned from trip abroad
told the food investigating committee
about the splendid markets in Germany.
- Surrogate Fowler's dismissal OF
an application to set aside the will OF
Frank Work revealed an action that has
been pending four months on charges
that certain codicils Of the Will had
been withheld by the executors. -
Women debated suffrage at the Waldorf
DOMESTIC.-Incomp returns from
the Massachusetts primary elections
showed that the vote for Tart ana
Roosevelt was close; the President car
Tied Boston; Clark won over Wilson.
.= J. Bruce Ismay told the Senate in
vestigating committee OF reforms he be-
lieved should be adopted on ocean liners
as the result OF the Titanic disaster, and
the committee practically finished us
hearings. taking recess until Friday.
- Subpenas served upon them in
Washington in q damage suit 10 De
brought by the widow Of one OF the
Titanic victims were ignored by j. Bruce
Ismay and officers Of the lost ship, who
left the capital. - The House agreed
upon the postoffice bill, which included
provision for a general makeshift par
cells post and an experimental parcels
post for rural routes. - The govern
ment filed q suit at st. Paul asking for
the dissolution Of the International Har-
Vester Company under the sherman anti
trust law; the appointment of receivers
was suggested. - A dispatch from
Harrisburg stated that the Roosevelt
faction would control the Pennsylvania
Republican convention to-day and would
name a Progressive ticket from top to
bottom. Many notable persons, in
Guiding the Russian Ambassador. wit
messed the launching of the destroyer
Beale in Philadelphia; Mrs. John r. Nc
Lean was the sponsor.
FOREIGN.-The cable ship Mackay-
Bennett brought TO Halifax, n. S, 100
bodies of Titaric victims, having buried
another 116 at sea- of the bodies brought
ashore sixty were unidentified last night.
- The second reading of the Home
Rule bill was moved in the House Of
Commons by Winston Churchill, First
Lord of the Admiralty; its rejection was
moved by Walter II. Long. eX-Chief Sec
rotary for Ireland. -= The Venezuelan
Cabinet. headed by General Alcantara
resigned. - Salina Cruz was being
besieCed by Mexican rebels.
THE WEAT- TER indications for to-
day: Fair. The temperature yesterday:
Highest, ~ degrees; lowest, ~.