New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-26
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CITY.-Stocks were strong. - Johh
Rush. battalion chief, known in the FIRE
Department as Daredevil Rush, was
killed by being thrown from his wagon
when he swerved his runaway morse 10
save the lives Of school children. -
Colonel Roosevelt issued long State-
,nent in answer TO the charge that ne
held up tho Harvester trust prosecute
in 1907 and he said his answer TO Prcsl-
dent Taffs attack or him would he
made in his speeches in Massachusetts
49, Identified by his dog, Count 20
Beaufort was served in his Whe sun
for divorce. - The Civil Service Ike
form Association sent letter TO MAYOR
Gavnor alleging violations OF the CIV
service law in appointments LOT thc pI-
reau of Fire Prevention. - Accoru-
ing 90 Chairman Stuart, the railway men
,oId the mediators they could not a1ord
20 nav the increased scale demanded, nut
Inc engineers seemed hopeful that the
efforts at mediation misht succeed. -
General r. F. Tracy celebrated his
oightv-second birthday by going, as
.,ys,al. 90 his law Office and putting III a
davis work. - An English represen-
tative of the company playing choipus
Fey" i'm Covent Garden, London is
neootiatinc for n New York theatre
whose interior will have to be rebuilt TO
produce the famous Greek drama here
in the fall.
DOMESTIC.-President Taft. at Bos-
ton and other places in Massachusetts
answered the criticisms which Theodore
Roosevelt has made of him and his ad-
n,inistration showing especially wherein
The former President had not given MN
81 Square deal" - Acting as sub
committees Of one. members Of the SEN
ate Titanic Investigating committee pc
gan examining members OF the Tltanlc =
crew i'm groups to expedite the proceed
incs: Guglielmo Marconi wireless in
Nentor. and Harold r. Gotham. wireless
operator on the Carpathia, were cX-
amined ny the committee relative 10
wireless operations in connection Will
The disaster. --= During a bitter de-
bate in the Senate Senator Williams, o;
Mississippi attacked and Senator Bris-
Tow, of Kansas. defended Theodore
Roosevelt's action I'm the Harvester case.
:--- The Pujo resolution for money
trust inquiry was passed in the House
after the minority leader, Mr.. Mann. de-
nounced the Democrats as attempting
thereby to hold up" the corporations
for political purposes. - Anthracite
coal operators and miners reached an
agreement in settlement OF their dis
pIIte as TO wages and hours of labor,
which is TO he made public on May :.
and prompt ratification of which is then
expected. - Ross r. Winans, whose
grandfather built extensive railroad
lines in Russia. is dead at his home in
Baltimore.
FOREIGN.-The British government
through Lord Morley, in the House OF
Lords. acknowledged the right Of any
state to institute an inquiry about the
loss Of a foreign vessel in which the
lives Of its own people had been lost.
- The Olympic was again held up at
Southampton by the refusal Of the fire.
men to ship with those Of their com
rsdes who had refused the day before to
go on strike. ---= The Welsh diseStah-
iShment bill passed its first reading in
the British House Of Commons by ma
ioritv Of IS in total vote Of Isl -----
The Radical. Socialist and National Lib
oral parties in the Reichstag combined
TO shelve by n majority of two the Ger
man government rroposals for the in
crease Of the arms md navy. - Or.
Eliot. president emeritus Of Harvard
was entertained in Picking by the Jap
au"sc Legation.
TIE HER.-Indication for to-
dsy: Cloudy. Tho temperature yestcr-
DAY: Highest go degrees; lowest, 10