New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-09
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CITY.-Stocks were active and irregu
lar. The Merchants and Miners
steamship Ontario was run ashore ablaze
at Montauk Point; tho thirty-two pas
sengers were taken off unhurt and the
crew remained on board to fight the fire
- Mayor Gaynor signed the Wagner
subway bill after a hearing. and it was
understood Governor Dix would sign II
also. - Repeating her story that
Walter j. Snyder, who was found dead
3n his bathtub Sunday. had stabbed him
self with her scissors. the woman calling
herself his wife, whom the police arrest
ed. has been sent to the TOmbs To await
the Coroner's inquest on April Is. -
The New York PreSbytery dropped its
opposition to the ordination of seven
Young men who We're i'm doubt as to the
virgin birth and physical resurrection
Of Jesus. = Plans for the suffrage
Iarade and mass meeting on May were
announced. == Miss Alma Nj. Howard,
with d reputation Of writing inCoherent
letters TO prominent persons, including
President Taft and Governor Dix, was
taken from the Aston Trust Company by
the police TO Bellevue, where doctors
pronounced her insane. == Numerous
weddings We're, as usual. the main feat
Ore of Easter Monday socially
DOMESTIC.-A warrant was issued in
- lhtlls - - NlltAt = iiIS lANb'llNh ~
Beach, society man of New York. with
assault with intent 20 kill his wife who
was attacked recently: the Beaches have
sailed for Europe. - Republican lead
ers at the state convention in Rochester
were divided in regard TO instruCtlng the
Chicago delegation; the platform viii be
on national issues only. -- Mr.. ROOse-
welt made his final plea TO Illinois voters,
declaring the result Of the primaries in
their state Of first importance in deter
mining the outcome Of his campaign
E- The louisiana state convention IN
structed its delegates for Taft. -=
The 1st and 9Th Kentucky Congress dis
tricts elected delegates instructed for
Taft. -= Senator La Toilette attacked
Clifford PinchOt and others who deserted
him for Colonel Roosevelt. -= +. c.
Lewis, charged with mail frauds in St
Louis. told how he developed 81 Is cap
ital into a magazine business valued at
millions -= Villages in the Arkansas
lowlands were deserted as the crest of the
food approached: hundreds were rescued
by Memphis citizens. -- Cotton rose
in the New York and New Orleans mar
kets as \ result OF the flood situation
== Senator Chamberlain, Of oregon
began the debate in the Senate on the
employers liability bill. - Chicago
grain operators told the House Commit
Tee on Agriculture that James a. Patten
did not engineer a wheat corner i'm 1909
and declared his operations were "beneh-
. cent" .-.s.
FOREIGN.-Work was resumed in
large number of the British coal mines
despite the failure to remedy the sur
facemens grievances; Vernon HartshoTn,
the labor leader. urged the men TO pre-
pare for another and bigger fight. -
Rudyard Kiplng published in London
poem Genouncing the British govern
ments Home Rule scheme == Amer
lean conductors and engineers on the
Mexican National Railways announced
their intention Of walking out on April -.
their demands having been refused by the
railroad managers. -= Precautions
were urged at Vancouver X. g.. against
the admission OF leprosY cases from Ha
wall. one ont of siXUy-fOur Of the natives.
~ was stated. being Il sufferer from that
disease: the importation of fruit from
Hawaii Will probably be forbidden in
british Columbia -= Floods were re-
ported in Quebec. ihe Namaska and Goa
ticote rivers overlooking; three persons
We're drowned at Compton. -= Emily
Soldene. the author. died i'm London.
THE NEATHER-lnd for to-
DAY: Fair and rising temperature. The
temperature Yesterday: Highest. 3S de-
SreeS lowest 90.