New-York tribune., 1912-03-04
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN. soldiers set hre
10 Tfen-Tsin and raided the mint the
banks and other establishments; for-
eigners generally were safe. - Con-
iitions were quieter in Peking under the
patrol of old style troops and detach-
nents of legation guards. -= An at
tempt was made by a suffragette TO set
sre to the General Post Office in London;
she was arrested. = No developments
with a view to end the British coal strike
we're reported; IL was announced that
Premier Asquith would make an Inn
)ortant communication on the supJect
!o-day. Dock workers at Bristol
decided not TO handle imports Of foreign
coal while the strike in England con-
inued.
DoMESTTC.-A letter was made pub
&c in Washington, said to have been
written by Colonel Roosevelt on June 2''
1911, in which he is alleged to have
,aid he told Secretaries Meyer ana
stimson. Messrs. Loeb. Garfield and 9TH
,rs that he would not be a candidate
his wear. - The President made
statement outlining his plan for the Tor
nation Of q national board of trade on
April Is, which organization would ad-
rise Congress. and the Chief Executive
IN commercial legislation. - A WASH
ineton dispatch showed that MIR. Tart
had gained thirty delegates, total or
seventy four, since organized opposition
10 his denomination had been in the held.
= The House Democrats planned TO
cut out the appropriations Tor the COM
nerce Court, Tariff Board, Economy
Commission and the Presidents travel
1ng expenses. in an effort TO save ST.
BOO 600. -= It was said at Lawrence
Mass, that a crisis in the big teXtlIe
strike is expected to-day when the mill
owners offer of an Increase becomes e1-
iective: large number OF WOOL careers
md mule spinners who have been out on
,trike voted to return to work. - The
body of Lieutenant Commander Samuel
3. Thomas. u. S. N, who died at Los
Angeles on February g. was buried with
military honors at Newport, X. L. -;
Delegates elected in several counties Of
Iowa were instructed for Taft. -
Governor Woodrow Wilson In an address
at Davenport said the tariff suit was
ihreadba and that IL was high time to
eonsultsa more economic tailor.
CITY.-It was expected that Justice
Gerard would this afternoon declare that
IN his opinion Governor Dix and Mayor
Saynor were in contempt of court for
heir statements concerning the Brandt
yase =- A woman was burned to
ieath and the police made thrilling res
.ues n q fire I'm a Madison avenue board
ng house - Police court sentences
despite the ruling of the Appellate Di-
Tision that Sunday sentences were IL
,egal. -= The Municipal Sewerage
Commission submitted a report to the
Mayor which foreshadowed a recon-
rlendation of drainage areas for the COL
ection and publication Of sewage. -
In an article in an engineering magazine
Montauk Point was urged as a new
American port for transatlantic passen-
ger and mail service. the writer MAIN
tanning that the fastest liners could earn
1t least $4,000 a year more than at pres
Int by making the point their terminus.
t. The success of the city's tubercu-
sosis sanatorium at Otisville has prompt
ld the health authorities to urge the
building of a second institution nearer
10 the city. = A will made by. Mrs.
Furlong, wife of the former magistrate.
has been found in Scotland. leaving none
Of her large estate to her husband, al
though ne was named administrators Of
h by the Queens Surrogate shortly after
ais wife's death.
THE WEATHER.-Indi for to-
say: Snow. The temperature yester-
lay: Highest, 80 degrees; lowest, 1S.