New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-19
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CITY.-Stocks were strong at the
close 80 A case Of suspended SEN
tence brought Judge ROsalsky into the
Par Associations investigation OF me
Court of General Sessions. -= henry
A. Wise, United States Attorney, Des,lh
suit to break up the sO-called coffee
trust; if his action is successful he VIII
seize $40 900 600 worth OF coffee nov IN
storage here and sell 1t at auction. -
The annual police parade was held, Win
a record number of Uen in line. -
From 10000 to $4,000 children engaged
I'm May Day festivities in the parks, the
celebration having been delayed eighteen
DAYS to let the grass grow. - Many
union walters amused themselves by en-
rolling in a strike breaking employmeh1
agency. and when the trick was dlscoV-
cred they were elected by the agenI ana
a near arrest followed - Mrs. Ava
Willing Astor sailed yesterday on the
oceanic to wind up her business aHalrs
in London prior to making her nome IN
this country. - one man was hillcu
and another badly injured in saloon
brawl at No. sol West street, the saloon
keeper being arrested on homlclde
charge. Five thousand members
of the Mems League would take part III
q torchlight demonstration on behalf OF
suffrage. il was announced.
DOMESTIC.-Presid Taft ended a
weeks campaign in Ohio confident mat
the state would stand by him in the l'rl-
mary; he devoted the day largely 10
farmers. whom he told Roosevelt changed
his reciprocity views to get votes. - -
Colonel Roosevelt spoke all day In ONO,
and in Cleveland, in the evening, de-
nounced President Taft. - state
managers for each candidate in each
party predicted certain success for MS
chief i'm the primaries in ONO.
Senator Dixon issued statement from
the Roosevelt national headquarters at
Washington i'm reply TO one made puollc
by Charles d. Hilles, secretary to the
President, in regard 10 action taken by
Theodore Roosevelt in respect TO the
Harvester trust. =-- The Tart bureau
ri Washington issued a statement de-
cIaring that Theodore RoOsevelts asser-
zion that President Taft was not re-
sponsble for the creation Of the Bureau
of Mines was false. - Governor VIII
son called a conference of his followers
i'm Trenton TO devise means Of checking
jnroads made by the Smith Nugent ma
chine The superdreadnought
Texas. largest of the United States
navv's battleships, and the first In tie
world to carry fOurteen-tnch guns was
launched at Newport News, Va. her
sponsor being Miss Claudia Lyon. of
TeNas. - Clarence V. T. Richeson,
after a sleep of fourteen hours. regained
his composure: he broke his fast of
thirty hours, and was told his BODY
might rest beside his mothers grave
- The anthracite workers in conven-
ton at Wilkes Barre ratified the wage
scale agreement, and will return to the
mines after a seven weeks suspension
-- Two men were killed by the col
lapse of a bridge near Ogdensburg. y. y,
many escaped by jumping into the river.
FOREIGN.-Eight persons were killed
and sixty injured in railroad accident
Just outside the Care du NOrd. in Paris
- 1t was said at Rome that the
Turkish troops who surrendered TO the
Italians on the island Of Rhodes number
200 including thirty-eight officers.
- A British cruiser was sent from
Kurrachee, India, 10 the island or
Ormuz, in the Persian Gulf, which is
seriously threatened by a force Of Arab
tribesmen. - The japanese battle
cruiser Kongo was launched at Barrow
in-Furness, England; she is the heaviest
of her type built, displacing 2l,5OO tons
go Miss Eva Booth. commander IT
the Salvation Army in America, saile1
on the Lusitania for New York.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-
day: Fair. The temperature yesterday:
Highest, II degrees; lowest. so.