New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-20
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CITY,-Of 1920 people convicted or
criminal offences, 1900 were released IN
the last year on suspended sentences, u
was said. and letter from Samuel IN
termyer TO Judge Foster, de1eholnS '"T
practice, was made public. == UnlIeo
States ATTORNEY Wise said he would
break the coffee trust" If he had to get
Congress TO pass a law forbidding all
importation of coffee TO this country:
e. Following an unannounced tour Oh
Central Park by Mayor Gaynor, runors
were current that Alexander II. stevens
would replace Commissioner slower.
g. Five suits for damages aggregaunS
so6 mo have been brought against Ar
mour & Co. because Of trichtnosis from
pork sold by the packers. 80 IL was
said that a large number OF anthracite
miners would resume work To-Day as d
result of the agreement reached at
Wilkes Barre on Saturday. - Inc
Commissioner Of Accounts has reported
TO the Mayor that he found no basis for
rumors that policemen were paying
money TO obtain retirement and pension:
- A former cowboy lassoed ana
killed a two-ton whale on the beach at
Arverne. - Speakers at Woman
Suffrage Association meeting said the
women Of the world could bring ABOUT
universal peace If they set their hearts
on the undertaking.
DOMESTTC,-H Sprueh Won Ar
menthal, Of the German nobility, COM
mitted suicide in a Chicago hotel ne
was engaged TO Mrs. Benjamin Rosen-
hiatt. a niece Of the late Nelson Morris.
but the engagement was broken because
of Won Armenthars excessive drinking:
- Clarence V. T. RiCheson declared
at the State Prison at Charlestown that
he was resigned to his fate and desired
a speedy execution: he spent ms iast
Sunday with his spiritual advisers, quot
ing Scriptures and applying their truths
10 his own life - Melville, La. was
inundated and five hundred persons
driven from their homes by the breaking
of a levee on the Atchafalaya River.
- Rival candidates OF each party e&-
pressed confidence of winning in the
Ohio primaries tomorrow - A
statement by the Taft bureau at Wash
ington claimed twenty-five votes more
than enough to insure the Presidents
denomination. - Colonel Roosevelt
at Mentor, Ohio. said he was satisfied
with the situation in that state; he
criticised the President sharply. -
Fire in Houston, Tex, endangered the
business section and did damage esti-
mated at 100000. - A man and a
boy whom he was trying TO save were
drowned in a pond near Vassalboro, Me.
Two persons were drowned and
forty injured when a gangplank collapsed
al a Seattle wharf. - movement
was started in Boston to amalgamate
the boot and shoe workers unions Of
the country.
FOREIGN.-Archduke Joseph received
the special committee of the Panama Ex-
position in special audience at Budapest.
- The United States transport Blu
ford sailed from Salina Cruz. Mexico.
with 800 refugees, many of them destitute,
on board. 60 Serious conditions were
reported in Oaxaca, Mexico. - 1t was
reported that in Saturdays railroad &C
cident in Paris bride Of an hour saw
her husband decapitated, she herself
having both legs fractured. 80 The
liner Kronprinzessin Ceclie, bound east
ward, reported to CherbOurg that she
had been delayed owing to picking up the
survivors OF a shipwreck. - Five
negroes were arrested in Cuba, nipping
in the bud what might have ended in a
rising against the government.
THE WEATHER.-Indic for to-
cay: Unsettled. The temperature yes
terday: Highest, Il degrees; lowest, So.