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THE NEWS THIS MORNING. CONGRESS-Senate The conference bill report was the sundry civil appropriation supply on leaving only two of the great to be reports were eral adopted. measures conference disposed of. unanimous adopted House: and Sev- con- a number of bills were passed by of the sent: the proposed change in the hall House was defeated FOREIGN.-King Edward welcomed President senon his arrival in London: cordial Fallières were exchanged at a state dinner. timents French Chamber of Deputies adopted the a of the income tax bill section The which and places foreign duty on dividends from Governor French Magoon has government bonds ordered that Cuban provincial elections be exists held on August 1: not a case of yellow fever Baron von Holstein, in an in the island. believed to be inspired by the German article Foreign Office, warns Frenchmen against hopes The revision of the Frankfort treaty. of will of Archibaid Henry Blount. leaving $450,000 in to Yale University, was admitted to probate have Many suits for unpaid bills been London filed by tradesmen against members of the inThe men Portuguese royal household volved in the shipbuilding strike in Great Brit- the ain voted to accept the terms offered by employers. DOMESTIC.-The Department of Justice announced that a suit to test the constitutionality law of the commodity clause of the railroad rate would be begun in Philadelphia on June 16. The chair of philosophy at the University of Cincinnati was declared to be vacant after Professor H. H. Bawden, formerly of Vassar ColDr. William lege. had declined to resign. A. Quayle, of Chicago, and Dr. Charles W. Smith, Methof Pittsburg, were elected bishops by the odist Episcopal General Conference at Balti- OklaThe known dead in Texas and homa more. floods were reported to be seventeen: six persons were drowned when a railroad bridge gave way at Dallas. The theory was advanced in Laporte that the body burned in the fire at the Gunness farm was that of May Reilley, of Rochester, and that Mrs. Gunness esMorcaped in man's clothing Justice schauser at Poughkeepsie filed an opinion deciding that Harry K. Thaw was still insane and upholding the constitutionality of the law under which he was committed to the Matteawan asylum. William C. Wallace was sworn in as Senator from the 47th District and took The Independence his seat at Albany. League sent a memorial to the Legislature asking that more stringent election laws be enacted. The anniversary week exercises of the Unitarians of the country opened in Boston. A receiver was appointed for the Southern Trust and Deposit Company, of Baltimore, following an investigation. A plucky CITY.-Stocks were strong. woman prevented a bold hold-up of three bank messengers. The trial of Theodore S. Whitmore for the murder of his wife began in Jersey City The importance of lubricating oil on railroads was discussed at the session of the suit to dissolve the Standard Oil Company. Friends of the Robinson transit bill expressed regret that the Governor had failed to sign the measure The Clyde liner Semincle ran aground in a fog off Point Pleasant, N. J. The biggest clock in the world was started running on the top of a Jersey City factory Counsel for Mayor McClellan opposed the opening of ballot boxes in the recount case. The Mayor ordered flags at halfmast and the tolling of church bells OH Thursday. in respect for George Clinton, whose body J. M. will lie in the City Hall on that day. Beck defended lawyers in an address to the Columbia Law School graduating class. The Burlington Railroad executed a mortgage to Mrs. secure a bond issue of $300,000,000. A. G Vanderbilt obtained a decree of divorce from her husband. THE WEATHER-Fai to-day and warmer; showers to-night and to-morrow; fresh west winds. The temperature yesterday: Highest, 77 degrees; lowest, 59.