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THE NEWS THIS MORNING. FOREIGN.-Reports from Paris showed the financial situation in New York to have a sentimental rather than a practical effect on the French market; prices of American securities in London were higher, the rate of discount of the Bank of England remaining unchanged: American securities were higher in Berlin and a feelReports ing of confidence prevailed. showed the damage done in the Calabrian earthquake to have been much more extended than at first thought; the lowest estimate of persons killed was twenty. The steamer Lusitania arrived in Queenstown after a run from Sandy Hook of 4 days, 22 hours and 46 minutes, lowering the eastern record nearly six hours. The return of Secretary Taft from the Philippines was postponed from November 4 to November 19, to enable him to finish his work there. The physicians in attendance on Emperor Francis Joseph announced at Vienna that the convalescent stage of his illness had begun. A proposition for water power, at a cost of $20,000,000. at Milleroches. on the St. Lawrence River, was laid before the International waterways commission at Toronto. DOMESTIC.-President Roosevelt, it was announced in Washington, will probably order the Atlantic battleship fleet home from the Pacific within ninety days after its arrival there. Kuhn. Loeb & Co., it was reported in Pittsburg, will become the financial managers of the Westinghouse interests, but Mr. Westinghouse denied it: bankers said the financial crisis in the city was ended. Creditors of the Southern Steel Company, capitalized at $25,000,000, filed a petition in involuntary bankruptcy in the federal court at Birmingham, Ala., and asked for receivers; officers of the company declare It is solvent. The thirteen-hour cross-examination of John F. Ahearn, Borough President of Manhattan, on charges preferred by the City Club. was completed before Governor Hughes, and the hearing closed, after the attorneys had been given until November 11 to file briefs. The Ute Indians temporarily located on the Cheyenne reservation having become unruly, the ordered a force of War Department cavalry stationed at Fort Meade to subdue them. Discussion of the trust question was continued at the meeting of the American Civic Federation in Chicago. Mr. Mor. CITY.-Stocks broke violently gan averted a crisis in the stock market. Dr. Gillette, a former Mutual Life vice-president, was convicted of perjury. State examiners declared the Hamilton, Twelfth Ward and Empire City Savings banks, which susMr. pended payments, to be entirely solvent. Harriman practically confirmed the rumor that the Union Pacific was to sell its holdings in other roads. There was a run on the Lincoln Trust Company, at No. 208 Fifth avenue. The run on the Trust Company of America continued. A riot followed an attempt of strike breakers to operate Yonkers street cars. The report for 1906 of the Municipal Art Commission was issued. Lawyers, independent of party, it was said, wanted Justice Bruce elected to the Supreme Court. Frank S. Katzenbach, jr., Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey, that denied the liquor issue in that state was paramount. The State Board of Charities was asked to tion of the old Harlem the reopening Hospital. sancThe White Star liner Majestic had one of the roughest trips in-her history. Dr. W. H. Park, of the Health Department, announced that the serum used in cases of spinal meningitis was producing very satisfactory results. THE WEATHER-Indications for to-day: Fair and warmer. The temperature yesterday: Highest, 53 degrees; lowest, 37.
