New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-27
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN-French newspapers say that the
accident TO the Republique will not check at
.tenapts TO conquer the air: General Brun be-
1ieves that dirigible balloons will soon be sup
planted by aeroplanes for war purposes
Thirty balloons started from Paris in the long
sCistence contest OF the French Aero Club. -
N. Leblanc. in a Beriot naonoplane turned a
complete somersault in the contests at Berlin.
but was unhurt. - Spanish troops, after a
sharp action. drove back the Moors in the direc-
tuon OF Selusn: balloon was used TO direct the
Operations. 49, James Keir Hardie said that
lhe expected the Labor party to make large gains
IN the coming elections: he believed that the
Liberals would be returned 10 power with a
working majority. - Mail advices from Cuba
Say that President Gomez has a firm grasp on
itne nsuer government, and that there is no
.3onser talk Of instruction or American inter-
'yention.
DoMESTIc-President Taft preached a SER
mon 70 an immense audience in the Mormon
Temple In Salt Lake City. - IT was reported
1t Washington that the National Monetary Com
t1nlsslon viii make a preliminary report next
19ecember. - The Treasury Department re-
fused additional bounty payment 10 a Pennsyl-
Tanian who said he gave information. a spy,
10 General Mcclellan. Just before the battle OF
Antietam. - 1t was announced at Washing
ton that monument commemorative the found
tng OF the international Postal Union would be
unveiled at Berne Switzerland - The R,I
reau Of Naturalization in Washington decided
that Turks are not eligible for citizenship. -
In spite OF an injunction, the companies at Sar-
mineral water and gas "A senior IN the Col
lege OF Civil Engineering at Cornell University
arrived IN Ithaca, \. Y after having walked
thther from New York in ten days. - Many
Iriune lmmersionists remained at West Dux-
bury, Mass, still hoping for the end of the
~oTld -- The Dutch steamer ZeeBurg went
on the rocks at the mouth OF the st Johns
River, about twenty-five miles from Jacksonville
and viii be total loss. 10
clfY-Wright and Curtiss prepared for the
preliminary aeroplane flights which they will
make IRON Governors Island to-day weather
permitting - Exercises. pageantss parades
.cinners' receptions and many other activities
were announced to make up the week Of the cell
eDtatlon which ends with the carnival on Sat-
,mroay night - It was estimated that 1900
persons visited the Warships which were omen 10
me inspection OF the public between = and s n
m - Out-of-town crowds captured New
lNork, making Manhattan Island their Sunday
lIlihyBrouno, taxing the means of transporta-
sion. admiring the warships and viewing an The
<itys show places and the Hudson-FuIton dec
forauons. 80 Special services were held in AN
s1he churches as part of the Hudson Fulton
fceltbraT1on. - Surveyor Clarkson said that
The laws for the protection of life on harbor
craft were inadequate and that Congress should
e0act new ones. 80 Professor Spingarn OF
columbia. returning from abroad said that Eng
Elish scientists had fun faith in DR. Cooks an
procurement that he had reached the North Pole
- William G. Beckwith, the playwright.
VINO was formerly a naval officer died on a
yacht on Hammels. ROckaway Beach, probably
IRON ptomaine poisoning. - Two children
were killed by automobiles in different parts OF
me CITY, IN one case the machine plunging into
q crowd of-little ones in the Italian Quarter nm
GOWN - Thousands of strangers here 20
view the Hudson-Fu celebration visited
Soney Island 49, An italian, who il Is al
)egec, shot and killed a girl acquaintance on
Saturoay vas held without bail TO await the
inquest
THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES for to-day:
Rain The temperature yesterday: Highest. Ga
degrees; lowest IS.