New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-29
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-Twelve aviators started
from Paris on a race OF l.3OO miles 10
Turin for prizes aggregating sloo'oUo,
the lesson of last weeks Tragedy Was
shown in the careful removal OF spec
tators from the danger zone. - Inc
FIRST day Of the Portuguese election
nassed quietly: the government was pre-
pared 10 deal with any outbreak. -
A Gillian mob burned the Peruvian
flag. avenging a rumored attack on
Chilian consulate; the American Consul
was asked 10 protect Peruvian interests
M Iouinue. Chill. The Italian avi-
ator Cirri was killed by fall of 500
feet in the presence Of crowd OF zO'VVV'
in which was the victims family. -
Fifty thousand visited the american
warships at Copenhagen. =- emperor
Francis Joseph Of Austria was reported
10 be in much better health.
DOMESTIC. President Taft made a
personal call on the owner of a power
boat which was run down in the Poto-
mac River by the Dolphin. the iagshlp
of the Secretary of the Navy, aboard
which was Miss Helen Taft - A
0isratch from Washington stated that
for the first time i'm the history of the
service the Postoffice Department would
show a surplus for the present year.
II is expected that the United
States Supreme Court VIII hand down
its decisions in the Tobacco Trust case
TODAY -= military field mass TOT
me Spanish war dead was celebrated IN
washington. a president of a
motorcycle club was fatally hurt be
tween Rochester and Canandaigua when
he ran into an automobile driven by Il
New York man. == CharleS j. Clio
den and ] = Van Valkenburg made a
balloon trip from Lowell to Topsfeld'
Mass. where they attended churcn' IN
accordance with a promise made 70
friends before their ascent --- one
man was killed and three were injured IN
a motorcycle race in chicago =
heavy wndstorm which swept Pekin'
III. killed two persons. = Three
hovs who had returned To klttanninS'
Penn. late at night after an outing
were burned 10 death when a stable in
which they had gone to sleep was de
stroycd -= General Diaz spent quiet
SUNDAY In Vera cruz an attempt to gel
up a hostile demonstration against nm
did not succeed. = What is looked
upon by Madero as plot to prevent mn
from going 10 Mexico city and ~ depos'
him from the leadership was revealed ny
the arres; Of two men.
CITY-The Greenland fire ruins at
tractcd $50 600 people 10 Coney Island,
rot few Of the burned out shows re-
sumed business in tents or the open air
- 4 five-year- old girl found her par
ents dead. 2 case Of murder and sui
eide. and went To her grandmother's. two
blocks away. and summoned aid =
Preparations were completed for thf
marching Of several thousand Civil Wal
veterans I'm the Memorial Day parade
tomorrow. - The annual military
mass vas celebrated i'm the Brooklyn
Navy Yard I'm memory Of the soldier and
sailor dead 1000 people attending -
A gang Of burglars drove family from
their home In Harlem and began &c
plumber the place The police arrested
three men. after a revolver fight -=
Henry ~. MacCracken. chancellor emer-
titus Of New York University. returnec
from 2 Years trip around the world
- Thomas 4. Fulton. chairman 81
the General Committee on Water Sup
ply. said the true solution Of the water
problem lay in the prevention Of leak
age and waste -= a little mother.
thirteen years old asked the court 10 fine
her father. who had deserted his three
children. - DR. Clifford. of London
preached at the Fifth Avenue Baptis
Church. chatting afterward with JOIN
II. Rockefeller. == a new explanation
OF the destruction of the Maine was ad
vanced == Many churches held Memo
rial Day services -== Two boys wer
drowned and another was rescued in tn
waters about the city.
THE WEATHER.-Indica for to-
day: Fair and cooler. The temperature
yesterday: Highest ~ degrees; low
est, 80