New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-03
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CITY.-Coincident with the deseruon
of FIVE more hotels or restaurants by two
hundred walters, a spokesman for the
hotel proprietors said a great surprise
was in store to-day for the strikers Out
he declined to discuss rumorS OF an I'M
pending importation OF 500 negroes as
strike breakers == Timothy j.. wood
ruff denied that he intended TO abanuon
his support Of President Taft, and de-
clared both candidates knew where he
stood, md that he would not sacrlnCe
his friendship for either. -=- Job r.
Hedges announced that he was candl-
date for the Republican nomination Tor
Governor Medill Mccormick eX-
pressed fear that "Progressives' would
not be united at Chicago on anything
except the nomination of Theodore
Roosevelt W. J. Flynn, the de-
tective who ran down the Lupo gang OF
counterfeters, said his life had been
threatened by members now serving SEN
fences in Atlanta: Judge Rays life also
is said to he in danger. - An aviator
operating a headleSs hiplane plunged 10
earth on the Hackensack meadows. and
he charged that some enemy had ham
strung" his machine before he went up
- TODAY Is the thirty-fifth ami
rersary of the Fresh Air movement
which The Tribune has conducted for
many years.
DOMESTIC. - Friends of Theodore
Roosevelt announced at Chicago that
the first real test of strength between
the colonel and President Taft would
come next Thursday, when X. b. Howell
national committeeman-eleCt from Ne
braska. would demand that states seat
!. IN the committee before that body had
heard any contests. - Representa-
tive Mckinley said that Colonel Roose-
velt's determination not to fight Senator
Root was an admission or defeat; the
Taft manager asserted Mr.. Roosevelt s
followers would not agree to bolt.
- Taft and Roosevelt followers
claimed control of the Ohio state con-
| vention. which meets to-day to elect six
delegates at-large. - Governor Nc
Govern Of Wisconsin notified Chairman
Barnes that the states twenty-six dele
gates would not support Senator Root
for temporary chairman OF the national
convention Secret Service opera
4 tives detailed by the Department of JUS
1 tice in connection with the investigation
\ Of the so called coal trust" conferred with
1 United States District Attorney Thomp-
l son, at Philadelphia - Senator Will
lam Lorimer left Chicago for Washing
1 ton: his friends reiterated that he would
4 not resign.
/ FoREIGN.-A fire on the Cunard lia de
Carmania, in dock at Liverpool ue
/ stroyed the saloon quarters; her sched-
4 uled sailings were cancelled. - Par-
] ljamentary elections were held in Bel
4 GUM: early returns indicated slght
gains to the Clericals. =- Parral,
4 Mexico. was reported retaken by FEDERAL
Z troops. - Colonel Luna, chief of stan
/ for the Cuban rebel commander. was
captured near FL Cobre; looting near
4 Guantanamo continued. -= The dlrig-
ible Zeppelin III. guided by Count Yep
peljn and with Prince Henry of Prussia
aboard, went from Hamburg TO Brefaen
and back without stop: despite fierce
2 storm there was no casually -- Gen
I eral Lyautey reported that strong
French column had dispersed the Moor
ish tribesmen threatening Fee, with
heavy loss to the natives. = MISS
Z Margaret Cravens. Of Madison, Ind.
committed suicide in Paris. - Albert
( Buchstaetter, : well known German
aviator. and Lieutenant Stille. his pas
! senger were killed by the fall or their
) monoplane at Bremen.
THE Neutrality-suspicious. for to-
DAY: Fair and somewhat cooler. The
v temperature yesterday: Highest Sc de-
~ grees: lowest. 60.