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i i I i l I I | . : • i I , J : t I I i i I I v l i 3 I I ] I ] I ! i i I i | i l ! , ! ■ | . , ] j t 1 - i I i i ■ i i I i , i : I GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. King Gustavo of Sweden who has been ill of ■ gastric complaint for ome time, lnH-ame arocac yesterday and will submit to an immediate operation.1 Mayor Mitchel of New York has appointed Arthur II. Woods, a newspaper man wuo has been serving U one of his secretaries, to head the police depart-ment. E. S. Draper, former governor of Massachusetts, was stricken with paralysis at a hotel in Creeu- ill*. S. .. yesterday. His condition is re pat ted to ke serious. Vancouver, B. C., April 7.— Two bandits were killed and two Dthera pat to flight todav w i , ii taej Ktteatpted to hold up the Inion Hank of Cau.ola at New Haaletoa. The Sn|ireuie Court of Illinois convened yesterday for the April term. Decisioas ou tin- eOBStitntlonsf-i i v of the aroaaana aaffrage act and the civil service act are expected. Senattir Burton of Ohio has issued a formal state Steal announcing that he will not he a candidate for re-election "unless dreaaastsaeea arise wliicli I do not anticipate win oeav." New York departaaent stores, hatnla and other esi.iiiiishtnents must have all their employes vac in.ilcd if they want their concerns included in a "Whits list" to be issued by the health department. Montreal, Que., April 7. — Returns from the thirty one wards of the city indicate that Mcderic Martin. a member of the Canadian parliament, has been elected mayor by a majority of alioiit ,i, MH over George W. Stephens. Christian Nisson, builder of the Chicago Detention Hospital, is now an lama to of that institution, awaiting an examination as to his sanity. He was placed then en • petition signed by his son and supported by the family phjahrlan Washington. D. C. April 7. -"Mr. K. I. Shah." as the new Chinese minister prefers lo register himself in token of chinas acceptance of American ideas, has arrived in Washington from New York, with nineteen member* of his suite. Washington, D. c. April 7. Senator Kenyan *a resolution to abolish .ill executive acsatoaa of tie- Semite except for foreign relations :iud certain spe. i- lied occasions, was sidetracked today ami sent to the table bj a vote of .1 to 30. The vote was not on party lines. Half au hour after his companions had carried him to a luoigiic at Hal i lord. Conn., as dead after touching a wire carrying 2.:: Kt volts. Carl Landeil suddenly *at up. rubbed hi eyes and when he saw where lie- was got down from the slab and hurried out of tin- place. Congressman Hobson yesterday conceded that Oscar w. Underwood, Democratic Itadrr in the House of Representatives, had beaten him for the Senatorial nomination in Alabama. The vote was heavy and he Underwood managers are claiming a majority of 38,400. Paris. France, April 7. -Frenchwomen have not the right to vote, according to a decision pronounced today by the Court of Cassation. The Womanfl Rights League ..f France has tried to bare its members register as voters for the coming elections and applied to the court, which ruled against them. Vera Cniz. Me.. April 7. -Fighting coniirtues today in the outskirts of Tanipico. according to wireless dispatches received here. Man., dead and •rounded have been taken into the city. The in sargenta are rinsing in on the federal garrison and an attack in force on the City proper is expected soon. Trenton. N. J.. April 7.— The Inittd States court tiled an opinion here today dismissing the mil of the United States government against the Delaware. Lackawanna and Western Railroad company and the Delaware. Lackawanna and Western Coal company for alleged violation of the commodity clause of the Bhcimaa ami trust law. Washington. D. C. April 7. — Consideration of the Panama tolls controversy was undertaken today by the --liate commit let: on inleroci anic caaais. Accord ing to the decision of the committee as announced by Chairman OGorman, the deliberations were open and carefully arranged so that all phases of the controversy might be freely discussed. Washington, D. C. April 7. — The Senate ceaunlt- m Womans suffrage today favorably reported t!..- Hiisiow resolution for a Constitutional amend meal for equal suffrage. The resolution, which la identical with the Chamberlain resolution which lie Senate defeated, will go to the calendar, but il is regarded as Improbable that action will be takes i his session. Grand Rapids. Mich.. April 7. — Decision in the suit brought by the Chicago Federal league club to enjoin catcher William .1. Killifer. Jr.. from playing with the Philadelphia National league club, or any club except the Chicago Federals, will not be re turned for several days, according to au announcement made by fudge Sessions in United Slates anil here today. Considerably more that 8,000.000 persons have died of plague in India during the past seventeen years. Moreover, since plague emerged from the uplands of a province in the far interior of China it has spread to every continent. An effective reaaody far the disease i- still to be found, although a prophylactic has been devised which confers a moderate degree of immunity. Paris. Trance. April 7. — The question whether Joseph Caillaax, former minister of haanee. may Ih- charged as an accessory of his wife in the as sassination Of Gaston Calmetto. editor of the Figaro, is the subject of general discussion in the newspapers today. The publication of the testimony Of President Foincaire, indicating that If. Caillaui bad at legist influenced his wifes action, has given rise to the suggestion that he may be brought info the investigation as an accomplice. New York. April 7.— The question of whether a convention shall be called in 1912 for the revision of the state constitution attracted only a few voters to the polls today. The lack of interest was due to the fact that republicans, democrats and progressives declared in favor of calling a convention in their platforms, and except that some leaders doubt the advisability of calling the convention next year, instead of I.ilii. iheie has been no concerted effort made by any party or faction to oppose the question. Washington. D. C. April 7. — A wonderful piece Of machinery that prints, gums, perforates, counts ,aie! coils postage stamps, oliminal ing nineteen of twenty one processes now necessary, has been exhibited to administration oflici.il and members of Con great with a view t their formal approval and assistance in procuring its adoption for the Bureau of Kngraving and Priming. Ten such machines. each turning our about :;.."itiu.iKni ■tamps a day. ii is estimated, will produce all the ataman now required by the Post Office Department. Their instal la t ion, it is also estimated, would mean an economy of 8240,080 a year. London. Kug.. .A,pril T.— -Another great London land deal has been concluded by which S. K. Derbyshire acquires the whole Of I-ord Howard de Wal- dena Regent Park estate for more than 82.500,000. la point of size this is said to Ih- the largest irans-fer of London property that has ever taken place. for the extent of the estate is sixty -two and one-half acres. It contains 730 houses, divided among Rome twenty streets. A police slat ion. St. Stephens church, four large schools and eight public houses are within the area. Apparently hi- intention is to demolish the oM-fashioned buildings and convert ibis part of London into a new Mayfair. New York. Apri I 7. The Holland society received report ut its annual meeting that its committee in charge s4 the plan to erect ,-i monument to commemorate the Batch settlement ot New York had raised the money and would erect i statue of William the Silent in Riverside drive. The statue, wiih its p.-desial. will be forty feet high and will be an exact reproduction of rle- statue that was placed some years ago in the center of the mala square of The Hague. Caclag the balls of lustice. Charles Van W.v.k. a Holland sculptor, will make the statue from the original plaster cast Of lie-statue now m existence. N.-w Orleans, r.a.. April 7. — In a communication received from the city heard of health the dty conn Cil has been asked lo amend ordinance No. stills. .N .. S.. Which now requires sliips in port to have i. n guards and other protection, so th.n hereafter all vessels must he fended off from the dock while lying in port. The amendment to tin- ordinance, which waa suggested at the laM meeting of the board of health, is to be "That ii shall lie unlaw Till for any vessel to dock in the |N rt of New Orleans unless said vessel shall be fended or sparred off from the dock in such a manner so that a space of ai least six feet shall intervene between the side of the vessel and th- dock." The amendment to the or dinance was ate larrd necessary by the report thai the bubonic plague had made its appearance in Havana, one at tWO eases having been discovered aiul isolated. • Paris is being stirred by several new movements. Immoral clothes, ileal, art and undeveloped physique are all to be combated by orgaataed force-.. While the League of Patriotic French Women has taken up the gage against Indecent clothes, i reaction baa also come to the great VOgne of Cubism, post impressionism, futurism and other advanced aesthetic art schools. A group of artists who hold ultra academical principles lias been formed. They iie-rlsre they have felt neglected and they have decided at last to make themselves beard. new salon i~ to be formed, lor even the present oflicial salons show tendencies toward the new heterodox schools. Some prominent artists are behind the movement, which is likely to constitute a strong revolt against revolutionary art. Some of the most prominent men in Kranct- have esme to the support of an athletic renaissance. A national league, to aid in Hie development of physical education 1ms just been founded with the patronage of such men as Baron Pierre de toubortin, president of the International oi. mpic committee; Hebrsrd de Villeneuve, Councilor of State and president of t lie Academy of Sports, and Maurice Donnay, of the French Academy. Fourteen additional indictments against Henry Beige] and Frank K. Vogel were returned yesterday by the New York grand jury that has been lavoatl gating the failure of the Henry Seigel and. Co. private bank and the stores controlled by the two men. The indictments charge grand larceny ami violations of the state banking laws. The indict menis charging grand larceny deal Willi 882S.OOQ alleged to have been obtained by means of fal-e -statements. The Indietmenta far violations of the state hanking law charge that Iht- I wo men ae eepted deposits far the bank when they knew it to lie insolvent. Three other Indictments charging the same .times have hem ntni mil against the men.
