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, | C GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY J Marliniipie had an cullupiake esterda . but no damage resulted from it. Tbe buiiiiii.. plague it Havana is believed to be under control. So new ease.-, developed dining tke lasi fort] ei-in boors. t.Kie Baakia. veteran character actor, who was idei.iitie. with Nance ONeill for reara la Shakes pearean productions, died at San Francisco yesterday. orville Wright has set ■ new record lor lliuht in an aeroplane controlled only by a stabilizer. For 111111 1 en minutes the biplane circled in tbe air with .hi: human control. Eleven persona were killed and four injured, one probablv mortally, in a tire in ■ five story tenement house in Eighth avenue near Porty-aeveatk street. New Y"ik. early yesterday morning. Liverpool. Lneland. April 17. - The Wkite Slai Line, in view at the approachmg advent of the 50.000-ton Britannic Into the service, today Bold the Majeetii to !»■ broken up. The price paid far the old liner was .f08. Birthday coagratnlatioau were ia order yeaterdav for two members of ih - Lalted States Supreme bench. Associate Jnatleea Day and Van Devawter. .iiisiiee Day is 65 years old, while his colleague on tke bench is just ten years his junior. Rumors in Canada have it that the Canadian Pacific BaUroad, Instead of taking over the Michigan Central Railways Canadian line, will use it to i-u! down the running time between Toronto and i hicago. The time will be eat by two hours. A properly loss of 080,000 was caaaad, 150 boraea were burned and hundreds of persons routed from their homes near by when ire destroyed ii Inited States Ba proas Companys stable al i Is South Deaplaiaes street Ckleago. early jiatcrday mora lag. Charles S. Melleu. formerly preaMeaii of tke New York, New Haven and. Hartford Railroad, may be conie the active head of a federated body Supreme among the various railroad organisations of the Inited States, with which 2,000,000 railroad em ployes are ailiiiatcd. Determined to teal tke edlel af Canadian courts thai aa fellov. subjects of the British crown no province of tbe Dominion could bar East Indians. ph. Hindus arc on the way across the Pacific i" Sam oiivr. Curdit Black, 1 wealthy Baal Indian. chattered the steamer. Washington. H. C. April 17. — Southern democrats filibustered against the confirmation of Robert II. Terrell, a negro, as a municipal Judge In the Disti h 1 of Columbia and kept the senate in executive -1 s-i ii for more than three boms without reaching a rot . Senator Vardaman of Mississippi said he would continue the straggle "until tke last ditch." Washington. H. C April 17. kkeorganiaatioa ol the work of the departnient of agriculture was pro posed in :iu amendment to the agricultural appropriation bill reported to I be senate b] tbe ■fricul tnral committee. Tke committee made a hair million ih. liar Increase in the house bill and struck out iln- appropriation for congressional distribution of tree seaaa. Plana for the organization Of a great national ..... operative asweiatk • farmers and consumers to divide among themselves the millions of dollars which, under the presen; system, drop each year into the pockets of middlemen met with approval in tbe resolutions committee appointed by the second national conference on marketuig and farm credits held in Chicago. Washington, D. c. April 17. —A resolution reported to the house by the elections committee declared that it is not a violation of tke federal criminal code for 1 senator or representative to solicit or receive contributions for political purposes from other senators and representatives, or to solicit such contributions by letters written in the senate ar house office buikUaga. Washington, D. C. April 17.— To ascertain tke views of the country generally n the forms vocational education should take, the commission to investigate this subject recently appointed by President Wilson has seat oat inquiries to school superintendents in 700 towns of over 10. out tnbabi miiis and has asked labor and commercial orgaaisa lions lo send their ideas on the subject to the commission. Chicagos psychopkatle laboratory, tke first inst, I nt i .f its kind in tke United States, is to be opened Mav 1. Dr. William .1. Hickaon of Jftoe land N .1 has accepted the position as bead 01 tne lab ,atorv. which will be operated as an auxUlarj to tie- courts Attempts will be made to determine whether prisoners and accused persons may not require mental taeataaenl as a sabatltate far aanalah nienr. Cklknakaa. Mexico. April 17.— General obreo-,. with several thousand rebel troops from southern Sonora has entered upon all expedition whose objective is Guadalajara, Stat.- of Jalisco, the second ,it of Mexico. By the time Obregoo. moving front the west .oast, enters the slate, il is believed that lhe last of tbe federals will have been cleared ,,111 af the Torreon dlstrlcl and ilia will be rree lo join the campaign, just begma by Obrcgoa. No arrangementa ror tke poatpoeeaaenl af tka wedaUnt f Vincent Astor and Miss Helen Hnntinc ton set tor April 30, have been made, notwlthstand lag" Mr. Aators Illness. This announcement was made at the Huntlugton country home at Staats burg ii itradiction of reports that the ceremonj had been postponed Indefinitely. A postponement may be round expedient, however. Mr. Aetor was not quite so comfortable yesterday as he was ta daj before. Great larsaooth, Bnglaad. April 17.— Tke theater hi the greal recreation pier In-re was destroyed to day by s lire caused bv the explosion of a bom!. left aider ■ seat by s militant suffragette. At 4 oclock this morning a violent explosion woke the inhabitants of Croat Yarmouth. A few moments later th • theater at the end of the pier burst into tiaim It was recently built at ■ cost of 00,000. The usual suffragette literature was found strewn along the pier and on the beach, Bosnian medical authorities are deeply Interested in |iH. case of a girl in a hospital at KeifT whose temperature is certified indisputably as 122 degrees Fahrenheit, it has been reported, bul this lack. confirmation that her temperature rose to 140 dur-iag an attack of typhoid fever before -he entered lhe hospital, she now has headaches and is suffer lag from extreme weakness, she shows symptoms of hyteria. hot her condition is not thought to be in •• ■ sarily ilangerona. Waahlngton l . C, April 17. — A kill to provide tor the opening lo homestead entry of "stock-raisin • lands" hi tbe public domain was reported t" the |.,u-e bv the public lands committee. The measure would autborine the secretary of tke interior to de Ignate .is subject I" ebtry II tract- of not more than up. acres land- ror erasing or raisins; forage crop*, and which, in his opinion, do not contain men ban aid, timber and are not susceptible of Irrigation II «n ,n known MMirce of water supply.-Sew Tork, April 17. Oscar Bamaaerstela and bison Arthur an- restrained from producing either ii.- 01 gram opera in Boston and New York unl . April 20 1020. accordtna to a decision of tbe Ap P .laie division of the Sopre Court today. Tm- complaint against Hammerateln was tiled by the i ■•!■., " .1 tan op.ia company and stated thai Hani mcrstelu igree«l not to produce opera in Boston o; New Vork for ten rears if the Metropolitan would pur. ha-e llamniersteiny Philadelphia opera bouse for ,300,000. Washington, D. C. April 17. President and M WiKon annout i today that the wedding of their roungesl ihtngbter. Mis- Eleanor Randolph Wilson, and Secret a rr Mc-Adoo would take place on Thursday. Mav 7. the announcemenl from the white bonx also said: in accordance with the wishes of Miss WiKon and Mr. McAdoo, the wedding will be small. Onh tbe rl -president and Mrs. Marshall, the cabinet ind the Immediate members • the l« families m ... he present." Washington. D. P., April 17. Colon i ... org Coethai- as been sun a»d before the Senate an..!- committee to testify 00 thee.. ii reatnrc of the Panama tolls exemption for coastwise vessels Tke rolooel was asked 1 a»e at the request of Senator Simmons, but mav not reach here before April 2t. tin- ,iav set for the closing of the heat inz-. in that event Senator Simmon* "ill n«»l aal hi an 1 .en 01 . in,, bearing*, but "ill either request that Col -I Goetbals t. stii ty l»- Incot porated In the record or t resented on the 11 the senate. Sentiment was said to be eryata Using in the committee today for an amendment to the Sims repeal bill stipulating that The United Slates will give up in. ri-ins ,,t sovereignty over the canal by the repeal of the exemption. Supporters ol that idea hope to will the president to that view. Albany. N. X.. April IT. The appeal in tke man damns proceedings agalnat the stale comptroller, through which William Sulzer hones to have the 1 nite l stales Supreme Court pass ipioii the validitv Of his impeachment, was sip, muted to the Court of Appeals today. There were no oral argument*, the facts iii the case belag presented to tke court in lengthy briefs. Mr. Babier sued our 1110 writ to compel the payment to him of tke governors salary from the time of his removal last October. The lower courts decided Bgaiaal him. New York. April 17. -An assassins ballet, aimed al Mayor John Im Toy Mitcbel a- be was leaving Cue city hall in an automobile today for luncheon, missed il- mark, but severely wounded frank L. Polk, corporation counsel. The man who tired the shot was instantly overpowered. His name is Joseph Saloschein, nearly 7n years old aad be gave evidences Ol being menially unbalanced. The bullet era she I through Mr. Folks Jaw, knocking OUt nearly all hi-fiout teeth and infillcting a serious ■ though not iiecssyrih fatal wound. He was assisted int" tile city hall and then removed to a hospital, where it was announced that he probably would recover. Washington. D. C, April 17. -Hiterta is stalling again on saluting the American tiae.. He demands that the salute he returned gaa for gun. and this President Wilson will not agree to. This word went forward to Mexico City iodaj after President Wil-oi; and the cabinet had discussed Haertas latest proposal that the salute be 1 simultaneous one and that he be assured that the American ships will return ln~ gunfire. President Wilson and his advisers considered Huertas aasaei and Secretary Bryan left the cabinet meeting lo semi tke reply. It was brief and final. "We intend to have that salute." said Secretary Daniels, aa he left the White House. Other otiioials reiterated tke tnten tiou of the American government to have no more temporising, but a complete apology for Indignities to the flag.
