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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. D. Ogden Mills hft an estate of .Si:;Ci.JJ~.:;!»l . Mayor Harrison will return to Chicago from his vacation in Arizona April 2.". There is a rumor that William Jeaahags Bryan s to resign as secretory of state shortly. Albert J. Bewrldge was yesterday nominate.] tor Baited state- Senator by the Piogisaslin " ■ ilian.i. Margaret Dotand, novelist, is seriously sick, following an operation for appendicitis, at her home in P.oston. In the defense of Charles Becker at his second irial next month. W. Bourke Cockran. former repre tentative in Congress, will be included among his attorneys. The total immigration to Canada during tin- local year ended March 31, Hill, was 384,867, made up ol I42.4S22 British, 107,530 .Vruericans and 134,715 from all other countries. . The United Kingdom is the greatest user of soap amongst the countries of the world, with an average of i pounds per Individual daring one year. The I nited Slabs holds second place, while Russia comes last with onlv two pounds a man per year. The aropoatd treaty between the United states and Colombia provides that the military and naval tones of the latter shall be entitled lo free use of the Panama canal and that Colombia shall receive a payment of 5,000,000. oilicial pai tii ipation by Austria in the Panama Pacific Exposition is now assured, and special interest is being manifested by prospective exhild tots who are making special efforts fur a creditable representation of Austrian industries. Railroads may continue their inleicsl in water lines after July 1. according to a ruling of the later -taic commerce commission, provided they have applied for such continuance to the commission, at ieast until sin b lime as the commission shall have passed upon the merits of their applications. American iniports ami exports were both greater last month Hi. in in March, p.ii:;, according lo Bgurca announced bj the bureau of foreign and domestic ■oinniei-c. _ March imports totaled 81,930,039, against 55,445,408 in March last year, til per c.-nt. oi this being free merchandise, against ."il for cent, in March. IP13. Washington, D. .. April IV -Consideration of Hie annual naval appropriation, carrying 40,200,000 and providing for the administration two-battleship building program began in the House. Represents live Bartbodlt of Missouri made a pi. a of international peace. lie declared the glorious day is dawning which will know war no more." Lake navigation companies arc .sure that spring is here to stay ami will commence their daily boat rvice between Chicago and other lake points next week, fou.- weeks earlier than in any previous year. Wi ttber condition-, have left the lake practically free of Ice, wiii i, combined with weather fore casts, i onvinees the officials that the:-.- will be no moii- winter weather. Deary Ford declares that none of his employes will be permitted to live in squalid surroundings. Nor will families of married men in his employ be permitted " take in boarders. Single men will be prohibited from living in rooming houses of the un desirable typ . Mr. Ford has 4.", investigators at work ai lie:-. it Inquiring into the mode Of living of all his employees. Washington, D. c. April is.--KepubUcao opoaj siiiyji to ratification of, the treaty with Colombia, by which thai couutrj will receive 5,000,000 for i lie loss of Panama, was cryotaliaed today as the result of publics I ion of the text of the pact. Though administration officials have denied thai any "apology" was tendered to Colombis in this treaty. Republican senators declared the first article of the .treaty is clearly an apology. New York. April is. The case of Punatlly sgaiosl McArdle, which has been m the courts foi more Mian twenty-three years, is settled at last. nai Micii.nl Donnelly, the plaintiff, will, within ten days, receive the 8,000 judgment for which lie has spent the best years of his life and about 80,000 in expense to obtain. The suil grew out : i basin - transaction between Mr. Donnellj and his hroihei-in law. Patrick J. McArdle. Maiden, Mass.. Ajrii 18.— Consideration of a plan for -; minimum wage for ministers, recommended bj a commit! I laymen, occupied todays ■ ssjo,, of the New England Methodist Episcopal conference! The committee i amended that pns ors ia small tOWOS »l Id ■.« ive at lie- lowest -s;.ii -| year in cash, with a parsonage and at least • •tie sere of land. In tie- larger towns and cities le- minister should receive less than .fl.noo in cash and a parnoaagi . New York. April 18 Early ladictnwat and trial Ol lnhael P. Mali un . w oiild-be sh,yer of Mayor Michel, whose shol yesterday dangerously wounded Corporation Counsel Polk, is the plan of District «Vt Jonic .ch.uii s. Whitman. The arraignment of ile ■Ksawiri todaj was a mere formality, and hold-ins him without bail lo await the action of the grand jury next week was ;, foregone conclusion. Mr. Whitman will present the ease to the grand jury Monday ami immediate Indictment is expected. Ma honey faces a possible prison sentence of twenty years, hul should he lie judged insane be will be committed to an asylum for the criminal insane. Haerta wants to declare war against the I nited Stales but his advisers will nol permit it, Presi deal Wilson has been Informed. Tin- dictator, a. cording to the presidents advices, actually nbmitted to his cabinet a proposal that the Republic of Mexh pen hostilities with the Inited States ho mediately after the receipt of the American demand to salute the stars and stripes at Tampieo. Huerta was counseled to tire the salute and close the illci dent with. ait rciouise to arms. A suspension of the declaration, at bast, was argued, and thus far il has not been issued, lluerla. however, insists that what he coueelvos to In- "the honor and dminiy _« of Mexico be upheld, and has not given up his de-fl ti i initiation to issue his manifesto. Huerta WIJI ■" salute the American lias at Tampieo before •; p. in.. Sunday, or President Wilson will go before Con gresa in a .Hunt session Monday and ask authority to take such measures BJ may be necessary. This statement was issued at the while house today: "Gea. Huerta still is insisting upon doing something less than has been demanded and soniethiiis less than would coast it ute an acknowledgment thai his represents lives were entirely In the wrong in the indignities they have put upon the government of tin united Stales. The president has determined that if Gen. Haerta has not yielded by Ii oclock Sumiav after noon, he will take the matter to Congress Monday."
