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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. D is reported that arms from Germany are being landed in considerable quantities in Plater. Victor Herbert, noted composer, underwent an 1 operation for appendicitis in London yesterday. Veawviuf Is showing in of restlessness. There i are loud rumblings and slight earthquakes. Governor Glynn of New York has vetoed the hill permitting Christian Science practitioners to operate. There i-- a truce in tlie Colorado labor troubles. The striking miners have lied to the hills before the eh iimc ..| the militiamen. Two more army brigades an- to proceed from Galveston lo Vera Crux as soon as ships can lie provided to transport them. There are persistent rumors i | i of friction in President Wilsons cabinet over tlie course to be pursued ill dealing with Mexico es peeiaiiy between Secretaries Bryan and Oarrlaon. I Garrison strongly favors prompt and vigorous meth I ods. President Wilson is determined to baud on to Vera Cruz at any cost, but is opposed to any further acts ot aggression. He is still hopeful that war mav he sverted, hut is in a ticklish position because authorities on international law declare that be either must proclaim war or hack down in his demands on truer ta. It is reliably reputed that nineteen Americana and one British refugee have been taken prisoners bv the Mexicans at Tn-rra Blanca, on the Vera Crus Isthmus Railway, and are in danger of excuiion. It likewise is reported that all English locomotive engineers on the Na tioiial Railroad Of Mexico have been arrested, to gether with foreign railroad officials. Charge oShaugiK-ssy and Consul General Shanklin bare reached Vera Crus, with their families, in safety. It turns out that no Americans were killed when tin Mexican Federals fired on Laredo as they were evacuating that gnrriaou. Mam refugees from Mexico are arriving at Galveston and other southern ports. There is renewed anti-.*jnerican rioting in Mexico City, where George Washingtons monument has been overturned. American property has been attacked and the American flag trampled under foot. It is reported that Monterey has fallen into the hands of the Constitutionalists. Some two thousand Japanese residents of Mexico City have been making a demonstration iu favor of Ilnciva with Hags. lanterns and speeches referring to the cloae union between Mexico and Japan. Great Britain appears to be thoroughly in sympathy with the United states. Argentina is the opposite. Infantrymen have been assigned to the defence of the locks of the Panama canal. All over the United States the army and navy recruiting offices are thronged with voting men eager to enlist for the expected war. More Ansel lean marines and sailors have already been killed at Vera Cruz than during the Spanlsh-Amerl can war. in which the Amerhan navy lost sixteen men. The Mexican loss of life at Vera Cruz is officially reported at 128. The Japanese premier has officially announced that the Japanese government will not utilize the Mexican trouble in an way to secure from the United States a satisfactory settlement of the California controversy or any other matters at issue. Likewise it will observe a strict 1ciitralit v. It is said that plana of the war depart ment contemplate the dispatch of 2.3. xmi of our troops to Vera Cruz. American marines have been landed at Tanipico to protect the 2.001 refugees gathered there during the battle that is ra_ii between the Federals and Constitutionalists. A cablegram from Carranaa to a Spnniah Press Association. published in Madrid, saya: "The Mexican people , will unite to Bght against tlie invaders to the last breath." Mexico City reports that American war ships have landed marines and blueiackts and seized I Sal ins Cruz, on the west coast of Mexico. The led era] garrison of 100 offend no resistance and evacuated the town. Villa took pains to deny that he had I broken with Carranzn. The Spanish ambassador • has taken charge of Mexican interests at Washing-ton. ••Sniping" is still going on at Vera Cruz. Two Mexicans and a Spaniard who were tiring at the American marines were killed when the latter attacked the building in which they were hiding. There was an anti-American demonstration in front t of the American consulate at Maaatlan, for which 1 tlie governor of the state has apologized. American 1 warships are in Mazatlan harbor. Iluerta is resort inu to conscription to Increase his army and has also armed prisoners released from Tlie jails to enter the army. Mexicans from Vera Cruz who wish to go to the interior are to he exchanged for American 1 refugees wiio have been held bv HuertaS orders. The captain of the steamer Ypiranga has been 1 ordered by his company to return to Geraaany with 1 the munitions consigned to Huerta. Admiral von 1 Hintxe, German minister to Mexico, is reported t . havt told Huerta that he would have to tight for the ■ arms imported into the Mexican capital for the • protection of Coi-man residents when Huerta demanded - that they be turned over lo him.
