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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Mayor Harrison has returned to Chicago from Arizona, iiiiieli Improved in health as the result ol his two weeks outing. oie • n I lea nor of Bulgaria Will abandon her pro- 1 d Aim real trip If war is declared between the United States and Mexico. President George F. Baer of the Heading rail road, died al Philadelphia Sunday from the effects of gastric ami kidney troubles. Mrs. John Hai is dead, sin is the mother ol Mrs. Payne Whitney, who races her horses under the bom do coarse of tin Green tree Stable. Three regiments of infantry have been transferred fr ■the. parts of Ireland to the Ulster district. This Move i- 1 1 ported to be preliminary to the es tablishment Of martial law at Belfast and other parts of lister. Japan has oSkially decided to participate In the San Francisco exposition. The socialists have elected the greatest number of members to the chamber of deputies In Frame. Joseph Calllaux, whose wife shot the editor oi Figaro, Is among the notably successful candidates. At the request of Governor Amnion-. President Wilson will send Federal troops into Colorado to cope with tin- deplorable conditions that prevail in the milling districts. It is asserted that 500 lives have been lost in the strike troubles of the past three months. Labor officials threaten a general strike of the 500,000 mine workers in this country unless conditions Improve. President Wilson made ■ personal appeal to John ] . Bockefeller to bring about a settlement of the Colorado mine troubles. The latter referred the president to his .on. who baa charge of the property. The younger Bockefeller and Chairman Foster of the Congressional committee oa mines, conferred yea-terday without definite result. President Wilson has officially accepted a pro Her of mediation from the envoys from Argentina, Braxil and Chile to the United States, but no official replj lias been received trots Haerta. American marines have taken possession of Gnaymaa, on the west coast of Mexico, without opposition. Martial law-has been proclaimed al Vera Cruz, the Mexican municipal authorities having shown a disposition to quibble over the manner in which they should ad minister the affairs of the city. United states consul general Phillip C. lianiia reported to the state department thai be was Imprisoned and otherwtat humiliated by the Federals at Monterey prior to the capture ol that place by the Constitutionalists last week. Some 3,500 American refugees have arrived ai Galveston from Mexico. Boaae thirty American refugees are being held by the Federahi at Aguaa Calientes. according to reports. It is said that nine teen republics of Latin America, jealous of the p .wet of 11m I nited states, are behind the movement for mediation of the Mexican trouble. Sentiment in ITraguay Is said to be particularly hostile to the United Stati s ami there have been some violent anti-American demonstrations, Anti-American feeling m Mexico - running high everywhere and atrocities to citinens of the United states who have been an abb- to gel out of the country are reported from various sections. Tie- French legation at Mexico City has sent word that all Americana remaining there are sate and that the auti-Americaii demon stratum- are not serious. The constitutionalist commanders In Sonora have warned their followers that hanging will be the fate of anybody who attempts anti-American demonstrations. Haerta is now running all the railroads in Mexico without regard to the lights of foreign owners. European diplomats stationed at Washington are pessimistic is p. the success of the American-Mexican mcdls t ion plan instituted by South American envoys. General Fnnston has arrived at Vera Cms with the vanguard of the Americaa troops and will assume charge -f the city today. The United States will send supply siiips to Vera Cruz with food for our military forces and the inhabitants of the city in lew of ils being cut off from Mexico City. A teni porar] refugee camp Will lie established at San lliego for the accommodation of Americans Seeing fro in the west coast of Mexico. Seven hundred men and women, comprising the remnant ot the American colony at Mexico City, will be permitted to leave there at once, in accordance with arrangements mad.-by the state dep u t metit at Washington. Japanese who desire to leave Mexico are to be permitted to enter the United States under a suspension of the Immigration Jaws. John F. Silliman, United States consul at Saltillo. has been jailed by General Mans, llucrta commander.
