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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Cleveland has officially adapted eastern standard time. Theodore Roosevelt left Mused yesterday on his return to Ihe Halted States. Nelson OShaughnessy. P. S. Charge dAffaires iu Mexico, has t een recalled to Washington by the President. The civil government established at Vera Cres will be replaced by a military government under General lunston. -iaiies of nil races will he barred from entry into Canada after May 31 andet a new interpreta tiou of the law made today at Vancouver, n ■ by Malcolm Reid. superintendent of immigration. " Yesterday was the sixteenth aaniveraary af the battle of Manilla Ray and Admiral George Dewey gave his annual dinner to the members of the S.i piety of Maaala Ray. of which he is president, at his home. Villa has made formal denial of the reports that a bleach exists hstweia himself mill Carranza Orders have been received to prepare the new dreadnaugbt Texas for sailing from the Rrooklvn navy yard May 11. . The newspapers of DWenoa Aires conthsne to comment favorably 011 what they describe as the ••evident desire of Washington to show a spirit of fairness 111 its relations with the republics of South and Central America." The operators of the Colorado coal mines have refused to treat with the belligerent strikers even on the basis of waiving of the demand for recognition of their union. With Federal troops on the ground, conditions in the troubled zones have quieted down. t Ten thousand miners in the Kanawha coaltiohls of West Virginia quit work yesterday in the face of an order from John P. White, president of the I nlted Mine Workers of America, and it is expected that the three thousand who remained at work will follow. Three men besides Mayor John Iurrov Mitcliel weiv on the list of men Michael P. Manoaey had marked for death, and one Of these was Andrew Carnegie, according to Dr. Manas S. Gregory of he psychopathic ward al BelleTBe Hospital at the inquiry into Mshoaeya sanity. The House of Representatives wedding gift to Miss Eleanor Wilson will be a handsome silver tea service consisting of a massive tray with esuVOBBBd edges and a delicately engraved center, an eatire tea service of dull finished silver heavily carved, two handsome candelabra with seven branches and several smaller pieces. General Csrrssaa aotlfied Secretary of State Bryan that the Constitutionalists arc willing that the Halted Stales and Hitcrta should settle their controversy by mediation. The rebels will refuse, however, 10 consent to an armistice that will heck General Villas campaign against the Mexican Ieil-erals and Villa is preparing to storm Tampico with a force of 30.000 men. A plan for organizing a civil guard for the defense of Mexico City has been appeared by liner ta. The Tinted States has informed lluerta through the Spanish minister that a fair trial must be accorded Dr. Edward Ryan, the American physician held in Zacateeas as a spy. or serious complication-with this country will ensue. Dr. Rvan remained in Mexico to look after refugees. The executive committee of the Progressive party has formally declared against amalgamation with the Republicans. It has been decided to nominate full tickets in practically all northern states the coming fall and to center their eneri.rics especially on Kansas. Illinois and Pennsylvania, with the hope of electing United States senators from these states. Senator Kenyon introduced a bill to repeal the act incorporating the general education board, to which John D. Rockefeller contributed 842.000.000 in 1003 for carrying on of farm demonstration and other educational work. Among contributions to the board was over 82.000,000 worth of stock in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, now involved in he coal strike resulting in sending of United States troops to Colorado. Tokyo. Japan. May 1. Wireless calls for assistance from the Pacific mail steamer Siberia, heard on the Japanese coast today, indicated that she was sinking off the coast of Formosa. The liner left San Francisco April 7 for Manila. She carries more than 700 passcngo»s and crew, including seventy one saloon passengers, one of whom is Mrs. Francis Rurton Harrison, wife of the governor general of the PhOllppines. A dispatch from Formosa hints that Chinese pirates had something to do with the disaster.
