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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Heavy artillery fighting continues at Tainpicn. With the troastitutionalistfl gaining. Redmond nia.v split with the Liberals on ace it •a Premier As.piiths proposeil home rule aniendim nt. The til s-t watorinel ,11s of the season were put on sale at si. Louis yesterday at .St each, Onlv nine melons were 111 the shipment, which came from I londa. Man Ansell. inililant suffragette, who slashed the Royal academy portrait ot the Puke of Wellington "J Hubert von llerkoiner. was sentenced to six months imprisonment. The tomb of Aristomclies. the celebrated M.s senian. hero of the second Spartan war in the s-v entn. century before Christ, has been discovered at ■hfldea by Italian excavators. An ottieial hiilletin has lieen issued saving that !" Ill ion of Emperor Francis Joseph is ■ 1 lionary. except for some improvement in the con li torn of the bronchial tubes. Fugeuio Mentor.. Rise, one of the best known Spanish statesmen and the man who drafted the treaty which brought the Spanish-American war to a close in 1800, died in Madrid aged eighty-two. With tW« dissenting votes the senate banking and currency committee has agreed to report favorably 10 the senate the Owen bill to regulate stoek exchanges. The measure was amended in minor points. A telegram from Yienna savs Austria will be officially represented at the Panama Pacific Bxposi lion at San Francisco, but as the government has granted only 112,000, no special Austrian pavilion is to he erected. The battleship Wyoming, after taking on L00 additional bluejackets, sailed yesterday from Hampton Boada for Vera Cram. The gunboat Sacramento is taking on ammunition and expects to leave Norfolk Thursday for Yera Cruz. Hall .line eelehrated his sixty first hirllid iv. He has lived for many ears on the Isle of Man, and was born at Runcorn. He has used the two names tor so many years that few people know that his lull nam- is Th mas Henry Hall Caine. Theodore Koosevelt is gates; to .Madrid for the wedding of his son Kermit next month. He is credited with saying that if he becomes a candidate for president in Pile, it miisi be on a progressive platform that the Republicans must accept. Inh-ss he should receive a further grant from the Swedish government, Captain Amundsen announced that he would be forced to abandon his forthcoming polar expedition. To carry out his plana be -us he will need 00,000 altogether. So long as tin- armistice is in effect. Dciieral Illusion need fear no trouble along his outer lines. if a letter sent into the city by Geenra] Rubio Navarrete, in command of the advanced positions ,,1 the Mexicans, is a true indication of the Mexicans attitude. The United States commission ,,n industrial rehl tions shortly will urge congress to pass a measure creating a national board ol mediation ami concilia • ion to deal with all strikes and lockouts that seem likely to Involve the federal government in aaj ot lis capacities. owing to prohibition agitation and overproduc tion, practically all distilleries in Kentucky are reducing their output from :;o to SO per cent. Hie largest distillery m central KentUCkv closed yesterday with 1 he season only two thirds over and an other big producer will shut down June 4. Con. Fmiliatio Zapata will not enter Mexico City until the capital shall have been occupied by General Villas troops ami General Carranaa, lirst chief of the Constitutionalist army, shall have established bimself at Chapultepec, according to a statement by Boberto V. Peaqueirn, confidential agent f General Carraaaa. That General Hnerta, preparing for a erishl in Lis dictatorship, has long been planning to leave Mexico City with his troops and make a last stand at Puebla. midway between Mexico City and Yera Cruz, was understood today to have lx-on told Presi deal Wilson by Nelson osiiaughiiessy. former charge of the American embassy in the Mexican capital. The last of Irincess Luises hordes of creditors. who together turned in claims to the Belgian government for approximately ,000,000, debts Incurred by the late King Leopolds daughter, his anally agreed to take his proportion of ,000,000 ottered by the government. All claims are to l c settled on this basis. Princess l.nise has been called the greatest princess Bneudthrift in Europe. Congress is not uoing to wait for the president t" ropiest emergency appropriations to aaaarc operations in Mexico. This was ihe intelligence which liMered cut of the caucus of house Democrats. The caucus decided to limit the program of legislation for this session to the consideration of trust bills and appropriation measures. It refused to include consideration of prohibition, suffrage and rural credits. Secretary Garrison has directed General Fuuetoa at Vera Crus to ask General Maas. the Mexican federal commander, what has become- of Samuel Parks, a United Slates private who. while supposedly insane, rode through the Mexican lines and has not been heard from since- then. A like inquiry has been transmitted by Secretary Bryan to General Hnerta through the Brazilian minister in Mexico City It has been reported that Parks met death within the Mexican lines. Tin- main avenue of concessions at the Panama-Pacitic exposition, which at the Chicago Worlds Fair was called the Midway, and at the St. Louis exposition the Pike, has been named "HI amino." The phrase is Spanish, and carries the Havor of Californias romantic traditions: it was decided by the committee. It means "The Highway." ami is designed lo recall "El "amino Real" — the "Kings Highway." which the Spaniards built the length of the state, with a mission at the end of each days journey. The mediators have worked out a scheme- to be submitted to the representatives of the United Slates and Mexico at t.ie peace conference to lie held next week at Niagara Falls. Canada. This provides for the elimination of Hnerta and the setting up of a provisional government containing representatives of both rebels and federals in Mexico. Although this plan would eliminate Hnerta, and the constlta tionalists would be represented in the new govern ment. the plan will not be acceptable to the constitutionalists, say Carranzas representatives in Washington. Hnerta has informed the mediators he considers the seizure of Folios island by the United States an act of war. He has demanded that the United Slates leave the island and let the light on it remain dark, or he will withdraw from the media tion. Secretary Bryaa has replied that the United States did not consider the act ana of war. and under no circumstances would the light on Loads island In- allowed to remain dark.
