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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Cavraaaas envoy has failed to heal the breach beta ecu ilia ami rebel chiefs at Daraago. Tlo Mexican delegates to the mediation conference at .Niagara Calls readied Washington ycstci .lay. The Swedish aviator Timlin Hew from Malawi! to Stockholm. 207 miles, in four hours and twenty minutes. He made no stop on the way. The situation at Puerto llata, San Domingo, now held by revolutionists and where the government has proclaimed a blockade, is reported as quiet. Harrj K. Thaw has engaged a suite of rooms at the Mount Madison Bouse at Corliain. N. 11.. for the summer. Sheriff Drew has custody of Thaw ami wants him near Ids home in Berlin, six miles aw aj . Senor Uiano. Spanish ambassador, received a dis patch from the foreign minister at Mexico City saying that a vigorous investigation of the case jf Private annul Parka would be made by the Dnerta government. A message received by Sir Cecil Spring-Kiec. British ambassador at Washington, from Sir Lionel Garden, British minister iu Mexico City, states that Deputy Consul Sillinian has been released and is now on his way to Mexico City. Crown Prince Uustav Adolphus of Sweden is anxious to visit the Inited States and may attend the Pananta-Paciac Bxpoattioa at Baa Francisco next year if the condition of his fathers health tind the political situation in the country will permit. Tuxpain. where Lord Cowdry has extensive interests, has been evacuated without a light by the Mexican federals, leaving the richest oil fields in the states of vera Cruz and Tamaulipas in the hands of the bandit rebel leaders, Aguilar and Blanco. Senator Jacob H. Gallingor will make a formal announcement within a few days of his candidacy for reelection to the Senate. After a visit to New Hampshire and a consultation with his friends he has decided to go lie fore the people again for the office. Refugees arriving at Vera Cruz from Mexico City say it is reported there that six Maderista deputies wen- shot ill the military prison of San tiago. The refugees add that many members of the congress that was dissolved last October by Huertas arrest of a majority of the deputies have again been thrown into prison. Six army transports are waiting at Galveston to carry troops, horses and supplies to Vera Cm/.. That the army is preparing for a possible cam paign through the Mexican mountain passes, where the nights are cold, was indicated when hundreds of boxes containing hoodless overcoats were tin loaded from freight cars to the government piers. Tin- widest authority in the enforcement of and punishment of offenses against the law in the can I /.one has been conferred upon Col. ioethals by President Wilson. In an executive order the gov ernor of the Panama Canal is empowered to giant pardons and reprieves for offenses against the laws ami regulations and I" commute sentences and remit tines. Kleven hundred men were thrown out of employment at Cincinnati when twenty planing mills were closed "li account of a strike. It is estimated that between ."i.000 and 8,000 more, including carpenters, teamsters, painters and members of various tradis affiliated with the building trades, will be for.-i d lo stop work by Tuesday as the result of being unable to obtain building material. Yeterdavs baseball results —National League: Brooklyn, 2. Chicago 1; New York 2. Pittsburgh ♦; Cincinnati 1. Boston 0; St. Louis l. Philadelphia 0. American League: Philadelphia 4. Chicago :;: Boston ::. Detroit it: Washington 2. Cleveland 1: New Noil: 2. St. l/.uis 1. Federal League: Buffalo ft, Chicago -I: Indianapolis 4. Baltimore 1: St. Louis ... Brooklyn ::: Kansas City 7. Pittsburgh 0. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the President, won her case iu the Los Angeles laud office when Register Bureii decided she was entitled to sixty aires of valuable dale land iu the Coachella Valley near Saltan Sea. The finding results from the neglect f John L. King, who iu 198a bought state scrip for eighty acres, and who sold Mrs. WI1» n ■flxtj acres. lie failed properly to advertise his claim, which w is nullilied by limitation. Register Hut en decided ihat. inasmuch as Mrs. Wilson hud I _-hl her land iu good faith she could md be penalized by the negligence of King.
