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I j I : • [ . ■ ; , 8 ; • ■ ■ e . • - 1 r 1 s I .■ .■ • i s s *, 1 L; s " - R GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. John 1.. Orilhths. American consul general at Ion don. died suddenly of heart disca-c. An •arson s.piad" of the militant suflragisis burned the grand stand at the Birmingham race course in Lngland. Sunday. a large part oi" the top of the crater of Mount Vesuvius is threatening to collapse because of the recent activity of the volcano. One hundred and twenty-nine thousand pers.uis visited Washingtons t b at Mount Vernon last year, according to reports to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association. Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord of the Brit ish admiralty, looped the loop six times over Sheet Bee* Harbor in a 1 loplane driven by dustave Hansel, the English aviator. Vincent Astor, much improved in health, has sailed from New York with his bride for a short sea trip, on board his yacht, the Noma. The trip -will not extend farther than Chesapeake Bay. Oyster Bay residents have completed plans to welcome Theodore Koosevclt. returning home from the wilds of Brazil. The colonel is aboard tin- Booth liner Aidan. due to reach New York today, The San Francisco bridge was destroyed Sunday by Mexican Federal troops under Oeneral Maas and the most Important link of transportation between Vera Cruz and the City of Mexico has thereby been broken. Preliminary to the general engagement at Sal-lillo. which is believed to have started in earnest, manv minor battles were fought yesterday between federal detachments retreating to Saltillo and rebel forces moving to the general attack. Re|M rts reached military headquarters at Trinidad. Col., that large numbers of rifles had been concealed in the coal strike districts, in places from which they could easily be brought out. The military authorities made it plain that no search for concealed arms would be made without further o; dels from Ihe war department. American citizens only are to Ik- trusted to pilot vessels passing through the Panama canal under the rules just laid down by CM. ioethals to govern the appointment of pilois. Applicants must, la addition to American nationality, be under 4.1 yearn Of age and hold masters licenses for the great lakes or ocean going vessels. The American diplomatic missions to Argentina and Chile were elevated in rank t.i an embassy from a legation when President Wilson, in the presence of the Argentine and Chilean ministers to the United states. Roiumo S. rfsna and Eluardo Snares, re-IKMtivelv. and a partv of prominent officials, signed the two bills passed by congress for that purpose. Yesterdays baseball results— National League: Chicago 4. Philadelphia 2; Boston 4. Pittsburgh 1: St. L uis :;. Brooklvn I. American League: Philadelphia :;. Chicago 1; Boston 2. Detroit 0: Washington :;. Cleveland 2: St. Louis 4, New York 2. Federal League: Chicago !». Pittsburgh 4; St. Louis 8 Buffalo :.: Brooklyn 9, Indianapolis 0; Baltimore 3, Kansas City 2. The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago was form-allv called into existence yesterday at a meeting of bankers of the central west at the Chicago clearing house. A cerliticate of organization contain hag the names of more than 900 banks of the seventh federal reserve district was signed and preparations made for sending it at ouce to the federal reserve organization committee at Washing ton. The city authorities of Vienna have decided to borrow 5,000,90©, the largest loan ever negotiated in the history of that municipality, of the amount £30,000.000 will be used for the construction of subway lines. 3,000,000 for tin- extension of the strict railway system. ,000,000 for new gas works ,000,000 for paving, .1914.sh,000,000 for parks and boulevards and 00,009 for sports and play grounds. After thirteen davs of terrible suffering in an open lK at. lour survivors of the freight steamer Columbian were picked up ill the North Atlantic Ocean bv liie United Slates revenue culler Seneca on Sunday. Eleven others of the busts crew, which left the Columbian when it burned just south of Sable Island on May :,. had succumbed to Injuries and privations and their bodies had been thrown overboard. Hie death roll of the lost freighter now siamls at tiftecn. The Washington administration is gravely con- earned over the situation at Tnmpteo. General Don zales the constitutionalist commander, is tirni ill his demand thai Dutch marines, landed there Satur dav. be withdrawn and that there shall be no foreign Interference with his administration of the territory In- claims to lie under his control. The marines, acting on orders from the Netherlands, have refused to quit Ihe "il tiidds, though the Dutch workers in the field have sought safety on their cruiser. General lliierta has authorized the Mevican media-1 tion delegates to submit his resignation, in case such a course is found necessary to a settlement in the peace negotiations. This was announced positively in dispatches yesterday from a thor oughlv competent diplomatic source in Mexico ity to one of the foreign representatives at Washington. and confirms intimations given by friends of Ihe delegates here vesterday. According to this ni- formation from Mexico City, lliierta at lirst an thorisrd the delegates to discuss only the question of tin- Tauiipeo conflict, leading to the American occupation .if Vera Cruz. Later the dictator, it is explained, came to recognize the necessity 01 i broader sett lenient and then conveyed to the delegates sssurances that be was prepared to step down should this course be found necessary by them The problem causing chief concern lo diplo mats in Mexico City is that of the form ot ad ministration to be established during the Interreg- mini before a constitutionally elected president could issiime otliee. No Intimations concerning the name of B possible successor to lliierta were contained in the dispatch, this subject being one In which it would be necessary to consult the opinions of constitutionalists and other leaders in Mexico. j" | I , I i | . " j 1 I | ] . 1 1 • ; , I . ■ J f
