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" t| a • a j, n v. ;l . " I I f g 0 | | , . • J 1 | I ; i t ] | N I J • : I , J . I : , GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. It uul.11 barge service has been began through the Panama Canal. The cavalry horse supply is short and h giving the I iiiled siales authorities no little 1 ern. A ma! on the slock exchange sold tot 5,O0f, decrease of So.lKMI from Ihe last previous sam aid 0,000 under the highest price of the year. The Mexican delegates to the Niagara Calls peace-conference expressed themselves as hopeful of an adjustment ot the differences between this eoaatry and Mexico. Ihe Spanish cruiser Catolotiia has been old red into Mexican waters to protect Spanish lives md property interests. The Spanish battleship Carfaa is already iu Mexican waters. Mayor Harrison in his annual message to the Chicago council, advocated the unification ol surfaci and elevated street railway systems and the 1 on slruclioii 0f a downtown subway for the use 9* ImiUi of these systems of tran-|K rtntion. In respoiis,. I,, nancies Pear Admiral Mayo at Tampico has reported that there was no truth In the re norl that the constitutionalists had ordered from tin- country the marines from the Netherlsmt gunboat, landed for the protection of Ihe Diilcli oil Wells. Hope that Private Samuel Parka is alive ban been abandoned at Vera Cruz. The two horses vvin-t, In- had with him when he disappeared were re turned to the American forces without explanation as to Park-. fbey were sent from the federal headquarters al Soiedad. The steamer Kaanagata Mam. which sailed recently from Shanghai with " 0 Hindus oil bond. is expected to reach Victoria on Friday Oi this week. The steamer was chartered by a vvealthv-HludU with a view to tesliux the Canadian laws, which have hitherto le-en invoked to bar out Hindu-. The Colombian treaty signed in Bogota last mouth, as a basis for ending the differences between the United Stales and Colombia growing out ot the sop aralion of Panama has reached the state depart meat. Secretary Bryan said he did no! know vvle-u the pad would in- sent to the senate. A copy of the proponed peace commission treaty between Norway and the United States lias just been received at the state department from Norway with certain suggested minor amendments. Secretary Bryan and Ihe Norwegian minister will situi this treaty as soon as the final draft can be made. Dr. Auieliaiio Crrutia. who was once llnerta.--most trusted counsellor in the cabinet and who. as minister of the interior, is believed to have been the author of many orders for iiie disappearance of his chiefs ppUtieal enemies, has arrived at Vera Urns among the refugees from the capital. He tied from the wrath of Iluerta. Vesterdav s baseball reaatts— National League: Chicago i. Philadelphia 1: Pittsburgh 7. Boston ." : New York ."i. Cincinnati 2: St. 1 is ii. J.r.-.k Ivn 2. American League: Chicago .:. Philadelphia i: St. Louis ... New York 0; Beaton u. Detroit I; Washington t. Cleveland 2. Federal League: Chicago 4. Pittsburgh I; Indianapolis 15, Brooklyn 2; Buffalo 11. st. louis ;;; Daltlsasrr 7. Kansas City •;. A $." 0UXI0 appropriation for erection of a pet manent building to house the government exhibit at the Panama-Pacitic International exposition at San Francisco, urged by President Wilson in a social message last March, was proponed in a hill favorably reported to the house by the exposition com mittee. Secretary Oaillsaa has stated that tie building later could he converted into barracks for the army. At the instance of the Chinese government tie house lias agreed to a joint resolution of Representative Hay of Virginia to authorize the presideul to grant leave of absence to an engineer officer ot the army to accept an appointment under the govern meat of China on works of conservation and public improvement. China particularly wants a United States army engineering expert to examine into the Hood and famine regi.ni in the Heal river valley. The death rate of Hie Halted States was higher by .2 of 1 tier cent in n*|3 than in 1012, according to a statement by the census biiiau today. The death rate of the registration area of Ihe United States in 1913 was 11.1 tier l.oon estimated popo lation. compared with 13.0 per cent in PM2. It. was. however, less than for 1011, which was It 2 and markedly lower than the average rate lor the live year in-riod 1001-1905, which was 1H.2. Archbishop Mora y del Bin was driven otil of Mexico City by Provisional President Huertn, ac cording to information reaching Vera Cruz. Iht archbishop, the story savs. Sought an interview with .en. llucrla. which was at first refused, but Inter accorded upon the representation that the ctaorehman had a communication from the pone. The ceanmuni-M cation, ii is staled, proved to be a suggestion that V Gen. iluerta resign. Ihe president appeared to lake this advice dispassionately, making no reply. On the following day. however, a messenger cjme to he archbishop with a warning from Illicit 1 that he would do well to leave the country.
