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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Militant suffrage-tics broke windows with stones at King Georges palace in London. Judge George Gray of the Halted! States court tor the third judicial circuit has resigned. The Senate may balk at President Wilsons antitrust program at this session of Congress. Mrs. Richard C Kerens, wile of the former ambassador Ul Austria, Is dead in Philadelphia. The I nlted States is helpless to prevent the land iug of arms at Mexican ports while the armistice is on. The new 47,000-tou Cuuard liner A iuitania is ready to start 011 her maidcu voyage to New York today. Mis. Thomas Brackett Rcid, yyidow of the former sp akec of the House, died at Portland after a brief illness. Leadville. Col.. Woke up yesterday under a blanket of two laches of snow, with the temperature ranging lioin thirty-two to tifty-four degrees. Colonel Roosevelt lias formulated a plan by which the progressives will support acceptable candidate, for office, regardless of party affiliations, rather than go it alone. Yesterdays baseball results — National League: Philadelphia .!. Boston 1: New York 1. Brooklyn 0; Cincinnati 3. Pittsburgh 2. American League: Washington 1, Boston 11 lirst game: Philadelphia .. New York 2. Federal League: Buffalo 5, Brook lyn 1. A court -martial sentenced Vice Admiral Mat -iiinoto of the Japanese navy to three year-" imprisonment on charges of accepting bribes in con neetiou witli naval contracts. Captain Sawo.-aki was coadessned to one years imprisonment, but Comaiiadei Suzuki was acquitted. The California railroad commission has lasaed an order that the directors of the United Railroads of San Francisco restore to tin- companys funds ,-000.000 which the commission charges Patrick Cal houn. former presklest of the United Railroads, diverted to his personal use. I actings wire started at liuincy. Mass.. for a 100 inch reflecting telescope, the largest in the world. to be Installed at the Mount Wilson observatory al Pasadena. Cal. The tube of the telescope, with a nutal mirror at the bottom, will be forty-three liet long, and with the mountings will weigh nearly twenty tons. The mediators are awaiting word from Wilson and Haeris of the acceptance of the peace plan. The agic -incut proposed does not prevent either General liserta or General Carrsnsa, tin- constitutionalist leader, from being a candidate for presides! at the election provided in the pact. Glenn Csrtiss made a successful llight at Ham ntondsport, N. Y.. in the airship built by Dr. s.iiniiel I. L.-uiglev many years before the problem of air navi alioii was solved. The machine was dabbed "Langlcys Folly" at the time and Dr. Laiiglcy. long since dead, was ridiculed for his iews. General Carraaas has sent a message to his representative at Washington, complaining of what he Inferred was the failure of the mediators to re quest him to ipuoinl delegates to the peace parley at Niagara falls. Ontario. He expressed doubt that tin- negotiations would lie successful without re presentation of the constitutionalist faction Lieut. Charles Becker was yesterday sentenced to die in the electric i ball at Sing Sing prison some time during the week beginning July 0. for the murder of Herman Rosenthal, An appeal by Beckers counsel, however, will result in a defer ment until the higher court has reviewed Hie evi dence and decided whether Becker is entitled to a third trial. Over 1.888 persons were drowned when the Canadian Pacitic Railway stessser Bsapress of Ireland, with 1,307 person- aboard, -auk in the St. Lawrence River early yesterday- morning, fourteen minutes slier a collision, thirty miles oil Father point, with the collier SUUstad. Less than KM survivors fraSB tie- lost tteaater win- landed several bonis biter at Kinioiiski i,y tes.-ne st. -.111101-. Cast. Kendall was saved, being picked up on some wreckage by a lifeboat thirty minutes after his ship had floundered. The wiiioss operators, assist sal parsers, chief engineer and chief steward were saved. The chief odscei and parser are among the missing. Tin sinking of th- empress of Ireland i- tin- greatest marl tine disaster that baa taken place hue tin- 1-- vt the White Star liner Titanic off Cain- Race, New foiindlaiid. on April 11. 1912. after striking a hug Iceberg. Twelve hundred live- were lost with the inking of that ship.
