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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Paul Mauser, the inventor of the army rifle bear ing his name, died at Berlin, aged seventy si. The department of labor has reipn sis sv BBJ8ft0 men lo go to Oklahoma. Kansas and Missouri to help harvest the wheat crop. An otlicial call for a Strike of coal miners along the Kanawha river. Paint and Cabin creeks and Coal river, was signed yesterday, the strike to be effective tomorrow. About Ili.iMH men are involved. Theodore Roosevelt, accompanied by his eldest daughter, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati, and Philip Roosevelt, a young cousin, sailed for Spain yesterdaj to attend the wedding of his s,,n. Kermil. in Madrid, June 10, to Miss Belle Willard. daughter of the American ambassador to Spain. The loss of life ill the llmpress of Ireland disaster is set at 1,032. Of the 4.:.". persona saved, 2:;7 were members of the crew. Il is the fourth greatest â– mriae disaster in history. Hundreds of the passengers wen- killed in their staterooms when the colliers bow ploughed through the liner. At the earnest reipiest of Justice Lamar ami Frederick W. Lehman, the American delegates to the Mexican peace conference, the mediators agrefd to receive a communication from General Parraaxa. first chief of the Mexican constitutionalists, asking that his faction be permitted to participate in the conference. Cantata Brickney, collector of the port of Vera Cruz, has levied a line of 0,000 on the German steamer Bavaria for having entered that purl Kith out a manifest and for having landed al Puerto Mexico a cargo of ammunition which was consigned 10 ,ra Cruz. The Bavaria is being denied cleat a nee from Vera Cms until some uuderstandina has been reached.
