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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. New York progressive lead rs will insist that Col. Roosevelt run for governor. Chicago women are preparing to demand the right to vote for United States Senator. The commission to investigate the Empress of Ireland wreck will open its sessions at Quebec. June 10. Bishop Samuel Fallows of Chicago was elected department commander of the Illinois G. A. B., to succeed J. II. Ciowder of Bethany. The army of the Lister "volunteers" was strengthened yesterday by the addition of ::.000 Mauser rifles, as tlie result of a daring gun-running feat by an Irish yachtsman. The House yesterday passed President Wilsons three anti-trust measures, including the Claytou lalMir an.! trade commission bills and the Rayburn railroad securities bill. The mediation proceedings are threatened with failure becaase of the decision of the fuited Stales government to iiermit the landing of arms at Tain-pico for the constitutionalists. Chester B. Duryca. who on May 5 shot and killed : his father. Hiram Duryca. millionaire starch manufacturer, has been committed to the New York State hospital for the Criminal insane at Matteawau. President Wilson today told 154 graduates of the Naval Acamedy at Annapolis, many of whom will leae shortly for Mexican waters, that the mission i of tlie United States is one of service to humanity, not of aggrandizement or conquest. Yesterdays baseball results — National League: Chicago 11. Brooklyn 5; Boston 7. Cincinnati 2; St. Louis S. New York 3; Philadelphia 13, Pittsburgh ::. American League: St. Louis 0. Detroit 5. Federal League-: Chicago 5. Indianapolis 4: Baltimore 14. Pittsburgh :.: Buffalo 0. Brooklyn 2. Three of the biggest trade anions in England have decided to form a huge- combination for self protcc-lion. The unions are the miners, tlie- railway men i and tlie transport workers. These are the three most ldglilv organised unions in the- country, and I their aggregate membership is 1.350.000. A violent volcanic eruption occurred on the Dutch . Island of Sanguir. 140 miles direct south of Mindanao, in the Philippines. Several volcanoes were . included in the disturbance. Streams of boiling lava poured clown the sides of the mountains, overwhelming forests and cocoa plantations. At the same time a heavy lain of stones a nil ashes from various craters fell over the whole island.
