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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Deta iimeuts of troops were ordered to take cou-trol of railroad stations and tracks iu Rome. Charles A. Towne of New York, former United States senator bom Minnesota, is ttnertas ooaaselor in connection with Washington affairs. Theodore Reosevelt arrived in London yesterdaj Iran th continent, acuompanied by Mrs. Nicholas i Loiigwortk sad Philip .J. Roosevelt, his cousin. Mrs. J. U. Thompson of Atlanta. III., died after fasting forty days m an effort to obtain relief from illness. She had made an unsiieeessfiil effort for the last week to break her last. John RedSMSHL Irish Nationalist leader, has de- , dared war ii the provisional committee of the Nationalist Volunteers, a majority of whom, he as-SlllS. are noi supporters of the Irish party. The Illinois Supreme Court, by a vote of four to three, sustained the constitutionality f the legii latin- act gting the women of Illinois the right of suffrage. Three Democratic members dissented. Qaeea alary has decided in ease of farther saffra gcttc demonstrations in the vicinity of royalty to leave Leaden and leave King George to finish the season atone, according to a source iu close touch Willi I In- court and the government. Another of the Zeppelin airships of the German ariey. the "Z 1." was badly wrecked near Dieden-hofeii. As the airship was living to effect aa emergency landing the air cruiser broke at right angles behind the rear goadols. and lieutenant was injured. General Venustiano Carraaaa, tirst chief oi the onstii ntioiialist forces in Mexico, has appointed his delegates, three in number, to the Niagara mediation conference. The stale department ai w.i so ingtoa bellert - ■ way will be found for their ad mission to the conference. A lift 1 1 eruption of Mount I sum s. more violent een than that of Friday night, which in turn was far greater ihan BBJ of those lli.il |irecedcd It, occurred earl] yesterday. For the first time the smell of sulphur h.is in the air. Ashes tell at Mineral. sixteen miles from the peak. The Hamburg-American liner Pretoria, New York for Hamburg, collided with the American liner New ork during a dense fog. 400 miles off New-York, yesterday morning. Fortunately the Mow Bras a glancing one. just abaft of the DOW, and both ships escaped serious injury and were able to proceed. Tlie Copenhagen poiici nun arc threatening to sinke because the new wmaaa police are started oul at a greater salary than male novices. The woman police bare been appointed to deal with delinquent and defective women and children and the in vv appointees ale to receive $.".0» more a year than men wlnn they first eater the hi i lee. Approximately ,000,060 of depositors money is tied lip iii the five Chicago banks closed bj the state authorities. The state bank examiner expresses hope that the three smaller Institutions closed may be saved, but be says the La Salle Street XVusI and Savings Bank, founded by William Loris* r ami latti rly controlled by C. F . Munday. is hopelessly insolvent. Kuibanaseii by a shortage of approximately 5,- kio.itoti in the rev line expected from the personal income tax. Secretary McAdoo has Instructed the Internal revenue bureau to begin an Investigation Immediately for the purpose of discovering and prosecuting la dodgers. Tin- failure of the income ia re inn- to equal the estimates of the treasury department at the time the law was drawn will leave the administration with a defletl of approximately ,000,000 for the nscal year ending June 30.
