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: I I , I | I i • GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. The California state prison board has declined to parole Abe Bent. Ira Nelson Morris of Chicago is on President Wilsons list for an appointment in the diplomatic service. Premier Asquith fulfilled his promise to receive a deputation of snUragettea, which he made to Miss Sylvia Panfchnrst, the militant leader. Sir Thomas Uptons Shamrock IV. showed a fine turn of speed in the first spin since ils rig was changed from ■ sloops to that of a cutter. The Internationa] League and the American Association will Ik- converted into a major league by the National Baseball Commission, as a means for fighting the Federals. Approximately 584,000 acres of land in California and Oregon have Ipeen set aside by Secretary Lane of the interior department under the enlarged homestead act. it was announced t-xlay. General Felipe Angeles, acting secretary of war of the constitutionalist cabinet, was deposed from that position yesterday by order of General Car-ransa, for disobedience of orders. Harry Vardon. professional of the South Herts Golf Club, achieved the greatest anibitii.ii of his career by winning the British open golf championship for the ith lime, setting a new record. General Villa has left Tarreaa for the front above Kacatecas. The general plan of campaign now is •long the lines drawn up before Carranaa put General N.itera in command of the new Bane. A high official of the Interstate commerce commission intimated that the decision in the freight rate ease would be banded down July ::. follow ng the close of the New York stock market for the day. More than 310 men. women and children were killed when a cyclone devastated an island in the Baeitie North of British New Guinea. Hundreds of In mxes collapsed ami their occupants were crushed to death, Several suffragists, who interrupted David Lloyd-Ceorge. chancellor of the exchequer, while he was delivering a speech in London, were s i/ed by the irate audience and half drowned in a pond in the KToands. Tile inventory filed la Reading shows that George F Baer. late president of the Philadelphia and Read ing Railway, left, personal property worth ,006,000 and real estate valued at 00,000. Mr. Baer left his estate to his family. The ninth, and what is pronounced by ■paclajma as one of the worst eruptions of the series, occurred at Mount Lassen Friday. The spectacle was seen for miles iii every direction. Flame, smoke, rock and dust rose to a height of 14X400 feet. Majority Leader Cnderwood called on President Wilson to ask him to forego his determination to put the anti-trust bills through congress at this session. The president declined to eoiisent to an adjournment until the legislation is enacted. Residents of Little Neck. I/aig Island, want the towns name changed. They dislike having their eouiiniuiity associated with a species of clam. The residents decided to petition the I nited States postal authorities al Washington to change the name. 1 housands of government employes throughout the country enjoyed their first Saturday half holiday of the summer. President Wilson recently issued an executive order granting rover- nt employes Sat unlay afternoons off from Jane IS to September 13. The French Chamber Pf Deputies by a vote of 15!» to 108 authorized the issue of a loan of 00,000 oho .is requested by l. Naulens, finance minister In the new cabinet. The loan will bear interest at ::_.por cent and lie redeemable in twenty-five years. After recovering ninety-tive charred bodies rest a-ers were baited temporarily by tire before sjoaa at mine No. Ltl of the Hillcrest Alta.i C oilier* s Limited, where an explosion wrecked the underground property and is believed to have killed 1!7 men. By a rote of I4ii .1 os. the Hatfanal House un-seatil L. C. Dyer, a Republican member from the twelfth Missouri District, because of alleged fraud* in his district in the November. 1912, elections His Democratic opponent Michael J. Dill, was declared entitled to the seat. Fifteen generals of the constitutionalist army, commanding a combined force estimated at 30,000 im n. renounced General Carranaa as •■first chief" of the ronstitutkmalistB movement in a note sent to his headquarters at the time General Villa re signed. Villa, however, did aoi sign the toniniuiii cat ion. Esnperer William conferred the name of Bis march, chosen by himself, on the third vessel of the Imperator class, which was launched reutei day for tic service of the Hamburg American line The new steamer Is almost an exact reproduction oi the Vaterland. but is six 1 i«-t longer and has two more boilers. orders Issued by President Alfred H. Smith re ouires enforced vacatioas of four days each month for all employes of the traffic departments of the Lake Shore. New York Central. Nickel Plate and Big Four route in Cincinnati. The order means figuratively thai the employes gel a cut in wares ranging from ten to twelve per cent. Yesterdays baseball results —National League-Chicago :.. Philadelphia 4: Pittsburgh 4. Brooklyn • ;: Boston :;. St. Louis 2; New Sort 7. Cincin nati 2. American League: Chicago ." Boston •• New York 7. Cleveland 1: Detroit 1, Washington o Federal league: Buffalo 1. Chicago 0: ladiauapolh t . Brooklyn ." . Funeral services for Mmo. Lillian Nordics the sin .a-, who died recently in Bafavia Java, Will he held next Tuesday in the Klars Weigh House church. Grosvenor Square. London, where lime Nordics and George W. Young of New yarn were married live years ago. After the funeral services the body will be cremated in Goldera Green cemetery. For the first time in history an aeorplane rammed an airship at Vienna, resulting in nine deaths and the destruction of both air crafts. The gnat Austrian military dirigible Paraeval. 2.500 feet high, was rammed amidships by a military aero plane. The dirigible caught fire and collapsed with its si ven doomed occupants. The aeorplane crashed to earth, killing both pilot and observer. The Turkish government has instructed its minister at Athens to inform the Greek government that lurkey is willing to permit the return of Greek subjects who were compelled recently to leave fur kish territory. The government is ready to grant indemnity for the losses of those forced lo leave their homes during the recent disturbances Greek officials see in the reply of the Turkish rovernmeul a desire for a friendly settlement
