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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. II. il Chase has jumped Imni the White So tlnl ,i Hi.- American League to the Butiaio club of the Federals. The K inn. uv statute nuking it l,"~: 1 ,"1 fanners i,. | i their tohaceo was annulled of the Buaremr i hi i .i- uucoaatitutloaaL Forty seven ■■Minlhatil hodlea of Bcraeaa who l i -ii. ,1 May 28 in the wreck of tti«- hprw of Ire-laiid were buried at Quebec jiaterday. The Duchess at MarBnnuagh, formerly Ooaaaehi lias aatled from Liverpool n the A. put tV.iM.i.il.ili. ■nil Cot ■ vi-.it hi her oUI home ■ this country. , The Baanan Court reversed the decision of the Kfffhth United Stales Circuit Court of Appeals, winch held that the rows of poverty in Catholic order* were vi.i.i Because against public policy. r. iiin-s Bertha run Battuer, a noted Aaatriaa writer who devoted aioat of her life to the cause ,.i peace, and to wham was awarded the Kaaei peace prlae in 1885, died i» Vicuna. The Preach government lias taaeed regulations under Which* a tax of •" P** ont. hi to l«- collected en Income received in Irance froai foreign stocks. bonds and securities, ini lading b"vi riimeiit bonds. Beccdera froaj the Western Federation of Miners have launched an independent miners- union at Butte, rejecting peace overtures run President Chart en ll. Meyer and his associates. A clash is expected. lanv thoaaaada of dollars must he returned with uilcrost to wool growers of the west by railroads which have carried their dip to eastern markets at freight ratea which the interstate commerce commis. -i. i reeteraay held excessive. The Supreme fonrt refused the request of the state Of Louisiana to enjoin the secretary ol the treasury from continuing to grant to imported Cuban below the reduced cent, preferential sugar ■ - » per sugar duties of the Uadeiwuod taritt law. Kin- Georges hirthday honors were ■■aoaarrd Sunday The list includes a large number of barons uid baronets, hut Includes only a few notable , Lord Kitchener f Khartum, his majesty 8 .•c.iil and consul general in KV.vpt. is made an earl. With the purpose of either persuading or fare lug the Republicans to nominate Col. I1"",. Boosevelt as their presidential candidate in K»l"*i the i.adci- of the Progressive party are perfecting .i-ani/.atioiis in practically all of the stales. i,ple- thht rear promise ■ heavy yield la . Miiry-Jand and North Carolina, the Saeai crop ta the historv of tolorado. an unusual crop in Michigan, ■ ... i] crone in Virginia, Georgia and South Caroltna and prospects in other states generally aaad or above the average. - a reaalt of the Co— eeticat Blectrie Railway coutitauys refusal to transport mail because oj differences with the government, Becund Assistani Postmaster-General Stewart has instructed postmasters in Connecticut to hire automobile* or trucks for that purpose. Sixteen sheet -iron and tin-plate plants, employing close down for an in-ilednite more than 1 mm men. will period on July L an a result of the failure .1 the Amalgamated Iron, Steel ami Tin Plate = : — == : Workera* Asaociatiaa and tl araen of ihe paaata] to agree on wage rate . I The |im innwni won the intennountaln case la the Supreme Coort. Every railroad o-i ol Chicago i- vitally concerned. The decision means that in land towns and cities will be required to pay only a proportionate part of the rates now charged for through shipments to the coast. Transcontinental railways aroa thell 8ght for title to about Mi.iMiO. KMI worth of oil lands when the Supreme Conn yesterday held raid the clause in the patents making the land revert to the BWeni meal II found to contain mineral-. The Brat point was decided in favor of the government —that oil lands were mineral lands. IVrsoiiallv htaflllH an army of 25,000 men. General Francis,,. Villa yesterday led a general assault on Zacateeas. opeliin" a battle which is c- liecfaed to prove the crucial one of the campaign to ea niv .Mexico City and dethrone Iluerta. Villa Brent to the rescue of General Ianolil .Natera. wbOBC force- had been driven hack by the federals under General Medina Dai ran The Bhgllah ■affragettee. who were graated an audience by Premier Asqulth, were not successful in their mission, a- the Premier, although he argued the matter in a dispassionate way. said he would not introduce a bill granting women the v at the present time. The Prime Minister was courteous to the WOBiea and promised to take the ques-tioii of forcible feeding and other matters into consideration. Five young bottle-fed performing lions. BOUSed in B box civ at a Santa le freight siding In * "In -cago became raging man-eaters when one of them discovered by chance thai his own strength was superior to that of his trainer. Before rescuers arrived the trainer. Eaaeraon Dietrich, had been killed and partly eaten by his eratwhBe pets. Diet-rich was a Cornell graduate and son of a wealthy architect.
