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1 i GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. All Americans, according to the Brazilian minis-ttr. have been release, 1 from prison in Mexico. A Russian military aviator. Lieutenant Boris-law skv. and a passenger were killed at St. Peters bin g by the fall of a biplane. New York Citys death rate dropped to 11.12 per 1.OU0 last week, the lowest since ihe health department in 1888 began to keep track of such matters. The total number of deaths was 1.222. Pot ten eggs, stones, clods of dirt and handfuls of gravel were hurled with telling effect at sixty men and women, members of the Industrial Workers of the World, who tried to hold a meeting iu Tarry-tov 11. General Villa is determined to complete the absolute defeat of Huerta and licht his way al Behead of his army Into Mexic, city. Irrespective of the action General Carrauaa may take, according to rc|iorts brought to the border by travelers arriv ing from Torreon and Monterey. The Belgian steamer. Gothland, from Montreal for Rotterdam, went ashore in a dense fog on the rocks two miles to the northeast of Bishops Rock. BdUy Islands. Two sieani.rs went to her assistance. T1k- Cot bland left Montreal. June 12. with thirty-four third-class passengers. While President Wilson and Beeretan Bryan w.re defending the Colombian and Nicanguaa treaties in interviews with newspaper correspondents, the senate ordered an investigation of all circumstances connected with the negotiations of the proposed agreementa with the two republics. Sir Edward French, accompanied by Lady French. has arrived at San Francisco from the orient en route for England. Sir Edward has just retired an commissioner general of police in the Punjab district of India after thirty live years service. He had charge of the darker when King George and Queen Mary visited India. The North Ceruiau Lloyd steamer Koenigin Luise and the German passenger steamer Cobra were in collision yesterday. Both were damaged. The passengers were landed safely. The eoillssion occurred at the regatta at Cuzhaven. Both vessels had on Ix.ard crowds that had gone out to watch the races. The National hoti-e again went on record tor exempting labor union- from prosecution under the aiiti trust laws. A provision iu the sundry civil appropriation bill appropriating 3300,000 lor ee toj-coiiient of the anti trust laws, was adopted after a sh.ii|, and protracted political debate over the provision exempting labor and agricultural organizations. The reeaova] of General Trevine as Carraaaaa chief of staft and Ysidro Fabela. acting minister et I. , reign relations iu the constitutionalist cabinet, is taken by revolutionists as a victory for the Villa taction. Carran/.a will not accept the imitation of the United States to discuss the candidate for provisional president of Mexico with the Huerta delegates at Niagara Falls. Moving pictures of thirty-six Chinese playing fan tan and lottery in a gambling house in San Li gos Cbmatowa were takee in a notice raid. The all. nipt of the Chinese to ruMi the police officers from their feet, the heavy barricaded doors and the complete gambling nttit found in Ihe place were photographed, and the lilms will he shown as evidence iu curl. The State Department at Washington and the Japanese foreign olliee have decided to make public simultaneously thK week their entire correspondence oxer t lie California land law relating to alien holdings. The publicatiou of the correspondence is not particularly significant, though it eerhaea may serve to emphasize the unsuccessful termination of almost a years efforts to effect uu adjust meat. Mount Lassen is not a geyser. Its action, since first it broke Into eruption on May :!o. lias keen decidedly volcanic according to J. S. Biller, an authority an volcanee. Organized baseball won another decisive victory when Federal Judge W. II. Sanborn, at St. Paul, granted a temporary in junction restraining Ar liiando Marsans. former Cuban left li.lder of the Cincinnati Re. Is. from playing with the St. Luuis 1 lilt, of the Federal League or any other ball club except the Reds until the alleged breach of contract he is charged with has been tried in Lnitcd States District Court in St. Louis. The Marquis of Crewe, liberal leader iu the British house of lords, introduced a bill to amend the Irish home rule bill. The terms of the amend bag bill are identical with those offered on March *. by Premier Asquith and contemptuously refused by Sir Edward Carson, the Irish unionist leader, who described the premiers proposal as a •hyp. critical sham." The Marquis of Crewe Intimated that the government might make more concession.-.
