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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Col. George W. Goethals. governor of the Panama Canal Zone, was impelled to suggest to the government at Washington that two torpedo boat destroyers be stationed at the Panama canal, one at each end, bv the recent activity of belligerent warships and co"lliers in the vicinity of the isthmian waterway. Colonel Goetlmls action was taken only after British colliers repeatedly communicated with British warshlus by win-less from within the territorial waters of the Canal Zone. For the first time since its organization by President Franklin the postollice department is on a self-. .sustaining basis, Postmaster-General Burleson says in Ills annual report, which records enormous growth in the departments business because of the parcels post and postal savings bank divisions, and recommends a program of postal legislation to increase 1he scope of the departments activities that includes government ownership of the telegraph aud telephone. Thomas Francis and another American, whose name has not been ascertained, have been killed in Sonera, Mex., according to a report from the American consular agent at Cauanea. Secretary Bryan lias directed an investigation. Unlimited trading will be permitted on the New York Stock Exchange, beginning today. Up to the present time trading has leen permitted only in certain stocks. There will still be minimum price restrictions. Major General Sir Edward Yewd Brabant, seventy-five, who gained fame as the commander of Brabants Horse, a division of colonials in the Boer war, Is dead in South Africa. Col. Theodore Roosevelt has signed a three years contract with the Metropolitan magazine under which he will write for it exclusively articles on political and economic subjects. General Fueutes. whose son is tile husband of Ilnertas daughter, and four minor ollicers were executed bv a firing squad in I he- Spanish cemetery at Mexico City on December Arthur Brisbane, editor of the New. York livening Journal, is seriously ill at an Atlanta hotel. The Italian government is the most active buyer yf IJuiled. Stages, wlieuf at, th ua-set, ijiae,
