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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Harry K. Thaw lost his light in the Supreme court of the United States against extradition from New Hampshire to New York. The unanimous decision of the court held that the prisoner should bo turned over at once to the New York authorities to answer an indictment charging conspiracy to escap.J from Matteawaii asylum for the criminal insane. Whether his escape from tho asylum while, as his counsel contended, he was insane constituted i crime and other questions the court dismissed with the comment that they could not enter into a habeas corpus proceeding, as tiiey were proper questions for the state of New York to decide. Direct steamship service between New York ami Vladivostok, Siberia, by way of the Panama canal, lias been begun, and two steamers have passed through the canal Avith cargoes of general manufactured goods and merchandise. The new lino is 10.100 miles long, but is 3,000 miles shorter than the route from New York to Vladivostok by wav of the Suez canal. Consular Agent Carotiiers telegraphed the state department at Washington that Governor Moytor-rena, commanding the Villa forces besieging General Hills garrison at Naco, Sonora. was preparing to withdraw his troops to a point ten or twelve miles from the border to eliminate the possibility of firing Into Anlercan territory. The Mexican constitutionalist army met with crushing defeat at Puelila Sunday, according to otlicial advices to the State Department at Washington from Vera Cruz, Nine cars of wounded have already arrived in Vera Cruz, and more are expected. Bodies of four dead officers have reached Vera Cruz, Eugene Zimmerman, former president of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad and wealthy financier died suddenly at a Cincinnati Club from hemorrhage of the lungs. Mr. Zimmermans only child, Helena, married the Duke of Manchester in 19Q0. Mount Kanaka, a low-lying peak of the coast range, perhaps sixty miles southwest of Mount Slias ta In California, appeared Sunday as the newest volcano in the world.
