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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY vat oil railway strike ended yesterday With service reestablished OH every surface and elevated line In Chicago otiieials of the carmens unions and tin traction companies signed a pact yesterday for negotiating a peace treaty to last two years They ratilied their selec tion of Mayor Thompson as umpire on a board ot three nirn who are to arbitrate the wage and work ¬ ing condition questions under dispute And they agreed upon the questions to be arbitrated Give ike was the keynote of the agreement which mien and the traction companies made to end the strike and put 14000 union men buck to work The companies compromised on the question of hours and trippers The men will work fewer hours and trippers employes who get only 1 few trip runs a day will be given more steady em ¬ ployment The union men compromised on the ques ¬ tion of wages Whereas they demanded certain increases they compromised ou the agreement that the companies should ask for no decrease from pres ¬ ent wage schedules schedulesA A dispatch of yesterday from Udine Italy says Italian troops are continuing with great vigor their attacks upon the Austrian positions at Gorizia The Austrian are defending the town from the heights of Podgora to the west and from invisible trendies extending from Podgora to Mount Fortine in the Isonzo valley It would appear that tiie Austrian purpose to prevent the Italian inarch toward Trieste with the threat of Gorizlo on their left Hank The Austrian trendies on this front are protected with steel armor and connected by underground passages The men are able to fire from under cover and at the same time they are supported by artillery in the hills Itehind them themGrand Grand Duke Constantin Coustantinovitch presi ¬ dent of fthe Imperial Academy of Sciences and head of the department of military schools died Tuesday night of heart disease at tho age of 57 years He was a member of the reigning family Grand Duke Constantin Constantinovitch wlwi was a general of infantry was one of the commanding figures in the Russian nobility nobilityThe The French war otlice yesterday afternoon issued a statement on the progress of hostilities reading British troops yesterday captured a line of Ger ¬ man trenches to the west of La Bassee A Ger ¬ man airship was compelled to come to land within our lines at a point near NoroySurOurcq to the northeast of Le Forte Milon The aviators were made prisoners prisonersYesterdays Yesterdays baseball results National League Pittsburgh 2 Philadelphia 1 American League Washington 5 Chicago 2 Philadelphia 3 Detroit 2 Boston 4 Cleveland Federal League Chicago S Buffalo 0 first game Chicago 3 Buffalo 1 second game St Louis 3 Newark 2 Brooklyn 3 Pitts ¬ burgh 2 2A A Berlin dispatch says that the American am ¬ bassador expects to have an interview at an early date with the emperor who will return to Berlin coon Ambassador Gerrard has had conferences with Ilerr von Jagow the foreign secretary and Dr Alfred Zimmerman undersecretary for foreign af ¬ fairs fairsAn An Athens dispatch of yesterday says King Constantino of Greece who has been seriously ill of pleurisy has contracted blood poisoning and his condition is reported to be critical It was stated this afternoon that the king was sinking rapidly
