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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY DAYWith With the object of avoiding undue detention of vessels with only small portions of their cargo ordered to a prize court American Consul General Skinner has proposed to the Hritish government that such parcels should be unloaded at Kirkwall in Scotland and the steamers allowed to proceed in ¬ stead of having to journey to other British ports to unload perhaps only a few tons tonsBecause Because of the reports that United States mails destined for Norway Sweden Denmark and the Netherlands in transit through belligerent countries have been opened and censored Postmaster General Burleson yesterday directed that until further orders all mails for those countries be sent on vessels sailing direct and not touching at any port of belligerents belligerentsA A Tokio dispatch of Wednesday says Ofllclal reports having been received from Rome that seven German submarines have successfully entered the Mediterranean through the Straits of Gibraltar has caused Japanese companies to issue warnings to all steamers traversing the Mediterranean and also to extend war insurance on vessels from Marseilles to Port Said SaidSeven Seven fishing vessels known as drifters have iKen sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Scot ¬ land Most of the crews of the fishing boats were saved Tiie Finnish schooner Leo also has been torpedoed The five Swedisli steamers seized in the Baltic sea Tuesday by Gorman warships are said to KippleIt have been the Rergslagcn Fram Otis and Kipple It has been announced in London that negotiations are in progress between the British board of trade and the textile alliance of New York under which English woolen manufacturers can obtain large quan ¬ tities of tops and yarns made In the United Stated with the object of increasing immediately the output of military and civilian clothing in England EnglandYesterdays Yesterdays baseball results National League Chicago 5 St Ixmis 0 Nfw York 5 Boston 0 Brooklyn 4 Philadelphia 2 American League Boston 0 New York 5 Washington 4 Phila ¬ delphia I Federal League Brooklyn 12 Chi ¬ cago 4 Newnrk Kansas Citv 1 St Louis 11 Baltimore 2 Pittsburgh Buffalo 5 5A A decision was given by the State Supreme Court ednesdav turning over to tlie estate of the late John E W Wayman 100000 in states attorneyss fees on the ground that promises made by Mr Wayman to pay them into tbe public treasury were contrary to public inilicy and therefore void voidA A dispatch from Amsterdam says the Germans following their victory in Galicia have already made preparations for another attempt to rapture War ¬ saw According to this dispatch German troops from Galicia already have been transferred to the Bzura front west of Warsaw WarsawThe The British cruiser Roxburgh was torpedoed by a German submarine in tlie North Sea last Sunday according to an official statement Issued by the ad ¬ miralty The cruiser was not damaged to seriously but that she could make port under her own steam There were no casualties casualtiesEmperor Emperor Nicholas left for the front Wednesday ac ¬ cording to Reuters Ietrosrad correspondent
