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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. From Rome yesterday it dispatch says: "The • Italian armored cruiser Amain wa- torpedoed and i sunk at dawn yesterday by an Austrian submarine while taking pari in a reconnaissance in the upper r Adriatic il was officially announced by the ministry of marine. The text of the statement is: -a re connaissauce in force was accomplished the night of 1 .lulv ii in tin- upper Adriatic The Amain, which took pari in the reconnaissance, was torpedoed hj an Austrian submarine and soon listed heavily to port. The commander, before giving orders to the i rrvv to jump overboard, cried -long live the king. • long live Italy!" The entire crew, drawn up along ■ the -ten . echoed tin- shout, giving a remarkable exhibition id courage and discipline. The commander, who was the last to leave, slipped overboard ; Shortly before the Amalli sank. Nearly all 1 the officers and crew were saved. " The Amalti. • which was completed in 1908, had a displacement 1 of 9,958 loiis and was 120 loot long. Its cuuple-iiient iti times of peace was B84. A dispatch of yesterday from Petrograd nays: : "fresh supplies of ammnnnition for the grand I duke- armies have halted the Austro-German driven e War-aw and Von l.insingens eastward sweet 1 through Galicia. The Russians south of Lublin, il t became known hero today, not only have been a strengthened by the arrival of new regiments, but t ha been fed bv trainleads of -lull-. The production . of war munitions in the last fortnight ha- i n II speeded op since tin- commissioner lor war supplies s conferred with hading manufacturers. Within a ■ !,« weeks, official declared today, the Slav armies v will he prepared to resume the offensive en all 1 fronts. The official statement Issued early today v emphasised the let that Russian -hell tin- halted ,1 Maekeiisens advance between tin- Bag and the ,. Vistula la several sectors aloag ihi- front the ,. Slav- took th,. offensive, capturing 2,000 prisoners hi tin fighting around Krasnlk. Even attack by . the Au-tpi G riiian- in Galicia in the last twenty-tour hi ui in - in en repulsed." A Washington dispatch ol yesterday says: "Car- ■ rauza ten-.-- have pushed their attack on the convention " force* defending Mexico City up to within !1 ten mil-- of the capital. Their military train- are e operating thai close to the ehy. State department I dispatches from Vera Cruz today gave this report, - i n her dispatches from the Mexican capital, which I came by courier, reported that f.n.,1 riots had been II ci,,.keil. and that conditions generally had im I proved. it was added, however, that the food 1! situation still was serious and that unrest existed. I- Other Information which created a inure hopeful il feeling over the situation -v.i- General Carranxas - assurances thai every consideration would be shown II foreigners and other noacoialtatants bv hi- army, . which is Investing Mexico City, and reports thai I sups t . relieve Mexicos famine-stricken population II Were proceeding as rapidly us. cjudilkms permit." " 1 . 1 , ; - • i r More than filt.y persons were killed and several scire injured by the violent wind and rain storm. 1 which extended from Nebraska to Ohio. Wednesday c night. The property damage is estimated at several 1 millions of dollars. The greatest loss of life oc- I curred in Cincinnati ami vicinity, where thirty-three • I 1 1-011- are known to be dead and lifteeu missing. I eighteen of the dead there being deck hands, who 1 were drowned by the capsizing of the towboat Convoy in the Ohio river. Tile government yesterday took over the Sayville. . I.. I., wireless station, the only remaining privately ; oik-rated direct means of communication between the , United states ami Germany. Secretary Daniels announced that Captain Iiullard. in charge of the naval | radio, had gone to take over the station and would , continue its operation with naval forces. Violations of neutrality were given as the reason for the step. Under the powers conferred bv the defense of the realm act the British government yeaterday by an order in council decided to take over the control : of the sale and supply of i.itoxicating liquors in man] districts where war material is being handled. Crist. .1. Southampton. Cardiff, Liverpool and adjacent tow 1,-. and most of the munition and shipbuilding centers in Yorkshire are Included. A message of yesterday from Seba-topol -ays: "The Ru-sian Black sea fleet sank five Turkish sailing vessels and four galleys carrying coal lo Constantinople and heavilv bombarded a hostile sub- marine off the Bosporus, it wa- otfleially announced here today. The submarine dived and its fate is not known. The coal vessels were sent to the bottom off the coaling port of Zunguhlak." A three-inch disappearing gun for submarines lias been perfected by the navy ordnance bureau. Secre- tarv Daniels announced Wednesday, and in future all American underwater craft will be- equipped with such weapons for surface lighting. No navy in the world has a belter weapon of the kind than the ordnance bureau has evolved, according to the secretary. J. I. Morgan, convalescing at his boose in Glen Cove from the elicits of Holts attack, was in communication for some time with his offices in New York yesterday, transacting business over the telephone. He said In- felt much better, and word from the physicians i" at tendance at his home was that his condition continued to Improve. The recent repeated bombardments of Rheims have completed the destruction of the cathedral. and practically nothing is left of the building but the silhouette. 1he slate has collected all tapestries, fragments of statutes and windows broken by the bombardments and has dei osited them in a place of safety. The American consular agent at Swinemun-le. Prussia, reports that the American steamship Pla- turia. from Now York with a cargo of petroleum consigned to a Swedish port, has been held up by a German warship and brought into SWlaeraunde. . ,
