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I 1 ; i i • I I , 1 1 I i 1 • I i 1 i i - i i [" t i l , ", r 1 - t t : • ■ I j . i i . , i r GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. A dispatch from London yesterday says: "Bepre seiitatiM-s of the South Wahs miners, w h o are now . on strike, have prepared Cue following statement . ot the position assumed by the nun who have quit . work: The miners are no longer working under . an agreement, ami have hst their minimum rate . of wages. The owners have offered them a new agreement for the duration of the war. but the . miners know the admiralty will keep on hand ample KtCCkS Of coal as Ion; as the war lasts, and llcv fear thai v. hen the war is ended the admiralty will sell the surplus, thus bringing down the market price. The miners" wages vary with the . selling price of coal. The suggestion has been made that the miners fear may in- oven- • by offering an agreement whose terms would extend -i nths after the end of hostilities, with the provision that three months notice must be given by either side ii a change is desired. This js one of the proposals which probably will be made today i by Waller Bondman, president of the board of trade. German newspapers reaching here publish details of the govcrnmeaCa scheme to control the coal Industry of Germany* A proclamation em powers the state authorities to bring the ownei-of coal holds together by compulsion In associations, which will control the whole prod net ion and -ale or coal, it is expressly stated that these asso ciaiions jire to he formed without the consent ol the coal owners. They are compelled to place their output at the disposal -d tin- association from the moment it begins operations, and for the protection of public interests the state is given various controlling rights, particularly with regard to fixing prices. A dispatch of yesterday from Paris says: "Hill No. 285, in the forest of the Argoane, which was stormed by the Germans early this week, has been recaptured by the French forces, according to the official statement given cut this afternoon by the French war department. The statement also reports that in the region north of Anas the enemy attempted to -ally from his trenches south of the chateau de Carleui. He was Immediately checked by our Infantry and artillery lire. In the Argoom our curtains of Ore prevented every tentative a; tack of the enemy. Between the Mouse and the Moselle the night witnessed activity, but without action on the part of the infantry. There was a bombardment of the ravine of Sonvaax, bomb throwing in the forest of Ailly and cannonading north of Flirey. In l.orrain the Germans attacked on a front extending three kilometers the positions which they had lost near Lolil rev. They al the same time bombarded all our line from the forest of Champenonx as far as the Veaoase river. delivering some attacks partly witli infantry. They were everywhere repulsed. Near l.eintrev. after having gained foothold in part of the trenches, they were immediately ejected by a counter attack. In the r-sion southeast of the forest of Iairov assaulting troops which had reached our wire entablements were dispersed by our fire and left prisoner- in our hands. The losses of the enemy appeared considerable." Final awards of the board of arbitration which settled the strike of the 13,000 employes of the . . Chicago surface lilies was signed yesterday by Mayor Thompson, umpire, and States attorney Maclay ■ Hoy no. arbiter for the employes. The award, grant-bag the employes increases ot :, cents and l Cents , an hour, aggregating about ,500,000 a year, was not signed by James M. Slieean. arbiter for the companies, lie prepared a minority report, which i will be filial with the companies and the employes union. The award marks one of the greatest victories ever scored bv street car employes, and places the employes of the Chicago lines at the top . of the list a- the highest paid operatives in the • country. In addition to whining the wage controversy, - the employes secured a revision of working rules, incorporating nearly all their original de mauds. They won their contention- for a higher • percentage of straight runs, night ear schedules and 1 pay for time consumed in turning in reports. The Wage scale is dated back to June 1.".. when the street car employes struck, tying up all transportation facilities. The men. consequently, will receive . wages from that date based on the new schedule of ; minimum of 26 cents an hour and a maximum i of :a; cents, to be reached after four years of service. , A dispatch of yesterday from Athens says that 1 the German submarine I ol has been sunk in the Black sea by Russian war vessels, the information ! coming iroin the Bulgarian port of Varna on the Black "a. The submarine D-51 gal 1 fame by eluding the British blockade and passing through the Strait of Gibraltar. It left Wilhelmshaven, the great German base, to operate against the . allied fleet iii the Dardanelles .Mid was reported to have been successful in its mission. The l"-"il I has been credited with sinking several vessels lie longing to the allies, including tie British hat tlesbip Majestic The British blockading fleei ff r Gibraltar was reported to have been warned of the . approach of the U-51, but failed t catch the . underwater craft, which wonl from Gibraltar to , the Dardanelles, where it did much to prevent I the allies warships from co-operating with the land I forces on the Gallipoli peninsula. Later the U-51 1 pa-seii through the Sea of Marmora and reported I to the German commander at Constantinople. Ii j the report of its destruction in the Black sea is s true, it evidently went from the Turkish capital i through the liosphorus probably to operate against t the Russian BhlCk sea fleet. Harry K. Thaw, adjudged sane lasl Wednesd ly . ,. by a Jury. was given his freedom ye terdaj by Supreme Court Justice Peter A. Hendrick, who announced he had adopted the jurys verdict. The . state immediately served notice of appeal, and Jus tice Hendrick fixed Thaws bail al 35,000 to in sure his presence at future proceedings. A surety company was prepared to give Hie bop, I. and Thaw was taken from the courthouse to the judges J chambers so that details might I«- arranged, »fter t the bond was signed Thaw took lunch and later on departed for Philadelphia en route to Pittsburgh. J. Pierpoal Morgan, who was shit at Glen Cove, L. L. on July ::. by Prank Holt, was aboard his !| yacht, the Corsair, ofl Sandy Hook, and saw the Resolute win lie right to defend the Americas cup by heating the Vanitie. The Resolute won „ by nineteen see. mils actual time an! one minute and thirty seconds corrected time. This was the I bird and deciding race to select the boat to meet , Sir Thomas Uptons Shamrock iv. Champ lark, speaker of the house of represents lives, faced a band of suffragists in a hotel lobby t at San Francisco Thursday and pledged allegiance . to their general cause, -i expect to see Missouri added to the suffrage talcs soon, and 1 am going - to help," he said. He promised to write them 1 later as to whether he would support what s known ! as the Susan B. Anthony amendment for equal 1 suffrage at the next I lint H III Fran:: Ihrka. a laborer, who claimed American a cit izi-nsiiip. was -hot for high treason al Maprsich Ostrau, in Austrian Silesia Jane II. according to a i copy of the official journal of the province of i Silesia. Berka was tried before the military court t charged with using two traitorous expressions in an i inn at Gross Helendorf. The expressions ware al leged t" be calculated to disturb the peace of the e neighborhood. Believing the explosion which wrecked the plant of the United States Powder Company, near Louisville, last M lav afternoon, and which caused the I.e.- ,f four lives, including that of Robert 8. Waddell. the superintendent, to have been caused ,1 bv outside agencies, an exhaustive investigation into tin- circumstances surrounding the blast baa been ordered by the board of directors of that concern. The London Daily Mails correspondent at British 1, headquarters in Frame say.-: "The Preach are arming their troops with a short knife lor use in trench warfare, thug displacing the bayonet, which, i when fixed in the rilie. is too long a weapon to give ,. a niin tree play in the narrow trenches.
