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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. A Lomion dispatch of yesterday -av-: -while prayers for victory wen- being said today through out Russia, the Austriaas and Hermans rontiuuod lhcir drive at Warsaw from Ihe north, the weal and the south. Meanwhile, they were reaching farther north toward Riga, on the Baltic, from which their advance guard i- not more than twenty miles distant. The tone of dispatches from Petro-gred bespeaks plainly that the country is aware of the gravenesa of the military situation. Involving nof onh the fate of the Polish capital. but the Integrity of the Russian ermj in Poland. the northern aid southern sections of which might be cat in twain by a decisive defeat eloag Lublin Ui.lm Railway. Ii Is along this sector that the Russians are now lighting niosi desperately, for this railway is the s.-ie ureal artery of communication of Poland with southern Rossis, sweeping away from Lublin end Chelm toward Odessa. Having several time- been reported within live miles of the railroad and now, according to Am irian claims, having pierced the Russian front. this section of the Teutonic force-, should be within ritle shot of the railway, but no claim has i n made of having seized it. Northwest of Lublin, however, the Teutonic forces have pushed forward to the bridgehead positions south of Ivan-gorod and thence northward. Around the circle which is tightening on Warsaw they have made steady progress, although meeting with sen. mis op position along the Nerea River, northwest of the capital. sheriff Kinkead. of Hudson county. New Jersey, has requested Governor Fielder to cell out troops to cope with the strike situation at Bavonne. Governor Fielder replied thai he had ordered Adit Gen. Sadler to proceed al once to Bavonne and survey the situati.ii and report what troops were needed there. I wo men were killed and three- wounded bv the Tidewater guards before en attack wes quelled yesterday. A heavj rainstorm which came up at Ihe ti helped " drive the rioters under cover. Sliortly before noon, after several hours of compara five peace, a ir wd of BOO assembled near the barrel works of the Tidewater oil company and began aa attack oa the guards there, stick-, stones end revolvers wen- used end the guards replied with Winchesters. Duriag the fighting lire started in one corner of the barrel yards, where staves and other lumber were stored. Sheriff Kinkead rushed to the scene and ordered the ri bars to withdraw. He was greeted with howls of derision. After several shots had been tired the crowd withdrew. Sheriff Kinkead telephoned to the department of labor at Washington to ask that mediators be dispatched inline diately to Bavonne to try to end the trouble. The following communication was issued jresterdavy by the French war department: ■There were some artillery actions in Artois. in the AlgOttn s, between the Meuse and the Moselle, in the neighborhood of Eparges and la the forest of Apreeaont. During the nights of the 20th end 2lst end the day of tin 21st there was extremely fierce lighting on the heights of Lit He Beichackerkopf, to the westward of Mueiister in Alsace, ten miles west-southwest of Ilniari. An attack was followed by nine German counter attacks, despite their beavj wanes. Two l.ntalions of chasseurs holding our positions held the enemjrs troops and indicted heavj 1 sm-s i i ; , i tt-iii . We captured and held a trench in the neighborhood of 150 meters in length and maintained .all our previous noatttoas. To the north of Mueiister our forces organised the positions they hail conquered on the rest of La Linuc. In this fighting we tHik 1»7 prisoners. Our aviators dropped eight bombs of ninety and four of 150 millimeters on the station •• Aatry, to the northwest of Btnar-ville i in the Argonnes." A Turkish dispatch of yesterday from GaUipoli says: "The operations of the lust week In the Avi Bui ml region have lieen conlined. on the part of the allies, to several offensive movements of no great strength against the Turkish trenches. Losses of the allies were considerable. Attempts by their artillery to support their infantry resulted on July 7 in the shelling of oae of their own trenches. The T.ikish artillery continues to be active. New batteries have leer brought up on the Asiatic shore and in the rear of Seddiil-Bahr. and since July C, have ceased heavy losses In men and material to the allies. Seven ammunition depots of the alttea were exploded between .lulv 8 end 10. This jraa due lo the tire of Turkish batteries on the Asiatic shore. Agalnsl these batteries the artillery of tile allies is powerless an a sea attack is prevented by German submarines. The situation today is the same as it was prior to June 21. when the allies launched an offensive movement, which collapsed." That America is entering nil era of great pros-I eritj as the result of crop conditions is Hie prediction of B. W. Snow, the crop expert, who re turned lo Chicago Wednesday from ■ tour of Illinois. Iowa. South Dakota, Nebraska ami Kansas "It is now Certain the farmer will be favored with Large crane." Mr. Snow said, "and foreign eomliti-iis are such they will bring him relatively liiuh prices, which will mean an increased purchasing power. As compared with a year ago at this time, when crops began to move, he prices of l.iple crops on the farm are t ,v only live per cent io forty per cent higher, dm- to foreign demand for foodstuffs. I.at year we exported 340,000.000 bushels, which broke all previous records. This esr we will probably export 100,000,000 bushels." ihe new American note to Germany is on its way io Berlin. It cleared from Washington over the telegraph wires during the night, and vesier da.v was being Hashed over the cables to j don nal thence hi Copenhagen, whence ii l.o,-s over land wires aain to the German foreign eaVe. It should reach its destination last uighl or early today. Secrete n Lansing announced that the text of the n. ite would he Liiveii out Friday afternoon. on-eeraing future conducl of German submarines, the uole docs not necessarily call for an answer as it announces the intention of the United States to regard anj further violation of international law resulting in ihe loss of American lives as unfriendly. A dispatch to General Carranxas agency in Wasii-ingtoo from Vera Crua yesterday reviewed ihe situation ns follows: "General Pablo Goaaales, with a large portion of his troops, is proceeding to Pachnce io engage the Villhrte force, which is fleeing before tien.-ral Dieguea. ii is expected that the Villlsta forces will be completely crushed within the next lew days, as they are being driven southward from the rear .f ihe Obtegou army by General Dieguees powerful mobile column, and it is Genera] Gonxales Intention with his von strong divisions to attack coincidentally with the Diegnea pursuit, thus catch-bag the so-called "flying column of Villa as i,, tween the blades of a pair of shears." The Berlin Vosateehe Zeitung publishes an interview which its Bucharest correspondent has had wiii the American minister to Bountania, Charles J. Vopicka of Chicago, Wt»o lias just returned from a four weeks- trip to Serbia. The minister has been caring for German and Austro-Hungarian interests in that country. lb- reports that spotted typhus has been eliminated no case lielng reported during his siav. and that no other disease is epidemic. Both prisoners of war ami interned civilians, he says, arc being well tieated by i lie Serbians. A dispatch frfltu Rotterdam says the Hermans have devised an automatic shell-feeding system for great caliber -mis. aii endless chain earth - ihe sludK to tin. ".mi through an underground passage from the ammunition depot some distance to tin- rear, once the ram.e is found Ihe gun is loaded and tire. I an-tomatically, control being exercised bv ofacers from an armored observation post. Sapidity of tire and increased accuracy are claimed for the new device, which also embraces a novel use • the periscope ri .limim: purposes. The bod] of Herbert s stone, who was a Las! tenia rlctim, ha-, com,, ashore at Ballybuanion, a small town at the month of the River Shannon on ihe weal coast of Ireland, about ISO miles from the s|h,i where the l.usitania was sunk. The Uwly has i e.-u fully identified by articles on the person, including a card rase filled with .aids, his watch. and other hel.mgings. .Mr. Stone wras a ton of Melville E. stone, general manager of the s,,. elated Press At St. Thomas. Banish West Indies. Wednesday ihe Danish government ordered the deportation of Cipriano Castro, former president ol Vene zucla. who arrived there Morula] from Port of Spain. Trinidad, demanding thai he return on the steamer on which he came. Consequently Castro left that day aboard the British steamer Berhi.e. pr. siiiuhablv for Trinidad. Where lie has resided lor ■ oaie i late. Ihe rank- of the striking longshoremen at New fork on ihe piers of the Clyde and Mallorj lines were increased yesterday bv about 500 men, making about I. -WO men idle .n ihe North River watei front. The strike began yesterday as a pro-tesl against ihe wages ihe men were receiving. and their leader- said Hull efforts Would he made io caM out longshoremen employed bj other lines. In a report to the war department on effort lo relieve famine conditions in Mexico, Brig. Gen. Devol, general manage! ..i the American Red ross declared ■ I tit t while noocorabatants were suffering in- wain ..1 fed military leaders ,,! both ii.- Villa ami Carranxa factions had reaped -i harvest from export taxes en Mexican-grown food pr.Nluois ihipped into the United States. From Lugano. Switzerland, • dispatch of yester • i iv reports thai the battle on the Ispuzu i Hearing its end grit* tplete victor in sj-iii for the Italians, according lo advices received there. During the last twu day- and nights oi continuous fighting ihe IMtrans have .-o.wupii •! ni..p..i lam p., i sitious dominating Montfalcoue, GorEia, jlofltef San Michclc and Motile Seibus. I According to a Berlin dispatch of yesterday, . ion- evacuating Windau the Russians applied the torch to the iiv and Hie harbor works, according to new- received at Lilian. The greater nail of He .ity is said lo have b i destroyed. The Russian troop- al-o are reported I" have tired vil lae.es and farm bouses in other parts of Cour-Isnd. in accordance with the provisions of a re cully published army order. The London Chronicles Zurich correspondenl -aid yesterday: "Travelers arriving here from |»w Al-aee report that Mondays French aii raid there did great damage to the military works. Several bombs exploded on a crowded troop train entering Colmar from Straseburg with frightful result-. The freight depol also raujgbt lire, but the flames soon were mastered. An exposition to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary or the ac1411isitk.11 of Alaska by the United States, is being planned al Fairbanks. Alaska. The fair will be held in the summer of 1817, when tin- uov eminent railroai] will be in operation, and excursions by water will bring visitors from Seattle and other COasI cities. The Boase correspondent of the London Daily Mail renorts that the Italians have captured several elevated positions and are pressing on. The Arch dak, Bugear, he -ay-, ha- demanded rem, -,, meiits. and it is estimated thai at least 100,000 are engaged in the battle of ihe Isonao. Private reports from three different sources reach bag Budapest state that the kinds of Koiiinania. Bulgaria and he Hellenes are to meet in Athens Shortly. A Bucharest telegram to the same effect add- thai the foreign ministers the three conn tries will accompany their rulers. Speaking for the government in Hie house of lords, l.onl Newton said the number of married men at present in the British army was approximately 843,000. The aggregate cost of separa lion allowances paid to wives and children of these men has been 25,000,000. Yesterday was the anniversary of the opening to tranV of Canadas first railroad seventy-elghi years ago. The original line ran from La Prairie to St. Jolms. Today, with 2li. i0i miles of railroad, Canada has mere per capita mileage than any other country in the world. A record Crop of peaches, totaling 1,000 carloads, is being harvested at Highland, Ark., in the largest peach orchard in the world. The orchard contains alH.ct 5,000 aires and over 300.000 trees. The orchard i- eipiippeil with electric light- and a telephone s stem. From London it is announcer! that the king and all the leaders of the nation will attend St. Pauls cathedra] on August 4. the anniversary of the declaration of war. to inaugurate the second year of the war by invoking bids help. The South Wales coal miners have accepted the terms agreed on and the strike is therefore deflnitelj al an -ni. Throughout the coal fields there was an overwhelming majority in favor of the settlement.
