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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. The Tarkiab hatthrahlp Kheyr-K.l Kin Barbaroaaa of 9.900 toas displacement, formerly the German warship K UT furs t Friedrieh Willielin. baa beca sunk bv a subiuarine oC the entente powers, according to nil official announcement issued yesterday by the Turkish government. A majority ot tbe officers and men composing the crew of the battleship was Bared The Kbeyr Ed-Din Barbaroaaa was bailt st Stettin in 1891 and was purchased together with the battleship Tocgat Reis from Germaay bj Turkey in 1*10. The vessel was 4 feet loag, sixty-four feet beam and had a depth of twenty four feet. Its complement was 809. The battleship carried lour 11-iach guns in turrets ore and aft: two 1 1 1-inch guns in a turret amidships; eight 4.1 inch guns; eight :;.4 inch guns, sad twelve oee-poanders. The vessel also was equipped Willi two submerged i 18-hKh torpedo tul.es. Officera casualty lists from .Inly 10 to July 30 shew thai Hie British army lost 11.. killed, 230 waaaded and fourteea missing, a total of 305. This brings the aggregate officer loss sin..- the beginning - of the war to 13,650, of whom 1.17; are recorded 1 dead, 8,303 woaaded and 1.17.". missing. Killing tbe 1 ten days covered by the lists, regiments operating - in the Dardanelles hare again been the greatest I suiteiers. the Australians having nine killed and 1 twenty -are wounded; the Kings own Scottish Bar derers, nine killed, f- 111- waaaded and seven missing: the Highland Ugh I Infantry, nineteen killed and I thirteen wounded- the Cameroniaus, iw p killed and 1 six woaaded. and Royal Scots, nine killed and iven 1 woaaaod. The Indian contingent 1 si sixteen officers s killed and nineteen woaaded. Proas ivtrogiad a dispatch of yesterdaj sajrs: "The report thai German] had made peace pre-pes»is in itussia became kaown in offieial circle* here sever il davs age. and was freely dis-ussod in the lobbies of the duiiia. according t 1 the Vechernee Vremya. We barn mi Rood sutbority, says the aewspaper, that Germany, throagb Denmark, pro poai I to Raaata a asperate peace, Raaaia to receive Galfa-ia, while Germaay would retain tbe western 1 district of Poland. A representative ■•! the foreign office categorically denied ihai there was the remotes! possibility of any peace negotiations. In 1 tln lobbies of the duma the proposal was dismissed 1 as aaworthy f serious consldtratjoa. " sireniious efforts to check a fresh outbreak of Hie foot-and-mouth diaeaae were made by government officials yesterday following the discovery of 1 the disease am tag cattle on the farm of Henry Pearsoa, mar Wheeling. 111. Dr. .1. S. Jenison. in charge of the 1 «• -:» I Office -if tin- bureau of animal i industry, with several assistants, hastened to Wheel ing. which is fourteen miles northwest of Chicago. After the rattle on the Pearsoa farm were • killed, a ui.ir.iiitine district, with a radius of the miles, was throwa about the farm. Pearsoa bad 1 four cows, two of which were affected with the disease. - Oat of a total nuiiilxT el 121 bogs, thirty were affected. Prom Port an Prime. Haiti, a dispatch of Sun-Wav said: ••The election of a president of the republic to take the place of General Will. run « i n i 1 lauiiie. who was removed by a mob of Haitians - July 28 and -hot to death, was postponed today • for an Indefinite period. This election was 10 have taken place today. The American naval forces 1 today at Croix-des Bouquets, near Pert an Prince, reprcaacd some disorder on the part of a band of ! brigands. The chief of the baud was taken prisoner : n.l placed on board the Halted ssates cruiser ■Washington." Lniporor Yoshihito yesterday authorized Premier t Okansa to arlthdran his resignation and the reeaa- strueled Japanese cabinet will U Installed today. The newspapers report that Canal Okams 1- having ! difficalty in tinding a foreign minister to lake the place of Takaakl Kate. According; to tin- Kokumin 1 Sliimbiin. Baron Mot. .no, the ambassador at Petro- gr.nl: Viscount chinda. the ambassador at Was, 1 ingtoii. aid Count Inouye, the ambassador at London, have declined to accept the portfolio of fori ign affairs. Fiv - IMfeaa bandits and one Mexican woman 1 were kilUBi the fighting Sunday at Noiias. sixty- etght nlleY* -north ..f Brawaaville. Tex. For an 1 boar fifteen Americans, eight of them United stales cavalrymen, -i 1 1 it the attack ot hxh Mexicans. Five of tic Americans were waaaded, three of the litter soldiers. The ftfteea Americans wire saved 1 from death fast as their ammunition gave out by the arrival ot seventeen Texas ranger-. Porta Kicnn- are preparing to hop the United Slates get better prepared for pea r for whatever i- else mav come. Residents of tbe Island have .-, ked 1 lieruiissi.n .f tie War Department t gaafaw a regiment .f militia. In anticipation of permission 1 being granted one battalion already has 1 n I formed ami Hie men an- dri! Ing The men have . ■■listed lor two year- and hope to be taken into the e new militia regiment in a body. Qovcraor Duaae yesterday removed Dr. K. w. Cox. or Cairo, and Dr. P.. A. Smith, of Champaign. from office as members if tbe si ite board of dental j examiners. This sctioa followed an Investigation maiie by Chairman James 11. Bardett ot tbe state .. civil service 1 immission of charges of irregularities againsi tie two men. which were submitted to ;. Governor Dnnne last Thursday in 1 htcago, oa bl return from the Pa it;. OBJ t. The miser Teaaeasee docked at the Philadelphia • ■avy yard resterday. Upon Its arrival the in-t regiaieal of murines embarked with provisions for ,, a three mouths expedition to Haiti, ready to sail tulay miller the command of Cokmel Waller. The „ ■eld equipment consist- r aeveaty-three machine ; ,. guns, -even wireless sets, seven milts of cable, six m rtocyclea and several motor trucks. Llovds paananrca that the BritJah steaaser Glen , ravel of Belfast, the Swedish Steamer Malniland and II tiie trawl.r dean Queen have been sank. The crews of all three vessels have been landed. The Gleeravel was a vessel of 1,092 I 1 and wned by tin- Antrim Iron Ore Company of Belfast. The " Malmlam! wa of ."..77i tons and OWVed al Gotben 1 burg. taKTlrail farmers are harvesting the greatest t wheat eroa evei grown In any country. p may reach a billion Im-Ueb. Departmeut ot Agriculture a experts yesterday eattaaated the crop at 906.000.000 bushels, basing their calculation on the condition of the crop Aaguai 1. Samper harvests of other cereals and feed crops are Indicated. The RagUsb language is to be substituted far Herman in most of Hie commercial schools of Itussia as one of the compulsory subjects of the ear ri. uluui. This step was ordered bj the minister of taaace at the reaaesi ..1 the school authorities. Signer Orlando, minister of justice, who has returned m Pome from the trout, warns his fellow eoiintrvmen of the immense difficulties of the si rug gle around Gerhda and the high plateau of Caro. which might almost be called impregnable. Dariag the last decade, the forest service has cla-siijcil as agricultural and opened 10 public entry more than 15.500 Individual scattered tracts of land in the national forests, comprising Bare thai. 1. Toe. orb air. s.
