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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. It is reported that three indictments -oae char. ing four men jointly with manslaughter aad two others charging criminal carelessness were voted late yesterday by the Cook County Lrand .jury which 1 as iieen Investigating Hie Eastland disaster. The men named Kdatlj In mausiaaghter charges nre: W. II. Hull. lio-nii-i.i.M sad general manage ..i the Si. Joseph-Chicago Steaaiship Company; W . Steele. secretarj treasurer same company: Ray v. Davi~. assistant secretary treasurer same com p.inv: n ge l. Arnold, president same compauy. Those inUictfd for criminal taiihnnnfai ate: Capl- Harry Pcderson. who was in charge of the death ship; Joseph Frieksoii. the engineer of the Eastland. 1 A London dispatch of yesterday says: An attack by Column airships, which flew nver the F.nglisii , oast last night, was announced today by the otli- , cial press bureau. Ihe statement says one of the airships was damaged by British aeroplanes and was , towed into Ostend. The text of Hie statement follows: "A squadron of hostile airship- visited the east const last night and this mottling, between , the hours of S;.M» p. m. and 12*30 a. in. Some lires were caused by the dropping id incendiary bombs, but those were quickly extinguished and only im material damage was .lone. The following casualties have been reported: Killed, one man. eight women am! four children. Wounded, four men. six women and two children. One Zeppelin was seriously damaged by the gnntire at the land defenses and was reported this morning being towed into Ostein!. It ha- since Iieen subjected to continual attacks by aircraft from Dunkirk and has been under heavy tire, and il is now reported that after having its back broken and the rear eompartmeats damaged, it was completely destroyed by an explosion. The night was extremely dark am! was accompanied by thick fog in places which rendered night flying by aeroplanes very difficult. It is reported that Flight Sub-Lieut. R. Lord, who was one of the pilots sent up to engage the* enemy, was killed on landing in the dark." Sir John French, commander in chief of the Brit i-h forces in France, reports that the lost t rem ileal Hooge, east of Ypres. in Belgium, have been retaken bj the British troops and that they have advanced on a front of 1.2H yards. The statement of Field Marshal French says: Since my coin iniinicatiou of August 1 the artillery on both sides has been active north and east of Ypres. In these exchanges Hie advantage lias been with lis. After a successful artillery bombardment, in which the French on our left cooperated effectively, we at-tacked the trenches at Hoog.-. captured by the enemy on July 30. These wire all retaken, and following 1 1 1 tliis success we made further progress north and west of llooge. extending the front of the trenches captured to 12200 yards. During this fighting our artillery shelled a German troop train at Langemarck five miles northeast of Ypres, derailing and setting tire to live trucks. The captures reported amounted to three officers and 124 men of other ranks and two machine guns. Says a London dispatch of yesterday: Although the Russian official communication telling of the repulse of a German naval attack on the culf of Riga arrived in London too late for comment by them, all the morning newspapers lay emphasis on what they a-sert is Russias Improved situation in the Riga district. Ihe Russian position throughout the Baltic province, is described by the news papers a- linn. The Russians, says the Morning Posts Petrograd correspondent, are forcing a vigor ous aggressive, and the Germans have been swept clear from the Riga region. In a dispatch dealing in a similar manner with the Bigs sector the limes Petrograd correspondent says: The Riga position ha- been relived by Russian successes south of Hie town and the wh lie region for twenty-live miles from Riga has been cleared of the ciiein.v . From Innsbruck. Austria, a dispatch says: In the recent lighting along the section of the eastern front running from the Pissa river to Ostrov. northeast of Warsaw, the Ccrinans lost 65.000 men in killed "i- wounded, but succeeded in capturing the principal fortified positions of the Russians. The engagements in the vicinity id Novogeorglevsk have been continued for five days, and the Germans have occupied the northern portion of the defenses of the surrounded fortress. The Russian garrison depends mainly upon bayonet charges, as artillery amnmiii lion i- kicking. North of the Lublin helm railroad the battle continues to the advantage of the ii-tri.-ins and Germane. In the region of Nova Alexandria, on the Yistida, south of Ivangoro.l. Hie Russians arc offering tierce resistance, inflicting heavy losses on their opponents. Reports from Laibach, the Austrian headquarters, announce that since the Russian defeat in Poland. large re-infor.-enients have arrived on the Italian front, especially artillery. A plunging lire from Dalian batteries stationed two miles in the clouds has forced the Austrian* to evacuate the whole region around Montoaao, thirty-fear miles northwest of Trent Advancing from the Toaale pass region. Alpine troops first captured the pass of Montoaao, .ind then moving swiftly forward in a night attack took Montoaao peak, capturing Austrian troops and guns on the summit. Italian arlillerv was brought up th.- mountain paths, ami the Anstrians shelled out r their positions on sarronadhig peaks of the Yal Del Monte region. flic Rritish auxiliary cruiser India of 7. .Ml tons lias been torpedoed off the Swedish e,,a~t. Eighty members of the crew were saved. Tin- India was attacked at a poial north of Bodge when entering lo-I fjord Ihe re-cued men were lucked up by th.. Swedish steamer GoestNand. The India belonged to the Peninsular and oriental line, ami was built la 1888. The place of attack on the India In- along the steam-hip lane between Kngland and the Russian port of Archangel Reatfjord Is a bay six mile- long on the northwest coast ..f Norway. Ihe tir-t direct shipment of gold in large quantity from Kngland to this country sin.-o the war began is on ils way by train to New York from Halifax. N.oa S.otlrr. Hie alne. oi the shipment has not Iieen revealed, but it is said lo rrtu -well . ii|i , .Int.. the millions, h was rumored that the amount was 100.000,000, but this estimate was said to be ex cessive. D was siated that this importation of 1 gold would be deposited iu the subtreasury in New 1 , , , , York to the account of J. P. Morgan and Co., fiscal agents of the British government. According to advices of yesterday from Athens the allied forces have resumed their attacks upon the Turkish positions at the Pardee* lies with great vigor daring Hie last two days, and have made sensible progress on the liallipoli peninsula. The Turkish losses have been heavy. Simultaneously the allied fleet bombarded the Turkish positions on Hie Dardanelles, inflicting severe damage apoa their defense works. New South Wales. Australia, has contributed more than t5.O0O.O00 to war charities since the beginning Of hostilities. The proceeds from -Australia day will probably said another million and a quarter to the total of the first year of the war. The colonys donations include about ,500,000 sent to Belgium. $.100,000 for Red Cro-s work and .$.immi,mm for local nee. Stander McNaSsee, the senior American naval officer at Yera Cruz, has asked the navy depart meat to send a battleship squadron to guard against aatl-foreign dr monstrsHons which he fears, orders for the battleships Louisiana and New Hampshire lo pro. ee.l at once to Yera Cruz were issued yesterday, but subsequently withdrawn. Hiram Maxim is credited by the London correspondent of the Relit Parisicn with having invented a simple and inexpensive contrivance to protect soldiers from the effects of deadly gases employed in battle. This device is designed to cause the ga-e-to rise and pass over tin- heads of the men against whom they are directed. The shortage of meat in Sweden, caused by the large exports of the last twelve months to or many, is beginning to be seriously fell, and retail meat dealers have petitoned the government to forbid further exports.
