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C GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY J A dispatch from Petrograd yesterday says: A German fieet has penetrated the cult of Riga and is engaged with Russian warships defending the , ast, according lo the following Russian war office communication: Strong forces of the Herman fieet i have penetrated the Galf of Blga and fighting with our ships continues. On and on the whole frost, from the we-i of Blga to he lower l.iliva. tiiere has been no essential change. Alter the OCCUpa lion of the Kovso fori dications by the Hermans the remainder of the gain-, n rejoined our forces occupying positions west ,; tbe railway from lanow i to Kocbedary. South of Kovno oar troops -mi an- . on tin- left bank of the Nhenan. From OseowetS Routhwaid, and slill fartlier along the whole from ; ot iii.- upper Narew ami the Bug, in the coarse of tbi eighteenth and nineteenth the Germans made -tr,ng attacks. On the right bank of the Narew in the region of Strenkova ami Ooura, in the , Straldia Tielsk Beetor, BBd near Lipnitz. twenty .-i is ten miles! northwest of Brest-Lltovak in tin- BCC torn attacked our troops COStlaae to withstand the enemy. Our cavalry assisted in repulsing a Herman offensive near Lipnitz, attacking the Her man Infantry in strong Pne. on the Rug. east of Vladova, Hie enemy, having occupied the right bank of tiie river since the morsing of tie- nino-teentb, directed his ulterior efforts along the road I, ailing to Puahucka. Near Novogeorglevak, after oc, upying the left bank of the Wkra. the Hermans concentrated all their efforts northwest of the Wkra as far as the Vistula. By an incessant bombard nient with a hurricane of projectiles they almost completely destroyed our fortifications, in thht - c tion on the evening of the eighteenth the Germans surrounded one fort in the region of Wynis-low and afterward, despite enoraaoas losses. ii-rected their columns m the rear of Eackrocsylu sector. This compelled out- troops on the aighl af the nineteenth to retire oa the line of the former forts forming t:." centra] defease. In th.- course of the following day. having destroyed by their lire twa of these forta, the Rermans, by a aeries of sanguinary assaults, occupied the ruins from which hey directed their fire against the central defeases. We blew up the bridge over the Narew. and the toils we abandoned iu the northern section. Six persons dead, many thousands homeless, crops ami other property worth several mOlioa dollar- destroyed, transportation and win- commas!-cation facilities greatlj impaired and iu places wholly suspended, thousands of lives endangered this was the toll of an off-ho.,1 of the Texas coat tornado which swept through Missouri. Arkasaas awl eastern Illinois. St. Louis, its suburbs ami neighboring Illinois towns suffered most from the lie ,1 waters which followed Hi • storm. The un predented downpour reven to nine inches in twenty-four hours converted brooklets into raging tor rents which tore away bridges, levees, dsam, homes and everything else in their path. At Last Alton. 111., a 300-foot section of the new levee yw way and a wall of water from tin- Wood River rushed toward the towns ol Wcodriver, Benhos and Kasl Alton, bahtwo horsemen, who had stood watch at the levee, meed a hundred yards ahead of the oncoming water, calling right and left: "Ban for your lives." In less ihan an hour the three towns were covered with ten feet of water, hut i: it a - ul had lingered. Hie population of Wood-river and Beahow city raced for West W driver. while residents of East Mton took refuge, in Alton. Ollieial dispatch,- to the state department at Washington have confirmed earlier press reports an in liming that the British liner Arabic was torpedoed without warning and that at least some American passengers hst :! ir lives wbea the vea sel went down. Whether tiie attack Bpoa tbe Arabic was :tn act "deliberately unfriendly" to the linked States against which President Wilson :xave warning in his la-i note to Hermany apparent! depend* upon whether tbe Germaa submarine commander claims that he interpreted as an hostile approach tin- change in the liner- coarse to assist the sinking British steamer Dnnsley, which had been torpedoed near by. Thl point, perhaps, can not lc cleared up until Ambassador Gerard ai Bet lin i.a- ascertained erhai report the German govera-ment receives from the submarine commander. In tiie meantime. President Wilson and Secret Br] Lansing are conferring over dispatches already received from Ambassador Pag- at London and are anxiously awaiting farther reports from American consuls. In addition to planning for a general reorganization of the army, th" war department is preparing to overhaul the entire system of coast defeases. flic tir-t sieo will be taken by installing tiie new" sixteen inch uns at Cape Henry. Vs. Not. only will all the saw f ntilii aliens be equipped with sixteen inch guns but eventually this type will be substituted for the foiirteen-inch guns with which the larger fortifications are now equipped. The Change from fourteen to sixteeii-inch guns is not made to see UlS a longer range, as is popularly supposed. The sixteen-inch guns throws a heavier projectile and has great pesetratlSg povers. The i i . ; , new- gun will ln sixty feet 1 nig. as compared wnh the obi iin of forty-five feet. They win throe projectiles weighing 2.200 pounds. Congress piobabH will be asked for BBthority to place some of the new sixteen inch guns in the Panama canal I, rtilieat Ions. A private dispatch which has lieen received at I. ond .ii from Alliens, says that the allied French and British troops have dealt a heavy blow to the Turkish forces at the Dardanelles by tin- tip lure ,. tin- mala line of communications between Constantinople and the defense on Gallipoll pesia- aS| Bala. This Information, if correct, means that he w great forces of Turkish troops which have been engaged in daily battles for weeks with the alli ,i forces will he cut off froni supplies of ammunition and foodstuffs. It Is asserted by the allies, the statement says, that this great strategic BOCeess equals in its military aud moral effect the fall of Warsaw. Yesterdays baseball results — National League: Philadelphia 7. Chicago ■" first gaaae: Philadelphia :;. Chicago 2 second game; Cincinnati -t. Brook lyn l itirst game; Brooklyn 1. Cincinnati o second game: Boston :;. Pittsburgh I Hirst gaaae; Baa top 2. Pittsburgh l I second game. American League: Chicago 1. New York first gaaae; Cleveland 4. Philadelphia :;: Boston 4. St. Louis 1. Federal League: Buffalo ".. Chicago :; itirs: gamei; Buffalo 5, Cab-ago j second game: Brooklyn ::. St. Louis i first game; Brooklyn 8, st. Loata l second game; Kansas City ii. Baltimore 0; Pittsburgh 4. Newark 2. A dispatch from Sahmlkl to Naples savs that Bulgaria lias concentrated 180,000 troops on the Turkish fruitier. Recent news dispatches from Sofia have agreed that Bulgaria is natlslli il with the territorial concessions offered her by the entente powers as toe price of her aid in the war. The consent of Serbia and Greece to these terms is ■Waited before the allies can bring their Begot b lions with Bulgaria to a successful conclusion. If Bulgaria declares war apon Turkey, it is eaderstoad tbit -I,- will receive general financial assistance from the entente powois. Lieutenant John M. Hnghes of engine company 70 was making out a report of a lire earl] yester day when he dropped dead in the quarters of the company, 2100 Eastwood a venae. The company had just returned from a small lire al Limoln and Warner avenues, and the lieutenant was making ,.ut the report Pi ret urn to his bed when he foil to He BOM*. A physician was , ailed by other firemen, and he said death prohsbl] ia- rained bv heart disease. The lieutenant was a member of the lire depsi i mint for over twenty years, lb- as lil ly three years old. The London Morning Post eorresi. indent at Polio grad -ends tie following dispatch: I hear that the Hermans have now some mysterious scientific device for clearing the way through wire entanglements from a considerable distance. The instrument has ali the appearance of what i- known as a pro jeeter - that is. a searchlight. No specimen vet baa been eaptared, and nothing is known about il. except that it disposes of wire entangle, cents from a distance of a mile by some means at present in omprel ensible to the lay mind. Itaban a.-roplanes defeated an Austrian air squadron off the Adriatic coast, according to a dispatch lo the Paris Figaro from Turin. Three of the Austrian machines were brought down and their crews vote either killed or made prisoners. The I Igan s correspondent Bays tie Italian aqnadn a fcrred an engagement on the Anstrians after a long stern chase. The Italian aviators returned to their base w it boat | s- or injury. A Zeppelin airship was brosght down by Russian artillery Friday afternoon after it had dropped several bombs npoa Vilna. the war office announced yesterdsj ai Petrograd. The crew of the air-hip was laptnred. The crew consisted of an oastir, cngln or ami eight soldiers. The airship equipped wiih a Maxim gun and carried a number of incendiary shells. she was hit iu four places by the Russian guns. D. Paul lhrlich. discoverer of salvarsan and • ! tiie BBti-toxia for diphtheria, died suddenlv Friday of heart di ease at Had IIombur ;. Germany, al the age of sixty-seven years. He was noted also as an expert in the treatment of cancel Half of the N .hie prize for medicine was awarded to him in I.Mis. A Qaeesatowa dispatch of yesterday says thai after checking up all li-ts ••! Americans on tbe White Star line steamer Arabic, tore t :n] Thnr-lay morning by a Herman submarine nfr FaatSet, the Inited States consulate re] its that the oulv Amerd an- missing are Mrs. Josephine I.. Brn-galeie and Edmoad T. Woods. Abraham Reuf. once a power in San Iran polities, serving a fourteen-year sentence for offer- fij ing a bribe lo a San Francisco supervisor. vas paroled jresterday from San Qaeatka pealteatlary bv the stat,- board of prises directors,
