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at a , i j J ] , | 1 I i • I I . - r . . 0 ? " " . - 1 ■ - ; - _ f 4, T I ►?« k. s- to a- Vs. :s- GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. lira. Prances Wan-en Pershing, wife of Brig. Gen, 0 John J. Pershing, I . 8. A., and three of her four children were suffocated to death tn their quarters the Presidio of San Francisco yesterday. Tbelr bodies were badly burned. Mrs. Walter it. BosweU. ] rciatie. and her two children, escaped, as did Warren Pershing, Bre yean old, and tares sen ants. The dead children are Helen, 8; Anne, 7. and Mai yard. 6. Mrs Pershing was a daughter of Senator a Warren of Wyoming" Her husband, commanding the Bight brigade, United States infantry, i- at Bl Paso, Tex., in charge of the border troops. Tic i board of inqulrj appointed by the commands n of . the Presidio found that two mate Ores had been burning In the bouse during the night. A hole was round buiiie.l in the ceiling of the dining room, j which waa taken to Indicate that lire coals may j have fallen from the grate on the second Boor ai A s started the Mare. Mrs. Pershings bodv wis found ; , on the Moor of the ban, near the do r of her j childrens bed chamber. II"- ansa were around the j three, and she bad apparently tried to drag th. n 1 j ami herself down the hallway. Coast von Berastorff, the German ambassador, s acting on instructions from Berlin, notified Sec- - s ctary Lansing yesterday that "full satisfaction" would be given to the- United States for the ll lk-Ing of the White star liner Arabic. The ambassador explained that Germany would make more than a ! mere disavowal, it it is found the Arabic was sunk : without warning. Count von Bernstorff called at t t the state department early and conferred with Bee- retary Lansing nearly half an hour, it bad been 1 suggested that perhaps Germany was ready alsi o » i make reparation for the Americana ost on the Lusitania, bur that subject did not come ap at the , conference. T ■ ambassador did not make public the extent of the Instructions from Berlin on , i which he acted, bat it was understood they coincided entirely with the statement of the German 1 chancellor in Associated Press dispatches from Berlin, expressing the willingness of the German gov- i ernment to make fullest reparation if it la shown 1 ; Anally that the /fable was torpedoed without t j warning: ! B ports from the South Wales coal fields yester- day afternoon state that 25.000 miners already have e i joined the new strike. The recurrence of labor r ; troubles is due to growing dissatisfaction with the • : award of Walter Banetoaan, president of the board I I of tiade. who acted as arbitrator in the recent t 1 strike. The situation was strained further when a ] the roUtera learned that Mr. Uuncin.au had declined I to aee a deputation representing them. The miners - : 1 barge Mr. B mciman with going behind the ar-F rangement made bj David Uoyd-George and demand i that Mr. Uoyd-George make good Ids promises to 0 them. The mine owners federation sent an argent t request to the strikers yesterday to return to work k at once. The executive council of the miners organisation adopted a resolution condemning the new v strike as unauthorised and urging the men to re- main at work pending further negotiations. A deputation i- representing the council is on its way to " London in an attempt to overcome Mr. Buncimans objection to re opening the matter. / The United States for the first time in its history now leads the world as an exporter. Figures s made public by the bureau of foreign and domestic . commerce snow that American exports in the Bacal II year ended Juno 90 last totaled ,768,600,000, • compared with ,170,100,000 for the United Kingdom, • the next largest exporter. This was an m-crease 1 of seventeen per cent in the case of the United States when compared with last year, and " a decrease of thirty per cent for iiie United Kingdom. American exports included domestic products :" valued .at ,716,200,000, against ,239,700,000 in 11 1014: and foreign products, 2,400,000, against 4.-900.000 •" in the preceding year. British exports In- eluded British and Irish produce, ,744,100,000, j against ,5X7.200.000 In 1914; and foreign and colonial . produce 26,000,000 comparand with 20,-500.000 in 1014. A dispatch of yesterday from Paris says that a sixty-two Preach aviators on August 23 Bew over a a German arms factory to the north of Baarlouis, throwin"; down a total of more than 150 shells. a! Thirty of these ware of .large caliber. Announce i- nieiit of the aerial raid is made In the Btatemenl it given out by the war office this afternoon. Cse n statement reads: »u August 23 an aerial squadron 1- oonip iscd f four groups and Including a total al of sixty-two aviators Sew over the heights of He 1 1- lingen. Here then is a factory where shells and id armor plate are made. The location of this plant it is to the north of Saarlouis, in EUteniaa Prussia, a. thirty miles southeast of Treves. Tne aviators rs threw down with precision over 150 bombs, thirty [v of which were of large caliber. Secretary Lansing said Wednesday thai toe treaty iv the United States has submitted to Haiti, proposing ,;. t a yi ars American control of the island govern-t. if ;;. menta finances, bad for Its sole purpose the establishment of a stable government widen could ho .0 entirely turned over to the Haitians themselves. - The American charge at Port au Prince has asked the Haitian government tnr an answer to the American proposals quickly. Secretary Lansing confirmed j the outline of the plan as it was stated in yesterdays l" news dispatches from port aa Prince. The " United states government has no purpose or ag-- f" ssion, and is entirely disinterested In promoting * this protectorate. We have not even asked for J1 Mole st. Nicholas. A aemi-official dispatch from Berlin by waj f I Amsterdam repudiates Itus.ian claims of great ,: ■- man loss, s in the naval battle In the Gulf of Biga. a. The dispatch asserts that no dreadnaughts or cruisers a- were sunk of damaged. The telegram, which •h declares Petrograd reporta absolutely untrue, n e- i.ats the official statement issued by the admiralty ty staif on August 21. which said one small German in warship was sunk and two others put cut of commission, while two Hessian gunboats were destroyed, o- it also is denied that Germany attempted ■d to land troops mar Persas. Tne Pussians apparently ban decided to evaca-t« ate Grodao, the one important stronghold on their •Ir principal Use of defense which they still retain. A A message from Petrograd quotes the Bassky Invalid id as stating thai Grodno will be given op when the ie retreat of the defenders has been covered. The mes-sage «. indicates that the fall of Brest-Lltovsk, announced n- In Berlin Thursday, was not known pule b liciy in Petrograd at one oclock yesterdaj afternoon, ■r- the time t the filing of the message. The first otlieiai lest of the nickel batteries designed .. l.v Thomas A. Edison for nse In submarines ,.s in an effort to eliminate the generation of chlorine gas. was made Tnurudaj at the Brooklyn navy yard. At the conclusion of the test made on submarine K 8, Lieut. J. B. Bailey, in charge, said he was " _. "much pleased" with the batteries. Within a few ~, days the submarine will be snbaserged for several hours a~ an additional test of the batteries. Vest,., lays baseball results National League: e: Boston 0. Chicago i itirsr game: Chicago 1. i: -. ";. ton 1 second game; Philadelphia 4, Cincinnati 2; New York 2. Pittsburgh 1: Sr. Louis 11. Brooklyn . 7. American League: Chicago 3, Philadelphia ia 2: Ck-vei. md 4. Boston 3: Detroit R, New York 1 ! first game: Detroit 11. New York :: second m gamei: Washiueton 3. St. Louis 1. Federal League: ■ Pittsburgh 3, Chicago 2. Fourteen persons met death near Cape San Antonio. n Cuba, and the powerful wireless station then ■ was badly damaged and made safit for immediate • use. by the recent tropical hurricane. Capt. II. O. O. Borden of the schooner Caroline Voaght br mght ht that news .in his arrival at Tampa. ll was aeces sary to beach the small fruit scat ai r Boacador. a. The on w was saved. Copenhagen dispatch of Thursday says: The 1,,. American Bag was hoisted today by the American ,1, consul general, Bdward D. Wlnslow, on three ,.,, steamers formerly of Danish reals try, which have re been purchased by the American Transatlantic Company. The ships have been renamed Genesee, Mo nun e and Winnecoone. Haitis parliament has been given until September T 17 to act upon the proposed tresty i which the ,e United State! a mid extend financial control over •r nstable little republic for ten years. In the meantime the American marines will continue to o occupy the principal cities if the island to prevent it I a n euneaee »f anarchy. . I The Austrian minister of the Interior, say re-. port; from Vienna, has announced then wen 1.500 c.a- of Asiatic cholera in Austria August 10. ■ ■
