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1 ■ , ■ I I , ; , , 1 , t , , ; , , , , ; I ; ; j , , — GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. « Communication between the Au*tro-G Tinaii and Bulgarian armies is ss the point of being established and the dispatch of munition* to Constantinople is exjiected to begiu within a few days, according to information from Turn Sevorin. Roumania. sent to the London Times by its correspondent in Ruch-, arest. This comniiinicati 11 is being effected in the northeastern corner of Serbia, stare the dis-I tancce between the ungarian and Bulgarian frontiers is only forty miles in a direct line. The dispatch describes the Austiian occupation of Tekia. which was accomplished after a bombardment lasting many hours. Austrian troops crossing the Danube in cighty-, six boats. The advance of Kladovo immediately followed. At four oclock Tuesday morning Kla-1 dovo was in flames, the Serbians having started many fire*. Refugees from Kladovo reaeMag the Roumanian shore of the Danube included civil authotitics and —"fetal Serbian officers. It is semiofficially announced in Berlin, says a dispatch from Rotterdam to the London Daily Telegraph, that all the important harbors in .eastern Serbia on the Danube are in posse*siou of the Bulgaria 11s anil that further access for the Serbians by way of Ri uinauia is therefore stopped. Letters from Belgian priest* telling of the burn-j ing of churches and the- slaughter of Christians in Kansu have lieen received by the Belgiau lega-, tion in Pekin and by Father lloogers. u ho is in charge of the Belgiau 1uissi.u1 hcaihpiarters in Shanghai. The uprising occurred at lloei-Ilsien 011 August Hi. Shang ciie-D.-ei led the riot, which was largely a demonstration against oppression nu the part of officials who have levied excessive taxes. Two Christian churches were burned and five Chinese Christians were killed by the mob. which numbered 2.IHMJ at the time the Belgian priesis escaped. All the Christians and thousands of other natives lied into the hills from ll.iei-llsicn. Most of the property of Christians was destroyed. The military was unable to check the 1110b. which moved on toward the large city of Kingyangfu. This riot is n pica I of uprisings occurring frequently in some of the interior provinces far from military centers. Five men and two women, who turned automobile bandits in Chicago Tuesday nisht after holding up a chauffer for tue Ashland M tor Livery company and stealing his machine, fought a revolver battle yesterday with police and posses through northern Indiana and were captured after they had been be-sieged in a wooils near Gary. Prior t their arrest they fired upon the engineer of a Grand Trunk passenger train at Mcrrillvillc, Hid., in an effort tj effect their escape after the automobile they had slok-n caught fire. They failed to stop the train and held sjp Hoorge Walters, a farmer, who was attracted to the scene by the burning automobile. They stole his machine and continued their dasti across the country. Five prisoners in Gary gave their names as Frank Boss. .EiO South Loomis street: John Tuohig. 828 South Lcomis street: John Slack. 211 South Wood street: Agnes McGrath. 20:* De Kalh street and Sadie Murray. 627 Sibley street. The jar of two explosions and the quick wit of a telephone o| erator resulted in the killing of one safe blower and the capture f two others in a sensational revolver battle between the yeggmen and police in Chicago Heights early yesterday. Two of the yegg crow escaped and within three hours one of them was seen in a corn field near Dyer. Ind. A liossc was organized to capture him. but he escaped, lie was relKjrted to have boarded a train for Hammond. Ind. All of northern Indiana was engaged in the hunt. The dead man is John OBrien, a notorious safe blower. Those captured are Thomas ONeill, alias Tom Riley, said by the police to be a well-known cracksman, and "Jimmy" Mat alias James Mcran, said to lie a member of OBriens gang. A dispatch of yesterday from Saloniki says: The Bulgarians have l»een completely driven out of Serbia oil a line extending from the French sector to Kriudalo and Lukedovan. They have been pushed back also from Velcs t. the outskirts of Istip. probably rendering their Kumauovo-Vranya line untenable owing to the menace of a Serbian attack on both sides. Offensive operations against Nish have not proceeded beyond Pirot. The Austro-IJermans are making the most violent efforts, but their progress is extremely slow. The city of Nish is tranquil and seems to be in no immediate danger. The government archives and the fore:gn legations have been moved only as far as Krnljevo. where they are awaiting developments. Crown Prince George has arrived at Saloniki. From Vienna a dispatch of yesterday says that three thousand fallen Italians still lie in tlie open in front of the posit i. 11 held by one Austrian regiment on the Dobedro Plateau, on the lsonzo front, according to an official statement issued t-May. The Italian losses were heavy throughout this entire district, said the report. In the Tolniino and Gotzia regions and along the line north from Tolniino to Krn extrordinarily vigorous Italian attacks were said t.i have been made, but fruitlessly in every case. Itaiian attempts to take Monte Sabot ine were reported abandoned Tuesday after 2.500 losses. Tin- worlds rain cycle beginning in 1.H»2. which the French meteorological authorily. Abbe Moreaux. director of the Itoiuge* observatory, predicted as the result of his .*Midy of the suns face, is now. the abbe says, ended. He forecasts a series, though not. perhaps, quite unbroken, of twenty-six bard winters, beginning with the present year. He bases his pripliecy r.fiarding coming winter temperatures upon the supposition thai the temperature curve all over the world can lie calculated 011 the same principles as ihe worlds rain curve. From Berlin a dispatch continuing the destruction of the Petes Adalbert said: Only a small pari of the i-rew of 557 men of the Herman cruiser Prinz Adalbcrl. sunk by a I.riiish submarine in the Baltic, was rescued. This was made known in the following otli.-ial statement: A telegram from the naval general staff, dated October 2::. states that the cruiser Prinz Adalbert was sunk by two shots from an enemy submarine off I.ibau. Fu fortunately only a small portion of the crew could be rescued. A dis|iatch of yesterday fr..m Manila says: The typhoon in southern Luzon killed at least 170 persons ami injured nearly 800. Damage to property and to the Iietnp and rice crops is estimated at ,000,000. A heavy landslide involved n per Hon of Hie volcano of Mayoii. The typhoon pnrtlv w Iped out the town of Tabaco. One hundred persons were killed and the railroad line was washed away. The goveuor general is sending a relief expedition to the stricken district. A telegram from Rome says that six Bulgarian colonels suspected of sympathizing with Russia have lieen court-martialed and sh"t at Sofia owing to the growing auti war feeling in the Bulgarian army. The Bulgarian general in the Russian service. Radko Diinitrieff. who is in R-mmania. is emleavoring to get into contact with fellow partisans in IfSBs "* with a view of instigating a revolution with If-aid of the army. Four shells exploded only 200 yards from Kii-George of Kuglaml and President Poincare of i"r.: during their visit lo the front Monday, acoiilo.. to a Temps correspondent back of Hie firing line. The king and the president, with the Prince of Wales and General Joffre. says the dispatch, hail taken a point of observation when a German bat tery tired two heavy salvos, resulting; in the explosion of shells near the official party. A dispatch from I.ugana by way of Paris yester day said: Negotiations between Russia and Itoiimania appear to be nearing a successful conclusion, say* the lufoimnzzioiie. While awaiting the consent -f R. uinauia for the passage of Russian troops, the newspaper says. Russia has temporarily suspended arrangements for disembarking troops on the Black sea coast of Bulgaria. Winter has set in in the Russian war theater, according to the London Times Petrograd cutc-spotident. who says snow has been falling for three days and the roads arc frozen so hard thai there is no foothold lor the horses. The condition*, the correspondent adds, are thus worse than in the rainy season. A telegram from Amsterdam says mes*ages from the Belgian frontier state that 7.5011 Belgian subjects between the ages of seventeen and tliirty-tive. liable for military service, have been deported lo Ccrmany. The Louden Daily Xews Rome correspondent says: The sudden death of Baron von Waughcnheiui. Octsaaa ambassador at Constantinople, is shrouded in mystery. Foul play is suspected. A few .bus ago a rumor was spread that the ambassador had been poisoned.
