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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Governor Dunne will defer for a week sfl longer the convening of the h-gislatiirc in s|mi ial session. Word from Springfield was that the presence of the Odil Fellows convention a| the capital next week has led to an alteration in the governors plans, and that, instead of assembling the lawmakers next Monday lie will not call the special session before Monday. November 22. "Safety first" will impel the governor to issue his call as early as possible. From several quarters requests have poured into the executive offices for the inclusion of items in the call ranging from tire protection to repeal of Sunday closing, and to head them off the call will be put forth as soon as Attorney General Lticcy has prepared it. The liquor question is not to be included, the governor declaring that a wet and dry tight would halt the remedial financial legislation and deadlock affairs. At the meeting of the City Council. Monday night, three of the mayors school board appointees were turned won by decisive- votes. Thev were the Rev. John P. Brushingham. A. Sheldon Clark and Charles S. Peterson. W. N. Selig. another school board appointee, withdrew his name rather than take the councils tire. Three school board appointees got through — Mrs. F. E. Thornton. Max Loeb and Harris W. Huelil. Senator Samuel A. Ettelson was confirmed as corporation counsel by a vote of forty-four to twenty-four, after bitter assaults by the Merriam-McC.irmick-Buck forces. Ilr. Theodore B. Sachs reappointed director of the Municipal tulierculosis sanitarium and will remain at head of institution. F. Bowden De Forest also named a director. The Wilson administration is considering a suggestion that the United States buy the West Indian islands of St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix, which belong to Denmark. Under the Roosevelt administration a treaty was made with Denmark providing for the purchase of the islands, which are of strategic importance in connection with the Panama Canal. The price to lie paid was fixed at ,000,000. The treaty was approved by the United States Senate, but rejected by tlie upper house of tht Danish parliament. If this branch of that parliament has changed its attitude, doubtless President Wilson will take action. Danish Councilor of State Ilageinann is reported as saying it is not worth while for Denmark to spend more money on its West Indian isles. Fifteen million men killed or crippled for life was the toll of the war in Europe up to two months ago. Multitudes have fallen since then. Unless peace comes quickly revolution or anarchy will seize Eurojie. These were the outstanding statements of Earl Loreburn, former high chancellor, in a debate in the house of Lords Monday night during a renewed questioning of the government. Earl Lore-burn also criticized the censorship for deletion and coloring of news, and was seconded by Viscount Milner. and Baron Courtney of Fenwitli sponsired the plea for the wars end. Emphatic denial that German officers "prepared false American passports and handed them to agents." as is alleged to have been testified before English courts, is made in a note from Germany wliich State Department officials had before them for consideration yesterday. The communication is in reply to representations on the subject from the American government. Testimony accusing the German officials is alleged to have been given by Robert Rosenthal and George T. Breckow when tried in England as spies. Plans for a steamship line between the Pacific northwest and French ports by way of the Panama canal are being considered at conferences between a French consular representative, eo-oiieratiiig with the Seattle branch office of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, and western business men. The bureau in anouncing the conferences says that with direct transportation facilities France would I ms nine au excellent market for the lumber and timber products of the northwest. The government of the United States, in its formal note to Great Britain and France, has served notice upon the allied powers that it will not recognize the legality of the blockade they are maintaining and which already is causing embarrassment and distress to the peoples opposed to tbem. This is the most imiMirtant declaration of a communication bristling with other assertions of the illegal and improper methods employed by the allies against neutral maritime commerce. Agreeing with the arguments of City Prosecutor Harry B. Miller. Judge Graham Monday afternoon ruled that the "District of Lake Michigan" was liart of the City of Chicago and ordered Captain G. W. Streeter placed on trial for the first of the eleven Sunday liquor cases against him. This is the first court decision against the captain in his twentv-vear fight to get and keep title to "Streeter-ville." which is now worth about 0,000,000. The Supreme Court is now the captains last resource. Tlie federal grand jury in New York has presented to Judge Harlaud Howe in the criminal branch of the United States District court an in-lictnient against Robert Fay. Walter Scholz. Paul Dacche. Engelbert Bronkhorst. Max Bleitunt and Herliert Kienzle. They are charged with having engaged in a conspiracy to despoil owners of vessels of merchandise cargoes and to destroy vessels to the injury of persons who had placed insurance on them. A gift of 0,000 to the Art Institute by William E. Miner, inventor and manufacturer of railway appliances, has been announced by President Charles L. Hutchinson. It will be used to build a gallery about HO feet in length for the proper display of the large exhibit of industrial art now scattered about the institution in crowded quarters. The gallery will be known as the Frank W. Gitn-saulus gallery and will be situated in the addition now under construction on the north of the institute. American-built aeroplanes of the flying-boat type, which, in the opinion of experts, could easily cross the Atlantic in a single flight, arc being used by Great Britain for the protection of its war and merchant ships. The old style machine has been succeeded by the "Super America." a third larger than its predecessor, with 120 more horsepower in its engines, with improvements in the way of fuel economy, stability and general safety that make the original America win a shell in comparison. A mob composed of unpaid Villa soldiers, civilians and women raided the German consulate in Chihuahua. Mex.. burned the market house and liwted the headquarters of the confiscation agency Friday, according to a delayed message received at San Antonio. Tex., from Corral, near Chihuahua. Chihuahua levied a forced loan of 00,000 Mexican gold on the merchanls and wealthy residents in order to obtain money with which to pay the rioting troops. the message stated. Great anxiety exists in Germany, tlie Rotterdam Telegraaf says, because of the unusually early winter, which began Octolier 2s with frost and a heavy snowfall in Berlin. The Teelgraaf says it is reported that Qmu military authorities were found unprepared and that the armies on tlie eastern and soutlieastern fronts are not pro|ierly equipped to withstand the unexpected cold. Such severe weather has not been known so early before in two centuries. Tlie tire in the hold of the passenger steamship Rochamheau. which broke out after the liner left New York last Saturday, lias lieen extinguished and the steamship is now proceeding to Bordeaux. News that the tire in the reserve coal bunker of the K -chambeau had been extinguished was received in a brief wireless message from Captain .liiliam. It read: Have succeeded in extinguishing the tire and am proceeding to Bordeaux. All well on board. The CoiMtiiiagen. Denmark. Politiken says that German torpedo boats and a German submarine have captured the Swedish steamer Capella. bound for Denmark with a cargo of machinery, and taken her into Sw inemunde. where the cargo was unloaded. The Politiken observes that there is intense indignation in Sweden and Denmark because of the fact that the vessel was seized ill Swedish waters. The famous collection of American postage stamps made by Alexander Edward Lindsay, late Earl of Crawford, has been purchased by a New York dealer and is now in this eountrv. The collection is said to have cost the earl 0ii.000. It was sold by his son. who succeeded to the title. The collodion eon-tains a complete history of American postal issues. in which the stamps are traced from the artists original drawings to tlie finished issue. A Ilavas dispatch from Melilla. Morocco, gives details of the sinking of tee British steamship Weodtiehl. reported last week. The Woodtield. which was „ t|„. British transport service, was sunk off leiion. near the Moroccan coast, bv a German submarine. The crew took to four lifclioats. Three of these boats reached land. Tlie other was missing when the dispatch was filed. Austrian steamers on the Dnnulic are conveying Bulgarian troops from Lorn Palanka to Vidin. says a Bucharest dispatch to the London Ti s. Tl |:cniiig of the Danube causes great satisfaction to Roumanian agricultural interests, which have suffered heavily owing lo detention of this and last years harvests because of the closing of the Dardanelles. The nations corn crop this year was the most valuable ever urown. Based on prices paid farmers November 1. it is worth nearly ,000,000.490 — .-M3.4SS.0M in exact figures. In size it is second oniv to Ho- record crop of MS, The production was ::.0!iO..-.ii.i.ihii bushels r 34.000.ftM less than tlie countrys previous biggest eorn crop. Zapatas army in southern Mexico is disintegrat jug rapidly, according lo cable advices received Monday by the Carrauza agency at Washington. Three thousand members of Zapatas following sur rendered ycslerday and were given amnesty, said the message, and for many days groups of soldiers lately in arms have been bringing in their rifles. Tin- poisonous gas factory at Doniach. Alsace, which was attacked Friday by French aviators, was virtually destroyed, according to a report which has reached Geneva. Switzerland from Basel. The manager and forty-two workmen are said to have been suffocated by fumes resulting from explosions. Potrograd military authorities estimate that there are 110 German infantry divisions in the west, fifty German and forty Austrian infantry divisions with twenty-three Aiistro-Gernian cavalry divisions on the Russian front and. twenty Anstro-Gerinan divisions invading Serbia. P. A. B. Widcner. noted Philadelphia financier, who began as a butcher and made millions in traction projects, died at his home Saturday at the age of eighty-one years. His collection of pictures is one of the finest private collections in America. The Russian finance committee has approved the terms of a new internal loan of 1.000.000.4100 rubles l 00,000,000. The loan will run Tor ten years. The rate of interest will lie five and one-half per cent and the loan will be issued at ninety-five. Tlie London Daily News correspondent, telegraphing from Saloniki, says the Serbian govern nient and headquarters staff have gone to Kral-jevo on their way to Novibasar and that King Peter is lying ill there. The section of the American Red Cross which hail been stationed at Tskub. in Serbia, arrived at Naples Friday aboard the steamship Bosnia.
