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GEKEKAL KEWS NOTES OF THE DAT. «i i.e tl.«- Italian emigration office ,„,; LV?rTnT1in:-lu.Ving rt * Am-rican citUeu, ili.it _os persou ••,._„ ,. the Italian steamship : ,"•1 i,!,v;, * dl the coast of Tunis. In «lnt *"» Amo a last , .,, 11ii Unte -leath list. "« MrrT certainty that the subniariu.-. -gethcr r,"1.; the "■ erowing A!" "J ". " ,, was a ier.nan craft, al-Mj.iel, Si-k 1?, „;g Uas preCipitat.Hl • Lougb tiring the ■*»£*» declaration of war i«i i which is |m- a crisis f Thomas ,,:|inM 1lt ™ -SrSUn-mlor has be.,. .!,.n I ag.-. the a offlcul reports received :" " TV .„ ernment ■ and fr..u. the BritU-i Italian " - ••*-" the Ihrwch , li.vj. Ameri ..H.suls at B«ert. and iuu. tn I l io and bis wife and f,ur V* at ".r.-il. Alexander Alexano " r •• Maaeolo LamurM. Pas- 1 bis wife. 1:,r,J1- ., .d ni sepp. Torrisi and survivers. The opinio i is expressed that it was tlie ie same submarine, proceeding from Gibraltar or from the Aegean sea. which first sank the Ancona and then the steamer Eirenze. All the reports ag M ■» that the submarine was a large one -about 2 3 10 feet long. Booker T. Washington, leader of the negro people ?" of America and principal of Tuskogee Insti * tute for Negroes, died at Tuskogee Sunday. He ■ was tiftv-six or fifty-seven years old. hut none knew the exact date of his birth. Although he ? bad been in failing health for several months. Mr. Wasinngt. ii-s .-ondition liecame serious only last j week, when he had a nervous breakdown while in *., New York. He realized the end was near, but lt was determined to make the last long trip south, 1, as he had said often. "I was born in the south, have lived there all my life, and exrioct to die ie and lie buried there." Accompanied by Mrs. s. Washington, his secretary, and a physician. Dr. r. Washington left New York for Tuskogee Friday i.v , 1 l 1 • | j 1 ■ J I , I ; - 1 | t i I I I t t t j I n ft i t t j 0 : 1 t l ; : - - t - f 0 f» 0 0. 0 = s _ ♦ - K t i0 10 H 10 5 t [J " • • , ir. , j . ~ " - 1 - H It _, J, 3 j t 1 f Mft y 10 r. r i i- t s _ ~ ie M ■» 10 ?" * He ■ he ? j in *., lt 1, die ie s. r. i.v nfteVnoon. He reached home Saturday at midnight and died at 4:4 oclock Sunday morning. The funeral will be held at Tuskogee Institute Wednesday morning at lo oclock. A dispatch from New York says: Robert Fay. who. after lighting in the trenches for Germany came to this country to carry out a plot M destroying ships sailing from this port with munitions of war for the allies, sent a hurry call from his cell in the Tombs for William J. Flyun. chief of the secret service, and John C. Knox, special assistant United States attorney. Eur mare than an hour the chief talked with Fav in the- counsel room. What was discussed by the head of the secret service and the bomb-plotter could not Ik-learned. From reliable Mini, however, the following three significant tacts were learned: 1. Fay has offered to turn states evidence. 2. The story which Fav already has t.ild about himself lias lieen verified iu Europe. 3. The United States government MM evidence corroborating Fays story connecting the CcffMM secret service with the plans to wreck munitions, ships, and blow up or set liic to munition fetories in this country. More ■ revelations MBCerning the activities of German agents in this conntr.v are expected. The Italian government has sent an ollicial MM-niuniratioii :.. the neutral governments dealing with the sinking of the liner Ancona. The note denies that the Ancona carried any arms or contraband or MM ill iH-lligerent military service or that there were any circumstances justifying such a:i attack. The note declares that the MMM began to cannonade the Ancona without any previous warning « r a blank shot, and tired without respite at the wireless apparatus, the decks and even at the boats in which passengers were attempting to , escape. "Many of these." adds the note, "were . killed or wounded, while many who approached the submarine were driven off with jeers. Thus nearly 200 persons were drowned." Four more ships have been sunk by submarines of the central powers. All on Uiard were lost, it is believed, when the French steamship St. Male. of 1.243 tons, was sunk by a German submarine near the island of Cueniscy in the English channel. Twelve ImmIjcs have been washed up. Other victims were the Norwegian steamship Waseana, 4.W.I tons. the crew of which were saved, and the Italian ; steamship Bosnia. 2.501 tons. Two boatloads of the Bosnias survivors have lieen picked up. A boat containing nineteen others is missing. Th » Bosnia was sunk near Ohamlo Island, south of Crete, hy an Austrian submarine. The Spanish i steamship Beniab--. ..! 2.2SS tons, registered at P.ilboa. has been lost. Ten of Hie crew of twenty- four are missing. Thirty persons are dead in the fortified city of Verona as a result of three Austrian acroplan-s ; dropping bombs n the city. Thirty other persons ; were seriously and nineteen slightly injured. Nineteen nersoiis were killed by one lioinb. The liombs , of the aircraft found most of their victims n the principal MMM of the city — Piazza dclle Erbe — MMM citizens and peasants from the outlying districts were attending the market. The aeroplanes j visited various parts of the city, but none of tlie . missiles dropped hy I hem fell near any of the , military buildings. This is the second lime Austro-Hungnrian aeroplanes have made a raid on Verona. Last July au Austrian machine dropped about a j dozen bombs and escaped, notwithstanding a fire , directed at it by the forts defending the city. The liberal party in Greece may not participate , in the coining elections, although the matter has " not yet lieen decided. Former Premier Venizelos. • leader of the party, so indicated to I deputation of r merchants and manufacturer:- who came to him urging him to pursue his struggle against the opposing influences hi Greek polities, a Havas dispatch from Athens states. Replying M the deputation. M. Venizeios said he thought it would I be preferable if the liberal party took no part In the approaching elections, as even if it obtained I a majority in the chamber it onhl not carry [ through its MMM, The party, however, would 1 decide definitely iu a few days, he said. A large increase in coiniiensation has been granted I the railroads of the middle west for the carrying ; of mail during the four-year period which began July 1 last. The recompense of all the roads in this territory, numbering three of the four sections - into which the country is divided, is fixed I at 0.073. 4S4 a year for all the roads. In lJil- r the pay in this section was 5,772,077. The mail 1 is carried over ML3IS miles of track. The pay is 5 shared by 151 roads. The district embraces Ohio. Indiana. Illinois. Michigan. Wisconsin. Iowa and I Missouri. The weighing showed that an average I of 2.S02 tons a day of mail is carried in 4.000 trains. In the Balkan war theater the Serbians are falling back from mountain range to mountain range liefore the Austro-Germnn forces, whose official I reports enumerate the capture of many prisoners 5 daily, a few guns, and iptantities of stores. The Serbians appear to be inflicting considerable losses .J on their pursuers. Along the eastern front King j Peters men seem to be holding their own against t the Bulgarians The British and French troops an* meeting with some success, and liesides repulsing the Bulgarian attacks have undertaken l small offensive movements with good results. Rome newspapers say that the Austrian submarines which are now so active in the Mediterranean " were shipped in pieces from Kiel. Germany, to Triest. accompanied by Cerman mechanics aud j 1 naval officers. From Triest they were iakeu to the ■ Austrian naval arsenal at Pola. where they were ? assembled. It is also reported that supnly stations s for these submarines, which fly the Austrian flag, • have been established along the Creek coast. A piotcst was made several weeks ago by the Italian ■ jnstil at Patras on tlie ground that the neutrality I of Creece was being violated. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British ambassador, yesterday asked Attorney General Crcgory not to o oppose appeals to the Supreme Court in the cases ■ of Ralph K. Blair and Br. Thomas Addis, eon-It i- victed recently in San Francisco of enlisting men u in the 1nited States for the British army. The ,. questions involved, the ambassador believes, are of f much importance not only to Octal Britain, but to 0 the United States, particularly if this country be-10 .. came engaged in war. The attorney general was s tillable at this time to outline the ixisition of the e department. . A Berln report of yesterday says: A defeat of the Russians iu Calicia is announced today J £ by the war olfiee. which says that tlie troops of Ceneral von Linsingen drove back the Russians from the west bank of the Styr river. The entire west bank has now been cleared. Russian attacks near Sm.irgoii. east of Vilna. were repulsed. j" On the western front the Hermans stormed a French u trench 3lo yards long, northeast of Itourie. George Rurkitt. assistant iwistmaster of Win- netka. who was summarily suspended for criticizing the coming wedding of President Wilson and Mrs. - Gait, was ordered reinstated yesterday hy the • president, according to dispatches from Washing- ton. With this announcement came the news that • some citizens of the North Shore suburb were p starting a movement to have Postmaster A. M. • Kloepfer, who suspended Burkitt. removed. Judge John H. Clark in the United States District t Court at Cleveland yesterday granted an appeal il from his injunction restraining County Treasurer t R. C. OBrien from collecting taxes on 11,040.- 377 fr nn John D. Rockefeller, levied by former Ta Commissioners William Agnew and John D. ■ Fackler. The appeal will lie heard before the e United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Cin-•* - ciniiati. Loud-.n reports that the Russians, after repei- I- ling German attacks in the Riga aud Dvinsk -c-i • - gions. have taken the offensive. The czars otli-y, |. cial report makes no mention of this move, hut t tells of Cermnn defeats in this sector. Both h Cernian and Russian re|iorts describe desperate e fighting in the vicinity of the Styr river in the e south, the Teutons capturing many prisoners. The Creat Northern steamship Minnesota, the e largest vessel on the Pacific ocean, is on its way 7 today from Seattle to tlie Atlantic .icean. and with J its departure the American flag has disapi eared from tl riental trade. The Pacific Mail Steamship 1 companys fleet was dispersed la-fore the Minnesota ~ closed its career as a trans Pacific liner, to engage in the Atlantic trade. A cold drizzle which turned into a small snow flurry for a few minutes Sunday afternoon in some e sections of the city spoiled Chicag .s chances far at 1 taining a new late snow record. As it was. then-was " s mic differenc: of opinion as to whether it was sleet or snow and could lie classified officially as th. !- "first snow." Tin- Central News correspondent at The Hague ie says information lias been received there fr ::i ,i Frankfort that a Zeppelin has lauded near Crodno, J, Russia, after being damaged badly by Russian ar-ni r. tillery. The message says the dirigible was de-id .. stroyed ill greater part by fire after the crew w:is rescued. . I,ord Robert Cecil of the foreign office staled in the house yesterday that the British govern- incut is determined not to recognize the sale of f any Oerninn ship to neutrals. It was such a transfer which has led to recent seizures in Ameri-l jl can waters l.y British warslips. Premier Asquith t"!d the House of Commons is yesterday afternoon that Sir Edward Grey. the s* foreign minister, had been omitted from tlie new ■ cabinet war committee at his own request. Sir r Edward will attend meetings of tlie war commit-j, t tee wlen his ndvice is required, said the premier. r- That Lord Kitchener has gone to Athens to force •e King Constantiue of Greece to show his band is is t the g -nerai belief in London. The newspapers are ■e discu -s.ug the possibility of tbe use of force to to ■ compel Creece to join the allies. Iielieving It certain Roiiluania will follow suit. Prince Albert, second son of King George, is suffering from an obstinate gastric disorder and will have to remain in London a few weeks to undergo ■pecial treatment. Prince Albert, who is a midshipman iu the British navv, was stricken with appendicitis in August, 1U14. Announcement was made by the German war office yesterday of the capture of s.5no Serbians, with twelve MM, Of these 7.«HI0 prisoners and seven cannon were taken by the Bulgarians. Pursuit of the Serbians is being continued all along the front. James Ogilvie Crant. Earl of Seafield. has been killed in action in France. The earl, who was born in Is70 and was the eleventh of his line. was a captain aft tin- Third Oueeus Own Cameron Highlanders. The Italian cruiser Piemnnte bombarded and destroyed the railroad station at Dedeaghatch. Bulgaria, on Friday. The warship also detroyed two trains made up of eighty cars loaded with war munitions.
