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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Proof that arsenic in sufficient quantities to kill more than 200 representative citizens of Chicago at the Iniversitv club banquet in honor of Archbishop George W. Mundelein last Thursday night was poured into the bouillon by some enemy of so- o o eietv was established late yesterday by Health Commissioner John Dill Bobertson. That the dinner guests, more than 100 of whom wore stricken, are still in danger from the after effects of the poison led the health commissioner to sound a warning to I mat to physicians lor treatment at once. What | I was considered as proof positive that the poisoi I had been placed in the soup was established when it was ascertained that 123 women had been served shortlv before with chicken bouillon made in tlr; same "copper kettle in which the soup served to the banqueters was made. None of the women were made ill bv the soup served at their dinner in another dining room of the club. This removed the possibility of the soup having been poisoned from the copper kettle, the health commissioner asserted. The raiding of the room of Jean Clonez. 2201 Prairie avenue, who is said to have been anarchistic in recent utterance-;, and the finding of vials of almost every known poison and a quantity of gunpowder was the most important news development of the day. l-roin Petrograd yesterday a dispatch says: The Haas |a n offensive, which has been indicated in the reports of the last few days. is maturing rapid! over the whole Galieian front. The Germans, accord to advices from the scene of hostilities, are on the defensive on three important rivers — the Soreth. the Pruth and the Dniester. Czernowitz. capital of Bukowiua. again is seriously threatened by the Etas-sian advance east of Baranchc, as well as by the Russian eroafdng of the Dniester at Lsoieczko. where their troops are firmly intrenched. This Stove also has bad the effect of interrupting one of the most important lines of communicatioa between the armies of Generals POanaer and Von Bothmer. a third important Bussian advance has been recorded near Zale Szcvkv. where a fierce counter attack is declared to have been successful ill routing the opposing j forces and demoralizing the Hungarian troops to such an extent that they retired to a new line four miles to the rear. In addition to these breaches aniiounet d to have keen made in the o]i-poslng lines, the Bussiaos have been active immediately to tbe northward of Tarnopol. where they have moved slightly forward. Further fighting in Champagne, the French war t antes announced yesterday, has resulted hi French 1 forces obtaining possession of certain trenches occupied i v the Germans. The lext of the statement f liows: -According to further information in , our possession, tbe attack with hand grenades which we executed yesterday afternoon in Champagne . in the region northeast of the Butte de Mesnil 1 gave us possession, after an artillery engagement, of about M0 meters of enemy trenches. A counter r attack made by the enemy during the night was repulsed completely and sixty-five prisoners, of whom 1 one was aa officer, remained in our hands. The night was calm on the remainder of the front." A motion f r leave tii present a petition for mandamus to test the right of women to vote for d "le gates to the national conventions and state central • ■ id pre hut committeemen was filed in tbe Supreme court at Springfield yesterday. The action was • br light by James T. Garretsoa of Springfield 1 against Comity Clerk Charles V. Byers of Sangamon county to compel him to print the names of f candidates for these offices on the womans ballots • at the April primary. Byers has announced that he will follow the ruling of Attorney-General Lucey I that the womans suffrage act does not cover these B positions. Downstate counties are following ibis s ruling, while tbe Chicago election commission holds - to tbe c. atrary opinion. A dispatch of yesterday from Rio .Tanerio. Bra zil. says: The German steamship Asuncion, interned al Para, requested permission to tpproach , a wharf to take aboard water. Inder cover of the fog it turned about and headed toward the e sea. The Brazilian cruiser Bepublica and the aas ilMiv Teffe tired blank shots and. as the Asuncion did not stop, followed these with projectiles. The German steamship then stopped and returned to . the harlHir. The captain later said that he had no intention of escaping. The local authorities have , opened an investigation. A Special cable to the New York Evening Sun " from Bnenoa Ayres yesterday afternoon declares that two German merchantmen nave escaped from " South American ports. They asi «-d permission to ° "exercise their engines," the dispatch state-, and J dashed out to sea. •■one of the vessels was the Bahrenfeld, interned it Bnenoa Ayres, and the other • r the Tun-in. interned at Innta Arenas, in the Strait it of Magellan, in Chilean territory." the cable declares. ?- "German subjects are said to have provided d the two steamship! with coal sufficient for a long R voyage." Diplomatic representatives of the entente alios _ hav. made oral representations to Beeretry Lansing regarding tb American memorandum to their go J ernments suggesting the disarming of merchant ,t ships and t wresting that armed merchantmen ,„ entering American ;iorts might he regarded as warships. r. Although the state department declined to to disclo e Me nature of the re presentations, it is is | ; believed Scidar Lansng was informed that the » entente I • ernments were unwilling to adopt the ie suggestion. The American ambassador to Russia, George T. r. Marye. has recommended at the request of the i" German sutboritles thst in additional corps Of of Amu Inn relief administrators t e sent to Russia and id western Siberia to inspect prison camps of German m and Austrian prisoners there, nis racoasandatisa 111 has been taken up by the state department and id Bed Cross officials. Because it is "antiquated and ununited to tb.* i,~ needs of modern democracy." the federal congress sS of Brazil has named a Committee to revise the constitution. n. Brazils consiUtution is copied almo-t -t verbatim from that of the United States.
