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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Nothing definite concerning the American punitive expedition into Mexico became known yesterday. At ■Washington satisfactory assurances regarding the attitude of the Carransa government toward the entrance of American troops into Mexico were conveyed to the state departmt nt by Consul Killiman. who is with General Carransa. He reported no trouble from t arranza forces was to be expected. The eyes of administration officials centered on the desert plains of northern Mexico, where Brig. -Gen. John J. 1orshing is leading American troops in par-watt of Francisco Villa and his band of outlaws. American consuls in Mexico so far have been able to give littl" aid to the troops, although all are on watch for information that might indicate the bin dits moveme nts. It seemed certain that of the two columns which are "somewhere in Mexico." one was constituted for speed, while tiie other apparently was moving more slowly. The swift-footed column was the auxiliary army, seemingly mostly cavalry. Which wont into Mexico fifty miles west of the main army of Gem. .1. .1. Pershing when his forces crossed at Columbus. N. M. The secrecy which has sarrounded the movements of the main column lias been slight compared to that covering the record of this western force. There is reason to believe, from the official announcements, that the western column may have gone into Mexico earlier than the main body. The baby of Mrs. Maude Hawk Wright arrived safety in Juarez, an Interesting example of the respect for childhood which even the Villi bandits showed when they captured Mrs. Wright. After her husband lad been slain at Pachuca, M.i.-o. before tie- Columbus raid, Mr-. Wrights baby was forced from her arms. Bnt the bandits treated it tenderlj and gave- it to a Mexican family, which in turn delivered the child into the ke | in of some of the Mormon colonists about Casas llraadfS Mr-. Wright, escaping from the bandit-after the Columbus raid, has been at El Paso for a week awaiting the baby. Admiral Alfred von Tirptts, minister of marine, has retired on account of illness, and Admiral von Iapolle. director of the administration department of the admiralty, has been appointed his successor, says a Berlin dispatch. The change in the head of the ministry of marine is now an accomplished fact. It is officially stated that, in order to avoid misunderstanding and wrong conclusion-, it must be noted that this change doe- not signify any modification in the submarine policy of the government. rneonfinnecl reports tli.it Dr. Walter Geilhom, a prominent Seattle physician, who was taken from a steamer at Kirkwall while en route t Germany to join the German reel cross, had been executed by the British military authorities, hive been received ley friend- e,f Dr. GeUhom at Seattle. Efforts to a-e-ertain Dr. Gellhoms whereabouts if he is alive hae been without avail, according to his friends, and the state department will be asked to investigate. Wages of farm laborers increased slightly in the leading grain states and remained stationary or declined slightly in the cotton staters, according tee figures by 1 1 • f • Department of Agriculture. The changes are attributed to higher gain prices and lcewer cotton price-. Wag - of male farm laborers by the day increased about one per cent for the entire country. Scarcity of labor was not so marked as during previous years, it was stated. Austria has broken off diplomatic- relations with Portugal, a Vienna message announced Tuesday. Austria las recalled her minister to Lisbon and has handed the Portuguese minister his passports, according to this dispatch. Portuguese naval authorities confiscated several Austrian ships in Portugeuc se ports at the same time they seised German merchantmen, an act that resulted in a declaration of war by Germany. The trail .f the tii-t ela.s march of the American troops w.i- marked by wounded V litis t as, whet. unable to accompany the outlaw leaden, bad I sen abandoned to their fate. A wagon train returned to Columbus bringing ten snch vlliistas canghl In the net of scouts thrown out ahead of the expedition. High-water mark in registrations for Chicago was touched Tuesday by the earolhaeat f new voters, when tie- total registration r the city mounted to 763,130. Tuesdays registrations e-x-reeded all expectations, 60,630 men and women adding tin ir names to election rolls.
