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I GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Two hundred American cavalrymen, under Col. C. W. Brown of the Tenth cavalry, defeated an eeaa] fore. of Villistas in the ■otoad engagement of the campaign at the village of Aguescalientes not the city of that name, thirty miles north of Guerrero, on April 1. This report was brought to Gen. Pershing yesterday by two Mexican ranchmen, who s-iid tli.it tin- Mexicon forces lost between thirty and forty men and forty horses, while the Americans suffered no casualties. Villi was not with the band, according to the ranchmen, who asserted that the American troops believed at first they had encountered the bandit chieftain. An investigation showed that he had not been with the detachment. Ior hours the American cavalrymen followed Manuel Lopez, one of Villa s lieutenants, and his bandits through tortuous winding canons and almost impassable trails of the mountains. Believing that they had eluded their pursuers the bandits relaxed their vigilance and before they realized it they were confronted by the troops of the Tenth cavalry of Gen. Pershings old regiment, which had been stationed near the town to intercept stray bands attempting to make their escape. The Tenth cavalry is the armys crack Negro troop, famed for exploits during the Spanish-American war. It participated with the rough ri !"rs in storming San Juan hill and also gained distinction for fighting and scouting in the Ihillippin. s. Some of its troopers figured with the Seventh cavalry in the first fight with Villas forces at Guerrero. From Torreon. Mexico, a dispatch of yesterday says: A Villa baud under Simon Reyes and Chacon last Saturday attempted to surprise the garrison in the mining town of Parras. several miles east of lure. The garrison, under Colonel J. M. Gonzales, drove off the bandits, killing forty-two of them and capturing a quantity of arms and a number of horses. Efforts to arrange the tarrenaec under U amnesty grant of General Qaaate Reyes and other Villa leaders of the Torreon district are being hastened. Meanwhile it is reported that a band of Villa supporters have completely alienated the bandits eatise in the ■eighborhooi of neenhrerete by wrecking a naa- s. nger train. A number of people were killed. Beaenterete lies between Darangb city and Caaitee on a br: n h of the Mexican Central Railro:;d. Villa is retorted at Maiea, ninety miles southwest of Guerrero. If this is so the bandit is probably proceeding along the old coach rand tlu.t leads into Santa Rosalia, whoaec he canal move on to Iarral, his reported objeetive. A Gorman squadron emerging from the Baltic dashed into the North sea and engaged in a minor •kinniett with a British torpedo boat flotilla off the Norwegian coast, according to reports from two ■operate aoaecoa wcerred at Copenhagen yesterday. A dieaaeai from Btavoagor, Norway, to the Ioiitiken. said a German naaadron was etgnted off that port. Skipper-, arrived later with report* that they had heard gun fire near the eeast. From ; : Kulh li. Ban dfen, earn. the report that heavy can- I I nonadiOS was heard off the southern end of Nor I ! ,vny. and that a damaged German tornado l* at was to.ved peel Belaingheg n aiVu hours later. A naval engagement of some kind took place Monday in the Cattegat, necorahag to ananatehna raoarred here from Kullen. Sweden. Aneat noon, the dispatehes I say. a terrific cannonade was heard from the sea, I I and two hours later a Gemma torpedo boat, badly damaged, waa towed DaM UeUingbor. i 1 ; : I I I ! I I I i 1 From The Hague yesterday .1 dispatch says: Torpedoing of the Dutch sehooner Elzina Helena, while-Holland is in the grip of a big war scare, caused great excitement here today. News of the sinking of the schooner in the North Sea reached here early today. A message to her owners said than was no doubt that she had been attacked by a submarine. The government at once ordered an official inquiry. The plena was opened by naval officers at Rotterdam upon the arrival of tiie schooners crew there today. The government at the same time ordered an official investigation of the sinking of the Dutch liner Tubanti.-i. the previous inquiries having been conducted by the vessels owners. Four more vessels, three of them neutral ships, have l con sunk in the last twenty -four hours with the loss of one life. The British steamer BeadOW, from Liverpool, was sunk with the loss of one life. The Spanisli steamer Vigo was torpedoed in the Bay of Biscay after the crew had been allowed to take to the boats. The Spanish sailors were picked up by a British steamer twenty -four hours later and taken into Gibraltar. The Norwegian steamer Arena was sunk in the Cattegat. Her crew was saved. The Dutch schooner Elzina Helena was torpedoed in the North Sea. The crew was landed at Noorhinder. A Havas dispatch to ParU from Valencia dated April 4 says that a Norwegian steamer was seen during the morning thirty miles off the coast of Spain signaling for heap, A British steamer approached to render assistance, but. perceiving a German submarine in the neighborhood, made for port nana* full steam Bad reported the incident to the Spanish authorities and to the British and Norwegian consuls. The fate of the Norwegian steamer is unknown, the dispatch adds. The local municipal eteettan of Tuesday resulted in the casting of 457. 2P, votes, of which IMt.tM were by women. Of the thirty-five aldermen eleet-ed. twenty-one are democrats, thirteen republieans anil one a soeialist. On the only eity-wide vote. that cast for municipal judge, the democrats scored a plurality of 21. 430 for Leo J. Doyle. The proposition allowing the issuance of SI .MX. KM in bonds for the extension of Lincoln park was approved. Cerniany hist the flower of her army in the first days of fighting around Verdun, and is no,, making weak attacks with inferior troops, ncceediag la Prince Ioniatowski. naaacintad with the French war ofiice. who arrived in New York jreeterdaj en the liner Espagne. The prime is posiiivc Veniun will not be taken. Ughteen Gemma submarines cantered ay the British are now in service with the British niy. W. T. Banana, Dallas Texas, cattleman declared on his arrival in New York from Liverpool. Spann BaM he saw the crews of two captured IT -heat* marched through the streets of Liverpool. A Havas dfanatea from Salouiki says artillery is active along the line of contact of the adversary force e. Small skirmishes have taken place on the Gietrgell free! nad malted In the capture of ■ few German and Bulgarian prisoners by the French. Confirmation of press dispatches saying four Ann to. his were aboard the toreeoood British steamer Berwtad reached the State Department ye-.ter.iay in a aeeeeege from the Dnlted state- eeaaal at Cork. According to the Vossiche Ze it ling of Berlin. Lieut. Gen. Gottliib Ferdinand von lH rrer of tee Germ a a army bus died of wounds received on the battle field.
