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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. From Paris yesterday a dispatch said: Fighting of great violence continued last night on the Verdun front. Furious Cerman attacks near hill 304 were broken by the French, the war office announced today. After seventy -seven days of battle the Germans are making a new attack before Verdun with another formidable army. Fighting almost equal in violence to that of the beginning of March is in progress on both banks of the Meuse. The losses of the Germans are described as extremely heavy. The French attacked east of hill 304 and drove the Germans from a communication trench which they had iK-netrated yesterday. East of the Meuse there was a series of night engagements. The Germans were driven from a trench south of Haudromont. which they occupied and thirty men, including two officers, were captured. The offensive movement yesterday covered a front of two kilometers between Haudromont wood and Fort Doii.iumout. costing the Germans important losses. Other developments of yesterday are described textually as follows: The night passed quietly o:i the remainder of the front except iu the region of the wood of Remieres and the wood of Joury. west of Pont-a-Mousson. where our artillery was very active. Two German aeroplanes have been brought down as ■ result of aerial encounters iu the region of Verdun. One of them fell not far from Ornes and the other, seriously damaged, was compelled to land south of Azannes. The Columbus raid was repeated by former Car-ranzista soldiers at Glen Springs, eighty-five miles south of Marathon. Tex., and ten miles north of the border, last Friday night. Three members of Troop A, Fourteenth Cavalry, and one civilian t oy are known to have been killed. Six members of Troop A. which constituted the remainder of the cavalry detachment, were wounded. A number of American civilians are said to be missing from the district. A posse from Marathon and a detachment of twenty-three troopers of the Fourteenth Cavalry are said to have followed the trail of the Mexicans into Coahuila. while other reports have it that the Americans have not forded the Rio Grande, ninety -five miles from El Pas... but are waiting at the river for reinforcements. Captain Caspar Cole is hurrying to Boqiiillas to take command, while two companies of the Fourteenth Cavalry and a machine gun company are expected here or at Marathon yesterdav when they will head southward to the Big Benil country. Troop* A and B of the Eighth Cavalrv. under command of Maj. S. T. IiOiighorne. reached Marathon yesterday from LI Paso and immediately started southwest to Glenn Springs over the truck roads. The two troop* of cavalry from Fort Clark are I ipiil lei thi- afternoon and will follow Major Loiighornes men. Sixty thousand bushels of grain were destroyed hv fire yesterday when spontaneous combustion set in a blaze the six -lory elevator of the Chicago Grain Company at is»i4 North l.edaire avenue. A 4-11 alarm and two special calls for additional fire fighting apparatus were bounded sim.ii after the first alarm, ten extra engine companies responding. The building was totally destroyed. Yesterdays baseball results National League: Chicago 2." Pittsburgh 1 first game: Pittsburgh 6, Chicago 4 second game; Brooklyn 2. Philadelphia 0: Boston 6, New York 2. American League: Cleveland 3, Detroit 1; New York 4, Bos ton 0; Philadelphia 4. Washington 2. American Association: Columbus 10. Kansas City, 1. That Kngland is building airships of the Zeppelin type was disclosed in the house of commons yesterday by Thomas James MacNamara. financial secretary of the admiralty, in reply to the question of a member. Mr. MacNamara said that it was not in the public interest to say how many such aircraft Great Britain possessed. The winter wheat crop will be about 499,280.000 bushels, according to a forecast announced yesterday in the May report crop of the department of agriculture. The area to be harvested is about X3.020.000 acres. Condition of the crop on May 1 was 82.4 per cent of a normal, indicating a yield of 15.1 bushels an acre. By two overwhelming votes the house yesterday declined to agree to the senate amendment to the army bill providing for a standing army of 250.000 men and a volunteer army of 261,000 pledged to thirty days intensive training yearly. The first proiMsals was rejected 241 to 142 and the latter 251 to 109.
