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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. From London yesterday a dispatch says: Two more leaders in the rebellion, whose execution was delaved bv Premier Asquiths undertaking that there would be no further executions until after li-irli-iment had debated John Dillons motion, have been put to death. They were James Connolly, one of the seven signers of the proclamation of the Irish republic, and John McDermott. It seems ex-tremelv probable that there will be no more executions * Ml of the leaders of the uprising have now-been shot and many of their followers are in orison A large number of Dublin residents, arrested on suspicion, have been released from prison •is the result of Premier Asquiths visit to the Irish capital according to dispatches received here to-_v Several government employes were among the men released. Others included persons suspected of having provisioned the Sinn Feiners while thev were besieged by loyal troops and l er-sons from whose houses snipers were active. Premier Asquith planned to continue to hold his conferences today with civil authorities at Dublin, with whom he conversed yesterday. A delegation of Dublin citizens is waiting to see the prime minister with a plea for lenient treatment of rebels deported to Eaglaad and a request that those iqioii whom onlv light punishment is inflicted be l*r-mittid to return to their families as soon as ]ios-sible. It was reported in Dublin that Premier Asquith would issue a proclamation within a few-days addressed to the Irish people. Says a dispatch from Columbus. N. M.. yesterday:* Mobilization of 1.000 men of the New Mexico national gu ird was completed here with the arrival early today of additional companies from Deming. Silver Citv. Clovis. Poriales. Artesi.i and Carlsbad, and a battery of artillery from Rosewell. The militia, em-amped on the southern extn-mity of the militarv reservation, consists of a skeleton regiment of infantrv and the battery. Recruiting to bring the command to war strength is progressing rapidly throughout the state, according to rei orts todavto H. T. Herring, adjutant general. Reports reaeiiing here from apparently authentic sources that all south-bound supply truck trains between C. Ionia Dublan and Namiquipa are ooing lu.lted and sent back to the held base at Dublin. Petitions for the recall of James Rolph, Jr., Mavor of San Francisco, were being circulated there yesterday by followers of Eugene E. Schmitz, former mayor, who was removed from office when indicted at the time of the so-called graft prosecution. He was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor at the last election. The recall iietitions enumerate as reasons for Rolphs recall aliout a dozeii specifications, including the charge that the mayor holds bis office illegally because of alleged eleetion frauds. The resignation of Dr. Clemens Dclbrueck, German minister of the interior and vice chancellor of the German Empire, has been officially announced, according to dispatches received at Copenhagen yesterday. Dr. Dclbrueck was charged with responsibility for failing to safeguard and see to the distribution of food supplies. His resignation was demaiuUd. according to one Berlin report, following the recent demonstration in which mobs smashed the shops of Berlin meat dealers. Several heavy German attacks near Fort Douau-mont and Thiaumont, northeast of Verdun, preceded bv the most violent bombardment, were repulsed with heavy losses, the French yielding not an inch, the French war office announced yesterday. On the west bank of the Meuse the French gained new ground near Hill 2S7 west of Hill 304, said the official statement. In Avocourt wood and around Hill 304 the artillery struggles continued without cessation. Yesterdays baseball results — National League: Pittsburgh 5. Boston 3; Philadelphia ." . Cincinnati 0; St. Louis 2, Brooklyn 0. American League: Boston 3. Chicago 2: Philadelphia 4. St. Louis 3; Washington 3, Detroit 2; Cleveland 4. New York 2. American Association: Louisville 10, Milwaukee 2; Indianapolis 3, Kansas City 0. The announcement is expected shortly at Vienna of the bethrothal of an Austrian arclehu-hess and Prince Boris, heir to the throne of Bulgaria, according to an Amsterdam dispatch to the Loudon Exchange Telegraph Company. The general strike on all Spanisli railroads which had lieen set for May 20 has been called off. The points in dispute have been settled through con-aaaaaaa granted by the employers. Bulgiria is withdrawing troops from the Roumanian frontier and shifting them t.. the Saloniki front in anticipation of an allied offensive, according to Odessa dispatches. ■ , ! 1 • i . ; 1 : 1 1
