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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAT. • Genuine relief over the Mexican situation was evident in administration circles yesterday. The principal cause was the assurance conveyed to President Wilson and his cabinet Tuesday through Secretary Baker that the Carranza government now is convinced the United States has no intention of intervening in Mexican politics and that consequently resentment against the punitive expedition is decreasing rapidly. General Scott, chief of staff of the army, brought this word to Secretary Baker from his conference at El Paso with General Obre-gon, war minister for the Carranza government. Among the promises made by General Obregon, with the approval of General Carranza, were these: Ten thousand selected Mexican troops are to patrol the territory about Parral, the southernmost locality from which American troops are being withdrawn, and to search diligently for Villa or his bandits. A strong Mexican force was to try to capture the Glenn Springs and Boquillas raiders in the Big Bend district and to liberate Deemer, the American storekeeper carried off by the bandits. No Mexican troops were to be moved from Sonora state through Pulpit pass" to the rear of General Pershings column. General Scotts part of the informal pact did not include any promises of American troop withdrawal at a definite time. General Scott expressed the opinion that General Carranza and his war minister have ordered speedy troop movements in an attempt to carry out their pledges. Says a dispatch of yesterday from London: Three hundred thousand German soldiers have been killed or put out of action at Verdun, the Paris correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle reported. The German losses have been so severe, he said, as to preclude any idea of a German offensive against Riga, in which region German sea and land forces are said to be concentrating. The tide has definitely turned, and from west to east the long evaded destiny of the Germans is closing in upon them, the dispatch said. At no moment in the battle of Verdun have they dared to bring thither any unit from before the British front. Other parts of the German front have been stripped of all superfluous strength, and the force in Russia is similarly crippled to feed this adventure. Since last September at least twenty -two divisions have been transferred from the east to the west front. There is thus left in Russia a mere curtain of German troops, while Bulgaria and Turkey are being left to shift for themselves. British troops have occupied the enemys forward line on the Virny Ridge on a front of 250 yards. Opposite Archy a patrol penetrated toward the Germans second line. From San Antonio, Texas, yesterday a dispatch said: The rescue by the American soldiers of J. Deemer and the negro cook, Monroe Payne, carried off as prisoners by the bandits that raided Glenn Springs and Boquillas, was reported to General Funston today. Their rescue alive was due to the refusal of the residents of the village where they had been left to carry out the orders of the bandits to kill them if the American troops attempted their rescue. The report came from Colonel Frederick Sibley, who received his information from Major Langhorne, now about 100 miles south of the border. A detachment of Major Lang-hornes force found the Americans at El Pino, ninety miles south of Boquillas, early yesterday morning. The Americans had been left there by their captors in charge of the residents. None but the unarmed inhabitants of the town was there when the American soldiers arrived, and no resistance was made. The probable loss of eight men from the LTnited States cruiser San Francisco after the cruiser ran aground on Great Round shoal in Vineyard Sound early yesterday was reported by wireless to Boston. The San Francisco officially was reported afloat and only slightly damaged, in a message received at the Charleston navy yard at 10:40 oclock yesterday. She had anchored and was fog bound when the message was sent, it was said. An unofficial message reported that the cruiser had worked itself free of the shoals. A radiogram saying that a whaleboat, which was launched from the cruiser with. eight men, had been lost, was received at a shore station, which had no immediate means of obtaining direct information from the San Francisco. The battleship New Hampshire, the coast guard cutters Acushnet and Gresham and the submarine tender Melville were ordered to the assistance of the vessel from various points on the coast. The Owen bill to amend the corrupt practije act was reported yesterday by the senate elections committee with amendments increasing the aggregate disbursements permitted in presidential elections from 50,000 for all political parties to 00,000 for any party, and* restricting the total disbursement to 0,000 for any candidate for president and 5,000 for a candidate for vice-president. The bill puts a ,000 limit on expenditures for a candidate tor the senate and ,500 on a candidate for the house. Individual responsibility would be placed on a candidate by a provision that no money shall 1* disbursed by any committee except by his consent and knowledge. Another amendment would make the provisions of the bill apply to individual contributors as well as political committees. Judge Charles M. Walker in the Criminal Court yesterday overruled a motion to quash the indictment against Attorneys Charles E. Erbstein and Pall Its II. ODonnell and six others under indictment on charges of conspiracy to suborn perjury. The judge will give a similar ruling on the motion for separate trials later in the day. The judges decision means that the attorneys must stand trial with a convicted detective sergeant now serving a sentence in the penitentiary and three alleged mem-l ers of the "million-dollar burglar trust. Attorneys Erbstein and ODonnell were indicted for subornation of perjury in connection with the testimony offered at the trial of former Capt. James ODea Storen. A searching investigation into the death of Leonard R. Diekerson, secretary of the Wilson-Jones Loose Leaf company, whose body was found beside the tracks of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad near Kenosha, was begun yesterday by private detectives. Relatives believe Diekerson was hurled from the train. Ralph B. Wilson, an uncle, said he was convinced his nephew was thrown from a train and that his death was not due to an accident. Diekerson, who lived at the Briggs house, went to Kenosha Monday to see the fight and is reported to have had an argument with a ticket-taker. Jose Garcia Calderon, son of ex-President Cal-deron of Peru and a volunteer observation balloonist with the French army, was killed in a spectacular manner near the French lines. C;i!deron*s gas bag was caught in a violent storm and broke loose from its moorings. It tipped sideways and began rushing along in the teeth of the gale. Calderon cut loose, but the sides of his parachute were flattended by the wind and he was dashed to death. The American consul at La Rocholle, France. yesterday reported to the state department that three American citizens were aboard the Canadian steamship Eretria which was sunk on Friday, presumably by a mine. A dispatch from Consul General Skinner at London yesterday said that Lloyds reports declared the steamer had been torpedoed. Both dispatches agree that the crew was uninjured. The crew was picked up and landed at Nantez, France. Sir Roger Casement and Daniel J. Bailey were committed for trial yesterday for high treason. This decision was reai lied at tin conclusion of the preliminary hearing of these men on the charge of participation in the Irish rebellion, which has l een in progress since Monday. The date of the trial and the court before which it will be held have not yet been announced. The American embassy at London was informed yesterday that Luigi Martini Mancini. an American citizen, was drowned when the Dutch steamship Batavier V. was blown up. Two other American citizens, who were on board the steamship, were saved. Mancini, a wireless expert, was from Ros-well, N. M. Italian first -line positions in several sectors have been captured by the Austrians after concentrated artillery preparations, it is announced in a war office report issued in Vienna. The Austrians took more than 2.500 prisoners, seven cannon and eleven machine guns in these operations. A dispatch to Lloyds from Great Yarmouth says the Dutch steamer Batavier V.. of 1,500 tons, has been blown up in the North Sea. Four members of the crew were lost, and the remainder landed at Great Yarmouth. The Batavier V. was on her way from London to Rotterdam. Jesse Deemer, rancher and storekeeper, and Monroe Payne, negro captured by the Glenn Springs raiders, have been rescued by American troops at a town in Mexico, according to unconfirmed reports reaching Marathon, Texas, yesterday. It is reported that Austrian air raiders on Monday attempted to attack a train on which were Queen Helena and the children of the royal household. The attack failed and the air raiders were put to flight by Italian airships.
