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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. A disp:iteli from General Pershings headquarters in Mexico says: The f inishim; Mm was gnea to the largest surviving band of Villa followers in Chihuahua at daylight June ft by twenty men of the Thirteenth United States cavalry under Capt. Otto W. Rethnrse in a dashing canyon fiyht twenty miles north of Santa Clara, near hen-. The Americans were unhurt. The Americans routed twenty-five Villa bandits, killing three, wounding several and rapturing all their horses and saddles, some rifles and several thousand rounds of ammunition, crippling the hand eotnpietely. A night ride brought the Ainerh ins into the canon at daybreak, where they followed fresh horse Iraeks. Riding at a gallop they rounded a turn within 200 yards of the bandits eueamiN-d in ■ grove of pines. It was ■ complete surprise. There was a headlong rush among the ilia followers, who. half ilad. fought from behind trees. The Americans dismounted mid within three minutes had routed the bandits. who abandoned everything and sought refuge in the mountains. For four hours the Americans continued the pursuit, climbing over the mountains afoot and fighting from the shelter of the rocks. Several Mexicans were shot, but neither their bodies nor the wounded wen- recovered. Returning to the Mexican bivouac the Americans added the I audits breakfast to their own repast. The bandits had only beef and coffee. This baud is said lo have l«cn the hvmri surviving remnant of the force of Candelaria Cervantes, who was killed three weeks ago in a brush with Americans, regarded as the most important accomplishment of the campaign. A dispatch of yesterday from Petrograd says: Hurtling westward with seeming superhuman vigor, the Russian armies of General Brussiloff are now hammering their way to I-mberg. the Galieian capital, in giant strides. The demoralized Austrian defenders are rolling back In-fore them. It is estimated that more titan one-third of the men in Austrian armies on the east front have been killed, wounded or taken prisoners since the giant offensive started June 1. Approximately 120.000 men and officers have been imprisoned to date. In actions such as the Russians are engaged the estimate of the conservative critics is two killed or injured for every prisoner. This would mean that a total of StiO.OOO Austrian have been put out of the fighting since June 4. The Austrian army on the east front had l een variously estimated at from 700.000 to 1.000 000 men. The new Russian line now makes a deep U into the region toward Kovel. Every mile here is a double gain. It drives the Austrians back and at the same time makes the positions of the Germans on the line toward Riga less tenable. In the south the armies of the czar are knocking at the gates of Czernowitz and the rich country beyond. Unofficial reports are that Czernowitz already has been taken. This has not been confirmed. From London a dispatch of yesterday says: So rapid was the advance of the Russian armies in the region of Lutsk that the Austrians in several instances did not even have time to fire the guns they had loaded, according to a Petrograd dispatch today. In these instances the Russians appropriated the guns where they stood, turned them right about and iMiured their deadly hail into the fleeing men. The prospect of Eoumania joining the allies in the war against the central powaM is growing daily with the advance of the Russian armies into Buko-wina, according to reports in diplomatic circles here. The sympathies of Roumania are said to be pronouncedly with the allies. She has been holding off due to her economic depeudance on Germany. Mrs. Anna Dollie Ledgerwood Matters. Charles T. Mellon and Harry Edwards were placed on trial yesterday before Judge Thomson on a charge of producing a false heir in the Probate Court. They were tried and acquitted several weeks ago of conspiracy to foist a spurious heir on the court. Selection of jurors was begun. The trio was placed on trial after Attorney Jospeh K. Burres motion for a separate trial in behalf of Mrs. Matters and Edwards had been overruled. President Wilson sent to the senate yesterday a report of Secretary Lansing, saying American citizens and their property in Ireland were being protected under international law, that the Irish disturbances were ceasing and that it was hoped there would be few, if any, further arrests and detentions of Americans. The report was in response to a senate resolution passed on after the Dublin uprising, asking what steps had been taken to protect Americans there. Fifteen hundred additional troops were mobilized yesterday for Mexican service in view of continued restarts of anti-American demonstrations in Mexico and bandit raids on Texas territory. Ten companies of coast artillery, drawn from fortifications lietween Portland, Me., and Sandy Hook, and a battalion of engineers from the liarracks in Washington were under orders to join General Pershings army and assist in guarding against further border raids near Laredo. The regular army was increased by the addition of 125 second lieutenants, of all arms of the service yesterday. This was the number of young men who received from the superintendent of the military academy at West Point the diplomas that marked their transfer from cadetship to actual army service. The exercises were held on the west plain in the presence of a gathering of distinguished visitors from many parts of the country. A late dispatch of yesterday from Petrograd says: The war office announcement of today that the retreat of the Austro-Hungarian and German troops along the Galieian and Valhynian fronts is proceeding so rapidly that only a small number of prisoners has been captured in addition to those previously reported. The total is given as about 155.700. as compared with approximately 114*700 announced yesterday. Gasoline prices have reached the maximum. They will rapidly become lower throughout the country. Prices in Kansas already have dropped from 21 to 17M; cents a gallon. This was the feature of evidence given at yesterdays hearing by the federal trade commission at Washington into the "gas" price situation. Elevator No. 3 of the Northern Central Railway Company at Lower Canton, near Balitimore, Md.. was destroyed by fire yesterday. The structure was loaded With i. 000,000 bushels of grain for shipment to the allies. A Saloniki dispatch of the Radio agency of Tnris says that allied fleets are bombarding the southern Bulgarian coas: from Port Iigos to iKdeaghatch. The population is fleeing inland, the dispatch says.
