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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. From Koine yesterday a dispatch says: Twenty -five thousand Austrian soldiers were killed, wounded or captured in the first four days of General Cador-nas new sweep on Trieste. No offensive on the Austro-Italian front since the beginning of the war has been marked by such fierce fighting. Battling in the Carso mountain lands, Italians and Austrians have met in hand-to-hand struggles that have continued at some places all night. The summit of Veliki hill was crowned by heavy Austrian artillery that with a semi-circle of fire prevented CadoruaVff men from advancing in frontal attacks. Several small Italian detachments under cover of darkness reached the slopes on the sides of Veliki. Without waiting for re-inforcements they scaled the sides, surprised the enemy and, after a brief encounter with bayonets and daggers, captured the Austrian battery. The victors signaled news of their success to their waiting comrades below and then turned the captured guns on the Austrian trenches to the east. In the fighting southeast of Goritz, Italian infantry charged over a wide area, which had been flooded by the Vertoibilla river. At some places they advanced to the attack in water waist deep, holding their rifles high above their head. It is estimated hero that 100,000 Austrian troops are defending the Isonzo lines now under attack by Cadorna. Three Austrian airplanes, says an official statement, dropped bombs on Vieste, province of Foggia on the Adriatic, killing two civilians and wounding four others, but causing no material damage. A special dispatch from Amsterdam features a statement of the" Berlin Kretttz Zeitung to the effect that Germany has decided to make the safety of neutral shins carrying neutral cargoes, dependent upon guaranties that no part of such cargoes shall be landed, whether through British compulsion or not, at any British port. Such guaranties, according to the Kreutz Zeitung, can consist only in formal undertakings by Great Britain, and such undertaking will be recognized by Germany only from case to case. This is taken to mean that in event of any neutral cargo or part thereof being landed in England the German government immediately will cease to recognize the inviolability of neutral ships. The Berlin paper implies that tho case of the Dutch freighter Bloomersdijk, which was sunk by a German submarine off Nantucket on October S, will be argued along these lines, and it will be contended since the intermediate destination of the vessel was Kirkwall, there was not guaranty that the whole cargo would reach Holland. The British press also infers from a Berlin dispatch summarized in the Koelnische Zeitung that Germany proposes to sink all neutral ships, whether bearing neutral cargoes or otherwise, unless Great Britain consents to abandon tho right to compel discharge at Kirkwall of any part of a neutral cargo suspected of having an enemy destination. A municipal grocery store may be San Franciscos answer to the present high cost of living. Supervisor Charles Nelson declared yesterday that he would soon introduce an ordinance providing for the establishment of a warehouse for distribution of provisions at moderate prices. "A famine is facing the poorer classes in San Francisco by reason of the enormous increases in food prices." said Nelson. "I know of cases here where families are actually going without proper nourishment because of their inability to pay the grocer and their rent at the same time. Unless there is a speedy improvement in conditions, I propose to urge the establishment of a new city department a municipal grocery, if you like. It would involve purchase by the city of huge quantities of provisions and holding them against prohibitive prices that may develop. These provision could then be sold at rock-bottom prices the city aimiug to do nothing more than pay expenses." "The weight of present opinion inclines to the view that poliomyelitis infantile paralysis is exclusively a human disease and is spread by human contact, whatever other causes may be found to contribute to it spread," is the conclusion reached by a committee of the American Public Health Association made public at Washington, Friday, by the United States Public Health Service. The committee recommends the following procedure in attempting to control the disease: Requirement that all recognized ami suspected cases be promptly reported; isolation of patients in screened premises for at least six weeks; disinfection of body discharges; restriction of movements of intimate associates so far as practicable, as exclusion of children of the family from school or other gatherings; protection of children from contact with other children or the general public during epidemics; observation of contacts for two weeks after the last exposure. Two automobile bandits held up Thomas Watling. tin? superintendent, and thirty other employes of the warehouse of the Concrete Steel company. 3209 West Thirtieth street, yesterday, felled AVatling with a blow on the head with the handle of a revolver and escaped with the payroll of 00. Mr. Watlings head was bruised. The bandits tore the telephone from the wall before they escaped in the automobile. Mr. Watling had taken the money from a safe and was sitting at a table in an otiice in the front of the warehouse preparing to pay off the thirty employes who were standing in line when the two robbers entered. The more than 10,000 street arc lights in Philadelphia. Pa., will flash the result of Tuesdays presidential contest to the citizens in all sections, according to arrangements auuuouced by Chhf McLaughlin of the electrical bureau. As soon as the result is definitely known in the newspaper offices word will be sent to the various powerhouses, and if Wilson is re-elected the current will be turned on and off five times in succession. Four flashes will signify that Hushes is the winner, and should the result be in doubt at midnight three flashes will be sent. Generally fair weather for nearly all parts of the country on election day is predicted by the weather bureau. Yesterday this special forecast was issued: "The indications at this time are that on Tuesday, election day, moderate temperatures and generally fair weather will prevail over nearly all parts of the country. There is, however, a possibility of unsettled weather and rain in North Pacific states, the northern Rocky mountain region, in the extreme tipper Mississippi valley and in the region of the great lakes." One hundred Stanford University, Cal.. men, undergraduates, for the greater part, volunteered yesterday for service in France with the American ambulcnce corps. Forty-eight signed up definitely for service; the other fifty-two have yet to obtain the consent of their parents. Expenses are to be paid by a group of wealthy San Franciscoans. The terms of service will be six months or more. The high cost of print paper and other material was given yesterday as the basis for decision of the five big Jewish dailies of New York to raise the price of their newspapers from 1 cent to 2 cents. The change will take effect Wednesday. The combined circulation of the five dailies is said to be in excess of 500,000. Approximately 2,000,000 bales of cotton, valued at about 00,000,000, has been destroyed by the boll weevil, and about seventy-nine per cent of the cotton belt was infected by the insect this season, reports J. A. Taylor, president of the National Gin-ners Association, who has just returned to New-York from an extensive trip through the cotton belt. Although the Indian birth rate is increasing and the Indian death rate is decreasing in this country, the Indian will be extinct through intermarriage with whites, Dr. L. C. Hall, for forty years a missionary at Fort Berthold Indian reservation in North Dakota told the American Missionary Association at Minneapolis yesterday. Advices from Berlin say the reichstag would dispose of its work yesterday and adjourn. The chancellors promised speech will therefore be postponed, but he will have the opportunity of making any statements he wishes before the main committee, which will continue its sittings. The London and Northwestern railroad steamship Connemara, bound from Gresmore to Holyhead, collided with the steamship Retriever in the Irish channel yesterday. Both ships were sunk. So far as known there is only one survivor from both ships. The death roll will probably reach 300. The Bundcsrath, or federal council of Germany, has decided to take a -census of the German empire on December 1, says a Renter dispatch from Amsterdam. The census, it is added, will be in the interests of the war feeding department and the aimy adminstration. Prince Mircea of Roumania, who has been suffec-w ing from typhoid fever, died Thursday, accordinM to Renters Bucharest correspondent. Prince Mircc was the youngest son of King Ferdinand. He was born at Bucharest December 21, 1912. Between twenty-five and thirty per cent of the 1910 mucat grape crop, valued at between ,000,-000 and ,500,000, is a total loss to the rasin industy at Fresno, Cal., as the result of early rains. From Melbourne, Australia, yesterday, a dispatch says: While returns from the conscription referendum are still incomplete, the majority in opposition to the proposition is being reduced daily." According to the Ritzau Agencys Stavengcr cor-resnondent, the Norwegian steamer Saturn, a vessel of 999 tons, has been sunk by a German submarine. The crew was saved. More than sixty men are entombed in the Bessie mines as the result of an explosion. The mines are twenty miles west of Brimingham, Ala.
