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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. More than 000,000 votes had been cast by one oclock in Chicago yesterday, according to estimates made by cldef clerk Dennis J. Egan of the election commission. At 10:30 oclock Mr. Egan estimated that 514, 8S5 ballots had been marked and placed in the polling boxes in this city. Reports from the country districts of Cook county indicated a proportionally heavy vote in suburban territory. Election officials declared it the busiest election day in their experience. Reports from precinct after precinct were that facilities at the polling places, in spite of special provision for a large vote, were being swamped by the large number of ballots cast. At 10:30, when chief clerk Egan made his estimates, reports on the voting in thirty-nine scattered precincts showed an average of 285 votes per precinct. The record total of 900,000 voters were eligible to vote in Cook county, and the interest in national and local contests had been worked up to so high a pitcli that experts estimated 90 per cent, of the voters registered would cast ballots. Men and women were standing in line at many polling places before the hour of opening at 0 a. m. When the voting started there were evidences of much scratching of ballots as voters took the full time permitted them to mark their choice of candidates and propositions. After the first rush of balloting was over, clerks from polling places in all parts of the city kept the election commissions wires busy with demands for additional ballot boxes, declaring those on hand had been filled to the limit with ballots. Auto trucks were sent out and clerks of the commissioners empowered by law, opened the boxes and jumped up and down on the ballots. There were representatives of the principal parties present during the packing process to prevent any attempt at chicanery. Chief clerk Dennis J. Egan indicated a possibility that his original estimate that 475,000 men and 250.000 women would cast their vote today In Chicago might be exceeded. The estimated total of 725,000 exceeded by 100,000 any vote total previously cast in Chicago in a presidential election. An estimate that 203,763 persons had voted in Chicago in the first ninety minutes the polls were open If voting was as heavy in other sections as he found it on the west side was made by commissioner Bernard nor-wich. Mr. Horwich, who had the west side under his supervision, said he found the average vote to be 93 per precinct in the first hour and a half In twelve representative west side precincts. From Seattle, Wash., yesterday a dispatcli said: The Snohomish County authorities, assisted by the Seattle police, in wiiose custody 2S9 persons are held in connection with Sundays fatal clasli between members of the Industrial Workers of the World and a posse of Everett, Wash., citizens, continued their efforts today to identify from among the prisoners the men who actually engaged in the shooting. Witnesses thus far brought from Everett have been unable to pick out any men who were seen to fire at the citizens on the Everett City dock. O. T. Webb, prosecuting attorney of Snohomish County, and Alfred Lundin, prosecuting attorney of King County, conferred concerning the course of action to be taken regarding the prisoners here, but no decision was readied. Mr. Lundin said no action would be taken by him until the Everett officers had identified the men they intend to prosecute for murder. Meanwhile the local headquarters of the Industrial Workers of the World is gathering funds and arranging for the defense of the men under arrest. William D. Haywood, general secretary-treasurer, is expected to come here immediately after the general convention at Chicago, November 9, and the matter of engaging chief counsel will be left in his hands. The declaration of Frank P. Walsh, former chairman of the federal industrial relations commission, that he would not take the case was a disappointment to the local leaders, but they said Mr. Haywood would engage suitable counsel. William Blackburn, mediation commissioner of the United States Department of Labor, who has been on the Pacific coast for several weeks in connection with the recent long-shoresmens strike, has begun an investigation of the industrial conditions at Everett with reference to Sundays rioting. Concerning the conflicts on the borders of Rou-mania a dispatch from Bucharest says: The war office announces that Roumanian forces in Dobrudja have compelled the retirement of Teutonic troops, which in their retreat set fire to several villages. The villages burned were Daeni and Garlici, on the Danube, twelve miles north of Hirsova, and Bosnian and Baidar, eighteen miles northeast of Hirsova, about forty miles north of the Constanza-Tchernavoda railroad line. The official statement follows: Southern front All along the Danube there has been artillery activity. Dobrudja Our advnnce detachments forced the enemy to. retire. During his retreat he set fire to the villages of Daeni, Garlici, Rosman and Baidar. Northern and northwestern frontiers On the frontier of West Moldavia the situation is unchanged. In the Pra-hova valley we repulsed enemy attacks from Rijes toward our center and our left wing. On the right bank of the Alt violent fighting continues in the region of the Racovitza-Titesti. In the Jiul valley the enemy received reinforcements and we discontinued our pursuit. A dispatch of yesterday from Seward, Alaska, says: William C. Edcs, chairman of the Alaskan engineering commission, who recently returned from Anchorage, reports excellent progress on the construction of the United States railroad. Fifty-nine miles of track have been laid from Anchorage. With the seventy-bne miles of the old Alaska Northern Railway that nre now in operation to Kearn Creek, there have been completed 130 miles of the 470 that will connect Seward and Fairbanks. The track so far laid from Anchorage consists of six miles south toward Seward, thirty-eight miles of main line northward to Fairbanks and fifteen miles on the Matanuska branch into the Matanuska coal fields. The right of way has been cleared from Potter Creek, on Tumagain Arm, to Kings River, in the Matanuska coal field, a distance of seventy-seven miles, and on the main line from Matanuska River to the Little Susitna River. Rails will be laid this fall as far as Kings River, on the Matanuska branch, a distance of sixty-two mibu from Anchorage, and to Wassilla, on the main litfe approximately fifteen miles from Matanuska. the main line in the Susitna Valley, between Mon- tana Creek and Indian River, a distance of fifty-five miles, the right of way is 70 per cent cleared, and a number of grading contracts have been let. Grading of the right of way will proceed in tlds section from Talkeetna to Willow Creek, and north to Broad Pass. At Willow Creek it will connect witli the work under the Matanuska district, and at Broad Pass with the work from the Nenana division. A late dispatch of yesterday from London says: A claim that two dreadnaugiits were hit by the Britisli submarine which yesterday was reported launching a torpedo at and striking a German dreadnaught in the North Sea is contained in a further report received from the commanding officer of the submarine, it was officially announced today. The two dreadnnughts claimed to have been struck were battleships of the Kaiser class. The official statement reads: With reference to yesterdays communique, a further report has now been received from the commanding officer of the submarine. He now claims to have hit two dread-, naught battleships of the Kaiser class. The naval registers show five dreadnaught battleships of the Kaiser class, all completed between October, 1912, and August, 1913. Besides the name ship of the class they are the Frederich der Grosse, Kaiserin, Prins Regent Luitiwld and Kocnig Albert. The displacement of each is 24,700 tons, length 501 feet, beam 95 feet and draft 27 feet. Their armament consists of ten 12-inch guns, fourteen 0-inch guns, twelve 24-pounders and four anti-aircraft guns. They are equipped with five torpedo tubes, submerged. The Kaisers best speed record is given as 23.0 knots. Reiwrts from British sources that the Kaiser Avas sunk in the Jutland sea fight last May were semi-officially denied in Berlin. It was stated that the Kaiser was only twice lightly hit by gun fire, one man being killed. From London yesterday a cablegram said: Continued activities on practically all fronts, with severe fighting at some Iolits, lias marked the last twenty-four hours. At all but one or two points the entente allied armies developed strong offensives, with what appears to have been gratifying success in some instances. Since the partly successful German counter attacks, which for a time checked French and Britisli storming lines that had swept into German trenches along the Somme. there has been 110 claim from Berlin to dispute London and Paris war office statements that the terrain captured has been consolidated. Although infantry operations 011 the west front died down late yesterday, there was heavy artillerying, the English night report mentioning specially heavy shelling of the British front. The Germans appear to have consolidated their regained ground in the region of Butte de Warleneourt, where counter attacks drove the British from hard-won trendies. In St. Pierre Vaast wood French troops during the night continued combing out the Germans who were not expelled or captured during the first rushes. Texas farmers are beginning to collect the more than ,000,000 that is coming to them between now and New Years day for the turkeys they are to supply for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years dinners of northern people. While the crop in the state as a whole is short of last year, prices are so much higher now and the prospects are for such further advances that the value of the 1910 cron is going to exceed greatly that of last on a smaller output. So much bullish sentiment has been worked up in the turkey market, says the Houston Post, that shippers are sending them into the packing centers ahead of the usual time, and packers have to accept them, because of the keen competition of northern buyers, even though some of the birds are not fully matured and should have been kept on the farm a while longer. With prices ranging" from 18 to 21 cents on foot, however, at Texas points, the shippers are sending them in. With the closing of the polls at 4 p. m. yesterday the greatest political contest in the history of Illinois came to a close with all sides claiming victory. Judges and clerks of election set to work at once counting the ballots, which the voters had cast during the day, but it was quietly predicted that this work might take all night and today. Approximately 800,000 ballots were cast, according to unofficial estimates. Election officials predicted that results would show that nearly ninety per cent of the registered vote was polled. The women turned out in unexpected numbers. Hughes and Wilson managers both laid claim to victory in Cook County. County chieftains in both parties made the same declaration, but it awaits the result of the counting to know which claim is correct. Members of the board of education expressed satisfaction yesterrday over the action of County Treasurer Henry Stuckart in announcing that he would pay to the board ,000,000 on November 14 and ,000,000 more on November 28. Of this amount ,944,000 will go into the school fund ,290,000 for educational and 1916.sh48,000 for building purposes. It will meet the bills of the board up to December 1, leaving one month to run on borrowed money. Because of the suits attacking tax levies it was feared the county treasurer would hold up the tax collections uutil those suits had been decided by the Supreme Court. The destruction of an Austrian submarine and an Italian torpedo boat was announced yesterday by the Italian ministry of marine. The action took place when the submarine tried to attack a troop ship that was being convoyed by the torpedo boat. The transport escaped undamaged. Italian torpedo boats have mined the Adriatic at the mouth of Durnzzo Albania harbor. It is further announced that three Austro-Hungarlan torpedo boat destroyers bombarded the Italian coast near Sainte Pidioal. Two were struck by land batteries and one damaged so badly that the others had to assist it to withdraw. Official denial of the report that Chihuahua was to be evacuated was made by Gen. Trevino Monday night through a telegram received at El Paso, by Consul Soriano Bravo of Mexico. The message was in answer to one from the consul asking for information in regard to the rumors current in El Paso. Gen. Trevino pronounced the reports that the guns had been taken from Santa Rosa Hill at Chihuahua, and that lie was preparing to yield the city, to be "unfounded and absurd." The Britisli steamer East Point arrived at Philadelphia yesterday from London and reported that the fire in its No. 1 hold caused little damage to the ship and that repairs will not "delay loading for the return trip. The flames were discovered among hemp and skins and were extinguished by flooding the hold. The fire was reported by wireless to the Canadian marine department on October 29 while the ship was in mid-ocean. Col. Calomenopoulos, commanding the Forty-third Greek regiment at Yolo, with numerous officers and virtually all the soldiers, lias joined the Nationalist movement. He will report to Gen. Sar-rail, the French commander of the allied forces, and make an effort to regain the Greek forts which were turned over to the Bulgarians. Six express wagons carried 42,000 wortli of silver to the German submarine Deutscliland at New London yesterday. The silver had arrived from New York early in the day, having been minted at San Francisco. There were 75 bars of 72 pounds each. Dr. Constantin Dumba, formerly Austrian ambassador to the United States, died yesterday, says a dispatcli from Vienna.
