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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. A dispatcli from Copenhagen in reference to the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States reads: Count of the plebiscite vote taken Thursday shows an overwhelming majority in favor of the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. The result was 283,000 votes in favor of the sale and 157,000 against . such action. The indorsement of the proposal means that the matter will now be taken up by the Riksdag, the Danish parliament. A treaty for the sale of the islands was concluded between the United States and Denmark in New York, August 5 of this year, the purchase price being fixed at 5,000,000. The treaty was ratified by the United States Senate, September 7. Dispatches from the various army headquarters convey the information that on the fighting fronts everywhere, except in Roumania and along both banks of the Meuse, only bombardments and minor operations are being carried out. In Roumania the Danube army of the Teutonic allies lias crossed the Jalomitza river. The Berlin official communication admits that the French have made advances on both banks of the Mouse river. Paris merely reports bombardments in these regions. The Teutons have bombarded Monustir. The United States Army transport Kilpatrick arrived at New York yesterday with sixty-one members of the crew of the transport Sumner, still hard aground off Barncgat on the New Jersey coast. Some of the officers and seamen of the Sumner remained at their posts and unusually high tides are awaited to assist the vessels standing by to drag the transport into deeper water. Assertion that the action of the German government in the deportation of Belgians is absolutely in accordance with the principles of international law is made in the concluding sections of Germanys reply to the inquiries of the United States, concerning this subject as published in the Nord-deutsche Allgemeine Zcitung and given out by the Overseas News Agency. Francisco AMlIa, through representatives at El Paso, has made overtures to the United States and has promised to cease his depredations upon American property and discontinue killing Americans found in Mexico, it was announced today by a prominent government agent at El Paso. He referred to the reported overtures as "Villa holding out the olive branch." Judge James A. Crcighton, for thirty-two years on the bench of the Seventh Judicial Circuit Court, died at his home here at Springfield today at the age of seventy years. He became ill a few days ago while presiding over the court at Jacksonville. 111. Judge Creighton was the oldest judge in Illinois in point of service and he lias decided more state cases than any other. A Washington exchange says by a vote of 9 to 5, the House committee on postoffices today recommended that the Postoffice Department discontinue pneumatic tube service in Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and St. Louis, in accordance with the recommendations of Postmaster General Burleson in his annual report. The New York stock market experienced another feverish session of violent liquidation today, credited to continued apprehension over the effect of possible peace on the earnings of munitions, steel and kindred concerns which have profited from the war. Yesterday, in a session lasting three hours the longest in many months President Wilson and the cabinet discussed Germanys proposals for peace and the attitude to lie taken by the United States in transmitting them to the entente belligerents. The latest London information is to the effect that the allies will ask for specifications from Germany in regard to peace proposals, that they will refuse her terms and then make counter proposals far removed from those at Berlin. From London comes word that the new war credit for ,000,000,000, introduced in the house of commons Thursday by Andrew Ronar Iiw, chancellor of the exchequer, passed through all its stages in the lower house yesterday. The Russian view of the German offer is outlined in a message from Pctrograd, saying that the determination of allies to carry the war to a final triumph cannot be weakened by illusory proposals of the enemy. The German embassy in Washington gives out informal intimation that if a peace parley should take place, the Teuton nation would be willing to discuss agreement for limitation of armament. The Greek government has accepted the ultimatum presented by the entente allies, says a dispatch from Athens to the Central News Agency at London.
