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tl It tl ;. is .. „ ; to • e T a p 2 • t to v | I . I • i I i I i l | i t , ] , , ; 1 GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. The federal grand jury, which has been investigating the high cost of food and fuel, returned two indictments naming as defendants in the first. 10S corporations and fifty-five individuals, in the second, ten corporations and sixteen individuals in the business of producing or selling coal. The situation among the poorer classes in Austria extremely serious, according to comments in the Aust-ian newspapers on Premier Class Martinios announcement that the government lias appropriated millions of kronen for the purchase of food for the destitute. 1niversities throughout the country will be asked furnish officers for the navy, according to plans formulated by Inited States recruiting agencies over the country. The officers so named will BS commissioned as second lieutenants in the marine corps. After hearing nn address by Colonel Roosevelt. Oyster Ray. the Colom-Is home city, has decided to adopt an entire village of Belgian children. The plan calls for an expenditure of ,400 a month". 2.400 children are the total to be thus taken care of. The Supreme court Tuesday denied a rehearing F. Drew Caminetti and Maury I. Diggs. convicted of violation of the Mann white slave law. The courts mandate sending the men to prison is expected to be handed down within thirty days. When Governor Hatfield of West Virginia left office Monday, he pardoned sixty-five persons con -I rioted of murder and lesser crimes. Sixteen were men convicted of first degree murder and eight persons guilty of lesser decrees of murder. Renomination of Dr. Gary T. Grayson as medical director in the navy with rank of rear admiral. which failed of confirmation in the Senate during the last session after a prolonged light, was sent to the Senate again by President Wilson. Ex-President Taft is to make a tour in favor of Uaited States preparedness. He will be in Rich-inond. Ya.. March 21, and will be in the middle an st about March 30. He is a recent convert to National Compulsory Military Service. The Democratic caucus in session Tuesday named Senator Thomas S. Martin of Virginia as majority leader of the Senate to .succeed Senator Kern of Indiana, whose term expired with the passing of the sixiy -fourth Congress. An American in-urroi tion. an expedition to India and the furthering of German interests in China, were the plans disclosed in a raid on a house in New York Tuesday. Sensational developments are expected. Austria will support Germany in the sahmariae activity of the leading Teutonic power, but will attempt to make concessions, whereby the sympathy of the Inited States will, in so BMaSBJHk be continued. Attorney General MeReynolds has given an informal opinion on the possibility of the arming of Americans ships in spite of the old statute. The cabinet met late Tu-sday to decide. A flood, which came unexpectedly upon the city of Chattanooga. Ti nn.. caused 4. MM people to desert their homes. The Tennessee river is at the highest stage recorded, in years. Ambassador RernstoriT has been asked by the German government to explain who allowed the Mexican plot note of the German foreign office to become known. Hoyt Thayer, an American school teacher, held in Japan for trespassing on a fortified place, was released on bond pending trial by a higher court. The re-election of President Carranza in Mexico seems to be an assured fact. No strong movement to unseat him has become apparent. Ambassador Gerrard has been named as a possible candidate for mayor of New York and. later, governor of the state of New York. The imperial budget for the furtherance of the war in Germany has been increased this year by 11,250,000, or 1.277,OM.0OJ marks. American gold, if given to the allies as a war support, will win the war for them, so a London financial expert says. A fleet of British light cruisers is bow on a pecial submarine hunt in the Gulf of Mexico. Six American passenger steamer; In Id up in New York are ready to depart if given guns. A smallpox epidemic has broken out in Rerlin. Wholesale vaccination lias resulted.
