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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. As a result of the mutiny of negro soldiers of the Twenty-fourth United States Infantry last night, causing the death of nixteen and the wounding of more than a score of person!, the entire city of Houston, Texas, and its environs are under martial law. General John A. Hulen is in command as provost marshal. Order have been given to soldiers to watch all incoming trains and not to permit armed men to enter -the city. More than 100 negro soldiers of two companies of the Twenty-fourth Infantry are being sought by strong patrols of regulars and guardsmen and, when apprehended; face court martial for having mutinied, penalty for which may .be death by shooting. . An Austria, which is literally crying for peace, which has "discarded any thought of territorial expansion and is even willing to buy its way out of the war by territorial sacrifices on the Italian front and in Galicia; an Austria of frequent food riots, unable to last through another winter of war; an Austria whose population would rise in revolution if any reasonable peace offer were rejected by the government, is pictured by an intelligent Austrian who has arrived at Copenhagen from Vienna. The governments ship building program calls for 1,270 ships of 7,9li8,000 tonnage, it was revealed yesterday in estimates the shipping board has sent Secretary McAdoo on which to base a request for a new billion dollar appropriation. This is in addition to nearly two million tons of shipping now building in American yards, which has been commandeered by the emergency fleet corporation. A Paris dispatch of yesterday says French troops advanced more than a mile farther today between Avocourt wood and Dead Mans Hill in resumed fighting of the great Verdun offensive. The war office officially announced the new victory. It was stated also that the French forces now occupy all of Hill 304. Estimates totaling ,123,000,000 for completion of the government. 1917 shipbuilding program were sent to Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo yesterday by the shipping board. .Congress will be asked to appropriate the sum as soon as President Wilsons approval is obtained. A dispatch from Athens says a second fire isj burning in Saloniki, where great damage was done last Saturday by a conflagration which destroyed a considerable part of the city, making 00,000 persons homeless. Thus far a thousand bouses have been destroyed. The United States government is making a clear profit of nearly ,500 a day on the procrastination of bankers and others in collecting money due them for short-time certificates of indebtedness issued months ago and now past maturity. Dr. Michaels, German chancellor, blames the United States for the entrance of China aud Liberia in the war and adds that Germany will make all enemies pay for damage done to German interests. Troops under Prince Leopold of Bavaria, advancing on tin Russian city or Riga, have reached the river Aa at some tdaces on the Gulf of Itiga roast, the German ataff announced yesterday. It is intimated at Washington that President Wilson . may decide to- address Congress on peace at the. same time lie makes reply .to Poie Benedicts proposals.. Another credit of 00,000,000 to Russia" was wade yesterday by the American government.
