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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY The big American naval collier Cyclops, carrying fifty-seven passengers, fifteen officers and 221 uieii in its crew, lias been overdue at an Atlantic port since March 13. The Navy Department announced yesterday that the vessel was last re|»orted at a West Indies island March 4 and that extreme anxiety is entertained as to its safety. The vessel was bringing a cargo of manganese from Brazil. Several north Texas towns were damaged severely by a cyclone Sunday which crossed that part of the state. Thirty buildings, including a church and school, were blown down at the town of Boyd. So far as known no lives have been lost. Senator William Joel Stone, of Missouri, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee and for many years prominent among Democratic leaders, died Sunday at Washington after a stroke of paralysis suffered last Wednesday. With announcement that 49.K43 additional selective draft men will lie called to the colors on May 1 it became known today that America is rush-iug to the aid of the allies with unprecedented s|»-ed. Count f scrum. Austro-Huiigarian foreign minister, lias resigned, according to a dispatch from Vienna.
