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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY Americas war expenses now are running about T 0 per cent higher than those of Great Britain it was shown yesterday by comparison of treasury ra ports and a newly issued British financial state ¬ ment The monthly cost of the war to the United SUites now is about 1500000000 including loans to allies while Great Britains expenses are run ¬ ning in the neighborhood of 1000000000 a mouth The United States is spending about 50000000 a day or more than 2000000 an hour The na ¬ tions war debt is now a little less than 12500 000000 as compared with Great Britains 3GC75 000000 000000Action Action was taken by the Chicago council to pre ¬ vent the increase from 70 to 88 cents per thousand cubic feet in Chicago gas rates ordered by the State Public Utilities Commission The council com ¬ mittee on gas oil and electric light and on gas liti ¬ gation were called in special meeting to hear a re jiort from Donald It Uichbcrg syecial gas counsel recommending immediate application in the Circuit Court for an injunction restraining the enforcement of the utilities commissions order orderdeferring deferring to the report yesterday that a French aviator had just made the first successful parachute leap from a moving airplane it was stated at San Antonio Tex that Hodman Law has jumped from a moving airplane several times and landed safely with the aid of a parachute at Kelly field the last time from a height of 5000 feet at the time of Secretary McAdoos visit to Kelly field The plane was driven by Edward Stiusou and au ordi ¬ nary balloon parachute was used usedA A Canadian relief vessel yesterday was on its way to a Canadian port with the 170 passengers of the Osaka Shosken Kaisha passenger liner Canada Maru which grounded in a fog Tuesday as it neand the end of a run from the orient with a cargo said to be worth about 4000000 4000000British British casualties reported during July totaled 07291 This compares with total casualties re ¬ ported in June of 141147 The losses for July are divided as follows Killed or died of wounds offi ¬ cers 521 men 8474 Wounded or missing Officers 1537 men 56759 56759Two Two aviators are reported to have made a flight from Paris to St Nazaire and return in five hours and fifty minutes This time included a stop of threequarters of an hour at St Nazaire The dis ¬ tance during the round trip was about 473 miles milesA A collision between two German railway trains caused a gas cx losion which resulted in the deaths of thirty persons says an Exchange Telegraph dis ¬ patch from Copenhagen The accident occurred be ¬ tween Schcidmusl and Landsberg LandsbergUnited United States Senator James Hamilton Lewis filed his primary petition in the office of Secretary of State Emmerson at Springfield yesterday The petition was brought there by a special messenger messengerCar Car mens wages to be fixed by the national war labor board will range from 42 to 48 cents an hour it was learned authoritatively yesterday
