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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY CHICAGO. III.. September 11. Weather forecast: Illinois Fair tonight and Friday; cooler tonight. Missouri Generally fair tonight and Friday; slightly cooler in east portion tonight. Wisconsin Fair tonight and Friday; slightly cooler in east and south portions tonight. General forecast Fair weather is indicated for practically all middle western sections, but conditions may become unsettled Friday in the west iu advance of the disturbance. The changes in temperature will not be of importance. CINCINNATI. .. September 11. The worlds championship baseball series this year will go nine games if necessary instead of seven. The winner will have to take five games. This announcement was made here today by August Herrmann, chairman of the National Baseball Commission. He stated that a majority of the heads of clubs in both the American and National leagues had ratified the proposed extension to nine games. NEW YORK, N. Y., September 11. Samuel Gom-pers. president of the American Federation of Labor, declined to state today what action will be taken on President Wilsons telegraphed request that he exert efforts to avert a nation-wide strike in the steel industries. "We are all desirous of aiding President Wilson in his efforts to bring about, industrial peace," said Gompers. "but before I answer this telegram I will have to give it more serious thought." ST. LOUIS. Mo., September 11. Plans to fight the order of the Missouri public service commission granting the United Railways Company an eight-cent fare, effective September 20. were started today when 1,500 members of the West End Busi-nss Mens Association signed pledges to walk all distances under twenty blocks in an effort to effect a boycott on the street car company. LONDON. England, September 11. A bolshevik wireless dispatch from Moscow today claims the capture of nearly 12,000 prisoners from Admiral Kolchaks nil-Russian forces in the region of Aktiu-binsk and Orsk in the Province of Turgai. southern Russia, south of the Orenburg district. It is declared the surrender of the remainder of Kolchaks southern army is expected. WASHINGTON. D. C, September 11. Rejection of the peace treaty witli its league of nations covenant, or adoption of nmendments, would mean sacrifice by the United States of all concessions obtained from Germany under a dictated peace, the minority members of the foreign relations committee showed in a report presented today to the senate. BOSTON, Mass., September 11. Gov. Coolidge today wired the secretary of the navy a request that naval forces be held in readiness for a call to supply additional troops for Bostons protection. With six -regiments of state guards under arms the governor has mobilized all the forces at his command. BRUSSELS, Belgium. September 11. M. Delacroix, minister of finance, said the national debt had reached a total of S2,593,310.000, exclusive of a sum of 81.100,000.000 owed to the national bank for the payment of 7,500,000,000 marks still in circulation in Belgium. WASHINGTON. I. C, September 11. The American embassy at Mexico City is investigating an unconfirmed report that three Americans, including two named Jones and Ferguson, of Tampico, were captured by bandits who blew up a train between San Luis Potosi and Tampico. MIAMI, Fla., September 11. A wireless message received liera early this morning said forty-five persons were adrift in small boats between Fowey Kock lighthouse and Cape Florida, alK.ut fifteen miles fr;iin Miami. CHICAGO. 111., September 11. Judge Thomas F. Scully of the County Court died this afternoon in St. Josephs Hospital, where he had been under treatment several days for a complication of stomach troubles. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. September 11. Approximately forty Indianapolis food dealers were indicted by the Marion County grand jury today on charges of dealing out short weights. COLOGNE. Germany. September 11. A munition magazine exploded in the neighborhood of Neuwied this morning. Two hundred persons were injured, and it is believed many were killed. MANILA, Philippine Islands, September 11. Consternation reigned in Manila for two weeks while a huge boa constrictor from the Mehan gardens was at large. It has been recaptured. LONDON. England, September 11. It costs ,000,000 a month to keep the Britisli army in Ireland.
