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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY CHICAGO, 111., September 20. Weather forecast: Illinois and Wisconsin Probably showers tonight and Sunday; cooler Sunday; fresh to strong southwest winds. Missouri Probably thiindershowers this afternooli or tonight; Sunday partly cloudy and cooler. General forecast: Showers are indicated for the western lake region and upper Mississippi Valley tonight and probably Sunday; also rain tonight for Wyoming. Moreover, in the lower Missouri Valley, the weather will be more or less unsettled, but without much rain, if any. Tlie temperature will be lower in the plains states tonight and Sunday and in the sections farther east on Sunday. WATERTOWX, N. Y., September 20. "The treaty should bo ratified without delay and without change." Secretary of State Robert Lansing here today in the first public utterance made by him since the statement of William C. Bullitt before the senate foreign relations committee in which it was alleged that tlie secretary of state on May 19 iu Paris said that if the American people knew what was in the treaty they would defeat it. "In tlie treaty of peace," Mr. Lansing rurther said, "there is nothing which invades the sovereignty of this republic or which limits iu any way the full exercise of such sovereigntji." KEY WEST. Fla., September 20. With a wrecking crew of divers examining the sunken hull and with scores of boats searching surrounding waters and islands for trace of bodies or survivors, the fate of the 450 passengers and members of the crew of the Spanish steamer Valbanera, which sank during tlie hurricane last week, was expected to be cleared up today. The naval station here lias offered all facilities, and with two Cuban gunboats will aid other craft in the search. LONDON, England, September 20. The steamer West Arvada. which on September 15 struck a mine off Terschelling. on the Dutch coast, foundered yesterday. A large part of the cotton cargo probably can be salvaged. The West Arvada was a United States shipping board steamship. It had a cargo of 21.920 bales of cotton, valued at more than $:!,8,0. PITTSBURG, Pa., September 20. Reports that the United States Steel corporation would shut down its plants in the Pittsburg district unless there was KM per cent loyalty shown by tlie workers were denied today at the olllces of the Carnegie Steel Company, a subsidiary. The plants will operate as long as men report for work, it was said. XEW YORK. X. Y., September 20. Trusted messenger boys in the financial district have disappeared witli nearly ,000,000 in negotiable lmnds and other securities in the last six mouths, according to an estimate made here today. WASHINGTON. I. C, September 20. A new credit of ,145,927 to Italy has brought the total i.lv;mces for that country up to ,019,922,872 and I 1. all the allies ,040,419,494.
