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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DA DAGeneral General Weather Forecast The storm will pu away today but the western disturbances wi prevent any clearing up in the middle western set tions for any considerable period although prt cipitation at this time cannot be definitely pre dieted It is probable however that by Sunda there will be a movement eastward of the wester storms accompanied again by general precipitatior The temperature changes will be inconsequential inconsequentialGovernment Government forces at Wesel are strongly in trenched north of the Lippe River and arobein constantly reenforced by armed farmers and hour geoisie from towns near by the frontier th correspondent of the Amsterdam Telegraaf say The red armys trenches are but little over a hal mile distant from those occupied by the defender of Wesel and are manned by about 0000 men Th red forces also are increasing it issaid Casual ties In the ranks of tfce communists up till las night were about sixty dead and 100 wounded Southwest of the scene of the fighting near West are Helgian forces which have been withdraw to the left bank of the Rhine from the bridgehea formerly occupied on the right bank In additio to the Helgians French troops equipped wit artillery are arriving Soldiers in the communis army receive 30 marks a day with rations De cision not to abandon the struggle in the Huh district of Germany was reached at a meeting o representatives of lalxir councils of the Rhinelaiu and Westphalia at Essen The only condition un der which the workers will consent to peace is th withdrawal of government forces from the Muenste military district says a dispatch received here Coal trains to Holland from the Ruhr district arc operating normally although the crews are some times threatened by Spartacists In the event o trouble witlt the soviet adherents this country wil combat the movement with local detachments o troops Aolunteers have been mobilized on tin frontier at Hosheerenberg HosheerenbergAll All moving of household goods in Chicago stoppp eslerday when 1500 members of the van drivers helpers and chauffeurs union local 711 left theii jobs and struck for a raise of 10 a week The re receiving at the present time from 30 to 3 week They demand in addition time and one nlf for all overtime after 5 oclock at night The union includes practically every moving 11111 nnd experienced helper in the city Meanwhile 42 f their employers members of the Aran Owners ssociation affixed their signatures to an ironclad greement not to yield to the unions demands unti heir executive committee told them to Thousand f hiiuseliolders who wish to move between now and lie first of May are asking themselves what thej vill do or can do Profiteering landlords also vho have raised rentals are wondering how thev an get recalcitrant tenants out of their flats il Ihere are no movers available to move their goods u answer was given to these queries by Carl Howe secretary of the moving drivers union V lint telling nobody what to do except onr own nenibers If you want to pay the union price yon an get some men and a wagon and move yourself s soon as any of the bosses pay the union scale of 40 a week they can get all the moving men thev eed If you own your own wagon go ahead ml move all you want to we aint trying to stop uibody If any of the members want to go out md get a wagon and go into the moving business ure they can do it I guess the bosses will come o their senses when they see the business getting iway from them We aint worried worriedUnofficial Unofficial reports of the census bureaus prelimi inry estimate of Chicagos 1020 census forwarded 0 Washington for verification showed the citys lopulation yesterday to be 2884827 making it tin ourth city in the world This figure which may e changed after a check has been made represents n increase of 32 per cent over the 1011 count iIiich was 2185283 and means a steady growth f 70000 persons a year during that period Only hree cities of more than 100000 population reported bus far have been given an equal rate of growth y the current census Chicagos new figures show he city is creeping up on New York and has now lore than half the population of the largest city ccording to the hitters estimates Chicago also as moved up to fourth place in the list of the orlds large cities passing the last estimate of aris population by 717 In the estimate of the resent census Caucasians with American anlee ents form 320 per cent of the citys people lie other race the negro and thirteen other na onalities are shown to figure in the population to lie extent of one per cent or more moreThe The chamber of deputies at Rome discussed a ill proposing to transform the large almost feudal states in Sicily into modern holdings for intensive intensiveiltnre iltnre The report on the bill presented by lepnties Pecoraro and Micheli Catholics and acirca socialist described the condition of Si Silian lian agriculture as mediaeval and harrowing The states worked by the peasants the report declared ere owned by millionaires who never even visited icir lands simply pocketing the profits and spend ig them in Home Paris and Madrid Energetic eps to check the strike movement throughout taly have been taken by the government and prcsentativcs of several provinces who met and Idressed an appeal to parliament urging that im icdiate steps lie taken against socialist agitators lorence siems to be a point where the situation The seriousThe serious German cabinet headed by Premier Gustav auer bus resigned according to a message re ived in Paris from Hcrlin yesterday The allies ive not as yet given or refused permission for erman regular troops to enter the allied zone of rcupation or the neutral zone to the east estab sheil by the treaty of Aersailles according to iniofficial information What has been done i the allies it is semiofficially stated is to reach 1 agreement as to the guarantees to be de ¬ nuded from Germany in the event she desires to igage in military operations in the zones in icstion Eventual permission for her to do so will pcnd upon her previous acceptance of the con tions According to the same source there is no irther question of interallied intervention in the ihr district and the impression prevails in offi ¬ cial circles that there will be hesitation on the part of the Germans themselves to engage in operations there under the conditions the allies will impose imposeCopies Copies of indictments charging coal mine oper ¬ ators and some union officials with conspiracy ti violate the federal law which prohibits fixing of coal prices or of coal production will be mailed from Indianapolis this week to the states in which the various defendants reside it was stated by fed ¬ eral officials One hundred and twentyfive men are named in the indictments fiftyfive of them residing in Indiana All except thirteen of the Indiana defendants have been taken into custody or have surrendered themselves and they have iMeii released on bonds Copies of the indictments it was said must be mailed to federal authorities in Illinois Ohio and Pennsylvania where the remain ¬ ing defendants reside before a list of the men named will be given publicity according to the district attorneys office officeWhile While pressing their original demand for a 00 per cent wage increase anthracite mine workers declared they will not accept less than 45 710 per cent Hccanse of greater skill required in hard coal mines these diggers until recent years re ¬ ceived more pay than soft coal workers accord ¬ ing to officials of their union This difference however has not been maintained and hard coal diggers declare they are entitled to IS 710 per cent in addition to the 27 per cent wage increase granted bituminous workers workersA A dispatch of yesterday from Warsaw says more than 2000 Poles repatriated from southern Hussia by the American Hed Cross have arrived there this week and preparations are being made to receive 5000 each week until midsummer Two million Polish refugees are still missing from their country Hed Cross officials say in spite of the large number returning Labor conditions which were deplorable luring the last winter are expected to improve oon oonThe The death of Gen Hernhard Emil Koerner the noted German officer who directed the reorganiza ¬ tion of the Chilean army after the civil war ot 1801 in that country was announced yesterday at llerlin by the Aossische Xeitung General Koerner ivent to Chile in 1S05 and after his work in reor ¬ ganizing the army there served as chief of the general staff He was born in 1840 1840The The use of strikebreakers by the United Fruit Lompany to handle incoming freight at New York irecipitated Jhe threat of a boycott of all coast ivise freight by 10000 dock workers of six eastern railroads Leaders of the striking longshoremen md allied pier workers declared the railroad em ¬ ployes would refuse to handle shipments if the itrikebreakers were not withdrawn withdrawnHolland Holland is mobilizing three military classes for Inly along the German frontier according to a Rotterdam dispatch to the Ixnidon Star The Dutch tovernment is taking this action as a measure of irecaiition because of the severe fighting between ipposing German factions which has recently taken dace iii territory contiguous to Holland HollandThe The announced personnel of the new coalition rabinet of Germany has been withdrawn by the overnment as a result of the protests of the abor union workingmen said a Central News dis uitch from Herlin yesterday afternoon
