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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY Weather Forecast Illinois 1rolably thunder ¬ storms tonight Mid Thursday cooler Thursday after ¬ noon in north and central portions strong southwest to west winds The northwestern storm will move eastward over the upperMississippi Valley and lake region tonight and Thursday accompanied by show ¬ ers anil thtinderHinalls turning in northwest sec ¬ tions to snow No precipitation of consequence however is anticipated in the central plains states Colder weather will follow the storm so that the temperature will be falling in Illinois by Thursday afternoon or night nightDistricts Districts of the middle west and south swept by tornadoes Sunday with a loss of 14 lives were recovering rapidly today and rebuilt homes and buildings began to rise from the wreckage Com ¬ mit tecs were organized throughout the stricken aread to care for the thousands of homeless and injured and funds were being raised for relief and recon ¬ struction work Property loss suffered in the eight cities affected has been estimated at 10000000 to toirooooot irooooot Kobert F Slrotid of Juneau Alaska will be the first manlegally hanged in Kansas in almost fifty years unless 1resident Wilson saves him by exercise of executive clemency The last legal hanging in Kansas took place in 1S70 and the death penalty was abolished in that state in 1407 but Slroud was tried and convicted in federal courts for a murder committed in the federal penitentiary here and sentenced under federal law to be hanged hangedFood Food production at the Chicago stockyards was nearly at a standstill yesterday as a result of the strike of cattle handlers Since Saturday when the workers who feed and care for the stock in tin pens walked out there has been a constant letting up of work all along the line and a general shut ¬ down of the packing plants threatens because of the embargo laid down against cattle shipment to Chitago j Cen Kobert Cejudo a noted rebel leader ill southern Mexico has been arrested by Carranssa officials following discovery of a plot by Cejudo Jo liicl the government forces and make off with large quantities of ammunition from Mexico City and give it to reUls according to an official dis ¬ patch received at Kl 1aso Tex TexThe The French government in denying permission to Cermany to send an army into the Uuhr district holds that military intervention at this time would be useless ami dangerous it was learned yester ¬ day the denial being contained in a note from Premier Millerand to the Herman charge daffaires at Paris ParisOfficials Officials of the American Itailway Kxpress de ¬ clared the express strike virtually at an end when they were able to lift the embargo and renew shipping trade with Connecticut Vermont Alabama Kentucky and South Dakota Altogether shipping facilities have been established between forty states statesNew New York yesterday faced n further tieup of its harbor facilities The Inited Fruit Company had been given until 1 oclock noon to reply to the demand of the International Longshoremens Asso ¬ ciation that it accent II L Joyce marine director of the Central Kailroad of New Jersey as arbiter Cerman government troops have begun pushing forward in the Uuhr district according to a news asency dispatch from Iterlin to London quoting the newspaper Abend Another news gouty dis patcli declares disorders have broken out at Iociim Dusseldorf Stuttgart Klberfeld ami other cities citiesThe The governing committee of the New York Stock Exchange yesterday afternoon voted to grant the petition of the members to close the exchange on Kaster Saturday April 3 This means that there will lo no session of the Stock Exchange after the close Thursday April 1 until Monday April From Honolulu nanes word that severe losses have been suffered by a portion of the Japanese troops stationed near Nikolaevsk Siberia in a battle with Uussiaii forces
