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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY AVeather predictions for the week beginning Mon Monilay ilay include Region of Great Lakes Rain and andI I snow Monday ami Tuesday and about Friday cool coolAgents Agents of the department of justice yesterday at New York conferred with J J Mantcll repre ¬ senting tin railroad managers organization regard in the strike which lias virtually tied up that dis ¬ trict While Mr Mantell would not comment on the ouference it was reported federal agents had been sent to New Jersey yards to investigate causes for the walkout No statement was obtain ¬ able at department of justice headquarters hero or in Newark NewarkTrains Trains began to move in Chicagos longparalyzed railroad yards yesterday Freight embargoes were lifted Warning of federal intervention within fortyeight hours and the calling of John Gninaii insurgent leader to the federal building for a conference with district attorney dyne caused little excitement on cither side It was generally con ¬ ceded that conditions in the local switching district would lie normal by Monday MondaySamuel Samuel Gompcrs president of the American Fed ¬ eration of Labor is en route from New York to Cleveland headquarters of the Itrothcrhood of Kail way Trainmen Federation officials at Nov York would not discuss the purpose or his trip but it was understood he would confer witli tho brother ¬ hood chiefs on the unauthorized strike of railroad employes Spotted fever is ravaging eastern Galicia During the months of January and February 45000 cases were reported according to official statistics com ¬ piled by Lenibflrj doctors In some of the Ukrain ¬ ian districts numerous villages were almost de ¬ populated by the disease as in the mountains the fever was complicated by hunger and typhus typhusA A search for jewels the property of Mrs Clar ¬ ence Millhiscr of ICichmond Va ended last night with the arrest of lames E Foye who had in his possession a check for 20000 paid by a pawn ¬ broker for nine pearls believed by police to be part of a necklace valued at 275000 lost by Mrs Mill hiser at New York last May MayKegistered Kegistered cattle recently shipped from this conn try to Truguay for breeding purposes have met with great favor among producers there and a number of Uruguayan buyers are arranging to visit the United States to make additional purchases the American consul at Montevideo yesterday reported to the department of commerce commerceGeneral General Oenikine former commander of the anti rolshevik forces in southern Uussia left Constan ¬ tinople Thursday on a Itritisli warship presumably bound for Malta lie has not been arrested as yet in connection with the assassination of ieniral Ko manovsky which occurred at the Russian embassy on Monday night nightJames James M Miles former vice president of the Standard Trust and Savings Itank of Chicago miss ¬ ing since last November when a shortage variously estimated from 100000 to 3200000 was found iu M accounts surrendered todnv to the police in Kockford 111 111An An embargo on express matter was ordered today as the railroad strike gained ground in New York further tying up freight and crippling passenger service on many lints Reports were current that a passenger embargo might IK required before the day Reports that a new basis of settlement of the Adriatic question has been proposed by Premier Lloyd George on which the advice of tho United States was not solicited were coufrmed from an authoritative Serbian quarter this morning morningHomes Homes for 35000 of New Yorks hnrried tenants to be sold without down payments on terms far below current rentals will rise on municipally owned vacai t lots if a proposal now before the hoard of esti nate is adopted by that city cityThe The South m Pacific of Mexico an Americau mvncd railn ad was seized by the state govern ¬ ment of Soi ora Mexico yesterday The railroad for some days had been tied up by a strike
