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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY Marshal Ferdinand Foch of France has accepted the invitation of the Knights of Columbus to unveil the statue of Lafayette which the Knights will present to Franco in August Supreme Knight Tam H Flaherty of the order announced at New York yes ¬ terday The unveiling will take place at Metz on August 21 and President Deschanel will accept the statue in behalf of France Weather General forecast Following the unset tlod conditions in the middle states Wednesday fair weather will prevail until Thursday night anil in the western lake region and upper Mississippi val ¬ ley on Friday In the meantime the weather will become unsettled again in tin middle plains states The temperature changes will not be of much im ¬ portance portancePremier Premier Venizelos of Greece Monday asked per ¬ mission of the chamber of deputies to restore mar ¬ tial law declaring this would be the only way of avoiding bloodshed owing to the tactics of the exposition siys a dispatch to the London Times from Athens Martial law thus will come into force again againCulm Culm declared a quarantine yesterday riinlnst Mexico and New Orleans on account of reported bubonic plague Steamers arriving from Mexico were fumigated and passengers sent to quarantine The Cuban sanitary department began extraordi ¬ nary measures for ridding Havanas wharves of rats ratsCheaper Cheaper collars wore promised when representn tves of one of the largest collar manufacturing corporations in Troy N Y announced that whole ¬ sale prices had been cut to enable retailers through ¬ out the country to sell its product at 25 cents each They now are retailing as high as 35 cents centsAttorney Attorney General Palmer appeared In the Senate campaign investigating committee room yesterday just before the afternoon session of the committee began Ho was the first of the presidential nomi ¬ nation candidates whose campaigns are under inves ¬ tigation who has appeared at the inquiry inquiryReports Reports of a serious grasshopper plague in west ¬ ern Texas have begun to reach Fort Worth espe ¬ cially from Cottle and Childress counties In the 1itter county farmers report their entire cotton crop eaten up and the green portions of the wheat destroyed destroyedReporting Reporting the condition of the cotton crop on May 25 at 024 per cent of normal the Department of Agriculture announced that this was the lowest mark in its record of fifty years and that the recurring statement worst ever known was con ¬ firmed firmedSale Sale of governmentowned ships to foreign in ¬ terests if after diligent effort the shipping hoard has been unable to dispose of them to Americans is provided for in the merchant marine bill as finally agreed upon by Senate and House con ¬ ferees fereesAfter After cutting 524000000 from appropriations provided in the senate bill House and Senate con ¬ ferees have reached a final agreement on the an ¬ nual army appropriation bill As finally agreed upon the bill carries 394929000 394929000The The battleship Mntsn was launched yesterday in the presence of the empress and the crown prince of Japan The Mutsu displaces 32000 tons and will carry the most powerful gun battery ever mounted on a Japanese war ship shipTrustees Trustees of the University of Illinois meeting at the Blackstoue Hotel yesterday elected Dr David Kinley acting president to succeed Dr Edmund J James who resigned March 9 after fourteen years at the head of the school schoolMore More than 150000 applications have been received for the 13289 seats in the Republican national convention Secretary L W Henley of the na ¬ tional committee on convention arrangements made A dispatch yesterday from Cork says that an unsuccessful attack was made nil the police bar ¬ racks at Blarney Friday night There were no casualties although the fighting lasted nil hour and a half halfThe The resolution ordering a congressional investi ¬ gation of the escape of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll rich Philadelphia draft evader was ordered favor ¬ ably reported yesterday by the House rules com ¬ mittee mitteeThe The John A Roberts corporation of Utlca N Y dealers in wearing apparel was yesterday fined 55000 by Federal Judge Howe following Us con ¬ viction of profiteering on eleven counts countsDiplomatic Diplomatic relations between Poland and Czecho rlcvakia have not been broken off as some re ¬ ports recently had it according to an official dis ¬ patch from Prague PraguePresident President Wilson has telegraphed three members of the Delaware legislature urging that every demo ¬ crat In the legislature vote for the woman suffrage amendment
