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GENERAL NEWS OF THE DAY After failure Wednesday night to agree on the miners demands for increased wages, the joint conference at Cleveland adjourned sine die after voting unanimously that miners in each of the four states Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Pennsylvania-will seek to make a supplemental and separate agreement with operators in the field. This practically disrupts the central field as a basing point. Inasmuch as the joint conference was called by President Wilson for the purpose of adjusting inequalities existing in the present wage scale agreement, operators and miners sent separate telegrams to the president advising him of the failure of the conference to reach an agreement. The telegram sent by the operators was a statement of the fact that the joint conference had failed to adjust the controversy afer five days of almost continuous conference. The miners telegram was optimistic in tone, saving the miners would endeavor to make separate aiid invidiual agreements with the operators ;iu the various, states. The American athletes in the seventh Olympiad scored seventeen points .yesterday, bringing their total to 118, or 09 points ahead of Finlands representatives, their nearest competitors The Finns, who failed to win a point yesterday, have 49 points. The Englishmen made 10 points today, aiid the Swedisli athletes 10 points. Czecho-Slovakia scored three points, Holland two and Belgium and France one each. The- days scores included the tug of war. England now has 40 points and Sweden 35. A. G. Hill of England won the final heat of the 1,500-metcr run in 4:01. P. J. Baker, another Englishman, was second; M. L. Shields of the Meadowbrook Club, Philadelphia, third; Kohralik of Czecho-Slovakia. fourth; Lundgren of Sweden, fifth, and Andre of France, sixth; Joie Bay, the hope of the Americans, finished eighth. P. J. ltyan of Loughlin Lyceum, N. Y., won the hammer throw. Kyans winning throw was 52.875 meters. The -oivmpic record is 54.74 meters. The Fiftv-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Eighth bolshevik divisions on the Warsaw front have been annihilated and thousands of soviet soldiers made prisoner, un official statement from Warsaw says. The Russians lost their bearings in trying to meet attacks on all sides from the Polish columns on their flanks, the statement adds. The Poles, continuing their advance, have occupied Kaluszyn, thirty-five miles east of Warsaw; Siedlce, fifty-seven miles east of the capital; Milzyrzec, twenty miles southeast of Siedlce aud Wlodawa, on the Bug river, 125 miles southeast of Warsaw. Picked up at sea unconscious in an open dory after living twelve days on seaweed, two fisherman were brought into port at New York today. The fishermen, Thomas Constant and Raphael Goger. say they had become detached in a fog from their vessel. The ship that rescued them arrived at New York with four members of its own engine room crew in irons, charged witli mutiny. They are alleged to have assaulted the assistant engineer. They were taken off by a police boat. A run on the First State bank at Boston, a private institution, doing business principally with members of the Italian colony, was continued yes-terdav. Depositors were said to be alarmed by indefinite reports that the bank was going to close as a result of the Charles Ponzi collapse. Showered nightly with Turkish bullets and facing famine, seventeen .American workers of the American commission for relief iu the uear east are besieged in Adana, Asia Minor, since June 20, according to latest .information from Constantinople. National and ihtcrnational financial and economical readjustment, as well as the high cost of living, are bound tip lit the success of" the league of nations, Gov.. Cox declared -at .South Bend, Ind., yesterday in addressing a large public -gathering.. Further efforts were made yesterday to determine, by means of an autopsy, how death came to the unidentified woman whose torso was found floating in the Hudson River near Conununipatv. N. J., Tuesday, iiiight., ; i Latest reports in Berlin on the fighting between French troops and the inhabitants of the town of Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, give the number of German dead as twenty aud the French as seven.
