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News of the Day. Great Britain's volunteer army has ceased to exist and & territorial army takes it place. Two hundred and fif y thousand coal miners quit work yesterday pending the signing of a new wage acale. The Senate committee yesterday voted down both the Warner and the Foraker bills providing for the reinstatement of the negro soldiers discharge 1 on account of the Brownsville riot. The Washington police have been asked to arrest Robert and Isaac Ferguson, both negroes, father and son. They are wanted in Alexandria county, for assault with intent to kill. Unable to secure the consent of her family to her contemplated marriage to Prince Helie de Sagan, Mme. Anna Gould will shortly return to Paris. De Sagan will precede her leaving on April 9. The democratic committee of the District of Columbia last night adopted res. olutions warmly indorsing the candidacy of W. J. Bryan for president. The resolutions were adopted at a large and enthusiastic meeting. With $3,000,000 worth of orders on hand for tubines, gas engine, and with a cash balance of $800,000, Judge Young, of the United States court, at Pittsburg, Pa., late yesterday, granted a petition discharging the receivers of the Westioghouse Machine Company. The receivership for the Westinghouse Machine Company, created last October, at the beginning of the financial depression, was vacated yes erday by Judge James S. Young, of the United States Circuit Court, adPittsburg, on petition of the company and the receivers. The Pike county Bink and Trust Company of McComb City, Miss., was today placed in the hands of George Bauer, of this city, and Thad. Lampton, of Magnolia, as receivers. Depression in the lumber industry and curtailment o' working hours in the railroad shops there are responsible for the failure. The Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia yesterday, in an opinion by Chief Justice Shepard, affirmed the judgment of the Police Court, which convicted Louis R. Pfeiffer of violating the section of the code forbidding the making of handbooks in the District of Columbia. Pfeiffer was sentenced by Judge Kimball to pay $500 fine and serve ninety days in jail. In an interview in Columbia, S. C., yesterday, Senator Tillman said: "It the republicans nominate Taft for president at the June convention, Bryan will undoubtedly be named by the democrats, and I think he will win. But on the other hand, if the republicane lock up the convention and stampede it for Roosevelt, and nominate him, I do not think that the democrats can put Bryan forward." Absolute probibition in the District of Columbia, it now seems probable, will not be recommended by the District Commissioners. Althought the three commissioners have not yet discussed, as a board, bills now before Congress calling for probibition in various forms, it is understood that the individual views of the members of the board are that absolute prohibition is not wanted by the people of the District. The issue between a delegation to the republican national convention pledged to the nomination of Secretary Taft and a delegation unpledged W88 fought out at the primary lections for delegates to congressional district conventions and to the State convention throughout Massachu3etts last night. The result is 8 clear victory for Senator Crane's attitude in favor of a delegation free from instructions or "preferences." James Mahon, brother of John J. Mahon, the democratic organization leader of Baltimore city, was shot and killed last night in front of a hotel opposite the city hall by William Harig, a former democratic politician James Mahon had been interested in certain saloons and pool rooms which recently tell under the ban of the police, and it is said Harig Was responsible for a
