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Intetli TUESDAY AND FRJDAY iWfikljr, Kslabllslifd 1K?0? Rnlly, Jan. IS, 1914. ANDERSON, S. C, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1914. PRICE $1.50 THE YEAR, GERMANS ARE HOLDING OWN ATTACKS ARE REPULSED AT ALL POINTS WITH HEAVY LOSSES., v AHE ENTRENCHED Both Armies Make Futile At tempts to Drive Back Each Other Without Success. LONDON, Dec:. 2G.?Neither the Aus tro-Gcrman offensive operations against the Russians nor the Allies' attacks on the Gorman lines in the west have made an apprecintbel prog ress, although lighting continues along the greater part of the two fronts with unabated intensity. In both cases the attacking armies ap pear to have run full tilt against al most impenetrable lines. The Germans, in their official re port, announce that- they have ceased their attacks on the llzura river, which, wit htho Russian masses be hind it, stJ<inds across their direct path to Warsaw. They are now try ing to find a way to the Polish capi tal along lho Pllica River, a consider able distance south of Warsaw. . Fog has interfered with battles in Flanders, but along the French front the Germans have been delivering tierce counter attacks. In these, as in the Allies' attacks, the losses on both sides have been considerable hut heavier, on the side which has been at tacking. The slowness of the Allies progreV is explained in London as due to the general start's refusai to sacrifice a great number of soldiers. They are satisfied with small successes through artillery practice, which in time, it is pointed out should prepare the way tor a general forward movemeut. According to information from Con stantinople the Turks, under advice of tho Germans,. are : -foi'lifyinp .. their shores In th? Gulf of Saros. and on the Sea of'Marmora, indicating that they wxpect visits frona the allied flcotB. GIFTS WERK ACCEPTABLE. Thtmks Extended to Wilson for Pres ents to Orphans. WASHINGTON Dec. 2th?A dispatch to the Austro-Ilungnriuu embassy from Vienna today announced the em peror had expressed thanks to Presfc dent'Wilson through Ambassador Pen tleld for the American Christmas gifts distributed yesterday' ismong soldiers' orphans. Tho dispatch explained the retreat from Servia as tho result of had weather. ( AUGHT IX STORM. 3Ien in Launch Mnffor llar?sklRK From tho (old. NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Dec. 26.? After a 24-hour fight in a blinding snow storm B. R. Cofer, N. T. Cofer and Thomas- Bra ban d. local business men, were rescued today after their launch had been driven ashore near Fishing ' Point, ou the - Jamen River near here. Physicians from Smith Held went to their aid in automobiles. .. Tho three men left h?re yesterday morning at s o'clock in a. 40-foot launch for SmlthBeld, where ihe. Cof ers had been called by the death of their mother. They failed to reach their destination and dozens of launches went out this morning to . search for them. .The launch was not equipped with heating apparatus or supplied with food, as the party had expected to make the trip In two hours, '; The men1 are safd' to have suf fered greatly from oxposuf?. Reserve Banks Statement. WASHINGTON; Dec. 26.?The week ly statement of the 12 federal reserve banks at the close of business Decem ber 24,'shows a slight increase.in re serve deposits and' a slight decrease, in loans and discounts. The total..resources were about 1.7 million 'dollars larger than tho pre vious week, the increase. being due mainly to larger amounts of federal reserve'notes in the hands of the New York bank. Net deposits show a gain equally large,- cosh resouracea ;jhow a slight gain, and rediscounts * de crease-of about a halt million dollars aH .compared with the ^previous week's totals. Hardly any change' is shown in tho figures of not. circulation of feder al reserve notes, though reporta-pf ad ditional federal reserve notes were is? sued to the banks during tho week.. XONE WERE K1 LM;1>. ? - - ' Cor Turned Orcr Twice on l'mbanlk. aient j Six Persons .Injured. HAF/TFORD, Mich., Doc, 26.?Al though the rear coach; carrying more than 30 persons on n Kalomnzoo. Lake Shore and Chicago passenger train, was hurled froth-the track- here tc~ hUrht arid 'turned over twice m a do scpnt down n'alesp embankment, only rJx passcngoro were injured and nono jfatally. freight train knocked tho tar the track. \\ V SUFFERING GREAT ACROSS BORDER Conditions That Are Equal If Not Worse Than in Europe. WASHINGTON. Dec 26.?Cnnrtl IIOOH of famine and suffering in Mexi co, said by some to rival the dlstrcHa in the European theatres of war. were described In reports issued today by the American Hod Cross. Consul General Hanna sent the fol lowing message from Monterey: "There la an alarming shortage of staple food supplies. Several outlying towns are uppeallng to me for help. If tho winter keeps cold there will ho great suffering. 1 need two thousand cheap blankets. After four years of war this whole eountry Is shorr or food." The consul at Matamoros said: "The conditions in Europe which shock the civilized world have exist ed here against our borders for four years, unconsidercd. Mexico is peopled with widows and orphans and famine is in the land. One seen it daily in emaciated forms and shrunken checks. Many have died on American soil dur ing the past year, ostensibly from ob scure diseases, but actually from star vation, und there are hundreds of children who never have had suffi cient food in their lives. The sound of laughter and playing children Is still ed in Mexico. "They have endured much, but now has been reached the end of even their stoicism and from the east and tho west and the south corses a cry for bread "T..cre is need for food and cloth ing and medicines. The need is pres sing. Arrangements have been made whereby supplies can be distributed from the American consulate at this place to any locality in Mexico." The Red Cross a short time ago, on an appeal from Rear Admiral How ard, sent $1,000 worth of food to Aca pulco on tho west coast. BOLD SCHEME FAILED. Robbers Caught After Procuring 3Ion ey in Rarjug^Hnnner. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec 26.?Chris tian Jouget, -a- - carpenter,^ was-Heft bound and gagged in his home tonight after'two men had compelled hi m to make out a check for $400 payable to his wife. Mrs. Jouget then was com pelled to accompany- one of the men to a bank, where she procured the cash. She turned the money over t/? the bandit who had kept her secretly covered with a revolver. The police arrested the men and re covered the money. Peter Modonlor. 22, wns one. The other man refused to glvo his nafe. ATTACK UNSUCCESSFUL Britishers Fall In Effort to Blow Up Positions. BUriLIN, Dec. 26.?The German ad niirality made the following tuiuoun'ce inent today: . I "On December 2i"< eight British ships made a dash into a German bay. Hy droplanes, convoyed hy them made an advance against tho mouths of Gor man rivers and dropped bombs on ships lying at anchor and a gas tank near Cuxhaven, without hitting them or doing damage. "The hydroplanes were fired at and withdrew .in a westerly direction. Ger man airships ' and aeroplanes recon noltered against the Bhitlsh forces and succeeded in hitting with bombs two British destropers'and one other ves sel of the convoy. On the latter fire broke out. "Fog prevented a continuation of the fighting." FLYNN TONS MATCH. Davis Knocked Ont in the Seventh Round. BUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. 26.?Fireman Jim Flynn knocked out George ("One round")' Davis, of Buffalo, In the sev enth round of a ten-round, match* hero tonight Flynn weighed 186; Davis 185. Davis took tho count of nine four times In the first round. ARE AFTER NANCY. Germans Continue to Attack French Town with Female Name. PARIS, Dec. 26.?3.r.f> p. m.)?A dis patch received here from Nancy says that a Zeppelin airship flew over that city early this morning and dropped a' total of fourteen bomb?. Two. persons . were killed and two others 'Wounded. Several, houses In Nancy wore slightly dam aped, hut none of the pub lic buildings were. Injured. . BOMBS DO DAMAGE. German Aeroplanes Drop Explosives* Eicht Person* lining PETROGRAD, Dec 26y? (Via Lon don, 6:20 p. m.)?Eight persons were killed and over 100 were wounded in tho town of Sochaczew, Russian Po land* today by bombs thrown' down from Ovo German aeroplanes. One bomb dropped in the mlddlo of a crowd which was watching tho aviar tors and in exploding It killed or woond?d, virtually tho enUro gather ing. * Tho market place in Sochaczew and 6 number of wooden houses .were act' -\fi to and destroyed.' Sochacx?w. is on'ihe Brur?r CO miles west ot swarsaw. TRAGEDY IN GREENWOOD ON CHRISTMAS SAID TO BE ACCIDENTAL. LIQUOR THE CAUSE Ed Bead in Intoxicated Condition Shoote Will Hughes, a Lifelong Friend. The following account is from the Greenwood Journal under date of Dec. 2(5: Will Hughes, aged about 40, a for mer resident of thiB city who return ed about two months ago, was shot and instantly killed Friday afternoon about 12:30 o'clock in Mr. Joe L. Maxwell's meat market by Ed. Bvile, an employe of the market. The shoot ing occurred in the presence of two witnesses, both of whom. In their tes timony at the coronorer's inquest, I seemed to think that Huglfes lost hit; life by the accidental discharge of the weapon. "I wouldn't have done it for a mil lion dollars," is one of the statements made by Dcale. And, "Chiney, you know it was done accidentally," is another he exclaimed when N. G. Goldman ran to the telephone to call for a doctor. After being placed in jail Dcale continued to cay that, the shooting was purely accidental and he wouldn't have taken the* life of Hughes for the world. The prisoner has shown every evidence of being uerve-wrccked from the trgedy. When his friends called to see him after he was locked up he cried like a chilld. The shooting took place a short time after several men had been warned by police offlcorn not to shoot firecrackers and had left Dcale, Gold man and a young man Robertson In the store. Soon after this Hughes went to thh market and the crowd -gathered around the at?v^whed^i'?fffe-^ one shot another firecracker. Beale .then said, according to one of the jwltnesseB, that he believed he would I do a little shooting himself, and- In the next Instant Hughes cried, "Uncle !Ed, you have shot me," and fell dead. 'The.bullet went just above tho left I nipple and penetrnted tfc" heart and both lungs. LYNCHING AVERTED Speedy Trial Guaranteed Two Mexi cans lo Quiet Mob. . SAN ANTONIO, Tex.. Dec. 2C?Only when Judge Chambliss pledged his word that a speedy trial would be given Frederico Gonzales and F. San-' chez, Mcxlcsus, did a mob desist to day in an attempt to lynch them whil ? held on tho charge of tho murder of Deputy Sheriff Harry. Hinten, of Llv* Oak county. Accordingly a special grand jurj and petit Jury have been summoned for 1 Monday ~t Oakville, to consider the cases of the men. HInton was slain with an iron, bar while serving meals to the prisoners in the Oakville jail. Sanchez and Gonzales escaped but later were captured, A third Mexican accused of passing the bar into the I Jail was lynched. SERIOUS AFFAIR AT JONESVILLE Negr?e's Engaged in Pistol Duel; Shoot Two Young Ladies of That City. j JONESVILLE, S. C, Dec. 26.?-Marie Fowler and Myrtle Colemau members of prominent local families, -were struck by stray bullets when) Will Haney (colored) and Cran ford Thomp son (colored) engaged In a pistol duel at the railway station-here today. Miss Coleman is said to be dangerously wounded, one bullet having passed en tirely through her body. Miss Fowler's hurts are reported to bo painful, but not dangerous. The negroes, who are In jail, probably will be taken to Union for safe keeping as Indignation here is general and county officials fear an attempt at lynching. Haney Is said to have been dangerously wounded. The other negro was Injured slightly. UNION*, S. C., Dec 26.?The two ne groes arrested at Jonesvllio late to day; for firing shot a which wounded two white, girl's, were .brought to the county .jail here for, cafe'keentner to night Officials' say the -danger of an attempt at lynching the negroes prob ably la past . j WILL ?PEX EXPOSITION. 1 Hr. and Mrs. McAdoo Vfffl Officially Open Festivities. WASHINGTON. Dec. 26. Secretary McAdoo left Washington tonight for* 'San Diego, Calif., to open the Panama California Exposition there, on the. night of December SL Mrs. McAdoo accompanied him. They will be-gone until January 10. . _ MEXICAN AFFAIRS ARE BADLY MIXED Conflicting Reports of Fighting and Repu.Voted Charges Are Made. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 20. ? Secretary Bryan hl^I today that the X'nlted Ktutes government was con tinuing ha ulforls with the Gutierrez government to obtain a general am nesty for political offenders both in and out of Mexico. He ' declared the question of recognition'of the Gutier rez government had not been consid ered, and made it plain that the am nesty had not been ' asked for as a prerequisite to recognition. Officials here are taking much in terest in the safety of Former Gover nor Iturbidc, who has left Mexico City for the United States through the in fluence of the American government. General Falafox, a Zapala adherent and member of the Gutierrez cabinet, is quoted as saying that Iturbide would be arrested if "caught before ho reaches the border..; Should that oc cur, it is probable urgent repr?senta vions in his behalf would be renewed. The United States [government Is grateful to I! tu bide because although an official under preceding govern ments, he remained in Mexico City to. protect foreigners and maintain order I after the Curranza troops c\acuated rather than make gocd his own safety by flight. American Consul. Silliman at Mexi co City reported today that General Palafox had* issued a statement charg ing that hp (Silliman), Special Agent Leon Canota and others had accepted a bribe of (iOO.OOO pesos to effect the release of Iturbide.' Mr. Silliman, in his report, dismiss ed the story of the bribe as absurd. Consul Canada's dispatches to the state department from Vera Cruz to day made no refere ace to lighting there yesterday belwi en Carranza and Villa troops, and oth jr sources of in formation on Mexici n affairs here woro without advice Ci A delayed official I dlsp'uich from Tampico reached (lie state department1 today giving additional information of the fighting on December 23 between the Carranza and Villa forces at Ebano . station, nedapgtherc. The mes sage as id- the. Currant- forces under General Vclasco ware gradually fal ling back In the direction of Tampico. Official reports giving out at Carranza : headquarters lust night said Villa's , t roops had been defeated at Ebano station. At The Front ; From Berlin comes an official re port, on authority of the Germany ad-1 mlrality, of a raid by Britten warships on. tho German coast. Cuxhaven, a fortified port, and adjoining territory appear to have been the object of the British attack in which eight ships and a number of hydroaeroplanes took part. I No details are given, beyond the statement that ' German airships and aeroplanes threw bombs on two Brit- ; ish destroyers and one other vessel of tho convoy, the latter being set on ' fire. I Both French and German reports l of the battles in Belgium and northern Franco indicate sharp fighting. In the battles against British and Indian troops near St. Hubert, the Germans - report they captured 19 officers and 818 men, 14 machine guns and other war equipment, and that the British . left more than 3,000 dead on tho field. The English asked for a cessation of hostilities to bury the dead, which was . granted. / Germany-has replied to the French aeroplane attack on a village and the dropping of bombs., on Freiburg, with an air attack on the outskirts of Nancy. Regarding this operation a Paris dispatch pays a Zeppelin flew over Nancy and dropped fourteen bombs, killing two persona, wounding several and slightly damaging houses. This is the first report of activity by a Zeppelin against a French city. in North Poland, according to the official German statement, east of the , Vistula, the situation remains un-., changed, but it is announced in the j same bulletin that the Germans have , ceased the!? attacks on the Bzuru -, river, which means that temporarily, . at least, the advance on Warsaw from ( this direction has been checked. Ou, the right bank of the I'll lea river, however, German attacks have been successful. Petrograd reports continued fight- * Ing on December 25. between the low er courses of the Vistula and the Pin ea and violent engagements In the region bordering on the Pilica. Like wise, there nas been Bevern .'fighting 1 with tho Austrlans along Uie lower i courses of tho Nhln, whore the Bus- < "lain: to have tchen niore 'than 4,000 pi-1 so nera. < . ] ooooooooooooooooooot 0 ,? ? i o TURKISH TROOPS o i o CONQUERED RUSSIANS o O- v:.;. - o , o&? BERLIN, Dec 26. ?Reporta o \ o from Constantinople say tho Turks o i o h?ve won a decisive victory over o \ o the Russianb in. the Caucnsun be- v> ? twcen.OUl and Id. o \ o OUI Is in th? Russian territory o < o of Kars? whllo Id lies about 20. o i O miles further eb?t?. In <^ie Turkish p 6 province of Erzeruto. o 1 OOOOOOOOOCOOQOOOOOOOj DELICATE QUESTION OVER BELGIAN MINISTER ARISES. NO PRECEDENT. Annexation of Belgiium, by Ger many Would Seriously Com plicate Affairs. WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. ? The United States government hud receiv ed no notillcatlon late today from Ger many that American consuls original ly accredited to Belgium would he re-, quired to obtain new exequaturs or certificates of authority. uL'tll such a. notice is communicated high officials said thitt government would determine no course of action. Officials regard ' the points Involved as of a delicate character. In reply to u question recently as to the statin? of Brand Whltloek. Presi dent ^'ilscu replied that Whltloek would remain American minister to Belgium, even though he left tho country indefinitely. Ho now is in Urussehi dealing unofficially with the German military authorities but is ac credited to the Belgiun government, whose seat is ut Havre, France. The status of consular officers who are given specified districts presents a more complex problem. There has been no general understanding on this phase of the subject hut the precise meaning of the term "occupation" was established in a definition adopt ed by The Hague conference or 18!>9. By that definition territory is regard ed as occupied "when it finds itself placed in fuct under the authority of the hostile army; the occupation only extends to those territories where tho authority is established and in a po sition to be exercised.". Should Germany formally annex Belgium aud establish a civil authori ty the situation would b<> further com plicated as annexations during time of war have not generally been recogniz ed. Decisions of final peace confer ences terminating n conflict usually have been awaited by neutral govern ments. Officials here ore governed by a de sire to take no step that would offond the Belgian people. If tho German military authorities, however, require that additional exequaturs ho obtain ed for American consuls, the Washln lon government, .it was suggested, probably would not . interpose objec tions. . -Such certificates'would be re garded as in a 'class' with military passes, sate conduct and other papers Issued by belligerent** governments for tho convenience of ueutral sub ectB. As consuls are essentially com mercial repr?sentatives the question of political recognition. It is thought in many quarters here, may not be raised. t In Mexico, where the United States I recognizes no government, American consuls act under old Exequaturs, which wero signed by Madi.ro officials and are not now recognized In some parts of that country. The consuls, however, have dealt with the do facto authorities In each section, no matter what faction such authorities rcpre-1 Rented. GETTING READY IN OLD MEXICO Revolutionists Are Prepaying for a Scrap Just Across the Border. ^ DOUGLAS, Ariz., Dec. 28 ?The Car ranza garrison of AguS Prieta, across < the border, was busy today construct ing new entrenchments and" wire en tanglements in anticipation of an at- ' tack by Governor M ay tor en a, some of whose troops retired before Naco to-. 3ay. - I Colonel Gonuz, commanding Agua Prieta, said tbo> Maytorena advance guard was only'six miles away. With reinforcements expected immediately, domes will have 800 men. ' FBOM VIENNA. VIENNA, via London, Dee. 26.? (11:65 p. m.)?Th? war department, issued the following communication I this afternoon: j "After fwur days of heroic fighting ' Mir troops on December 25 took Usjok Pass. In Gailcla the Russians con tinued the offensive which began some days, ago and recaptured with mperior forces Krosno and Jaslo. . "The situation romains unchanged on the lower course of tho Donajec River and along the Nida River. We vre making progress south of Tomas tow. "In the Balkans quiet prevailed for the last ten days, there having been >nly minior encounters on the Save ind Drlna rivers . "Weak attacks were made Decem ber 2* by the Montenegrins on Jhe ; fortress of BJIek." i AN OLD EDITOR HAS REFORMED Admiral Dewey la .Now Retiring Early Every Night. WASHINGTON. Pee. 2C?Admiral Dewey whs 77 years old today. Sccre- f tnry Daniels, bis ald??s and members of the navy general board culled on him at. his home und found him In good spirits und health. "I feel very proud of tho fact." said Secretary Daniele to the admiral, ' that you were appointed to the Navy Academy by a secretary of the navy from North Carolina, .Mr. Dobbin." "I suppose," returned tho admiral, "that's why I have been a Democrat hi/cr since." Ho added ho was enjoy ing life but that Henry Gassawny Da vis had told him he slept too much. "What time do you go to bed, Mr. Secretary?" ni<ked the admiral. "Before 1 came to Washington, when I edited a morning newspaper I used to get to slocp about, 3 a. in." said Mr. Daniels. "I have reformed." "I have been retiring every night at 10 o'clock," said Admiral Dewey, "and I am up at 5 o'clock every morning rcuding tho nowBpapers before any body else in Washington. Mr. Davis, however, who is 02 years old, and says I'm a mere boy thinks I'm missing half of life by going to bed bo early." The admiral took his customary drive during the morning then receiv ed a number of olliclals and friends. THE COLDEST VET. New York City Huh Coldest Weather of Winter. NEW YORK. Dec. 26.?A minimum temperature of four degrees and a maximum of 16 gave New York Its coldest day of the winter. Tonight tho thermometer was rapidly on the down grade again, registering 7 degrees at 11 o'clock. There waB Intense suffering In the poorer quarters and three deaths oc c*jnrcd from exposure. Tho Municl pal Lodging House, with a capac- ? of ?,000 persons, wbb filled early and bo fore midnight.more than 400 addition al applicants had been lodged in tho annex on the East River pier. * * JAPAN GAINS TERRITORY. Half of Island Given by Bossla In Ex change for Munitions of War. WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.?The Japa nese embassy today received official ' i advices from Tokio that Russia has 1 ceded to Japan its half of the island of i Sakhallen for some heavy guns. The | Island was officially .Hussion - until September. 1005. The southern half I was ceded to Japan by the terms of, i tho treaty of Portsmouth. BANDIT 18 KILLED Shot to Death by IN ? Iceman During a Hold-up. (By Associnti-U Prew.) CLEVELAND, Okla., Dec. 26.?An unknown bandit was killed. Chief of , Police W. S. Fentor. *m.s shot through ( the leg and two citizens were wound cd in a sensational battle here touight , resulting from an attempt to hold up 20 men In a billiard room. ' Fenton was . passing the place and I saw the men Inside with their' hands ( up. The bandit was making thorn tons < their money upon a pool table. The 1 policeman stood In the front door and f emptied his revolver at <the robber, ' who returned' the Are. Fenton was ! c shot through the leg. two other men ' i received 'flesh wounds and a bullet pierced another's hat. The chief rushed out o/ the place, secured another, revolver and met the blood-covered robber as he came out of the rear door. Lying on the ground, Fenton riddled the fellow with bullets. The dead man was about 26 years old and used a white silk handkerchief for a mask. _t_ CONVICTS E8CAPE Made Getaway from Tuberculosis Camp nt Atlanta. (By AiaociatMi Frew.) 'ATLANTA, Ga? Dec. 16.?F?d?rait prison guards and the local police to-, day .were looking for two ,convicts who escaped from the United States penitentiary here la<it night. The con victs are Hiram Lepper, sent up from Baltimore last May under .16 years sentence for counterfeiting, and Tom Daley,. sentenced , to five years from this city for postoffice robbery. Tho men had been confined in the tuberculosis camp of the prison and escaped by scaling tho walls by means of an improvised ladder. ' A DISASTROUS FIRE Savannah has Conflagration Causing | Loss of Many Thousands. SAVANNAH, Go., Dec 26.?- Fir. which burned for five.hours In thej business section here early today de stroyed the building and atVk of Marcus & Co., a department store,1 and damaged the-adjoining dry good r establishment of SL Mirsky. The loss n was estimated at $100,000. 1 Accidentally Killed. BRISTOL.Va.-Tehn., Dec 26.? ? Bradley Davidson, 18, tho son of a ? prominent family of southwest Virgin- t ta was accidentally shot and killed to- v night at Olado Spring, 40 miles from here, by C. Alttrman, Alttrman, It r Was aa id was h and Un g Davidson's pis- |] toi when- it exploded, killing him tu- s stantly. ? rllNOR UPRISINGS REPORT ED OVER PHIL1PINE ISL- . ANDS ARE QUELLED QUICK ACTION. Authorities Are in Full Charge and Have the Situation Well in Hand* MANILA, Dec. 26.?Eight Pill-. pinoB have been arreutcd en the charge of sedition as a result of an ibortive rising in Manila and Its en virons on Thursday night. Further wrests are probable. From army sources it is learned that a general warning was sent to ill' officers Thursday afternoon- stat ing that fully ten thousand Filipinos In Manila alone were ready for a con certed attack on Fort Santiago, the Uuartel Espana, the Cuartel Infun eria and the medical depot. The mill :ary units were immediately prepared ind a street patrol was started at lusk. Constabulary agenta who are mem bers of the secret societies disclosed the plans for an uprising, thus en-' ibllng a forco of constabulary and po lice to disperse gatherings at Bagum Ktyan. Paco and Navotas, near Mala jon. At Caloocan a squad of Ameri can sailors seized chairs when a force sf Filipinos approached a dance hall 'n which they were gathered and, using the chairs as weapons, routed the Filipinos, of whom quite a number ivero Injured. The rising was evidently poorly or ganized and lacked ' leader*: It waa, composed for the most psit of persons implicitly -trusting the word of ' Ar temio Rlcarte, a vovnlationary, who conducts a continua), propaganda from Hong Kong, to which place , bo wah banished by the American, authorities some time ago. Rlcarte it in otaled, id vised that tho anU-AmerJcan at tempt be made on Christinas ovo,, when the American office would be expected to celebrate the holiday. Reports from tbo provinces tell of minor risings and occasional violence, but details from the sections are lack ing. The situation today, from, all ap pearances, and according to official Uatements,. is well under control of the military authorities.' Governor-General Francis Burton' Harrison ii?p j???i?i le \Ht eu cS?~ Mai business'and Winifred T. Denl jon secretary of the interior. Is In charge of affairs, pending Mr. Harri son's return. Reports from Navotas, six miles 10 i t h of tho capital, spy that slmul aueously ,wltb the outbreak St Manila Christmas eve thirty men entered the nunicipal building, uelzod three po le emeu on duty there'and tried to >pen the safe. Later the Filipinos seised attend ing conducting midnight mass and raptured the Filipino governor. Moi ndres. When polico reinforcements irrived the revolutionaries fired a oiley and then retreated: Later they txchanged shota with unothor forco tnd in this engagement the oonstahu ary succeeded in arresting ten men. In all 21 Filipinos wero taken prts ners at Nattotas. The nationalist newspapers accuse he other political parties of foment ng tho revolution and they, also hint bat some Americans trere concerned n It in an effort to quash the Jones Jill, which contains provisions for a greater measure of self-government or the Islands. The authorities today are in full. ontrol of the situation and consider ho incident closed. . . i-' . TOO MPCi"CHRISTKAB. Hither the Taxi or Driver Must Ha fo Been Overdosed. NEW YORK, Dec. 27.?A tsxlcab containing throe nue tonight tore hrough the iron rail fe ico whl?h. asp ir?tes the Long Island l?llroad tracks rom the roadway of Alantlo avonus n Brooklyn and fell 20 foot into the w?.lh of a passenger truin. Tho ma :hlne ws8 struck by die/train and Charles Robeck, 21 ye ira, was killed, chiio George Place, 21, and Michael iIcManus, 23, were reriously injured* FOI R HUND7 ED KI?LED. Fire Hun?rew. vTounno? is TTreeK?< Troop aua Hispltal Trains Meet Head-on. LONDON, Deo. 26.?A'Renter die atch from Warsaw says that *0O ien were killed and 500 woaftded in colliolon betwoen troops omt hispi ?1 trains at Hallos. Poland. The roops wore coming from Pru-fcft and he hospital train was prbcceMn* to lormany with woundod olilcnra. The rains were running at full . spood hen they collided. Moro than vo cars rare wrecked. An investigation dtecicwcd that a ailway switch had been', changed at He last moment. Tho 'station master, witchman and others are under ar ea**