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places The residents say the Tagalos
are unanimously rebels. and they pre-
dict the Americans will be resisted at
Mt'doro and Mindanao, and that they
VIII be obliged to subdUe them.
Inc extent OF the support which the
other LuZon tribes are giving Aguinal-
do is mystery. 1t is known that sew
| eral regiments We're under arms before
the outbreak, but the majority of them
are supposed to be jealous of the Tag
| alos, who are reported to be treating.
the other tribes in the fashion of the
Spaniards. dominating the island and
holding all the Offices
The reports from the rebels are to
the effect that the recent tactics of the
Americans in retiring to their estab-
lished lines after pursuing, makes the
rebels think they are winning victory.
the oriental character is SO deceptive
that the residents of Manila are igno-
rant as to whether their own servants
Sympathize with the rebels or not. It
is known that a rebel organization eX-
lists in the city and the evidence Is
growing that there was a widespread Il
plot to assasSinate the Americans the
signal being the commencement of hos
lllitles. The servants were instructed
to kill their employers: but they were
terrorized by the vengeance dealt out
to offenders and they weakened Every
Tagalo would have cut his employers
throat if he dared, or at least this is a
current saying.
The faithlessness of the natives is il
lustrated by the action of the commits
slonerS who came here to offer the al
legiance of the island of Negros. 1t is
not known that they were in friendly
communication with Aguinaldo while
here.
ammunition and are using smokeless
powder.
Nearly every house here displays a
foreign flag for protection. whether it
is entitled to it or not. All flags EXCEPT
the Spanish flag are seen. From the ma
tive huts hang white towels or shirts
The natives working in the fields plant
white flag on Il bamboo, as pro-
lection against being mistaken for ac-
tive rebcls
About 300 new saloons have been
opened here since the American occupa-
ton. with the result that many drunk
EN- soldiers are 20 be seen in the streets.
The officers. however, say the conduct
of the soldiers is better than those of
any other nations under similar cir
Cumstances.
The chief topic of conversation at
present is the delay in assigning Major
General Lawton TO a command Every
body expected that he was to take
command of the troops and he is eager
to get to work. but he has been a spec-
tatOr of all the weeks fighting and his
staff and 10-year-Old son have been ex-
posed 10 the hottest fire. There is an
uons of the armed natives are ignorant
of the use of their weapons
The country beyond the rice fields
and canebrush is filled with camps. The
Americans are familiar with the hiding
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STIRRING EVENTS.
A California Traitor Buried in an Tn
marked Grave,

San Francisco. March 1.-THE follow
ing mail advices have been received by
the associated press. dated Manila
Feb. 13.
The stirring events of the past week
nave followed each other in such rapid
succession that it is a difficult matter
to arrange them chronologically. much
less relate them in detail. The number
Of troops engaged and the amount of
territory covered by the American
forces as they have swept everything
before them since the outbreak of hos
ltiltleS with the rebelIiOus natives add
TO the difficulty very materially.
Ihat trouble with Aguinaldo's forces
encamped outside the city was immi-
nent and inevitable had been apparent
ever since the rebel leader issued his
proclamation demanding independence,
put the American authorities had
aVerted it so often by the exercise. of
such rare discretion and patience that
until the first blood had been shed no
one really believed that it had come
and that the breach was irreparahe.
All day on the fatal 4th of February
there had been lumCrs of the receipt
by AguinaldO of messages from his
Washington representative. Agoncillo,
counselling action Immediately if he
desired to avert the ratification of the
peace treaty, but no one paid much
/
that only As hours remained before the
senate would act. Other rumors and
the sudden disappearance of native
servants about the same time were also
discussed indifferently, but no alarm
was created thereby. and there was the
usual Saturday night hustle in the city
up to the time the stores closed. The
story of the outbreak and subsequent
fighting had been covered by cable.
The American. daily paper pub
lished here. says ex-Corporal John w.
Hays Of company D. 1st California
volunteers, a traitor and deserter, has
found his just end. His body now lies
IN a trench dug to bury the enemies
Of his country who fell in battle. with
no slab at his grave, his name forever
mated by his own regiment. Hays
came with his regiment to Manila.
Last October he married a Filipino,
and two days later deserted into the
insurgent line. This was the last his
regiment heard or cared to hear about
MIN until yesterday, when burying the
dead insurgents they came across his
dead body. riddled with bullets, with
the clothes of first lieutenant of the
insurgents.
The fighting continues every day. and
In all cases the Americans make the
filipnos seek cover to escape the
shower of American bullets The regi-
ilehlS engaged poth regulars and vol
unteers, fought with the greatest en-
thusasm and Were with difficulty re-
strained from advancing beyond the
regular firing lines established by the
commanding general. The tactics Of
the Americans in fighting were a rev
elation to the Filipinos Our men were
ready and anxious to fight at all hours
of the day and night They did not
waste their ammunition, however. but
waited until they saw a mark to shoot
at.
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WILL DODGE A FIGHT
determination the Solution of
the Tagalo Problem.
OTHER TRIBES JEALOUS
Aguinaldo Is Playing the Spaniard-A
Plot to Assassinate Americans-Ter-
rorized by Vengeance-General
LaWton Is Shelved.

Hong Kong. March 17.--The following
correspondent of the associated press
at Manila and has not been subjected
to censorship:
The most remarkable feature of the
situation is the inability of the Ameri-
cans and residents to estimate the
numbers, resources and plans of the
Filipinos. Prominent generals say that
two or three disastrous battles will
break their spirit and make terms.
The English and other residents are
of the Tagalos is the only guarantee
of peace. that they can easily be whip
ped if the give battle, but that they
will dodge a meeting with the Ameri-
can forces. Some people think they VIII
risk battles at Malabon and Varanque,
for they are strongly entrenched and If
they are defeated. they will resume
bushwhacking as long as any Of them
are left.
United States Consul Williams says:
Il don't expect to live to see the end
of the waH"
The rebels shift about so much that
it is impossible to estimate their num-
bers. The correspondent questioned
several of the generals as to the num-
Der of the rebels and the replies rang-
ed from 10000 to 100000. The estimates
of the quantity of arms possessed by
the rebels are equally uncertain The
best authorities say 10000. Large Sec
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|NSURRECTION IS NEARLY At AN END

much
The belief
the
Agunados
General cabegam of
sent president at 1hoVe The
of disturbances Stands
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other firemen, passed her down to the
street.
The First Horror.
The first horror occurred just Is min
utes after the fire broke out A hand
some woman appeared at the window
of a room on the fourth floor. She held
out her arms tn he crowd below. Then
she raised her hands as if in suppliCa-
tion and in a moment climbed TO the
window and leaped. She turned about
like a top and struck the iron railing
in front of the hotel. Her body seem
ed to be impaled, but it fell off and
into the area way. She was dead. The
woman was identified as Mrs. Amelia
Paddock of lrvlngtOn, N. Y.
One Of the most thrilling scenes of
the fire-at time when the building
was a seething cauldron of flames
was the heroic rescue of several WO-
men from the upper stories. One had
been carried down from the fifth story.
Mrs. A. H. Fuller of Pittsburg then
appeared with her maid at the window
of the fourth story. 1t seemed an age
before the ladder was lowered. Fire
men ran up and with great difficulty
brought down Mrs. Fuller and her
maid. Just as she was gotten out of
the window a middle aged woman ap-
peared at window just north of that
at which the ladder was placed. The
woman, fearing that she would not be
rescued. prepared to jump. She was
warned to keep back. and became panic
stricken and stepped back into the
dense smoke Another ladder man, see
ing the desperate situation of the Wo-
man, seized scaling ladder and went
up, story by story, through the blind
ing smoke. He climbed to the coping
just as the woman reappeared, Catch
ing her by the waist and holding tight
ly to the building, he crept slowly to
the coping and passed the fainting
woman to another fireman who had
braced himself to receive her. There
was a dreadful suspense as the fire
man drew the woman toward him and
finally had her safely on the ladder
A tremendous cheer went up from the
crowd.
Heroic Rescues.
Fireman John Hanna of the fire boat
Zephar Mills rushed through the smoke
to the top floor and found Night
Watchman McNicholls half asphyXiat-
ed Hanna lowered him by means of
wire to the fire escape two stories
below and let himself down this way.
His hands were badly cut by the wire.
Then Hanna assisted the old man down
the fire escape.
Fireman William Kennedy of Engine
company No. 2@ rescued Mrs. Brann
from the fourth floor of the hotel by
means of scaling ladder His rescue
was cheered by the immense crowd.
A crippled woman was found lying
on the floor Of a room on the fourth
floor unab2" To move, and was car
ried in safety to the street. Assembly,
man John II. Maher, Sheriff Dunn and
Police Commissioner Hess all assisted
in taking persons from the hotel.
Cant Emil Fl. Pate of company l.,
Continued on Page Two)
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they struck the. asphalt covering of the
street in front of the hotel and caused
the hundreds of people who were stand
ing there to scatter in every direction.
This fall weakened the walls on the
Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh street
sides and they followed Il moment later.
When the walls fell the brick and NOR
tar and twisted girderS and corrugated
iron filed the streets on three sides of
the hotel.
The iron fences on tha cpposite side
of the street We're wrecked by the fall
ing walls and the amount of debris
piled in the streets was SO great that
travel will be impeded for several
days. The northeast wing of the hotel
continued to burn for half hour after
the walls of the other part of the build
ing fell. Firemen continued to play
streams upon the flames and also ,Ipon
all the adjoining buildings. including
Miss Gould's residence. which seemed
in imminent danger Of catching fire.
but the flames were brought under con-
troll before they could reach any of
them.
There We're many thrilling scenes in
the hotel during the early stages of the
fire. A hall boy discovered the flames
while he was passing along the fourth
floor, Immediately over the rooms occu-
pea by President MCkinley's brother
Abner Mckinley, and his family. The
boy pulled chain attached to the fire
alarm, but the chain broke and then
he cried out an alarm Of fire and ran to
the floor below. The blaze was then
licking up everything on the Fifth ave-
nue. end of the building and the lad.
when he got to the floor above the main
hall, ran into the American dining
room and gave the alarm to the guests
there. Only few persons were in the
dining room at the time and they es-
capped. When the boy reached the main
floor Warren F. Leland. the proprietor
of the hotel. was in the rear of the
long hall, and the boy shouted to him
that the building was on fire On Mr..
Leland's instructions the clerks tried
to save all the books and papers. and
the boy then rushed down the basement
stairway and alarmed the women who
We're at work in the laundry. 1t is be-
lieved that all of them escaped
One of the most daring rascues eff
fected by the firemen occurred on the
fifth floor on the Fifth avenue front.
An elderly woman Was seen at Win
dow and two firemen succeeded in
reaching the window Immediately un-
derneath. One of them climbed to the
coping of the window. on which she
was standing, and swung the woman
clear of the window ard landed her
safely in the arms of his companion.
who, with the assistance of several
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Continued on Page Two.)
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FIFTEEN LIVES WERE LOST
IN THE WINDSOR HOTEL FIRE
Terror-Strcken Women Leaped to Death From the Win
dows-The Interior Of the Hotel Was He'll of
Roaring Flames-Thirty People Sc
rously Injured.

Eugene Thompson. West Seventy first
street
Belts, Sadie; daughter of John Belts
West Seventy-first street
upham, Annetta; daughter of ex-Sen-
ator Upham Of Vermont.
De Cordova, Mrs. Alfred; wife of a
stockbr0ker having an office in the ho-
tel.
Bradley, Miss
Sterner, Miss; New York.
Morgan, Miss Catherine; AS Madison.
Guina, Warren; elevator man at hotel.
Auzee, Miss; visiting at hotel
McNulty, Miss.
Buckhorn, Miss H: New York.
Mccarthy Catherine; domestic.
Shea, Kate: domestic.
O'Connell, Kate.
Vruit. James.
De Morasch, Mrs.
Brand, Mrs. James.
Fuller, Miss Margaret; niece of A. NJ.
Fuller of Philadelphia.
Troops. Miss.
Chapman. Mrs. William H,
Buckley. Mrs.
Worth, Miss.
Rigley, Miss Jennie.
Casey, Ellen P.
Ford, Charles.
Welch, Mary.
Walsh. Nora
Lannick, Mary.
Stokes, Mrs. James H.
Muller Christopher
McElroy, Mr.: rs years old; lived at
the hotel with his family.
Hoffman, Miss Dora, and two nieces;
Baltimore.
Kelly, Eliza.
Clark Mary.
Armstrong. Bridget.
Kellogg, DR.. Kenneth Z.
Morgan, Miss Annie Taylor.
Lore, Harry w.
Angeline, Mary.
Mackay, Mrs. Frederick
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The Rebels Panic Stricken.

New York, March IA dispatch to the
Herald from Manila says: On Monday
your correspondent went aboard the
United States gunboat Laguna de BAY
and accompanied her on the chase of the
rebels. She first steamed past the town
OF Pasis and turned her Gatling guns on
lhe insurgents intrenched along the
shore. The insurgents We're so frightened
that the women. children. horses, soldiers
and carabos fled in hundreds across the
open fields toward l-aguna de BAY The
gunboat ceased firing but followed close
behind the panic-stricken crowd driving
them inland.
On Tuesday the gunboat Ceste Joined
the l.aguna d" Bay. both under command
Of Captain Grant. They made for the
lake channel, whtcA had been blocked bv
the insurgents. but they finally cleared
the way, On the lake we chased two sail
ing vessels which were fun of INSURGENTS
Both vessels refused to surrender and ran
ashore, the troops escaping in spite of our
fire.
During Wednesday. while approaching
Santa Cruz. the richest city on the lake.
raised a white flag when 500 yards
from the shore. A large force of insur-
gents are intrenched IN front of the town,
but they refused to confer with us Then
we shelIed their position effectively and
withdrew to the end of the lake to await
the landing of our forces.
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A MOSQUITO FLEET
Needed to Police Coast and the Inland
Waters

Washington, March 1.-THE navy de-
partment is taking steps toward the
formation OF mosquito fleet for the
Philippines. The conditions now pre-
Nallng in LuZon indicate that for a
long time it will be necessary to main
tain strict police of the coast and in
land waters. For the inland works
especially, the department will need
some very light draft boats. For this
work the big ocean tugs that formed
the mosquito fleet that operated around
Cuba during the blockade and of which
the government has a number. are
now being looked over with a view 10
just this service. Some of them are
on the Pacific coast. The department
has figured out a coasting voyage that
will take them up the Alaskan coast,
Coallng at Sitka, Unala ska, Cooks In
let and go down through the Aleu-
tian islands to Hakodata the northern
point of Japan: thence they can make
the run across the China sea down ia
Hong Kong, and thence to the Phil
ippines. 1t will be about a two-months'
voyage, but one that can be made
safely. Spain had a large fleet of the
small gunboats and torpedo gunboats
admirably suited for this work in the
Philippines but Spain has recently sold
13 of them at Hong Kong 1t is possi-
bic that some of these vessels NAV he
repurchased by the government in
case they are in good condition. and
can be had for reasonable sum. The
tugs destined for the Philippine ser
vice will be armed with an abundance
of machine guns and with heavier
rapid fire guns up to six or Il Founders.
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impression that Japanese firms are sup
plying the rebels with arms. The Jap
anese papers are urging Japanese med
iat.On,
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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-09-26
RANEIS FIRST LECTURE
A LARGE AUDIENCE GREATLY
ENJOYS IT.
Views and a Description of the Maoris
and Their Customs-Talk Replete
with Good Things.

Rawei, the New Zealand orator, en-
tertained a large audience in a most
substantial manner at the Y. NJ. G. A.
hall last evening. The chief feature
Of his program was an illustrated lee
ture on New Zealand and the Maoris.
j. Lightfoot handled the stereopticon.
Lectures of this sort, which are
largely descriptive historical, etc, are
generally dry. Not so, however, with
the talk of the Maori. Mr.. Rawei pos
sesses rare eloquence and has rich,
musical voice that captivated his audi
tors. His lecture was sparkling with
wit, the house being frequently thrown
into fits of laughter. Numerous eX-
pressions in the Maori language were
quoted. Some of the words being iden-
teal with Hawaiian the native part
of the audience followed this diversion
with immense interest. The Maori
songs proved an innovation in the
same way.
The views projected upon the screen
embodied everything necessary to give
| a clear idea of Maori life All the
most famous bits of scenery were
shown. Then there were the native
! houses, with the elegant wood carving
| on the doors, views of living rooms anC
numerous slides showing the outdoor
| life of the people A great many native
| types were interspersed, showing young
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! tice of tatooing, so prevalent among
the Maors At one juncture the lee
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would be that of the prettiest woman
| in New Zealand. MY wife" explain
ed the Maori when the audience hat
eagerly inspected it a moment.
The house for the lecture was jamp
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stood in the rear passage way, unabl
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o'clock, the audience remained to tn
very last. At the close Mr.. Rawei an
nounced that he would follow up hi
subject on Thursday evening at tn
same hour.
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A CHRISTIAN DAILY.

The effort to float a "Christian" daily
newspaper in London, which seems to
be a fruit of the great circulation of
Rev. Mr.. Sheldon's I'm His Steps" has
met with little more encouragement
than the corresponding movement in
Chicago. The field for a paper of this
sort does not seem to be precisely clear.
BY the way, it is about forgotten that
the New York World started as a dis
tinctly religious newspaper.
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FIERST UND LASD.


The leader of a German orchestra had
instrumentalists who PERSISTED in COM
ing late for rehearsals. Finally he said
to him. dis will not do no more. Dis
vas a business pandt. You come lade
some more vonce and l pounce you
quick"
Hoffman was on hand earlier the next
night, still earlier the night following
and kept on improving his conduct In
this way until at the end of a week he
was the first man to report to the lead
err. The leader was greatly pleased.
"Dis was pedder Hoffman," said he.
you vas pehind before, aber you vas
early of lade, and now you vas fiersd
and lash alretty. Better you told me
how you vas do it,"
vel you see," saiA Hoffman, II vos
have to come in nit an old horse be-
hind before, und so 1 vos think me
vos get me a Sterling Bicycle, down
nit the Pacific Cuycle Company's place
and now 1 vos here nit the first al
retty. l like does Sterlings. They go
Oh so easy as never vas any othder.'
Justice is what takes a mans part
when injustice would take his all.
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Spauldngs sporting goods at the p
c. & Mfg. Co. store.
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know myself" some of us would
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