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SITUATION IN PI1L1PP1NEs.
General Otis Reports q Distinct

General Otis Reports q Distinct
Improvement In Conditions
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE War
Department officials were very much
encouraged to-day upon the receipt of
news from General Otis at Manila that
indicated a distinct improvement in the
situation there.
The Generals dispatch completely
negatives the absurd story from Mad
rid Of the American troops at Manila
having mutdnied and refused to pro-
ceed to Iloilo. necessitating the with
drawal of General Miller's forces from
that port.
General Otis is master wherever he
has planted his foot, and undoubtedly
is able to carry out any policy as to
the treatment of the natives the Ad-
ministration is likely to dictate.
There are indications that encourage
the officials here to believe the concilia-
tory policy toward the natives that was
recently made will succeed, although it
cannot be expected that the Filipinos
are to be convinced at once Of the abb
solute faith In which General Otis is
acting toward them.
MANILA, Jan. 14.-The situation here
is improving. A native engineer at the
waterworks outside the lines was mur-
dered on Thursday evening by an or
ganized gang Of thieves armed with
various weapons. His wife barely es-
capped the same fate The place was
ransacked. The native authorities are
investigating the affair, but the Fill
pinos dfsclaim any knowledge of the
outrage.
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Wind Creates Great Havoc Through
out Pennsylvania.
Much Damage at PIttshurg, and a Number
Of People Injured.
One Man Killed and Another Seri-
ous1y Hurt at Washington, Pa
The Storm at Greensburg the
Worst Ever Experienced-A Tor--
nado Sweeps Over Northwestern
Texas.

PITTSBURG, Jan. 14.-A terrific
windstorm to-day caused almost COM
plete paralysis of the telegraphic serv-
ice out Of this city. Wires We're pros
trated in all directions and communi-
cation by the Western Union and Pos
tai Telegraph Companies was cut off
from all but southern points. Con-
siderable damage was done through
out the city by the high winds and a
number of persons were injured by
falling signs, poles, etc., but so far as
known no one was killed. The wind
attained velocity Of forty-eight miles
an hour.
Reports from nearby towns coming
in tonight show that the high wind
was prevalent throughout this entire
section
At Washington, Pa, one and perhaps
two lives were lost. A scaffold on
which Daniel Jennings and William
Pallet were working at the Washington
ice plant was blown down, and both
men fell forty feet, and were buried
under the debris. Jennings was killed
and Pallet seriously hurt
Greensburg, Pa, reports the storm
the worst ever experienced there. The
roof of the Courthouse at Greensburg
was loosened from its fastenings and
for several hours great uneasiness
was felt.
The large flag pole in Ludwick,
erected in honor of the soldiers at Ma
Mia, was blown down, and several
persons narrowly escaped being
struck. The new six-story Heilman
building, which is in course of con-
struction, was badly damaged, part of
the brick work being blown down
Three houses in South New Castle
We're also blown over.
DUBOIS, Jan. 14.-This region was
swept by terrific windstorm this
afternoon. At Reynoldsville eighty
feet of the silk mill was demolished
Three hundred and thirty-five persons
were in the building at the time, and
singularly no one was injured. Wires
are down in all directions.
TORNADO IN TEXAS.
LONG VIEW, Jan. 14-A tornado
passed through this county yesterday
from the southwest, four miles north
west of Kilgore. The tornado swept
down and demolished tenement house
on the Moore place, in which were a
woman named Mrs. McCuen and five
children, dangerously injuring ana
perhaps fatally Mrs. McCuen.
Acres of forest trees are uprooted,
and everything was swept before the
winds fury. All wires went down,
and trees were blown across the In
ternational and Great Northern Rail-
road in several places.
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THE ASTOR BATTERY.
Is Expected to Start on the Journey
East To.Nsght.

SAN FRANCISCO JAM 1.-THE
Astor Battery is expected to go East
tomorrow night. They are being pro-
vided with suitable winter clothing.
and arrangements for their transpor-
tation We're made this afternoon.
Thirty-five convalescents of the First
New York Volunteers have been or
dered to their home stations at Albany,
Utica, Walton, Binghamton, Middle
ton, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh and
Kingston, N Y. The senior non-com-
missioned officer will take charge of
the men as far as Utica, and at that
point he will distribute them to their
respective home stations. These men
were to be sent East tonight, but as
there is no commissioned officer in
charge of them, it was thought advis-
able to attach them to the Astor Bat
terry for the trip to the East.
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NAVAL TRANSPORT SERVICE.
New Plans the Navy Department is
Soon to Inaugurate.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-The Navy
Department to-day took initial steps
looking to prosecute its plans for the
formation of naval transport service.
1t promulgated a schedule for the sail
ing of the two vessels now available for
the service, by which the Solace is to
sail from New York for Manila in Janu-
ary and July, and the Buffalo is to run
from San Francisco to the same port
in April and October.
The schedule will give a three months
service to begin with, allowing the YES
sells ample time to refit between trips.
They will carry stores for the forces in
the Philippines and Admiral Dewey will
not erect a storehouse for the goods, but
will have Che Celtic and the Culgoa to
use as refrigerator ships for the storage
of fresh provisions.
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Linseed on Combine.

CLEVELAND, Jan. IA new lin
seed oil combination has been formed,
the Incorporation taking place in New
Jersey under the name of the Ameri-
can Linseed Company. The National
Linseed Oil Company of Chicago was
incorporated about ten years ago, and
included thirty seven establishments.
From then until now it has been
fought by about twenty or thirty out
sfders, who produced about 60 per
cent. of the total output. The state
ment is made that all of these con-
Germs have gone into the new conf
pany To-day the property of the
Cleveland Linseed Oil Company was
transferred to the American Company
for the nominal consideration of 81.
The headquarters of the new company
will probably be in Chicago.
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MARE ISLAND NOTES.
All Available Men on the Inde-
pendence Ordered to Manila.

VALLEJO, Jan. 14-In obedience to
an order from Washington. all the
available men on the Independence are
preparing to go to Manila for duty on
the small gunboats captured from the
Spanish. The draft will include about
lCo men, and they will leave next Tues
day on the steamer Coptic, sailing from
San Francisco, in charge of Lieutenant
Gill
The torpedo boat destroyer Farragut
IS waiting for her officers and crew.
she Is already to go into commission.
The Construction Department will
soon remodel the collier Nero, which
will be continued in the naval service.
The damage sustained by the torpedo
boat Davis on her trip down the coast
will be repaired at the navy yard, but
the cost will be charged to the con-
tractors
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HAWAIIAN ADvICEs.
Former Decision as to Right Of
Chinese to Land Reversed.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14.-The
Associated Press correspondent at
Honolulu sends the following news
items by the steamer Nippon Maru,
which arrived to-day from the Orient,
via Honolulu:
HONOLULU, Jan. IA decision fil-
ed by the Supreme Court yesterday in
the last batch of Chinese habeas cor
pus cases disagrees from the former
opinions of Chief Justice Judd. and re-
verses the situation completely. In
other words, the Chinese petitioners,
who claimed the right to land in Ha-
waii by virtue of certain permits issued
to them prior to annexation, are re-
manded back to the custody of Collec-
tor McStocker, to be deported or dis
posed of as Agent Brown may elect.
The opinion is by Judge Perry, and is
concurred in by Judge Whiting Chief
Justice Judd signs dissenting view.
adhering to the. opinion put forward at
the hearing decided on December 10Th.
The American transport ship Tacoma
arrived on the 9Th, after a good voyage
Of thirteen and a half days, from San
Francisco. The Tacoma brings Ill
mules and a large quantity of quarter
master and commissary stores for Hon.
olulu and Manila. The mules will be
left here, and the horses and mules
brought on the previous trip will be
taken to Manila.
The Bennington is taking on stores
to-day for her long cruise by way of
Wake Island and Guam to Manila
One of the most significant things that
went aboard to-day was a seventy-foot
cedar pole, from which the American
flag will float over the Wake Islands.
The Bennington will sail to-day.
President Dole did not receive a call
to Washington by the last mail II
hardly think 1 will CO." said Mr. Dole
this morning, "for the reason that the
Commissions work is finished, and
there seems hardly any necessity for
my making the long trip"
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WILL BE coURr-MART1ALED.
Charges Against Two Officers of
the Washington Regiment.

SAN FRANCISCO, JAM. 1.-THE
steamer Nippon Maru, from the Orient,
brought the following item from Manila
under date of December 18th:
Lieutenant Colonel Fife and Captain
Max +. Ellrich of the First Washing
ton Regiment, are under arrest and
confined to their quarters They will
be tried by court-martiaI under the
Sixty-frst Article of war for conduct
unbecoming officers and gentlemen
Their arrest was ordered by Colonel
Wholly of the First Washington Regi-
ment, on charges preferred by one Of
the Captains and sworn to by several
other officers of the regiment. The
charges include drunkenness, and caus-
ing members under their command to
become intoxicated. The trial will
probably be prolonged through several
weeks. All the papers in the case must
go to Washington for final action
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THE CRUISER ALBANY.
rhe United States Warship
Launched at Newcastle, Eng.

NEWCASTLE (Eng.), Jan. 14.-The
United States cruiser Albany was sue
cessfully launched this afternoon.
The Albany was christened by Mrs.
Colwell. After Sir Andrew Noble pro-
posed success to the vessel, and in do
ing so regretted the absence of the
United States Charge d. d'Affaires, Henry
White, who, however, telegraphed wish
ing the Albany a successful career as
sister ship of the New Orleans, which,
Mr. White added, has given great sat
isfaction to her officers and crew.
Sir Andrew Noble added that it would
be pleasure for the whole country to
know that the vessel was built here for
the United States, because everything
tending to closer ties between Great
Britain and the United States must be
a source of pleasure to every English
man.
Lieutenant Colwell, in responding.
said the guns on the New Orleans were
admittedly better than any Of the
American guns, and that the Americans
were to build their guns on the same
model.
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DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA.
The Present Regime in the Army in
It's Last Days.

SAN FRANCISCO, JAN 1.-THE
present military regime in this depart
ment, the one that survived the war,
is in its last days. Major General w.
r. Shafter is expected to arrive here
on Tuesday afternoon, but as he is
coming by the Southern route, he will
probably be twenty-four hours late
General Merriam will leave shortly
after his arrival
Battery B, California Heavy Arti1-
lery, now at Angels Island, will be
mustered out on the 31st of this month,
and the companies of the Eighth Cali
fornia on the Sth. The detachment Of
the Fourth Cavalry, assigned to Bene-
cia Barracks, will be in charge of
Sergeant Simon, Troop B, and Corporal
Dunsworth, Troop NJ, two capable nom
commissioned officers of the Fourth
Cavalry.
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Trouble at Johannesburg.

JOHANNESBURG, JAM IL The
public meeting of British residents was
held this afternoon, with the object of
presenting the grievances Of the Uit-
landers. An enormous crowd of burgh-
e-s and Afrikanders was present, and
the attempt to read the recently formu-
lated petition to the Queen was the sig
nal for great uproar on their part. A
free fight ensued, in which chairs
benches and, tables were broken up, and
the pieces used as weapons The fight
ing became general. and at last ac-
counts was still in progress.
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ALBANY (Or), Jan. 14.-At Mill City,
this county, J. c. Lyons, a merchant,
was murdered in a back room Of his
store about 8 o'clock last night, having
been shot by an unknown assassin
through a window from the outside.
The weapon was shotgun, loaded.
with large shot, and the shot entered
the back of Lyons neck, some passing
through and coming out under the chin.
The victim lived about one hour after
being shot, and was conscious to the
last.
Lyons was just preparing to retire.
afld was alone in his room at the time,
his son, about 10 years old, having al
ready gone to bed in an upper room.
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NEVADA LEGISLATURE.
Silver Men Claim the Organization
of Both Houses.

CARSON (Nev.), Jan 14-The mem
bers of the Legislature are nearly all
here, and they viii caucus tomorrow.
The assembly convenes at 2 p. m. Mon
day. No hour has been fixed by the
Senate. The silver men claim the or
sanization of both houses The New
lands men claim to have won a VIC
tory at the central committee meeting
and say they will retain Sharon as
Chairman
The Stewart faction is collecting evil
dence as to Sharon's attitude during
the campaign. Pitt of Humboldt is set
down as refusing to caucus with either
side. Cleveland is out of the race.
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SCARCITY OF MEAT.
South Africa Threatened With q
Famine.

WASHINGTON, Jan. IA. = Owing to
the terrible ravages of the rinderpest
ana the prolonged drought South Africa
is threatened with meat famine. Dur
ing the year ended May 31st last, ac-
cording to a report to the State De-
partment fsom United States Consul
Stowe at Capetown, no less than l,4OU.-
600 head of cattle were lost from these
causes, while in the same time the loss
of sheep was 2,0S6,00O. In many dis
tricts the drought has become worse
since May All over the country the
farmers are selling their breeding stock
for slaughter and the price of meat is
rapidly rising. Prices of living are
mounting to the danger point. Ameri-
can flour and cornmeal are being i'm
ported, the demand for the latter being
beyond the supply.
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Run Over by a Train.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14.-The Santa
Fe train from the east this morning
found the remains of an unknown
Mexican scattered along the track for
100 yards at Alvord Station, near San
Bernardino. The eastbound train had
evidently run over him. There is no
clue to his identity.
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Explosion at Santa Cruz.

SANTA CRUZ, jan 14-An explosion
in the smokeless mill at the powder
works at 5 O'clock this evening tore off
a part Of the roof and sides Of the
building. William Turner's face was
badly burnedeand hee will probably lose
tile, sight OF one eye. Ralph Bradley
was injured by piece of flying ma
ch.nery. Three other men who We're
N the building escaped. The disaster
was caused by the explosion of ten
pounds of powder in the high-pressure
press, which set fire to 200 pounds Of
smokeiess powder and exploded two
bottles of nitro-glycerine.
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Emissaries Of Aguina1do Arrtve.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14.-Among
the passengers who arrived to-day on
the steamer Nippon Maru from Hong
kong and Yokohama, via Honolulu,
are, three emissaries of Aguinaldo. the
Philippine leader. They are Senor
Morto, Senor Lowde and Senior Lund,
three members Of Aguinaldo's Cabi-
net. They are en- route to Washington
on a secret mission, the purport of
which they refuse to divulge. The
Filipinos are very intelligent and speak
English fiuently. They will probably
stay in this city for a day or two,
and then will go to Washington di-
rect.
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A moderate storm is central off the
mouth Of the Columbia River, which
is causing high winds and rain on the
Oregon Coast and light rain as far
south as San Luis Obispo and Fresno
in California AT Fort Candy the wind
is blowing 43 miles per hour from the
south, and at Portland maximum
velocity is reported as forty miles from
the SOUTH
The pressure is falling quite rapidly
at Eureka, and points to the north
ward. 1t is probable that rain will COM
tinue in northern California during
Sunday, with high southeast to south
west winds on the coast north of Cape
Mendocino
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San joaquin Rescinds the Contract.

STOCKTON, Jan. ID San Joaquin
County followed the action of other
counties to-day, when the Supervisors
voted unanimously this morning to
rescind their recent action authorizing
the employment of certain San Fran
cisco legal firms to act for the county
in collecting money due the county
from the State in the way of COM
missions for the collection of State
taxes.
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Mrs. Regan Exonera+ed.

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 14.-Mrs
elizabeth Regan, who killed Thomas
kennedy, policeman, at her home
late yesterday afternoon. was exoner-
ated to-day by Coroner's jury. Mrs.
Regan's sister, Mrs Johnston who
witnessed the shooting, testified that
the weapon exploded during a struggle
for the weapon. The jury returned
verdict that Kennedy died of a gun
shot wound inflicted by Mrs. Regan
and that she acted in self-defense-
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The Largest steamer Ever Built.

BELFAST, jan 1.-THE White Star
steamer Oceanic, the largest steamer
ever built, was successfully launched
at Harland & VOLTS yard to-day in the
presence of an enormous crowd. The
Oceanic, unlike the Great Eastern,
which was launched broadside, was
launched stern foremost, though longer
and weighing half as much again as
the Great Eastern. The Oceanic has a
coal capacity sufficient to enable her
to circumnavigate the globe at n speed
of twelve knots an hour without recoal-
ing.
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to proceed to the island of Guam and
assume the duties of naval Governor of
the new acquisition. He will carry
with him q proclamation to the natives
informing them Of, the designs of the
United states Government toward them.
in precisely the same terms employed
in the case of the acquisition Of Porto
Rice.
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Using of Nets Forbidden.

SANTA ROSA, Jan. 14-This after
noon the Board of Supervisors passed
an ordinance forbidding the setting of
any kind of net to catch fish in the
Sonoma County streams. Offender S
will be punished by a fine of 500 or
fifty days Imprisonment or both. The
ordinance goes into effect on Febru
ary 1st.
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"a BOY FATALLY Injured.

SALINAS, Jan. 14-Clyde Cornell,
aged years, was fatally hurt to-day
while leading refractory horse to
water by a rope. the end of which was
attached to his body by a slip moose.
The horse broke away and dragged the
boy over the rough ground, causing
cencussion of the brain and other in
juries.
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Died of His Injuries.

cAHTO. Jan. 14.-William Horne,
second engineer of the ill-fated steamer
Jewel, wrecked and lost at Caspar yes
terday, died of his injuries to-day. De-
ceased was unmarried. He was a ma
tive of Canada, about 40 years old. The
burial will take place at Caspar to-
morrow, under the direction of the
MSrine Engineers.
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BRIGHT Outlook for Water.

DENVER, Jan. 1.-THE outlook for
water for irrigating next summer is
better than for many years past. The
are covered with great
masses of snow, averaging from three
to six feet deep at timber line, and
in addition packed in immense drifts
in the draws and gulches.
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Lewiston in Mourning.

LEWISTON (Me.), Jan. 14.-Lewis-
ton is plunged into mourning by the
news of the death of Congressman
Dingley, Notices have been issued for
meeting of the City Council, when
committees will be appointed to take
action relative to the funeral and ap-
propriate tributes. Flags were dis
played at half mast at all the school
houses, mills, ships and factories ana
on all public buildings. The Lewis
ton Board of Trade has called a public
meeting Of citizens for Monday even
ing.
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AMERICAN PRODUCTS
Effect Of Competition Upon Scotch
Industries.

WASHINGTON, JAM 14-The effect
Of American competition upon Scotch
industries in the three great lines, steel,
engines and machinery and leather
goods, is set out in a report to the
Bureau of Foreign Commerce of the
State Department from United States
Consul Fleming at Edinburgh. He
bases his report upon a review of the
years trade, prepared for publication
in Scotch newspaper by experts in
the lines named.
The opinion of the expert in the case
Of steel is that the Scotch steelmaker
has allowed his plant to get behind the
times in capacity, while the American
steelmaker has made such enormous
strides in production that this extraor
binary success seems to threaten the
trade of the world
Touching the trade in locomotives,
experts are quoted to show that the
American machine, while sold at a
lover price than the British locomo-
tive, is inferior in durability and other
desirable qualities, and is being gradu-
ally crowded out by the latter. This
is said to be the case in Japan, partic
ularly where the British and American
machines have been tried simultane-
ously for some time past. The differ
ence in price in favor of the American
locomotive is explained by the theory
that the new Winchester system of
compulsory inspection in England
causes the rejection of much valuable
material at all stages of manufacture,
while the American manufacturer is
not obliged to submit to inspection, and
therefore is enabled to use inferior
material.
The Consul, in rendering this opin-
ion, adds that as the Midland Railway
Company in England has just ordered
twenty American locomotives, it would
seem that the managers are not spe-
cially apprehensive that the American
machines cannot pass the British tests.
1t is admitted that the Americans and
Canadians still retain the bulk of the
important trade in agricultural machin-
cry, and have practically monopoly.
There is also an open confession in the
case Of the boot and shoe trade that
the British cannot make shoe equal to
the American product for the same
price.
The experts say: "To our annoyance
and irritation it must be candidly ad-
mitted that their manufactures, for
beauty Of style, handsome appearance
and perfection Of fit, excel ours; in their
words, they have gone one better on
u.s.
The British manufacturers had hoped
that the American shoe would be found
to be lacking in wearing quality, but
there again they were disappointed, for
the expert admits that the American
shoe is made of the same leather that
the British shoemaker uses. In upper
leather entirely and in sole leather to
q great degree the American leather ex-
GELS the British currier and tanner, and
the latter have admitted they must
adopt American methods if they are
to survive. A very large part of the
British colonial trade has been cap
tured by the Americans, who have now
wrested away from the mother country
almost the whole of the boot and shoe
trade of West Australia and Africa.
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Fire at Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14.-A fire in
the establishment of Gabel the tailor
on Spring street caused the loss of
about $1,000 this morning. 1t was
caused by an oil stove.
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p.+,+;on to Sell Real Estate.

T. w. O'Neil, receiver in the case OF
the People against the Union Building
and Loan Association, has petitioned
the Superior Court for permission to
sell lot 8 in the Louisiana Tract, J.
Palermo having offered to buy it for
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Cecil Rhodes at London.

LONDON, Jan. 14.-Cecil Rhodes
arrived in London from Cape Town to-
day. There is considerable interest IN
his visit, which is connected with the
scheme of joining Cairo and cape
Town by railroad
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Murderer Knott Resentenced.

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 14.-A l.
Knott, the barber, who murdered Jo-
seph Krauser in a quarrel over a dog,
was resentenced to death by Superior
Judge Dunno this morning. If no In
terference from the Supreme Court
checks the course Of justice, Knott