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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Assistant Secretary Breckenridge, acting secretary of war, announced the receipt of a message f rem Governor General Harrison of the Philippine Islands, confirming dispatches sent from Manila recently that an insurrectionary movement has been started in the Philippines. The report minimized the extent of the trouble, but stated that small bodies of Filipinos had assembled in .Manila and Navotas Christmas eve, and at Laguna de Bay Saturday night, and attempted to make trouble. As a result forty men were arrested and one man was shot by a policeman. Governor General Harrison reported that the disorders had been suppressed; that efforts were being made lo arrest the leaders, the chier of whom, la-said, was believed to lo a man under sentence of Imprisonment for homicide. He added that nobody of any influence or standing was connected in the movement. The retirement of Governor .Toe Maylorenas Villa-istas from the siege of Naco. Sonora. has made Xaeu, Ariz., safe lor the time being from stray Mexican bullets. Permanent safety for lwrder towns depends on further conferences Brig-Gen. Hugh L. Scott will hold with the Sonora factional leaders. It is understood that the success of his mission hangs largelv on Washingtons answer to the plan submitted bv" General Scott last Thursday, in which the chief of staff of Die Cnitod States army is believed to have suggested the creation of a neutral strip along the border. The Tenth Regiment of Bersaglieri Sharpshooters has left Palermo for Avlona, Albania, where they wiil replace the bluejackets who were landed last week lo restore order and protect Europeans and the peaceful inhabitants. Essad Pasha, the provisional president, lias gathered S.S00 soldiers and marched against the Albanian rebels. Intending to engage them In a decisive battle. None of the powers has protested against the Italian occupation of Avlona, Albania. Speaker and Mrs. Champ Clark announced the engagement of their only daughter, Miss Genevieve Clark, and James M. Thomson, owner and publisher of the New Orleans Item. The wedding will take place in the spring or early summer at Honeysliuck, the Clark homestead at Bowling Green, Mo. Orders for i.i.OOO Ions of high carbonized steel rounds appeared in the Pittsburgh district. !0,00 tons being for France and l..OOO tons for Russia. It is estimated that fully 0.000.000 worth of steel lias been bought in Pittsburgh for the European bellig-erants in the last two months. General Villas forces have suspended their attacks on Elhano, near Tampieo. and have concentrated their attack on the seaport of Tuxpam, where fighting is in progress, according to advices to the State Department at Washington. One American was killed instantly and another seriously wounded 1iy Canadian troops patrolling the Canadian border at Fort Erie. Out. The men were hunting ducks out of season in the Niagara river and in Canadian waters. President Wilson was US years old yesrerday. There was no special celebration marking the occasion, the President passing the day piiet!y surrounded by his family. An appeal to the United States .Supreme Court lias been granted bv Justice Lamar iu the case of Leo M. Frank, of Atlanta, Ga.
