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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Preparation for the eventual evacuation of Naco Sonoro, was begun by Gen. Benjamin HIU. who plans to take his Carranzista force to Agua Priet opposite Douglas. Ariz. This Is in accordance with the border peace plan promised by Brig.-Gen. Ilii"h L. Scott, ch ef of staff of the United Slater army. . wonl t0 C01m from General Mavtorena, the iliista leader. Hill expects to consolidate with the rest of his troops, at Agua Prieta, but Governor Maytorena has placed outposts along the border east of Naco to prevent Hills movement until peace plans are accepted. Seven thousand troops of Gen. Carranzas forces declared yesterday for Gen. Villa at Topic, in the state of that name, on the west coast of Mexico. Foreigners at San Bias and Tepic have taken refuge aboard the United States supply ship Glacier. Rear Admiral Howard, in command of the Pacific fleet, on receipt of the news, ordered the gunboat Annapolis by wireless to San Bias, but no trouble is expected. Forty-four state prisoners, including ten serving life sentences for murder, have just been granted clemency by Gov. Cole Blease of South Carolina, making a total of 1.4SS that Governor Blease has liberated In the last four years. One or the life term prisoners was pardoned and the otiier nine paroled. Twenty-three of the prisoners, in all, were serving sentences for homicide. Taking advantage of the opening of the Panama canal, Frederick Olsen, one of Norways greatest ship owners, has contracted for three 10,000 ton freight steamers, which will begin service early in 1910 between Norway and ports 011 the west coast of the United States. Pending the completion of these new ships, some older Olsen vessels will be pressed into service. The three-masted schooner Warren Adams, which sailed December 21 from Charleston, S. C, for Phila-dolplua with lumber, was wrecked by a gale Christmas day and abandoned in a sinking condition December 27, according to her crew of seven rescued by the Norwegian steamer Joseph J. Cuneo from Kingston and landed at New York yesterday. The contents of the New York residence of thi late J. Pierpont Morgan have a valuation of ,000,-914, according to the appraisal of a deputv state appraiser. The Morgan library is valued at 53.-745. Silverware found in the vault oT the residence is appraised at 05,551 and "miscellaneous jewels" at 1914.sh0,755. President Wilson confirmed statements that the United States had advised the Gutierrez government in Mexico to grant a general amnesty to iolitical prisoners. He told callers that he belived the number of executions bad not been large, and that the United States was anxious that they be eliminated entirely. The killing of Waller Smith and the wounding or Charles Dorsch, American hunters, by Canadian soldiers on the Niagara river near Fort Erie, was unintentional, according to information gathered bv the military authorities and forwarded to Ottawa. President Wilson, referring to the American note to Great Britain insisting on better treatment for American commerce, declared that large damages eventually would have to be paid by England for unlawful detention of American cargoes. Soon after the beginning of the- new year big business and little business will pass under the supervision and regulation of the federal trade coin-mission, the members of which President Wilson expects to appoint this week. Austria-Hungary will require further assurances " that money she pays out to redeem her 4U. per cent, notes expiring January 1 next, will not in any manner be diverted to citizens of countries with which she is at war. Captain Oman, commanding the armored cruiser North Carolina at Beirut, Syria, informs the navv department that it was a Russian cruiser and not ai: American vessel which recently threatened to bombard Tripoli. Secretary Redfield told President Wilson and the cabinet yesterday that exiorts from -the United States during Deecmlier, until Dec. 2G, exceeded the imiKH-ts by S,0C0,OCO. Sau Francisco has begun excavation of a ,372,000 tunnel under Twin Peaks, to add to the available residential area" of the city. It will be 12,000 feet long. , A great gale and snowstorm swept over the larger part of Great Britain and Ireland .Monday night, resulting in considerable loss of life and much damage. Miitualization of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company has been indorsed by the policy holders.
