THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1900. FORTHEGOEBELITES Democratic Witnesses Before . Kentucky Contest Board. A DECISION AGAINST TAYLOR irj-nn, at a. Bananet, Advised Ac- aulcscence in the Legislature's Decision. were reduced to ruins, the whole surround ing district was shaken and many houses were badly damaged. Several -.odles have been recovered from beneath the ruins. In addition, several persons were injured and taken to the hospital. The detonations were heard as far as this city, whence surgeons were dispatched to the scene of the disaster. Jimenes and the French Admiral. SANTO DOMINGO. Jan. 16. After the settlement of the Bosimare - Caccavelll claim. Admiral Richard, of the French navy, dined with iresiaent Jne". II B ' TWO KILLED IN A BANK. Murder and Suicide at Georgia. Columbus, FRANKFORT. Ky.. Jan. 16.-The con test board reconvened at 9 o'clock tnis morning, and the examination of witnesses was resumed. Judge Fontaine Fox was the first wit ness called. Mr. Kohn asked him regard ing incendiary publications in antl-Goebel newspapers prior to the election. Colonel Breckinridge objected, on the Erouni that the newspapers themselves would be tje only competent evidence on this point The objection was sustained. on tne point as to the military at the polls. Judge Fox declared that several thousand voters remained away on that account. Judge Fox supported GoebeL S J. Baldrick testified that he had asked Judge Toney for time on election day to send for the democratic attorneys to resist the motion for an Injunction to compel the admission to the polls of Brown inspectors, but that Toney refused .., ovA o -few minutes, and at once signed the order of injunction; that he had voted, but his vote was not counted as his precinct, which gave Goebel 112 majority, was thrown out. He knew of no one personally who had been kept from voting by soldiers. John H. Page, clerk of the Jefferson circuit court, testified that the petition for injunction before Judge Toney was filed at 11:15 A. M. election day, and under Judge Toney's decision the first writs were . aa ntmrtM intr. He identified tne papers filed in all the injunction suits elec- J tion day in nls omce. The committee adjourned at 11:30 A. M. until tomorrow at 2 P. M. ... The court of appeals rendered a decision nullifying Governor Taylor's appointments of McKeys and Cochran as election com anissloners. enjoining: them from acting, end sustaining the democratic commis sioners, loyntz, Fulton and Yontz. These commissioners will try the contests In the cases of minor state officers. The decis ion was made on strict party lines. Judges Juffy, Burnam and Durille dissenfng. The election of J. C. S. Blackburn as senator was duplicated this afternoon in tooth houses, this action being taken on account of a question among lawyers as to whether, the election last Tuesday was legal. The proceedings and vote were practically the same as those on the former ballot. Hon. W. J. Bryan was banqueted by fh democrats of the legislature tonight. The banquet was also a celebration of the election of Senator Blackburn. Ex-Governor James B. McCready presided as toast master. In his speech. Colonel Bryan t-iaid he came not to be banqueted, but to rejoice with the democrats over Black burn's election. However much he might he regarded as a repudiatlonist on the money question, nobody should say he re pudiated Blackburn. On the subject of the Kentucky contests, he said he had neither advised for nor against the con tests, regarding- this as a matter to be settled wholly by the members of the leg islature. He referred to the Tllden-Hayes electoral commission, and called attention to the fact that the democrats of the country acquiesced in It, though Its decis ion was reached by a party vote. The de cision of these contests, he said, should lltern-ls e -ajquSesced in, no "matter to i legislature. Senator Gear Re-Elected. DES MOINES, la., Jan. 16. United States Senator John H. Gear was formally elected today in the legislature to succeeo. liimself in the senate. The house stood CI and the senate 34 for Gear, while Fred "White (democrat) received 12 votes In the senate and 19 in the house. Another vote will be taken tomorrow in joint assembly. COLUMBUS, Jan. 16. Captain J. W. Murphy, of the Third National bank, shot and instantly killed Teller P. L. Schutze today and then committed suicide. The murder and suicide occurred while the bank was full of customers and the run VERY COSTLY COLLISION GERMAN BARK MARGRETHA NEARj LY SUTK BY THE MAGDALENE. LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION. Third Annual Convention Meets ct Fort "Worth. FORT "WORTH, Tex., Jan. 16. The third annual convention of the National Live stock Association of America began heTe today "with a large attendance of dele gates. After an address of welcome, tne annual address of the president was deliv ered by, Professor Springer. At the con clusion of the president's address. Sec retary Martin read the annual report of the extSJutive committee. The attendance is estimated at nearly 5000. Robert H. "West, .ex-president of the Cin cinnati Commercial dub.-inirociuced a res olution asking OTva"modIficatIon of the quarantine restrictions, and asked that a committee be appointed to lay the matter "before the secretary of agriculture. This afternoon five-minute talks on the condi tion of the livestock Industry in the United States were made by delegates from 36 states and territories. The question of learng arid lands will cause considerable favorable and adverse discussion, tnose who oppose the project fear that the lands may get into politics If they are leased. The Chicago terminal charges on cattle shipments fs not likely to cut as prominent a fijTure -as last year, as the matter Is In a fair way of satisfactory settlement. Tbe executive committee this morning laid on the table a letter and resolution from Susan B. Anthony bearing on woman's suffrage. A resolution was offered by T. "W. Tom llnson, of Illinois, asking the convention to indorse the senate bill to empower the interstate commerce commission to correct the unjust discriminations of railroads, and to empower the commission to fix maximum and minimum rates. It was re ferred to a committee. Five-minute papers on the condition of the llv estock industry in the various states and territories "w ere read by some 20 dele-sates. GERMAN NAVAL BILL. Submitted to the Federal Council and Then to the Reiehstasr. BERLIN. Jan. 16. The bill providing for an Increase in the German navy has been submitted to the federal council. The bill reached the bundesrath today. Its contents are substantially proposals, as recently foreshadowed, to double the mivat 3rengh of Germany, as well as to fix it legally. In the rcichstag today an interpellation signed by Herr Voeller, national liberal, and all the -members of the relchstag, ex cept the social democrats and Independ ents, was Introduced. It was as follows: ""What steps has the federal government taken in regard to the selzu.e of German ships by agents of the English govern ment?" Russian Church. Collapsed. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 16. A church collapsed today during the celebration of a mass, in Maloousene township, Sumara district. Nineteen persons were killed and 68 wounded. Lord Xorthcotc of Exeter. LONDON, Jan. 16. Governor Stanley Northcotc, of Bombay, whowas created a peer at the beginning of the present year, has assumed the title of Lord Northcote of Exeter. Draaxttlte Factory Burned. TURIN. Jan. 16. A dynamite factory at Avigllano. 14 miles from nere, expioaec corps of clerks. Captain Murphy, who did the snooting, was one of the most prominent business men of the city for a number of years but recently he had been in ill-health and he had suffered two strokes of paralysis. It is believed he was temporarily Insane when the shooting was done, as he and Schutze had long been the closest friends, having been associated with each other in the business affairs of the bank. The evidence before the coroner's jury this afternoon shows that Murphy placed the pistol close to the temple of Mr. Rrhntr.A and fired. He then placed the pistol In his own mouth and fired, both balls penetrating the brain. Captain Mur phy was found lying by the side of the wall, several feet from his private desk. The blood was streaming from his mouth and he was dead. Schutze was sitting in the chair he occupied when the shot was fired. His head was lying far back, and from a frightful hole in his right temple the blood was running to the floor. THE MOLINEUX TRIAL. Testimony Relating: to Barnet "Was Ruled Out. NEW YORK, Jan. 16. In the trial o Roland B. Molineux, the prosecution to day continued its efforts to show a mo tive for the poisoning of Henry C. Bar net by Molineux. Recorder Goff threw out the evidence, declaring that the Bar net case had nothing to do with the pres ent trial. Andre Bustanoby, superintendent of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club, said that Molineux had ordered the goods men tioned in certain bills sent to "Miss Blanche Chesebrough," at 251 "West Seventy-fifth street. One of the bills called for whisky. It was at this house that Molineux Is alleged to have lived with Miss Chesebrough before they were married. Minnie Befcts, the servant in Mrs. Bel linger's house, 257 "West End avenue, who testified yesterday, was then recalled. It was at this house that Blanche Chese brough lived after she had left the house on "West Seventy-fifth street, and the prosecution was endeavoring to prove that Barnet visited her in ner new nome, xuus arousing Molineux' jealousy and hatred. The recorder, however, ruled out the tes timony, saying: "The court entirely disregards the con tention that the showing of a motive in the Barnet case shows a motive In tne Cornish case, and I Instruct the jury to disregard the testimony on that point." The prosecution went back to the Ad ams case, calling Joseph J. Koch, pro prietor of a private letter-box agency on Broadway, who positively identified Mol ineux as the man who Inquired about a letter box, December 12, 1898. Later a box was hired by a man who gave the name of H. Cornish, but who, witness declared positively, was not Harry Cornish. The prosecution 'seeks "to prove that the lessee of the box was Molineux, and that he used it for obtaining patent medicines from manufacturers. TEXAS FEUD. Another Tragedy In the Tovrnsend Reese War. AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 16. At Bastrup, Tex., last evening, Arthur Burford, son of Sheriff Burford, of Colorado county, Tex., was instantlv killed and "William Clements, a deputy, mortally wounded. A bystander whose name was not learned was slightly wounded. "Walter Reee, James Coleman and Thomas Daniel are in jail at Bastrup as principals in the shooting, with a num ber of other men, names not learned, as accessaries. All participants In the tragedy were In Bastrup ih connection with a murder caso in change of venue In Colorado county. J. W. Townsend Is accused of having killed his uncle. ex-Sheriff Reese, about three years ago, at Coloumbus. A brother of ex-Sheriff Reese was also murdered a short time afterward. The case against Townsend for the killing of ex-Sherlir Reese was being heard and more than 200 residents of Coluombus'had come to attend court Shortly after court adjourned the shoot ing took place. Arthur Burford and Dep uty Sheriff Clements weTe walking along Main street and were fired on from a bulldlnr, and fell to the sidewalk, unable to draw their weapons. The tragedy is another chapter in the worst feud ever known in Texas. The Townsends and "Reeses 20 years ago both claimed owner- J ship of an unbranded steer. Since then more than $100,000 has been spent In law suits and more than 200 men have lost their lives because of the steer. Damaged to the Extent of Several Thousand Dollars Flffy-Cent "Wheat Cargo. The German bark Magdalene celebrated her deoarture from port with a wild ram page around the harbor. Beginning Mon day night, while going Into the stream In charge of Pilot Emken, she butted the steamer R. R. Thompson into the wharf boat at Alblna, smashing a cylinder tim ber," and disabling the boat so that she had to go to the boneyard for repairs. "With the Thompson laid up, the more powerful Hassalo was substituted, and in charge of Pilot Ferchen, the big four master got under way again yesterday morning. There is a heavy current run ning in the "Willamette, and in order to swing the big ship, and point her down stream, Pilot Ferchen steered her up along- the east bank of the river, until eeeeoe9seees Best of Them AH.. ALBANT, Or., Jan. 14. (To the Editor.) Here is what a "live" East ern business man thinks of the New Year's edition of The Oregonlan. I cent quite a number of copies East, and they are all of the same opinion Very truly yours, E. L. KING. HUNTINGTON, "W. Va., Jan. 8, 1D00. Mr. Ernest itlng, Albany, Or.: I must write and thank you for the Oregon paper, just received. The Ore Eordan Is superb, and I certainly will enjoy It. I am ehowlngr It In my etore today, as aft eye-opener to the people here. "We can hardly believe our eyes to see. to know, such a news paper Is gotten up in the "Wild and "Woolly "West." The fact Is, it Is thla year, as it was last, the finest and best of. any of tae newspapers, East, "West; North or South. " - S. E. McCOT. ooiatt Sirs. Brunot's Murderer Convicted. ST. LOUIS. Jan. 16. A special to the Post-Dispatch from Taylorvllle, 111., says: Fred Sitley was today convicted of com plicity In the murder of Mrs. Jane Bru not, near Paris, last summer, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. HiB counsel has made a motion for a new trial. Henry Brunot a nephew of the murdered woman, has also been sentenced to prison for life. Neither of the youths Is over 19 years of age. Each accused the other of the crime of actual murder. The crime was committed to cover up forgeries by the young men and to secure additional, money and property owned by Mrs. Brunot. COLONELRANDALL'S COMMAND today with the result that live buildings I Grove's signature la on each box. 25c Vancouver "Will Be the Temporary Headquarters, "WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-Colonel G." M. Randall, Eighth Infantry, arrived In this city today from Havana and reported at the war department for duty under orders assigning him to the command of the newly created military department of Alaska. In view of the Importance of the Alaska department. It has been de cided to promote Colone'l Randall to be brigadier-general and to give him a suffi cient military force and every facility for "the execution of the policy of the government In the extreme Northwest possessions. The military strength in Alaska will be Increased by a regiment of Infantry, the selection of which will be determined later, and Colonel Randall will establish temporary headquarters at Vancouver barracks, "Washington, until navigation opens and climatic conditions permit, an estiblishment of permanent headquarters at St. Michael, Alaska. i r. Q t "White House Rnblilts. Chicago Chronicle. Rabbits have a warren In the grounds of the White House. They are full-sized and multiply rapidly. What becomes of the surplus is not known, as it Is an un written law of the "White House that they are not to be chased or molested. This is one reason why there are no dogs at the White House. o TO CURB LA GRIPPE IN TWO DAYS Take I-axatlvp Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drug- Klsts refund tne meney it it talis to cure. k. v. abreast of Victoria dock, and then put her wheel hard over, and threw her bow out in the stream. The Hassalo mean while was backing full stroke, but she had given too great an impetus to the big Magdalene with her 4800 tons of car--go, and as soon as the current caught the ship she was carried across the river at terrific speed. The German ship Margretha, which has just finished discharging a cargo at Co lumbia No. 1, was lying alongside tne dock, with ballast logs breasting her out a few feet from the piles. Had she been lying against the solid dock, or had there been any cargo aboard to steady her or keep her down in the water, she would now be lying at the bottom of the river. As it was, the Magdalene struck her fair on, causing her to careen until her yard struck the roof of the dock. This grad ual escape, eased the force of the blow, and checked the headway of her mam moth assailant, but not sufficiently to pre vent the bow of the Magdalene cutting through her bulwarks and plates, from the top of the rail down below the main deck. Below the deck, beams and string erswere broken, as though they were made of paper. The full extent of the damage had not been reduced to figures yesterday, but as 50 feet of bulwarks and two plates must be renewed in addition to the broken beams and stringers, the to tal cost of repairs is expected "to aggre gate from J6000 to $8000. The Magdalene drew out of the mus3 with the loss of a figurehead, and with some of her headgear carried away Ap parently not satisfied with the damage she had already wrought, she drifted down and got foul of the Alblna ferry cable, and after about an hour of back ing and filling, cleared herself, and dropped anchor in the stream. An Inves tigation will probably be called for to fix the blame for the disaster. ' THE NEW HYSON. China Mutual's Latest Ship Is One of the Finest Afloat. But few steamships which have visited Portland ever attracted more attention than the China Mutual Steam Navigation Company's Hyson. This was the first of the big steamers to load wheat at Port land, and so successful was her trip to Portland that her owners sent many, ves sels here afterward. The Hyson came here in command of Captain John Hogg, senior commander in the line, and on his arrival in England he was detailed to su perintend the construction of two new steamers for the company. These ves sels were the Ping Suey and the Yangtse, both 9000-ton steamers, but built under Captain Hogg's instructions on models which will admit of their loading here as easily as did the other steamers of the line. Before these big steamers were completed, the Hyson, which visited Port land, was sold at a big figure, and the company at once commenced work on another steamer to take her place and bear her name. This steamer has just been completed, and Is now en route from Liverpool to Japan, in command of Cap tain John Hogg. According to the Liver pool Journal of Commerce, she Is one of the finest cargo steamers that has ever left the port. She is 465 feet over all, 53 feet beam and 34 feet depth of hold, her net register being 4232 tons, and dead weight carrying capacity 9200 tons, gross measured capacity 13,416 tons. The Hyson is propelled by a single screw, worked by a pair of ordinary In verted triple expansion direct-acting en gines. The cylinders measure 2$ 49 and 78 Inches diameter, respectively, having a piston stroke of 60 inches, and working at a pressure of ISO pounds per square inch. A speed of 13.37 knots was made on the official trials on the Clyde. The auxiliary engines comprise patent feed pumps, feed heaters, and feed 'filters; evaporators, condensing apparatus, and ballast and circulating pumps, and fan engine, the boilers being provided with forced draught on the open stokehold principle. The engines are lubricated by patent lubricators. The funnel is a double one, the space between the Inner and outer stacks serving to extract the hot air and gases from below. A means of escape from the shaft tunnel Is provided by a 22-Inch ventilator right aft commu nicating with the poop deck, and fitted with bar steps. Water ballast Is carried In the cellular double bottom, which takes 1607 tons, Including two side tanks under the boiler space for trimming purposes. The peaks are also fitted for vater bal last. A deep tank capable of holding 9S5 tons of water is situate In No. 5 hold. The bunkering capacity is 89,010 cubic feet, the side bunkers accommodating 704 tone and the cross hold 1011 tons of coal. but was unable to render her any aid,' whereupon, It is alleged, the Thompson brought news of her condition to Neah bay. The tug Tyee, belonging to the com plainant, was at that time bound out, with the bark Abble Palmer in tow, but, it Is claimed, dropped her tow ana at once went to the assistance of the Elm Branch. The libel, alleges that upon the arrival of the Tyee on the scene the Elm Branch at first declined her assistance, on the ground that the steamship Washtenaw would aid her. The hawser connecting the Washtenaw and the Elm Branch broke, however, and then It Is alleged that the Elm Branch asked the Tyee to assist her. It Is alleged that the Tyee brought her safely into Port Townsend. The tugboat company alleges that the Elm Branch's owners have refused to al low reasonable salvage for the assistance rendered, and that J50.000 is a reasonable amount to be awarded. THE MYSTERIOUS WRECK. Belief That It May Have Been the Helgoland. BOSTON, Jan. 16. The Chamber of Commerce this afternoon issued a bullet in, saying that part of a ship's boat marked Helgoland has been picked up off Cape Pine, N. F., which leads to the hpHef that the steamer wrecked at St. Mary's bay on Thursday last Is the Ger man tank steamer Helgoland, Captain von Bittern, which sailed from Philadel phia, January 5, for Bergen, Norway. The Helgoland was built at .Newcastle, England, in 1890, and registers 1563 tons. She was owned by the Xleutsche-American Petroleum Company. Proof Not Convincing. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16. The agents of the tank steamer Helgoland say that the fact that a portion of a ship's boat marked Helgoland was picked up off Cape Pine, N. F., is not convincing proof thnt thft shin wrecked last Thurs day is really the Helgoland. The wrecked steamship Is described as having two masts and her funnel amidships, whereas the Helgoland carries three masts and her funnel Is aft. The Helgoland has a cargo of 1,100,000 gallons of refined pe troleum, valued at $75,000. Her crew, all told, consists of 35 men, all of whom are GermanB. FIFTY-CENT WHEAT. British Ship Clackmannanshire Gets Away "With the First at, That. Fifty-cent wheat, much feared, but long expected, was In evidence on the manifest of the British ship Clackmannanshire, which cleared at the custom-house yester day, by Kerr, Glfford & Co. The vessel's cargo was principally made up of barley, there being 89,425 bushels of that cereal aboard, valued at ?3S,635, Of the wheat there was 15,340 bushels, valued at $7670. It has been a long time since 60-cent wheat was in evidence in this port, but from present indications, there will be more than one cargo of it sent out of here, Another of the grain fleet, the Alterskamp, finished yesterday, ana win clear today. She nas aboard a full cargo of wheat. The Criffel started down for Astoria, and the Galena arrived down. The Chile arrived in at Astoria, and the Hybn crossed out. IFS REPORr COMPLETED PHILIPPINE COMMISSION ENDS ITS LABORS. First Volume Will Be Laid Before Congress Within a Weelc General Wheeler to Come Home. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. The Philip pine commission today completed Its re port and 'dispatched it to the public printer. Proofs of the first section are expected tomorrow, and there Is every reason to believe that the first volume at least can be laid before congress within a week. Because of the pendency of the Philippine question just now before con gress, It is regarded as desirable by the commission that this material be submit ted at the earliest possible 'moment. Sunk on Japanese Coast. SEATTLE, Jan. 16. Oriental newspapers received by the steamship Rlojun Maru contain news of the loss of the British ship St. Helens, with the subsequent drowning of several of the crew. She en countered a typhoon late in December off the Japanese coast and was sunk. Her crew took to the boats and were at sea 15 days, during which one of the boats containing several sailors was lost. The St. Helens waa owned by the Petroleum Shipping Company,-of London. She was a 4700 ton yessel, commanded by Captain W. H. Luckunu' - The jinking- of the schooner Velocity and the death by suicide of her master, Cap tain R. Martin, Is also reported. The Velocity was an English craft of 516 tons. Tncoma Liner's Mishap. Merchants' exchange, advices from Nag asaki by way of London yesterday an nounced that the prospects for raising the British steamship Energla, previously re ported a& sunk In the China seas while en route from Tacoma to Hong Kong, were good, as soon as the cargo had been discharged. Vessels which were dis patched to assist In raising the steamer returned on account of rough weather. Lost the Race. GALLAPOLIS, O., Jan. 16. The fine passenger steamer Ludlngton, owned by the Carr line, of Charleston, W. Va., while racing with the opposition packet Argand, struck the lock wall near Scary, breaking In twain and sinking Immediate ly. The Argand went to her assistance and took off the passengers and crew. The steamer will probably be a total wreck. Schooner Launched at Hoquiam. HOQUIAM, Wash., Jan. 16. The steam schooner Robert Dollar was successfully launched here at noon yesterday. Her length Is 208 feet, beam 38 feet and depth of hold 14 feet. The cost of her, com plete, Is $70,000. She has two water-tube boilers, of 600 horsepower, and triple-expansion engines. She will carry 800,000 feet of lumber. Two Overdue. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 16. Fifteen per cent reinsurance is now offered on the British ship Reliance, which Is 184 days out from Hamburg, bound for this port. The British ship Annie Thomas is also causing some anxiety to her owners and the English underwriters. She is out from Antwerp for Acapulco 165 days. THE JELM BRANCH LIBEL. Bnsis for the Large Claim Agninrt the Steamer. Mention was made In yesterday's Ore gonlan of the J50.000 salvage claim made by the Puget Sound Tugboat Company. The particulars of the complaint as set forth by the libel are that the Elm Branch was boundfrom Nagasaki, Japan, to Portland, Or., and on January 10, while off the cape, broke her tall shaft, render ing her helpless and incapable of being navirrntorJ Tt- 13 nllptrprl that the steamer Elihu Thompson spoke her on January 11, j San Francisco. Domestic and Foreign Ports. ASTORIA, Jan. 16. Arrived German ship Chile, 42 days from Nagasaki. Ar rived down at 1:30 P. M. British ship Ga lena. Sailed at 3:50 P. M. German bark Hyon, for Queenstown or. Falmouth for orders. Condition of the bar at 5 P. M., obscured; wind south. San Francisco, Jan. 16. Sailed Schoon ers Monterey and Webfoot, for Coos bay. Arrived Steamer Elihu Thomson, for Oyster bay. Sailed Steamer Queen Vic iorla; steamer Mattewan. for Comox. Coos Bay Jan. 15 Barbound Steamers Areata and Empire. Port Townsend Sailed Jan. 15 Bark James Nesmlth, for Delagoa bay. Tacoma Sailed 14 British steamer Sikh, for Hong Kong. Limerick Arrived Jan. 15 British ship Muskoka, from Oregon. Yokohama Arrived Jan. 15 British steamer Empress of India, from Vancou ver. Altoona Sailed Jan. 12 German ship Arethusa, for Seattle. Melbourne, Jan. 16. Arrived Bark Ore gon, from Port Townsend. Port Pirie Arrived prior to Jan. 16 Hawaiian ship Star of Italy, from Port Kobe Arrived Jan. 13 Steamer Tacoma, from Tncoma. Boulogne, Jan. 16. Sailed Palatio, from Hamburg for New York. Liverpool, Jan. 16. Sailed Ultonla, for New York. Kobe, Jan. 13. Arrived Tacoma, from Tacoma, for Hong Kong. Manila Arrived Jan. 14 Victoria, irom San Francisco. Naples, Jan. 16. Arrived Fuerst Bis marck, from New York, and proceeded for Genoa. . New York, Jan 16. Arrived Amster dam, from Rotterdam; Augusta Victoria, from Naples. Sailed Bremen, for South ampton; Marquette, for London. Hoquiam, Wash. Arrived Jan. 15 Schooner Repeat, from San Francisco for Hoquiam; schooner Roy Ray, from San Francisco for Coos bay, out 36 days, could not get in at Coos bay, and came here for orders. Sailed Steamer Newburg, from Hoaulam for San Francisco; steamer South Coast, from Aberdeen for A BATTLE "IN THE CLOUDS. The Engagement With Filipinos In Which Pilar Was Killed. MANILA, Dec. 12, via San Francisco, Jan. 16. The Associated Press correspon dent with March's battalion, pursuing Agulnaldo through the mountains which Spanish soldiers and writers have said were Impassable to white men, sends from Bontoc the following account of the fight of December 2, wherein General Gregorlo pilar was killed: "The entire march of March's battalion of the Thirty-third Infantry from Candon to Cervantes has been a remarkable ex ploit. With four depleted companies of Cunningham's handful of scouts, the com mand left Young's headquarters at Can don on the afternoon of November SO, March having received information on his iourney up the coast which led to the belief that Agulnaldo had left the coast road at Candon for the mountains instead of going further north, as had been supposed. Thi3 information was confirmed by General Young, who re mained at Candon with one troop of the Third cavalry, sent two other troops to occupy Santiago and then ordered March's battalion Into the mountains after Agulnaldo. The men had only 140 rounds of ammunition, no rations and had to live on the country. "The four companies were commanded by Captains Jenklnson and Davles and Lieutenants Tompkins and White. After two days' hard climbing, the command reached a point two miles beyond the village of Llngal, where the fight oc curred. There was a snake-like trail leading up the precipitous mountain side, and half way up the insurgents had con structed trenches, from which they could pour a deadly fire down on the troops advancing along the lower reaches of the trail or In the valley below. Cunning ham's scouts, with Davles' company, were in the advance, and were fired upon first. Jenkinson's Company went to their support, and after the exchange' of a few shots, these troops waited in the shelter of a hill. "The enemy continued their fire, and Jenklnson ordered a charge around a bend in the trail. Captain Cunningham and Lieutenant McClelland led the charge, and as the men rushed around the bend they came Into full view of the insurgents 200 yards above, who opened a well di rected fire from trenches and from behind rocks and trees. Half a dozen of Jen kinson's men fell killed or wounded with in a few feet of each other, some hit In several places. Their comrades dragged them behind shelter, and March with the remainder of the battalion coming up, the troops sought what shelter they could, while March sent 12 sharpshooters to the top of a knoll on the opposite side of the valley, overlooking the trenches. These men made the ascent ot tne Knon unaer heavy fire, but when they reached the top their well-directed shots soon had the ef fect of making the Insurgents careful not to expose themselves. "March then directed Tompkins to exe cute a flank movement with his company by climbing the side of a hill a thousand feet high on the Insurgents' left. Tomp kins, with Lieutenant True and 50 men, made the ascent of the hill by dragging themselves up with the aid of bushes and bunches of grass, -and reaching the rocks above, found several insurgents there, who fired on them, but were soon put to flight. Tompkins then took a position overlooking the entire rebel force, and took them completely by surprise, as they evidently never supposed that the Americans could climb an almost verti cal hill and flank them out of their posi tion. The company on the hill and the sharpshooters on the knoll poured In a murderous fire, and at the same time March, with three companies below, charged up the hill shooting and yelling. The insurgents broke from behind the rocks and trenches and every other posi tion and fled up the trail and into the thick underbrush, and the fight was over. "Their force was not large, probably not over 200, but only 25 passed in retreat over the trail through Auguagul to Cer vantes. The remainder were killed or wounded or escaped into the brush. Pilar's body was found In the road, where his men had been compelled to abandon it. The bodies of six others, including a lieutenant, were found, but this was only a small proportion of their loss, for a number were seen to fall from the rocks and mountain side into an Inaccessible abyss below, and bloody trails led In ev ery direction, showing where the dead and wounded had been carried into the brush. The American loss was two killed and nine wounded. "Part of the battle was fought in the cloUds, as a heavy mist settled over the mountains, concealing the trail. The two American dead were burled where " they fell, and the remainder of the column moved on In search of the hiding place of the Filipino refugee president." WOMEN" and Women Only, especially mothers, are moat competent to appreciate the purity, sweetness, and delicacy of Cutictjra Soap and to discover new uses for it daily. 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All parts of the great buildings the floors, architrave, and even the layers of stone that constitute the main walls have been shown to conform to a like principle, and some portions to be curved both In a ver tical and in a horizontal manner. Import ant as was this discovery, it does not stand alone. Mr. Ruskin has found that delib erate divergencies of a somewhat similar kind exist in the old Gothic buildings of "Venice, and he considers that they were introduced so as to avoid a too obvious precision, as does nature, even In her most symmetrical creations the two slde3 of the human face, for example. "Unfortu nately, Mr. Ruskin wrote In Ignorance of Mr. Penrose's precise measurements and surveys, and only uses the facts, he other wise marshals so well, to show that Gothic architecture, being alone susceptible of such refinements, Is superior to classical architecture. He seems to be In no way aware that such principles could be and were applied to classical buildings long be fore pointed architecture was heard of. though they are now applied to neither of these, nor to any other.Mr. Penrose being as was intended by his employers more ot a scientist and a mathematician than a poet or a theorist, wanders no further Into the tempting labyrinths or theory than to suggest that these "irregularities" were "perhaps" introduced because the design ers fancied a curved line would look more straight at a distance than would a really straight one. As the straight lines In our English buildings look quite straight. It seems hard to suppose that the old Greek artists formed for themselves so strange an illusion. a A Xccesanry Outlay. New York Weekly. Husband Mercy 'on usl Where did you get this set of Royal Worcester china? Wife I bought it. Husband Bought it! Why did you buy such ruinously expensive ware? 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