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WARS CONSEQUENCE.
Sensational Report Of the Cap
ture of Sofia.
! MOONLIGHT FIGHT.
The Bulgarians and Servians Believed
to Have Been Engaged in
Fight Last Night.

LONDON, November r21.-Dispatches from
Stivnitza state that only q few shots were
exchanged between the Servians and Bull
garians at the front yesterday. Prince Al
exander intends to attack the Ssrvian
forces at Dragoman to-day if the weather
permits. Both sides are constantly hurry
ing reinforcements to the front. The battle
field is still strewn with unattended dying
and dead soldiers. The medical and am
bulance corps OF both armies are wholly
inadequate to meet their present wants, and
many OF the wounded who are unable to
help themselves are LETT to perish where
they fall.
REPORTED CAPTURE OF SOFIA.
BELGRADE, November 21.-Intense ex-
element prevails here owing to the report
that Colonel Topalovitch cut of the re-
treat of the BuIgarians from Slivnitza,
while Colonel Benitzky, with the Shumadia
division, entered Sofia unopposed.
HEAVY FIGHTING,
LONDON, November 21.-Advices from
Tsaribrod state that Colonels
Benitzky and Topalovitch yester.
day effected junction of their forces
and made joint attack upon the Bulga.
garians at Stivnitza. The latter were driv'
en- from their positions after desperate
fight. At O'Clock last evening the two
armies were still engaged. An aide-de-camp
of King Milan was wounded during the
fight. Three other Servian officers were
killed and six wounded. A dispatch from
Belgrade, dated midnight, says it is be-
lieve6 the fighting is still going on by moon
light. The reported capture OF Sofia il
untrue.
KING MILAN TOO FAST.
ST. PETERSBURG, November 21.- The
Journal de st. Petersburg, in an editorial
to-day says: Servia has no reason to con-
tinue the campaign now that Prince Alex
ander has announced that he will evacuate
Eastern Roumelia. If King Milan persists
in going to Sofia it will cost him more than
he foresaw. The Powers, as speech oil
Emperor William at the opening Of
the Reichstag on Thursday indicated,
have the right to secure respect fol
the treaties relating to the Balkan states.
THE BALKAN CONFERENCE.
CoNsrANTlNoPLE, November 21.-Tht
Balkan conference sat for four hours to
day. It is not known what action wal
taken. The statement is made that thu
Seryian Government has announced it's in
tention of withdrawing the force from Bull
garia and of making no attempt to annex
that country when the treaty OF peace has
been concluded.
CELEBRATING THE VICTORY.
RusrcHuK, November 21.-The town wal
Illuminated tonight in honor OF the Bull
garian victory. A band OF Bulgarian stu
dents has arrived here from Odessa. They
will volunteer their services in the Bulgarian
army. Many Russians are anxious to joir
the Bulgarian troops, but they are pre-
vented by their Government from SO doing
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San Francisco Water Front.

SAN FRANCISCO, November 22. = Mrs.
Isabelle Francahu to-day instituted suit
against the city OF San Francisco to have
the defendant declared Il trustee for her OF
d tract of land included between Franklin,
Lyon and Union streets and the water
front. which comprises 100 squares OF out
side city land, valued atabout 80 100000.
She claims that the tract mentioned was
granted her father Gabriel Castro, by the
Alcade of the old Pueblo OF Yerba Buena i'll
1886. The title to Yerba Buena, including
this tract, was recently made good to the
city by the United States. The plaintiff
claims prior title under the grant made her
father by the Mexican Government. a
large portion of this property is now occu-
pied by persons who first pre-empted and
now hold quit claim title from the city.
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Maurice Vignaux is the acknowledged
billiard expert of all Europe. His style
of playing is different from that Of either OF
the Americans. He moves slowly around
the the table with his mind fixed intently
upon his work, apparently with but the
single thought of running up his score. lie
has visited this country twice before, once
when he won the national tournament in
Tammany Hall in IA over GARNER DAILY,
Slosson and Daniels. He was afterwards
beaten by Rudolph in match game, and
in similar contests he defeated beth Cyrille
and Joseph Dion. Before returning ne
nlayed in another tournament in April,
ISIS. with GARNER, the Dions, Ubassy,
Daly and Rudolph. Vignaux finished sec
ond in this event. GARNER winning. He
defeated Sexton in a match in Paris in
1876. and beat S1osson in 1880 in a match
for 1000 points of five nights play, 500
points to be played each evening. On one
of the nights in question Nlgnaux scored
500 points without giving Slosson chance
To score. In March, 1888, in Chicago, he
took second place in an S-inch balk-line
tournment with Schaefer, DAILY, Sexton,
Morris. Dion and Wallace. Three months
later he defeated Schafer at the balk-line
game in New York. and in November OF the
same year, at Paris, he defeated him at
the same game by score OF 5000 points
to 1850.
Jacob Schaeffer is called among those
who know him. 1.-THE Wizard" His manip'
ulation of the balls is simply wonderful
His style of playing is rapid and confident
He never studies over shot. He seems to
know lust how he will play before the balls
have stopped rolling. It is said OF him
that he can readily adapt himself to
almost any style of game. but that as
match player he is often lacking in Juds.
ment. Though frequently himself defeated
he has met and defeated all OF the noted
billiardists OF his time, and he is regarded
hv many as the superior in brilllancy OF
execution Of any player that ever lived.
Heis the favorite in betting in the coming
tournament. >.
George f. Slosson is the present balk-llne
champion of America. He has been two
Years a resident Of Chicago, where he keeps
room. He has been chiefly instrument al
in bringing about this tournament, which.
Il ia intended, shall decide the balk-llne
| cha mnionshlp of the world. He has ire
ouently met Schaeffer in matches. and has
Somewhat the best Of it in the number OF
victories. His style OF play is somewhat
similar to that of Schaeffer, his shots FOL
lowing each other at times with bewllderlng
| rapidity. His career as billlardlst mas
heen a remarkable one his record showing
| more brilliant and closel ly-contested VIC
| tories than do those OF either Visnaux or
| Schaeffer.
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The Austrian MISSION.

New YORK, November pa Washing
ton special says: Since the Kelley episode
our diplomatic relations with Austria have
been practically cut off. The Austrian
Minister, who has not been in this country
for some time, having been retained upon
the grounds that having been in diploma tic
service for forty-two years he is disquali-
fed for further service. This leaves the
mission vacant and the Austrian Govern
ment has signifed that it will remain so
until the United States sees fit to appoint
a Minister to succeed Kelley, whom they
rejected.
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A Heavy Lawsuit.

SAN FRANCISCO, November 22.-Martha
T. Hitchcock instituted suit to-day
against John H. Stanley and John H: Wise,
executors of the estate of Charles NJ. Hitch
cock, deceased, her husband, to recover
the rents accruing from the Brooklyn Hotel
property on Bush street, between Mont
gomery and Sansome, since 1852, which
aggregate about 100000. She claims
that the property 10 her private estate, and
also asks that the executors be ordered to
execute deed Of the property to her.
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BALK-LINE BILLIARDS.
A Glance at the Great TOurna-
ment at Chicago.
BOSSES OF THE CUE.
A Description Of the Difference Be-
tween the Ordinary Game and
the Balk-L.ine.
Special Correspondence of The MINER.

special Correspondence OF The MINER.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, November 16.-The most
important event in the history of billiards
in this country, perhaps in the world, is
the great match which was inaugurated in
this city on Monday, and in which the
three greatest living experts in the game,
George F. Slosson, Jacob Scaeffer and
Maurice Vignaux, met in a triangular
tournament at the 14-inch balk-line game.
The contest is for the entire net gate re-
celpts, special purses amounting to over
$4,000 and the balk-line championship of
the world.
The details OF the game and the score are
sent to you daily by wire, and they could
not well be supplemented, but a description
Of the game and brief sketch of the con-
testants would unquestionably be of in
terest.
The term "balk-line" needs little ex-
PLANTATION to those who have never seen
that kind OF game played. Players become
80 proficient at the old straight-rail or
three-ball carom game that by holding the
runs of from 500 tc 1900 points, as in
May, 1879, Schaeffer defea ted Slosson by
score Of 1000 to a.. From it's one
sided nature that style of game naturally
became uninteresting to the public and, in
order to hold public interest, more marked
restrictions were placed upon the players.
Benjamin Garno, of the New York Clipper,
struck the idea when he invented the balk-
line games, with the lines drawn eight
inches from the cushions, which was
adopted at a meeting OF experts held Feb
ruary IA, 1888. This style of game was
soon mastered and it became necessary to
increase the distance of the line from ::.'.
cushion, and the last professional tourLa-
ment which WAS held in New York in Auril
last, was played with the fourteen-inch
balk-lines.
THE BALK-LINE GAME.
The chalk lines are drawn upon the cloth,
fourteen inches from the cushion, extend
ing from end to end and from side to side
Of the table. forming eight distinct spaces,
as seen in the following cut. By the rules
of the game when the three balls are in
space but one point can be counted unless
the second shot shall drive at least one OF
the object balls across the line. II the OBJ
ject ball SO driven should return from the
may be scored with all the balls remaining
in space, but the second shot must again
drive an object ball across the line. Should
the two object balls roll together, however,
one upon each side OF the other, as seen in
the accompanying cut, they may be carried
as far in this position as the striker is
capable of taking them. In the open space
between all the lines, or with the balls in
the center of the table, he may make as
many points as he can, it not being neces-
sary to send the balls across the line in
such play. Thus it will be seen that open
table play, synonymous with brilliant and
difficult execution, must necessarily char
acterize the game from beginning to end:
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Good Freight Time.

VICTORIA, B. c., November 22.-Dis-
patches from the mainland state that the
first through freight train from the ATLANTIC
over the Canadian Pacific Railway will
reach Port Moody, Burrard Inlet, at noon
tomorrow. The steamer princess Louise
will bring the freight on to Victoria, arriv-
ing here at o'clock in the evening. The
freight left London on the 7th and Mon
treal on the 10Th instant, and will have
been only fifteen days to Victoria to-mor'
row night, having come through on passen-
oer Fl inn.
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cessor. The Southern Pacific Railroad is
giving, with tho State of California, a fruit
exhibit that will be the largest in the build
ing. Idaho and Wyoming both appear to
advantage. Dakota is improving her last
years exhibit. Nearly all the display that
Montana had here last year was retained,
and with this as q nucleus, with the many
additions new being made, she will be able
to present fine display, confined mainly
to her mining interests.
In the Art Gallery the creole exhibit is
fully arranged, forming one OF the most at
tractive features of the Exposition for
strangers interested in creole life and char.
acteristics. The collection is q large one,
rich in works OF art, in paintings and stat
uary, and still richer in historical relics
brought from France and Spain by the an.
cestors of the Louisiana creoles.
ADJUSTMENTS.
A striking feature on the grounds is the
number OF booths, stands and buildings,
and the amusements and enjoyments offered
visitors. The management last year re-
garded these as somewhat lowering to the
dignity of a great exposition; the present
management has pursued exactly the oppo'
site tact, and have concluded that the
American people like to be amused as well
as instructed, and thereis every amusement
mile race track is in splendid coalition.
The baseball season opened to day with q
meeting between the New York and St.Louis
clubs; there are roller coasters. merry-go'
rounds. swings, panoramas and enough
side shows of the kind to take several days
to see. The result is to give life and gaiety
to the scene and to make it look not unlike
one of those old England fairs, where there
was as much fun, sport and amusement as
business transacted. So far the attendance
has been almost wholly of New Orleans peo.
pie, as it is not expected to have much of a
rush or influx of visitors here until every
thing is in order.
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Caceres Knocked Out.

LIMA (via Galveston), November 21.-
Further details OF the engagement at Jauja
prove that it resulted in a complete tri'
umph for the Government forces. Over
500 OF General Caceres' troops were taken
prisoners, while the Governments loss Was
slight. Jauja is occupied by an expedi'
tionary force. The rebels destroyed Jhe
bridge at Huaripampa, over which they re-
treated.
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SHOT IN THE BACK.
The Cowardly Murder of an Ex-Mayor Of
st. Louis.

ST.. Louis, November 21.-Ex-Mayor j.
B. Bowman, OF East St. Louis, was assas
sinated in a cowardly manner lew feet
from his home at 3 o'clock last evening. He
was returning from Belleville, ILL.,, and was
walking home with a satchel in his hand.
Just before the shooting a man was seen
walking behind him. As Mr.. Bowman
reached his gate, the man walked up behind
and deliberately placed a revolver at the
back OF his neck and fired. Mr.. Bowman
fell and died instantly. When found five
minutes later the skin OF his neck was
powder burned. The murderer escaped,
and the police have no clue to his identity.
Mr.. Bowman was one OF the best known
politicians in southern illinois, and friend
of CONGRESSMAN Morrison.
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PARNELL'S CAMPAIGN.
His Enthusiastic Reception i'll All Parts
of Ireland.

DUBLIN, November 22.-Parnell presided
at conference OF sixty Nationalist candi-
dates for Parliament held here to-day. 1t
was decided to adopt III form election tao
tics, with the view OF avertlng liability
under the stringent Corrupt Practices act.
The Nationalists will employ few lawyers
to advise them, but will rely chiefly on vol
unteer counsel. They will also issue pla-
cards explaining the chief provisions OF the
Corrupt Practices act, so that the cause
shall not be given for petitions to set
aside the elections on tho cround OF intilni-
dations. Parn.! .,:au..irll the receipt OF
an ad litionai sum oi 5000 Tor the Par
liamentary fund. The announcement was
received with cheers, which were echoed by
the crowds that had assembled on the out
side of the building. After the meeting Par
nell found difficulty in reaching his car. The
crowd followed him for a mile, cheering un-
til exhausted. The enthusiasm displayed
by the Irish people over the election 's
phenominal.
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Ambushed and Killed. .

LITTLE ROCK, November 21.-A Texar-
kama, Arkansas, special says: Last night
Rit Barefield and his son William, Of
Austin, Texas, while riding home in a
wagon, were both shot dead by unknown
parties in ambush. The horses became
frightened, ran away, turned over the
wagon and threw the mangled bodies in the
road. Suspicion rests on Tobe Baroney,
convicted two years ago on their evidence
OF a postoffice robbery, and whose SEN
tence has just expired. He was arrested.
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REFORMED JUDAISM.
The Trouble Caused by the Recent Con-
vention in Pittsburg.

BALTIMORE, November 22.-Scrmons
were preached III this city yesterday ut the
various Jewish synagogues, denouncng the
action of the recent convention held at
Pittsburg and severely criticising their
published ideas on reformed judaism
Rev. DR.. Sold, pastor OF the Hanover
street synagogue, the most influential in
the city, was particularly severe in his
structures, and the official body has taken
action looking to severance oi its con-
nections with the American Hebrew con
gregation by which the Jewish cemetery at
Cincinnati is supported. There is a great
deal OF bitter feeling among both orthodox
and reformed Hebrews over the assertion
THAT the right of circumcision is relic OF
barbarism, and the idea OF Il personal God
is old -fas ashioned, and should be abolished. "
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A Notorious Character Gone.

LANDER, Wyoming, November 21.-1n-
telligence has reached here that old Mother
Osborne" who was once so notorious as a
female road agent in the Black Hills, has
died in a rude cabin on the Clarks Fork OF
the Yellowstone, from destitution and ex-
posure. She left the Hills in 1879, and car
ried away a large sum of money with her,
as the result OF her criminal enterprises.
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Caceres Sorely Pressed.

lima WA CALVES :oN), November ~
Further advices concerning the battle OF
Jauga state that three of Caceres's colonels
were captured, that Caceres himself fled
with few officers, and that his army was
completely dispersed. Many rebels, includ-
ing Pacheco Cespedes, were drowned in the
river while endeavoring to escape, as the
stream is very much swollen for this sea-
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A TRIPLE TIE.
sch.ensr Beats slosson and Causes Play
or Next Week.

CHICAGO, November 21.-schaeiier and
s,osson played the sixth game OF the balk.
line billiard tournament tonight. The
a;+ua t;on of affairs was peculiar. Slosson
and Vignaux had each won two games and
Schaeffer one game. A victory for slosson
womld make him richer by 5000, while
h;s defeat would make a triple tie. There
was wa a large amount OF money bet. sehaef:
ssr vas the favorite, the odds early in the
day de- being 500 to $40 in his favor, but in
the afternoon the rate became nearly even
:Tnst hefore the game, however, Schaeffer'a 4
fr;snds offered 500 to $50, and it was
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Times Improving in Peru.

SANTIAGO (v1A GALvEsroN), November ~
The military club in this city and the
Jockey club at Iquique have been estab'
lished. It is stated that Senor Coll. the
owner of rich mines in Butuca, is about to
sell them to German company for the
sum OF l 900, 900 pounds sterling.
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The Claarinx Houses,

BosroN November 22.-The leading clear
ing houses of the United States report that
the total gross bank exchanges for the week
ending November 2 1st were 81 y 156, ,967, 1898,
an increase of 44.4 per cent. as compared
with the corresponding week OF last year.
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An Indian Zephyr.

LONDON, November ga dispatch to
the Times from Calcutta says til;.t 5000
people have been drowned and $50 vii
iages submerged in Orissa by a cyclone, and
that ], ,241 square miles in the Moors, He'd
abad and Huddea districts have been de
vastated.
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Peace Prospects.

LONDON, November 21.-The Exchange
Telegraph Company has dispatches from
Paris, stating that the French Government
has resolved to terminate the Madagascar
expedition, negotiations having been com.
menced with the Hovas, and it is expected
that peace will soon be restored.
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HibbS Indicted.

LEWISTON. Idaho, November 22.-Isaac
N. Hibbs, the defaulting postmaster, who,
after much trouble, was extradited from
British Columbia, was indicted yesterday
by the United States Grand Jury dor
forgery.
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The California Fruit Men,

Los ANGELES, November 21.-The State
Board ofHorticulture adopted resolution
to-day, memorializing Congress to place a
high protective tariff on prunes, raisins
and olive. They also endorsed the Mexican
Reciprocity Treaty.
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A Cyclones DOings.

LONDON, November ala terrible cy.
clone swept over the Philippine islands
yesterday. Eight thousand buildings, in
Guiding numerous churches and school
houses, were destroyed and twenty two
persons were killed.
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France and China.

PARIS, November pa o'sP tr between
Pekin says that all difhcu,Sy u,yyossd and
France and China has been 20 nations
that negotiatiops between tps
have been resumed.
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,.ot IN 90 large tnet ne ~
King Milan, 2, ,;Ss i90I |. Z sister ii Chicago
accused Of ns.IIS nI
COurier-JoufnS
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California Races.

SAN FRANCISCO, November 21.-For the
second day of the Blood Horse Associa-
tons meeting the track was muddy.
First race for all ages, three-quarters OF
a mile heats-Estrelle won in straight
heats. Time, 1:2Oa, 1:21.
Second race for two -year-olds, ,five-eig ghths
OF mile-Ed Corrigan won. Time, 1:O7.
Third race, for all ages, one and three
eiqhths miles was walkoverf for Beacons-
field.
Fourth race, for all ages, seven-eighths
of a mile Ichi Ban; time, 1:37h.
Fifth race, for three-year-old fllies, *
miles for Question.
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freely taken. Referee McCreery announced
the situation of affairs and stated that no
provision had been made in the event OF q
tie for continuing the tournament, but it
would be PLAYED off and
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THE WEEKS GAMES.

Who Won Them, and the Scores Which
Were Made.
The tournament has been the most won
derful exhibition OF billiards ever known,
particularly the game OF Friday night,
when Vignaux made an average OF 70
points. Following is the result OF the six
nights playing:
Monday-Slosson, 600; Vignaux, 536.
Tuesday-Vignaux, 600; Schaetier, 40.
Wednesday-Slosson, 600; Schaeffer, sol.
Thursday -Schaeffer, 600; Vignaux, 5O7.
Friday-Vignaux, 600; Slosson, 1876.
Satnrday-Schaeffer, 600; Slosson, Az.
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THE PACIFIC SLOPE.

The Pacific slope and the Territories will
appear to much greater advantage in the
present Exposition than in their prede-
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THEATRICAL SMALL TATE
ent week. ''oSeo curing the pres

MANAGER MAGUIRE endeavored to secure
tne Nevada Concert Company for three
nights-two in Butte and one in Helena,
put the sage-brush innet" comes too high
one wanted 900 for the three concerts
and railroad fares from Ogden and return.
Mr' MaSnlre at one time thought of offer
ing aer tne Anaconda mine or the annual
profits OF the Utah & Northern m tba
salt business, but he was afraid she might
accept. 'eA'