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The times., 1898-05-13
AN EGG BATTLE.
The SophOmOres and Freshmen of
Columbia Fight.

New York, May 12.-Columbia sopho-
mores and freshmen mixed yesterday in a
row that was a beauty from the stand
point of a college man. Nearly every dis
putant carried away a black eye or some
other mark of disabled visage, and the
contest was declared a draw only because
the fighters became too much exhausted
to fight longer.
The upper claSsmen arranged to have
their photographs taken yesterday, and it
became known to the freshmen. who ap-
peared at the college in the morning load
ed down with eggs of uncertain age, and
also bicycle pumps filled with water
The muggy weather made the "sophs'
postpone the photograph bee" but the
freshmen determined upon an attack any
how.
The battle was fought about the gate of
MorningSide Park, at One Hundred and
Sixteenth Street and Morningside Drive,
and waged for an hour. At first the fresh
men were outnumbered, but they got re-
endorsements and fought stubbornIy.
They were cheered on by scores of seniors
and juniors, who enjoyed the scrap nearly
as well they would had their dignity
allowed them to take active part.
After the draw was declared, the fight
ers adjourned to the new Columbia Tav-
ern to count injuries and make up over
tankards of ale.
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DIED LIKE HEROES
Continued from First Page,

boat, but not close enough to do any
damage.
This little brush with the enemy whet-
ted the appetites of the Americans. They
must get those gunboats, and so this
story of blood and death and heroism fol-
lows in the wake of that ambition.
Forcing the Issue.
Yesterday morning the Machias, VIII
mington and Hudson lay off Cardenas be-
yond the range of any guns and safe from
the torpedo channels. The Wfnslow
which had been scouting about. run short
of coal and ran alongside the Machias to
fill her bunkers. Commander Merry or
oered him TO proceed to the Wilmington
and coal from her and then with the
/ Hudson TO sound the channel into the
harbor between the Romero and Blanche
keys. The other two channels We're
known to be mined. This third channel
was sounded and dragged and found to be
safe and deep enough for all save the
Machias. The Hudson got aground once.
but the rising tide fioated her off. Then
the two boats put back and reported TO
the Wilmington. The purpose in making
sure of this passage was to get at those
/ gunboats.
Therefore, about / o'clock in the after
noon the three ships started up the bay,
| the Winslow 10 the east, the Wilmington
/ in the center and the Hudson to the west.
! When they came within about a mile and
/ half of the city one of the Spanish
/ gunboats could be plainly seen lying
alongside the wharf among a lot of ship
ping. The Winslow was ordered by Com
mander Todd to run in and cut her out
the other ships with their heavier guns
standing by to protect her from the weak
armament of the gunboat. So Lieut.
Bernadau went steaming ahead with the
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NAVAL ORDERS.
Changes on the Cruiser Minneapo-

Changes ON the Cruiser Mnhearo-
lis.
Lieut. G. T Emmons detached from the
Minneapolis and ordered home on sick
leave.
Lieut. J. NJ Robinson detached from ma
Wy yard at Washington and ordered i'm
mediately TO Minneapolis.
Lieut.. Commander r. r. Ingersol de-
tached from Naval Academy and ordered
10 command Hist.
Lieut. H. l. Knapp detached from Naval
Academy and ordered TO Rorothea-
Passed Assistant Engineer De w. c.
Readgrave detached from Harrisburg
Pa. and ordered to the Yankton.
Passed Assistant Engineer /. c. Leon
ard detached from navy yard at New
York and ordered to Dorothea-
Commander 7. Perry detailed with and
ordered TO Lancaster.
Lieut.. G. Franklin, retired, ordered to
navy yard at Washington.
Lieut.. Commander w. H. Webb, retired,
/ ordered to Franklin.
Lieut.. f. f. Upton. retired, ordered to
! Bureau Of Navigation.
1 Chief Engineer D. Smith. retired. or
dered to Paxton Rolling Mills, Harris
! burg, Pa.
Lieut.. J. w. Hagenman detached from
Bureau of Navigation and ordered to
Portsmouth. =. H., navy yard.
/ Lieut.. W. Watts. retired, ordered to ma
w yard at New York
Lieut.. 5. /. Graham. retired. ordered TO
navy yard at Mare Island.
/ Lieut.. A. II. Cobb. retired detached from
! Bureau of Navigation and ordered TO War
Board.
Boatswain c. F. Pierce, return to An
napolis, Nd.
Boatswain James Nash retired. to Bos-
ton navy yard.
Lieut. W Doty, retired, to Key West
/ naval station.
Lieut.. Comdr. S. Hubbard. to New York
navy yard.
Naval Cadet c. I. Poor. watch and div
| ison officer on New Orleans.
Lieut.. f. D. Chaplin, to the Lancaster
Ensigns James A. Holden, Thomas T.
! Craven, Charles L. Poor Ralph Earle.
| Andrew f. Kalbach, Ralph Walker. Dan
iel ". Wurtzbaugh, Ivan c. Wettengel,
/ Charles NJ .Tozer. Wat T. Cluverius,
/ Duncan NJ. Wood, Leigh c. Palmer, T. A
| kearney, Arthur Macarthur. Frank E.
| Ridgeley, Dudley W. Knox Charles E.
| Gilphin, Mark St. G. Ellis Edward Me-
Cauley, jr., Earl p. Jessop, John H. HAYS.
! Henry c. Muslin and Rowland l. Curtin.
all appointed May 6 and commissioned
May 9.
Second Lieut. A. Bronson, jr.. L. S M
| c.. appointed May 6, commissioned May
Assistant Engineers Charles L. Leiper.
J GateWood S. Lincoln, Edward T. Fitz-
I gerald. II. o. Bissett. Albert NJ Mar
shall. Charles p. Burt, Kenneth G. Cas-
| tIeman. William L. Littlefield Pope Wash
ington, George B. Rice and James B.
Haney, appointed May 6. commissioned
May g.
Acting Ensign ]. H. Cuntz, appointed
| May II.
Acting Ensign William L. Beers, ap-
| pointed May II.
Acting Lieut.. T. T. Madge, appointed
May Il.
Acting Lieut.. W. H. Elliott, appointed
| May II.
Acting Lieut.. H. Osborne, recent order
| revoked.
Acting Lieut.. H. Dixon, recent order
| revoked.
Acting Passed Assistant Surgeon ]. F.
| Bransford. to New York navy yard
Acting Lieut.. E. c. Weeks, TO Wash
ington, Coast Signal Service.
Acting Lieut.. f. b. Anderson, to Wash
ington. Coast Signal Service.
Acting Lieut.. Commander, L Harries,
appointed May II.
X. NJ. A. Mahoney. TO navy yard,
League Island, Immediately.
Chief Engineer c. f. Tower, retired,
to navy yard, Washington.
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The Dead.

"Saye me. save met shrieked one poor
gered back and all but fell into the sea.
Some one reached out an arm to him,
caught him by leg, pulled him back and
laid him on the deck, dead.
Ensign Bagley had thrown his hands
into the air, tottered forward and fell
against the signal mast, around which he
clasped his arm and sank slowly down in
a heap. They did not know he was dead
until they went to carry him below. Be
sides Bagley those killed outright by the
shell were:
John Varneries, oiler; ]. Denefe first
class fireman: J. V. Meekin, first fireman,
and Josiah Tunnel, cook
The Hudson was now in position to ex-
tend aid to the torpedo boat A long line
was thrown to her and made fast. but as
the revenue cutter backed away it part
ed. Another line was made fast after
twenty minutes work, but the shells of
the enemy were still dropping about the
boat. This one held, but the Winslow
would not tow, because she could not be
steered. and at last the Hudson made
fast alongside.
Though crippled and bloody, the little
torpedo boat was still able to fight and
with her flag flying and her two remains
ing guns popping away at the gunboat
she struck right to it. The Hudson was
fighting and had been all the time Her
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LOOKING FOR A LOST GIRL.
An Under-Age Maiden Breaking q
Mothers Heart.

Greenport. L. l.. May 12-Mrs. Rosa
Heinrichs. a widow living at Sag Har-
Dor. arrived here yesterday morning in
search of her pretty fourteen-year-old
daughter, Mary. who has disappeared
from her home Mary was last seen by
her mother on Sunday. May /. when she
left the house to go to Sunday school
Mrs. Heinrichs tramped more than four
miles on foot across Shelter Island. There
she was told that the girl had been seen
in company with Walter Payne. an eight
een-year-old youth. who had consented to
row her across the ferry to GreenporE
early Tuesday morning, May 3.
The lad did not return to his home on
Shelter Island. and nothing has since
been heard from either of the couple.
Mrs. Heinrichs says her daughter ran
away twice before. The broken-hearted
woman spent nearly the whole day in
searching this village
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Virginia Volunteers.

Petersburg. Va, May I2.-Company X,
A. p. Hill Rifles, Fourth Regiment Vir-
ginia Volunteers, Capt. NJ c. Jackson,
left last night for Richmond to enter the
service of America. There were 5000 peo-
pie at the depot to see them off, a large
majority of whom were ladies. As the
train pulled out salute was fired from
the yacht Pocahontas, moored at the
wharf.
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DIED.

GRIFFITH Suddenly, on May u. 1893.
CHARLES C. GRIFFITH, in his seventy fourth
year.
His remains will be taken from his sons resi-
dence, No. 400 Fourth Street northwest, SatGr-
day. at 10 o'clock a. m, to Baltimore for burial.
It
THOMAS-Departed this life on Wednesday
May IL, lS9S, at 2:40 a. m, ANNIE R. THOMAS
Funeral viii be held Friday, May Is, at 10
Il. m, from st. Teresa's Church. Anaeostia ID. c.
Interment at Mount olivet Cemetery. 1t
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HELD BY SPAIN.
Manila still in the Hands of Spanish
Soldiers.

Hong Kong, May 12.-The British gun
boat Linnet arrived here from Manila to-
day. When she left that place on Monday
the town was still in the hands OF the
Spanish soldiers.
There is a strong anti-British feeling
among the Spaniards in Manila, who as
sert that the British steamer Esmeralda
piloted the American feet into Manila
bay.
It is feared that the Spanish soldiers
having had no pay for months. will at
tack the British factories at Manila.
The English families have removed fouE
miles outside the town.
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I have been sufferer from chronic
diarrhoea ever since the war and have
used all kinds of medicines for 1t. At
last I found one remedy that has been a
success as a cure, and that is Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem
edy.-P. E. Grisham. Gaars Mills, La.
For sale by Henry Evans. wholesale and
retail druggist. 93S F Street northwest,
and Connecticut Avenue and s Street
northwest, and 14zS Maryland Avenue
northeast.
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Money to Loan on

Household Fnrnifgrs. P.anoS. etc, with.
cut removal frorn owners possession: pay
uents received on principal, W hich reduces
the cost of Carrying: all business strictly
confidential: no expense to applicant II
loan is not made: efficient ser vice enables
Us TO act promptly on all appIica uonA
See Us before going eISew here.
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IL You want il. you want it now-the Keeley
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The Keeley Institute" sos L ST. NV,
Washington, ID. c.; lslS Madison ave, Baltimore
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To the Governor Of :
II is now decided that -- OF your State
as soon mustered armed and equipped will be
sent 10 San Francisco. If not fully equipped
but sufficiently SO TO travel, it msy be e0nsid-
cred best 10 have them go and complete equip
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Help Arrives.

Help was coming. for the Hudson was
steaming full speed, and the Wilmington's
heavy four-inch rifles were dropping shells
all about the murderous battery ashore.
Amidships. near the ammunition stand
was Ensign Bagley calling down to the
engineer to back and go ahead with his
one remaining engine in his effort to spoil
the Spaniards' aim. All the electrical con-
trivances were wrecked so the orders
went by word of mouth.
Standing beside the ensign were work
ing a half dozen of his men. No one had
yet been killed. although the craft had
been riddled through and through, but
then came the fatal shell. 1t struck
squarely on the deck little aft of amid
ships and exploded as it fell. The Hud-
son was then so close that her crew could
hear the words of the men as they went
to their death.
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Hudson next behind and the Wilmington
outside. There was no thought of real
danger. because no batteries were known
to exist at that point.
A Fatal Error.
When within 1900 yards of the longed-
for prize, the men noticed bobbing about
them a number of red buoys, which were
thought TO mark channel but this error
was a serious one. They were range
buoys put there for the guidance Of a
battery masked on a jutting point a lit
tie TO the left of where the Spanish gun
boats lay and now these guns. six and
ten-pounders. opened fire. The very first
shot struck among the buOys and the next
/ tore through the himsy hull of the tor
! pedo boat wreckng the steam-steering
/ gear forward and rendering the boat un-
manageable.
The trap had caught its victim. The de-
/ coy gunboat had lured the foe to within
range of guns, put there on the point
probably overnight. The red buoys
| marked the range. She could not escape
and perfect hail of shells was falling
/ all around and about and u ..on her. 1t
J was a HSlt tHtn 10 the utdlh, ana lne
/ three little one-pounders of the Winslow
/ began to belch back their bullets at the
gunboat which was adding it's share to
the rain of death.
Again and again the shells crashed into
the Winslow. A splinter flying from the
deck struck the brave commander of the
little craft just below the groin in the
right leg. He wrapped a towel about it
using an empty one-pound shell for a tou-
| riquet, and went on with his command
When ne found that his vessels steam
steering gear was gone, he rushed aft tc
arrange the hand-gear. A shell wrecked
| that too. As he turned, a water-tendeI
came from below and reported that the
forward boiler had been pierced. Steam
| was already pouring out the matches anC
the men We're pouring up from below
| Another shot and the port engine was
A wrecked Then went the forecastle gun
but still the brave men kept pumping
away with their two remaining one
Founders.
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Orders 10 Gavernors.

The following telegram was sent to the
governor Of each of the aforesaid States
last night:
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MONEY WANTED AND TO LOAN.
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Loans made anywhere in the District Call
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uNDERTAKERs.

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UNDERTAAER.
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First-ciass Service. Phone, 1886.
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SHORT time loans on listed or unlisted stocks
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National Mortgage Loan Co.,
625 F Street ". w.

MONEY to loan; from 50 to $50; no collateral re-
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MONEY To LOAN-5 per cent money: any
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War Department,

Adiutant Generals Office,
Washington, May u, 1898.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-07-14
TIRE GUNS OF THE LADR0NES.
Old Cannon 10 be Found i'm the Islands
of the south Pacific.

A cannon being too big 10 be mislaid,
Il is generally known what becomes OF
old guns. The smoothbores of the civil
war are known 20 have been used up in
soldiers monuments and G.. A. r.. en-
blems. Condemned cannon of an earlier
period now keep the peace I'm many
cOastwlse towns buried at street cor
nars 10 the trunniOns and presenting up
ward either the cascabel or muzzle
blocked with an old cannon ball shrunk
i'm. The old forts and the military mu-
seums account for few more But
these uses cannot account for all the big
guns of the past. and the melting pot Is
supposed 10 have received the rest of
this metal of war.
Much Of the antique ordnance has been
melted down into the pots and pans Of
peace, but there are very many thous-
ands OF ancient cannon scattered all over
the Pacific and the East Indies. IL
causes the experienced island cruiser no
more surprise 10 find ancient found
ers names on the guns lying I'm the grass
of savage towns than the trader in Az
rica feels at discovering still I'm use mus
kets that served their turn in the wars ~
MARLBOROUGH. Some Of these guns were
mounted and emplaced by exploring ex-
petitions Of old. when new-fOund terri
tory was calmly taken by the first conner.
Such are the guns at NukahiVa ana
Hiva-oa. which tell the tale Of the time
when Americans annexed the Marquesas
and built up a navy I'm the Pacific 10 de-
fend them. Such too are the guns az
San Juan of the Ladrones. which the
Manila expedition has just seized. WINE
none of the batteries at san Juan Is mod
ern or efficient one is conspicuously IN
efficient. This is a bastiOn so placed as
old beach
which the galleons were hove down 70
make ready for the LONG voyage 10
Acapulco. These guns. richly decorated
and piOusly dedicated date back 20 the
time when the whole Pacific was Span
ish lake closed TO all Adventures but the
stately march OF the plate galleons be-
tween Manila and Mexico. Some OF the
guns In this bastion are old enough 20
have seen service when Drake PRED open
the rich Pacific.
Others of these guns are pirates. Ioot
from armed merchantmen. or sucn ac-
ouisltion are the many guns I'm the oeacn
towns OF MindorO and Mindanao ana
other southern Philippines, where piracy
was relinquished only when us prohts
vanished as the gunboats patrolled the
straits But the biggest trade in old can.
non used 10 be carried on in the SCUM
seas Every whaler carried supply as
ballast bound out. and each gun was
thing of value at the islands. For can
non and one key of powder any savage
chief was glad TO equip 'he whaler WIN
all the kanakas needed for boats crews
Each chief was anxious 20 make snow
OF ordnance. and could not have 100
many cannon The guns were seldom
mounted II fired at all they were loaded
lust as they lay haphazard on the ground
and the one obje,t was 10 make NOISE
The guns are stih there on the islands
but the civilized races have put tapoo
on powder and II is long since the south
Sea Islanders have heard the souna OF
their neglected artillery N. y. sun
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-07-14
SPANIARDS B0ASTFUl.
Their Report of the Fighting at San
tiago Sent To Havana.

(Copyrighted. 1895. by Associated Press.
HAVANA. July 13.-The following is
the Spanish account OF the fighting at
Santiago;
"Advices from Santiago de Cuba indi-
cafe that at o'clock yesterday morning
duly 1ith the following American boats
were before that city, the New YORK
Texas Brooklyn. Indiana, one monitor
and eighteen transatlantic steamers, the
latter standing off in the vicinity OF 81
honey. We
the city Of Santiago with lght inusKelry
fire and some cannon. AT o'clock the
fleet began bombarding the city and TIE
heavy batteries attached TO the American
land forces opened fire.
"Theslast dispatch received last nieIt
from Santiago said that the spanish
troops. Notwithstanding the hcrCe attack
on the city, continued firm and enthui-
astic and stood resolutely at their posi-
tions with increasing determination 10
resist and repel the enemy No citizen OF
Santiago was injured. Among the Span
ish forces one soldier was killed ana one
officer and fifteen soldiers were wounded
1.-The local papers of Havana puoIlsh
long editorials extollng Spanish herolsm
at The siege OF Corona SdIdsoSsd' hli""''
and Havana, and exciting the enthusiasm
and patriotism Of the people, urging them
to initiate the glorious achievements oil
their ancestors. The Union Constitution
al says. concerning the siege OF Santiago
DE cuba. that that city has not Desh
taken. although there are zO,VVO AMER
cans against 1000 Spaniards. The Ameri-
cgns have not advanced their positions
nerceptiblv. nor have they dared to come
forth 10 fight the Spanish heroes. who
successfully resisted their first attack.
evblle we are awaiting news about this
great enterprise. in which our heroic SOL
diers are engaged after all it does not
matter what may result. for they may be
relied upon always to take good care for
that which in ali of these cases is still
most important. namely the flags hon
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VERY HOT FIGHT
OVER THE BOOKS.
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pubbshers and authors knowing that
prosperity for them. means prosperity
for us Yea more than this for II they
are successful IA Virginia they viii press
in TO every State OF the South and OF
the Union which means that we VIII
have great publishing houses which VIII
Give steady work 10 the present ldle
army OF printers bookblnders, laborcis'
etc. Let our people everywhere IN the
state call upon their representatives, ana
public men generality to Impress upon
the board our earncstness In TINS very
imnorfant matter Every trade ana
labor council In the State have endorsed
our Southern houses and At the recent
convention i'm Roanoke they were com
mendcd for their enterprise. Let our
business associations throughout the
State better themselves as our labor
organizations IN this matter and we VIII
indeed win a victory for southern edu-
cation. We do not hesitate 20 say that
A. Is a disgrace 20 Virginia that every
wear so much money should be sent out
of the State for the purchase Of books
when better books can be secured mere.
let us have above al things see that as
fer as I'm our power lies that there shall
b. no more scandals attached 20 these
matters. We believe all our people are
with the home companies but we do not
hesitate TO show that We are with them
and to let every one know It, our re-
presentatives are instructed to do their
very best for them and lead our fight for
home enterprise"
Messrs Kizcr and Perkins Of Norfolk
and Z. G. Folkes OF Richmond represent
the Federation Of Labor