AMERICANS IN 11511;
ADVANCE SUPPORTED BI OREGONIANS
The Enemy Made an Honr’s Stand,
but “7113 Forced to Retreat \Vitli
Considerable Loss—Our Casual-
ties \Vere‘Six.Men Wounded. .
MANILA, March 14.—General VVheat‘on
attacked and captured the city of Pasig,
east of Manila, yesterday afternoon.
The enemy made a stand for an hour,
1but at the end of that time were forced
to retreat.
The loss of the Filipinos was 30 killed
and 16 prisoners. '
Of the United States forces six were
wounded.
At daylight Brigadier Gene1al Lloyd
Wheaton’s divisional brigade, consist-
ing of the Twentieth United States in-
fantry, the Twenty- second infantry,
eight companies of the Washington vol-
unteers, seven companies of the Oregon
' volunteers, three troops of the Fourth
United States cavalry and a mounted
battery of the Sixth --arti-llery, was
drawn up on a ridge behind San Pedro '
Macati, a mile south of the town.
The advance was sounded at 6:30 a.
n1., the cavalry leading the column at a
.smart trot across the open to the right,
eventually reaching a clump command-
ing the rear of Guadalupe.
Supported by the Oregons, the ad-
vance force opened a heavy fire on the
rebels. The response was feeble and
desultory, apparently coming from
handfuls of men in every covert.
While the right column was swinging
toward the town of Pasig the left ad-
vanced, pouring volleys into the bush.
A small body of rebels made a deter-
mined stand at Guadalupe church, but
the enemy was unable to withstand the
assault.
At 7:30 a. m. a river gunboat started
toward Pasig. The rebels were first en-
countered by this vessel in the jungle
near Guadalupe.
Steaming slowly the gunboat poured
a terrific fire from her Gatling guns in-
to the brush. For all of an hour the
whirring of the rapid fire guns alter-
nated with the booming of the heavier
pieces on board.
In the meanwhile Scott’s battery,
ashore, was shelling the trenches and
driving the enemy back. The artillery
then advanced to the ridge and drove a
few of the enemy’s sharpshooters away
with volleys from. their carbines. The
artillery then advanced and met with
little opposition.
By this time the enemy was in full
flight along a line over a mile long, and
the firing was discontinued temporarily
in order to give the troops a rest before
making the attack on Pasig.
At this stage of the engagement it
was raining heavily.
After a short rest General Wheaton
resumed the attack on Pasig.
— Scott’s battery, supported by two com-
panies of the Twentieth regiment, ad-
vanced on Guadalupe by the road along
the river bank, the remainder of the
Twentieth regiment and the Twenty-
second regiment following with the re-
serve of the Oregon volunteers.
At 11:30 a. m. the column came in con-
tact with the enemy, and a gunboat
steamed to the firing line and cleared
the jungle on both sides, while the bat-
tery took up a position on a bluff at the
right. The first shot from the American
field pieces, at 1,200 yards range, dis-
lodged a gun of the enemy at Pasig.
After the town had been shelled the
Twentieth regimentlined up on the
bind and the Twenty-second took up a
position on the left of the place, with
the cavalry in the center, whereupon
the enemy retreated to the town.
. The gunboat then moved into a bend
opposite, and a hot fire on the rebel po-
sition was maintained along thewhole
American line until 2:20 p. m., when
preparations were made for the attack.
At 3 p. In. our gunboat started in pur-
suit of the enemy’ s armed tug, chasing
her to the lake.
At .-aif past 3 o’clock p. m. a large
‘body of the enemy was discovered
working around our right flank, and
the Twentieth regiment was moved to
' a commanding ridge. The rebels were
met opposite Pateros, but the enemy
bolted.
The whole American line bivouacked
at 5 o’clock. ’
About 700 rebels were reported to be
marching northward a few miles to the
southwest. .
Smith’s Relatives Not Found.
AMESBURY, Mass, March 14.—An
inventory of the personal property and
real eState of the late Reuben J. Smith
of this place, whose body was placed in
a reclining. chair in a tomb which he
had had built, was filed, showing per-
sonal property of $6,100 and real estate
of $600. All efforts to learn of relatives
of the deceased have proved fruitless,
and the residue of the property will re—
main under control of the executor.
accordance with the request of Mr.
Smith the door of his =tomb has been
scaled and a brick wall laid outside the
entrance.
German Embassudor at Harvard.
BOSTON, March 14.——Baron von Hol-
leben, the German'embassador to the
United States, is at Harvard university
as the guest of Professor 'Hugo Men-
sternburg, remaining until Friday. The
baron comes for the purpose of stimu-
lating interest in the establishment of
a. German museum in connection with
the university.
Ext-Governor Fletcher Very Low.
WASHINGTON, March 14.——Ex-Gov-
ernor Fletcher of Missouri, who was
stricken with paralysis about three.
weeks ago, is in a critical condition. He
rallied from the attack and for the past
week has been considered as out of dan-
ger, but Sunday he suffered a relapse
and is very low.
Many Icebergs Reported.
HALIFAX, March 14.—Captain Flem-'
ing of the steamer Ulunda, from Liver-
pool via St. John’s, N. F., reports very
heavy ,ice, beginning in latitude 44
north, longitude 48 west. Countless ice-
bergs were seen, and the ice extended
for 150.miles.
- .Bnflalollnnker Dead.
BUFFALO, March ' l4. —- Daniel G.
(Beard, formerly president at the n...
tional Savings bank, not" 1110mm
State bank, died yesterday, aged 84
years.
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Found Tied In an Armchair—Iden-
tified by General Wood.
SANTIAGO, Cuba, March 14.—~Gener-
a1 Leonard Wood, military governor 01
the department of Santiago, in the pres‘
ence of the adjutarit generals of the de-
partment, Colonel Beacom and 'Captair
-Gilmore, Captain Scott, captain'of the
port, and other officers, has positive]:
identified the remains of the Spanish of-
ficer discovered a few days ago among
the rocks on the shore about four miles
west of El Morro as those of Admira-
Villamil, who commanded. the Spanislr.
torpedo boat destroyers in the nava:
battle which resulted in the destruction
of Admiral Cervera’s squadron. _
Accompanied by the ofiicers namec’
and by others, General Wood went ir.
a tug to investigate personally as to the
truth of the report'that the body of 5'
Spanish officer had been found tied 11.
an armchair at the point designated
The report proved well founded. Nearly
opposite the point where the wrecked
torpedo boat destroyer Pluton lies Gem
'eral Wood found an armchair Vvitl:
ropes around it, a skull and bones.or
ADMIRAL VILLAIMIL.
the ground and the ragged remnants oi
the uniform of a captain in the Spanish
navy. It was evident that the buzzards
had stripped the bones of flesh.
It is understood here—though as to
this there is no certainty+that Admiral
‘Villamil was taken ashore from the Plu-
ton in a dying condition tied in an arm-
chair, and the supposition is that he
died immediately on reaching the shore,
the body being abandoned among the
'rocks, where it remained undiscovered
until a few days ago. ,
Admiral Villarnil, it is known, was
wounded in the right arm and the left
leg. General Wood put the bones to-
gether, showing the Junmistakable
marks of wounds in those places. The
identification was in every respect com-
'plete. In the pocket of‘ the coat was
found the fleet countersign for June 26
signed by the late Captain Oviedo y
Bustamento, then Admiral Cervera’s
chief of staff.
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Half a block has been burned in Port
Dawson, Alaska; loss, $50,000.
The president 'has appointed 201 sec-
ond lieutenants in the regular army.
Mail advices from the east reported
more victories for the Chinese rebels.
. Four hundred and eleven persons lost
their lives during the Queensland hur-
ricane.
Professor James Hoppins resigned the
chair of history of art in Yale School of
Fine Arts.
Chicago proposes to send a. colony to
Isle of Pines to raise fruits and vegeta-
bles for the northern markets.
A dispatch to London from Melbourne
reported that General William Booth,
the Salvation Army leader, was conva-
lescent.
Crown Prince. Gustaf, regent of Nor—
way and Sweden,_has been hooted, hiss—
ed and pelted With snowballs on the
streets of Christiania. ,
Eleven masked and armed men bound
three employees of the Sayre and Ath-
ens Traction company at Athens, N. Y.,
blew open the safes and stole $175.
A Fifty Million Milk Trust.
CHICAGO, March 14.—Efforts looking
toward the formation of a dairy trust,
compared to which Joseph Leiter’s pro~
nificant, are making in this city. Rep-
resentatives of New York and English
capitalists will come here this week, it
is said, to confer with local promoters
of the enterprise. The plan is to secure
,control 0f the entire output of all the
‘dairies and creameries east of the
Rocky mountains and to dispose of milk
to distributers in the large cities, the
surplus to be turned into butter, cheese
and other commercial products for the
domestic and foreign trade. The pro—
posed capitalization is $50,000,000.
Long Ignores Sampson's Request.
WASHINGTON, March 14.—Secretary
Long will not accept the suggestion
made by Rear Admiral Sampson in his
letter published yesterday and make re—
cess appointments of the officers who
failed of continuation at the last session
of congress. The matter will be allowed
to remain just as it stands until the
' next congress meets, and then all of the
nominations will be sent in precisely as
they stood at the end of the last ses-
sion.
A Charge For Collection of Checks.
'NEW YORK, Nov. 14,—Sixty banks
were represented at a special meeting
of the New York Clearing House asso.
ciation to vote upon the amendment to
its constitution prepared by the clear-
ing house committee providing that the
committee shall have power to estab-
lish rules and regulations under which
charges shall be made for the collection
of out of town checks. The amendment
was unanimously adopted.
Taylor Succeeds Howell.
WASHINGTON, March 14,—Mr. Hor-
ace G. Taylor of Wisconsin, recently
appointed assistant secretary of the
treasury to succeed W. B. Howell, ap-'
pointed a. member of the board of gen-
eral appraisers at New York, took the
oath of office-yesterday and entered up‘
on his new duties.
g-(sixty. Million Ice Trust.
TRENTON. March lir’l‘he American
gee chn'pany was incorporated here
{00,3300 ,with a capital stock of $60 -
vided into 600,000 shares at 3100
3 per shat-e, :30; 000, 000 worth of which 1.
preferred, bearing 6 per cent summon“
.1 Interest-
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{BEEFCOURTIIESUMES
Many Witnesses Examined In
Chicago Yesterday.
THE USE OF CHEMICALS IS DENIED l
Over Four Million Pounds of Canned .
Beef Sold the Government Last
Year by T‘vo Firms—Complaints
of Troops Laid to the Climate.
CHICAGO, March 14.——Rapid progress ',
was made yesterday by the government I
court of inquiry investigating the heel
'controversy. Nearly a dozen witnesses
were examined, three of them being in-
spectors of the government bureau 01
animal .industry and the rest of them
employees in various capacities at sev-
eral Chicago packing houses. Colonel
Davis, recorder of the court, stated lasi
night that he was unable to approxi~
mate the length of time it would take
to exhaust the list of Chicago witnesses,
but it seems likely that two or three
days will be required and possibly the
entire week before the members of thé
court can leave for Kansas City.
Dr. Dyeson said that cattle condemn—
ed at the ante mortem examination in
the yards for various causes if they"
passed the post mortem inspection,
might be brought into the packing
house and uSed. He had never seen
chemicals of any kind used except bo-
rax and things of that sort around the
hog houses. He had never investigated
the subject of chemicals with reference
to beef.
Dr. Charles E. McNeil], bureau in-.
specter at the beef and sheep house oi
Nelson Morris & Co., was the next wit-
ness. He was not aware-of any chem-
icals having been used in that estab—
lishment and had no reason to believe
or suspect that they were so used.
Charles H. Emory, superintendent oi
'the Libby, McNeill & Libby packing
house, testified next. “Our business is
principally canning,” he said. “We do
not do any slaughtering directly, but
animals are killed for us by Swift &
Co. The amount of canned beef sold by
us to the United States last year was
between 2,000,000 and 2,500,000 pounds.
Of this we had on hand on the 1st of
January, 1898, about 100,000 pounds. No
chemicals are used or relied upon by us
to preserve canned beef. A very small
quantity of salt is used.”
The first witness of the afternoon ses-
sion was Arthur Meeker, themanager
of Armour & Co.’s packing house, who
had previously been questioned at
Washington. He said the accumulation
of canned goods were held in Chicago,
but the firm had also a large stock in
Europe. They had on hand at the out-
break of the Spanish war 500,000 pounds
of canned roast beef in Chicago and
140,000 pounds in New York. They sold
2,000,000 pounds to the government and
also 250,000 pounds of corned beef.
The witness stated that complaints
Labout beef furnished the government
had been received at the minor agencies,
but none of them was of sufficient im-
portance to be sent to the home office.
Refrigerated beef had been furnished
to camps at Chickamauga, Jackson-
ville, Tampa, Fernandina, Lakeland
and Port Tampa. He said that no
chemicals were ,used to preserve the
beef.
“How do you account for the dissat-
isfaction that is alleged on the part of
the soldiers in the use of canned roast
beef?” _
“I think there were several reasons—
the heat which caused the fat and the
jelly to melt, and the meat would sep-
arate—come apart in pieces—and there
was no salt in it, no pepper and no
condiments.”
Standard Oil Investigation.
COLUMBUS, 0., March 14.—The tak-
ing of testimony in the suits against
posed milk combination appears insig-‘
the Standard Oil company was resumed
yesterday. B. A. Matthews, the local
manager of the company, was on the
stand. Letters written to agents in
Ohio towns asking for names of com-
‘ petitors and information concerning
them were‘presented to the witness,
and he was asked to identify his sig-
nature attached to them. The most he
would say was that he thought the sig-
nature might be his own. Ed Ebright,
a Standard employee, testified that
while the fight against the Paragon Oil
company was in progress the price of
oil was reduced 3 cents'on the gallon.
He also stated that oil taken from one
tank “as sold at different prices.
Postmaster General Will Visit Cuba.
WASHINGTON, March 14.—Postmas-
ter General Charles Emory Smith will
leave here tomorrow via Tampa, Fla.,
for a hurried trip of three or four days
in Cuba. He will be accompanied by
Mr. Clarence E. Dawson, his secretary.
The object of the trip is a conference
with Director of Posts Rathbone over"
a number of postal matters that have
‘ arisen on the island which require per-
sonal consultation.
Race Track Gambling Prohibited.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 14.——The
ordinance prohibiting pool selling, book-
making or betting on horse or dog races
was passed by the board of supervisors
yesterday and signed by Mayor Phelan.
It will go into effect at once. This ac-
tion may close the Ingleside race track
and the Ingleside coursing track, rep-
resenting an investment of nearly $500,-
000.
Priseflzht Prevented.
I PLATTSBURG, N. Y., March 14.—The
20 reund sparring contest between
S. Fred Wyatt of St. Joseph, Mo., and
Alf Allen of Toronto, lightweight cham-
1 pion of Canada, which was to have tak-
‘ en place here last night, was prevented
by the chief of police.
A Laundry Combine.
PITTSBURG, March 14. —A combina—
tion of the largest laundries in Pitts-
(burg has been formed with a capital:
stock of $3, 500, 000. Chicago and New
lYork men are said to be behind the
new- corporation. _
Supplies For Guam. .
WASHINGTON, March 14,—The navy
department is informed by Admiral
Dewey that the supply ship Nanshan
has left Manila with supplies for the
'new naval station at Guam. ,
' Secretory, Long Goes to Florida. .
WASHINGTON, March lit—During
the president's absence Secretary Long
will make a. quick flip to Florida for
the purpose of visiting the Pensacola
I schools.
I this Malay emissary, although a pol—
Myar'd. . ,_
GAZETTE
TALKED T00 FREELY
1That Is Why Felipe Agonciiio Is
Persona Non Grata. ,
. \
IAgent of the Fillpino Republic It
\Vashlngton Is a Shrewd Man,
But Unused to the methods -
of Diplomacy. I ‘
Felipe Agoncillo, the special agent of
Gen. Aguinaldo,’ 1s a shrewd. cultivated
man, who is all the more adroii and
Dangerous because he has had the ad-
vantage of the drill and veneer of the
It must not be forgotten that
ished and well-educated personage. is
the representative of a race that until
recently belonged, and even yet be-
longs, to that branch of humanity
that Europeans consider -uncivilized.
Smooth of exterior, yet prick his skin
and the Filipino is still a savage.
Spanish dominion in the Philippines
has never been able to “civilize” the
native Filipinos. Agoncillo, while pre-
' senting all the outward seeming of a.
gentleman, cannot really be blamed if
he inherits the instincts of the Malay
race with which he is one in blood. He
is a lawyer of Manila and is a most
trusted friend of Aguinaldo, the rebel
leader. For a long time he has been
the repository of that leader’s hopes,
ambitions and fears. It is said that
Agoncillo was a sharer in the $600,000
paid to Aguinaldo by the Spanish gov-
ernment in consideration of the lat-
ter’s abandonment of the rebellion.
Agoncillo, physicallyfbears all the
marks of his Malay origin. He is of
small but compact frame and has the
appearance of being able to stand
much fatigue, either mental or phys-
ical,‘in case his reserve of vitality
should be called upon. He is suave in
manner, as are all orientals, and under
a seeming quietu'de there dwells a firm,
quick and most impulsive nature that
is. to a civilized man. a complete sur-
prise when it shows itself. In one word,
Agoncillo is calculated to offer to the
untraveled and unsuspicious American
one of those surprising transforma-
tion scenes that are known in the
United States only in theaters.
For an American in New York or
Chicago, for example, Aguinaldo’s
agent, or spy, as he now appears to be,
would seem a. plain, honest, unequivo-
cal man, with the best interests of
his country at. heart, desirous of be-
ing a friend of the new and big power
that has come into the Philippines. The
American could hardly believe that he
could meditate a stroke against such a
powerful government as that of the
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FELIPE AGONCILLO.
(Aguinaldo’s Representative in the United
States.)
United States. But that is where pre-
cisely Aguinaldo’s ignorance. becomes
appaient. Lawy er and college man as
he is, he suifers under the delusmn that
the rebel Filipinos can whip America.
There he discloses the shrewdness of
the fox without the natural instinct of
that animal that warns him against
danger or against artremendously more.
powerful enemy. -
When Agoncillo came to Washington
lie was treated with all the kindness
and consideration he deserved, and
probably more. It. is said that be pre-
tends to be ignorant of the English
lzgingua e. but thatin reality be under-
stands the tongue per .‘fectly well. He
has been interviewed several timeswith
the aid of an interpreter, and, if it. be
true that he under-stands English, it is
probable that he will hear many things
that will not be grateful to his ears.
One characteristic shown by Agon-
cillo since his arrival in this country is
peculiarly savage. He has evinced 9.
childish love for gay clothes and high-
ly colored neckties, which, while amus-
ing to many who will not. regard the
Filipino rebels with the same serious-
ness given them by the Spaniards, has
been proof positive to the thoughtful
persons that he was not tobe taken in
good faith. Whatever may be the out-
come of the present snarl in which
Agoncillo finds himself, it‘is certain
that few will longer feel disposed to
humor him as they would a'child. Sav-
age or civilized. Ago-neillo must stand
or fall with his deserts.
How to Measure Progress.
1' recently came across a remark,
writes the bishop of London in the
Cornhill, that anypolitical reputation
which survives for a hundred years sur-
vives because it is a peg on which his-
torians hang their theories. This does
not detract from a man's real great-
ness. for what! higher position could
be hope to fill than that of serving as
a milestone in the great track of the
world’ s Tirogress? If that position be
secured, the direction of the way and
the points between which he marks
the distance may be left- for perpet-
ual readjustment. We may measure
progress by different standards in ma-
terial attainments,.but civilization in
its noblest form depends upon moral
advance. and we look to s time when
this wil 111 be more and more recognized.
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