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GEN. LOGAN KILLED I BATTLE FELL WHILE 0HARGI/VG FILIPI/NOS AT HEAT) OF BATTALION. Engagement Was Most Stubbornly Con* tested of the Entire War. A cable dispatch received at the war department Tuesday announced that Major John A. Logan, Thirty- third volunteer infantry, had been killed in a fight in Luzon. He was leading his battalion iu action. He was a son of the late General John A. Logan, of Illinois, and Mrs. Mary A. Logan, now u resident of Washington. He leaves a widow aud three children, who are at present residing at Youngs¬ town, O. The news of Major Logan’s death reached the war deparment in a cable¬ gram from General Otis, uneer date of Manila. The information came to Gen¬ eral Otis through a report from Gen¬ eral Wheaton describing the battle on Sunday, the 12th instant, near San Jacinto, between the Thirty-third in¬ fantry, to which Major Logan was at¬ tached, and 1,200 intrenched insur¬ gents. Major Logan fell at the head of his battalion, which he, was gallantly leading in a charge, His command succeeded iu routing the insurgents, who left eighty-one dead in the trenches. Besides Major Logan, six enlisted men were lulled, while Cap- lain Green and eleven men were wounded The news of Major Logan’s death was conveyed to his mother, Mrs. John A. Logan, by a personal note from Secretary Hoot, sent by Major Johnson, assistant adjutant general, Mrs. Logau was prostrated by the shook, but later iu the day recovered lier composure, and driving down town communicated with young Mrs. , Logan at Youngstown, O., over the 1 long distance telephone. Fiercest Battle of t!i© War. A description of the battle, iu which. Gen. Logan was killed is given in the following advices from Manila: The Thirty-third infantry, in one of the sharpest two-hour engagements of , the war, with an equal force of insur- j gents, five miles- from San aud Fabian, six j I Saturday, lost one officer men killed mid one officer aud twelve ! wounded. The Americans captured twenty-nine Filipinos and 100 rifles and found eighty-one insurgent dead lying in the trenches and rice fields. Many more Filipinos doubtless were killed or wounded. General Wheaton was informed that the enemy was gathering at San Ja¬ cinto for the purpose of preventing the caravans from controlling the road from Dagupan north whereby Aguin- aldo might retreat. The Thirty-third, Colonel Howe commanding, and a de¬ tachment of the Thirteenth with a gat- ling gun, Hoeland commanding, were sent to disperse them. The troops encountered the worst road ever found in the island of Luzon. There was a succession of creeks, whoso bridges the Americans had to stop and repair, and miry ditches, and at certain places men and horses struggled waist deep in quagmires. A hundred sol¬ diers had to drag the gatling gun part of thq way, th* bor p es being useless. Sharpshooters CL-t In Tiieir Work. The insurgents opened tile fight two miles from San Jacinto, while the lead¬ ing American battalion was passing a clump of houses in the midst of a co- eoauut grove knee deep in mud. The Filipino sharpshooters,hidden in trees, houses and a small trench across the road, held their fire until the Ameri¬ cans were close to them. When they began firing other Filipinos opened fire from thickets, right and left, fur¬ ther away. The insurgent sharpshoot¬ ers picked off the officers first. Five of the Americans who fell wore shoul¬ der straps or chevrons. But the Thirty-third never wavered. Its crack marksmen knocked the Fili¬ pinos from the trees like squirrels aud the Americans rushed the trench,leav¬ ing four dead insurgents there. The DRAW COLOR LINE. White Merchants In Havana Must Not Discriminate. Three Americans in Havana—Han¬ son, King and Holland—have each been sentenced to twm months’ im¬ prisonment and to pay a fine of $85 and two-thirds of the costs of the pro¬ ceedings for placing over their saloon a sign reading: “We cater to white people only.” Their place had been closed Janunry last by order of the civil governor be¬ cause they had refused to serve a colored Cuban general, but they bad been allowed to open the saloon again on promising to serve the public with¬ out distinction of color. Costly Tobacco Blaze. Fire at Danville, Va., Tuesday night destroyed four tobacco factories, sev^ eral dwellings and a number of small¬ er houses together with their contents. The loss will aggregate probably $GO,000.__ Harrison Returns Home. Former President Harrison and fam¬ ily returned to their home iu Indian¬ apolis, Ind., Tuesday, after an ab- sence of six months in Europe. regiment then deployed under fire with Major John A. Logan’s battalion in the center; Major (Tonic’s on the right and Major Marsh’s on the left. The skirmish line, which was a mho long, advanced rapidly, keeping up a constant fire. The Filipinos made an unexpectedly good stand, many of them remaining under oover until the Americans were within twenty feet of them. Major Marsh flanked a trench fnll of insur gents, surprising them and slaughter¬ ing noarly all of them before the town. The gatling killed five of the force holding the bridge and swept the country beyond the town, driving about 150 Filipinos into the hills. Marsh’s battalion, entering the town first, captured a flag, which was flying over a convent. The insurgents are supposed to have retreated toward Dagupan. It was impossible to pur¬ sue them, ns the Americans were ex¬ hausted aud their supply of ammuni¬ tion was low. The outposts killed five Filipinos during the night. The body of the Filipino lieutenant colonel com¬ manding was found among the killed. The regiment retired to San Fabian Sundny, it being impossible to get supplies over the roads. ill an co Imitated- A proclamation of the Fiiipinos’ secretary of war was found in all the villages giving accounts of Filipino victories and saying 7,500 Americans had been killed and 15,000 wounded during the war. SOLD DEAD BODIES. Memphis Undertaker Did B:g Busi- r, - nsss ,n “Cadavers.” zinc-huert trunks, sueli as are used by traveling men to cairy sain- plea, each containing a corpse, were taken from the baggage room su the um°n station at St. Louis, lueaday, and E. D. Thompson, a brother ot 1 iank 'lliompson, who says lie i& city undertaker at Memphis, i enn., is un- <1,er arrest. Charges against j.homp- ROU are being formulated. For some time the police have been aware that a traffic in human bodies has been going on through St. Louis and have been on the watch for evidence. When taken to police headquarters Thompson made a clean breast of the whole affair. He said he had the con- tract for burying the city dead of Memphis. For some time he had been selling the bodies to medical colleges throughout that part of the country. PHOSPHALE LAND DEALS. Valuable Property Changes Owner¬ ship In Tennessee County. An interesting review of the sale of phosphate land in Columbia, Tenn., is given by The Chattanooga News, from its special correspondent. The sales of phosphate lands within | the last two weeks have amounted to | about $125,000. Oue of ihe places sold was the Orr farm, near Mt. Pleas¬ ant. There are about 300 acres in tho tarm, and it brought $75,000. It is estimated, that there are not move than 100 acres containing phosphate rock, of consequence, on the farm. The price paid for the rock proper, there¬ fore, was something like $750 an acre. This will give the public some con¬ ception of the value now placed upon phosphate lauds in the district. ALMOST ~A SAM HOSE. Farmer Brained With Ax aiul His Home Robbed. News reached Columbus, Gn., Tues¬ day, of a case in Harris county, which, j for fiendish coldbloodedness and de- j liberation, almost equals the notorious j Ham Ilose case, near Newuan. Sunday night Mr. Bartlett Horn, a well known and highly respected farmer of Harris county, was assaulted by a negro named Will Stapleton, who struck him on the head three times with an ax, crushing his skull and in¬ flicting probably fatal injuries. The negro’s purpose was robbery, and he was successful in this, securing $65. It is thought had it not been for the timely arrival of neighbors the second chapter of the Sam Hose case woold have been enacted, as Mr. Horn’s wife was in another room, helpless. MUST RELEASE MARKS. Boers Threaten to Kill English Offi¬ cers If Spy Is Held. A special dispatch received at Lon¬ don from Cape Town, dated Friday, November 10, says that State Secreta¬ ry Beitz has demanded that General White immediately release the sup¬ posed spy, Nathan Marks, who is con¬ fined at Ladysmith, coupling his de- mnnd with a threat to execute eix British officers. General Buffer replied, according to the dispatch, that he was entitled to retain the man until he should ren¬ der a satisfactory account of himself. Cost of Mnlntning Navy. According to the annual report of the paymaster general it cost $13,936,- 914 to maintain in commission the ships in active service in tho navy last year. Nashville Reaches Port Said. The United States gunboat Nash¬ ville, from San Juan de Porto Eico, October 14, for Manila, arrived at- Port Said Tuesday. WAGNERSOONTOCOME MUGICAL CONDUCTOR TO VISIT UNITED STATES. Will Give Concerts In the Principal CltleH—Son of ltcnovrned German Composer—Ills Musical Training at Bayreuth. Siegfried Wagner expects to visit the United States this winter for the pur¬ pose of conducting concerts in the principal cities of the north and east. He is the son of the renowned German composer, Richard Wagner, and the grandson of the no less noted German musician, Franz Liszt. Young Wagner first gave his attention to music some thirteen years ago. During his father’s lifetime he had received no encourage¬ ment to study music, but the atmos¬ phere in which he grew up was charged with music, and when he was left free to follow his inclinations he started out at once to see what he could do as hie father’s successor. A lack of am¬ bition was certainly not one of hi3 failings. He studied hard and he stud¬ ied long. His mother saw that he re¬ w s m 1 /[) SaSSi 111 wmm\ HERR SIEGFRIED WAGNER, ceived the best training imaginable. Hans Richter, one c£ the greatest con¬ ductors on the globe, taught him the technics of handling an orchestra. He worked in theory, and learned to play many Instruments himself, giving spe¬ cial attention to the piano. Then, when all seemed ready, he appeared be¬ fore the world as a conductor of his father’s works. That was a great event in the German musical world, though, to tell the truth, the people who crowd¬ ed to hear him were led more by curi¬ osity than by expectation of a real mu¬ sical treat. Since then much of lus life has been spent at Bayreuth, where, under his mother’s direction, he be¬ came almost as familiar with the stag¬ ing of the Wagner operas as she was. and she was certainly the greatest of all Wagner stage directors. Young Wagner is not now credited with any of his father’s genius, but his friends point to the short time he has busied himself with music and predict that the future has much in store for him. His manner of conducting is nervous rather than forceful. He knows the scores of the greater part of the Wag¬ ner operas, so that he can conduct al¬ most without following the books. Per- eor.ally Wagner is a small man, though larger than his father. His face is in- telligent, his expression is keen and his bearing self-reliant. His mouth Is sweet and sunken and his chin pro¬ trudes, and he has been described as looking like Richard Wagner, very much feminized. He Is thoroughly a man of the world, and loves a pretty face almost as much as he loves music. He was given in his youth a thorough academic training, and was intended for an architect. The Liszt tomb at Bayreuth was designed by him. BREAKING DOWN CUSTOM. Javanese Family’s Fondness for Beef and Its Results. “When I was a young boy the cus¬ tom of eating beef began to spread. As blood was regarded as unclean and also as Japan has been a strong agri¬ cultural country, there was a deep- rcoted disinclination to eat beef,” says a Japanese writer in the Popular Sci¬ ence Monthly. “In this, of course, one has to recognize the influence of the vegetarian principle of Buddhism, but to anybody who had ever tasted beef it w’as so delicious that be could hardly control his natural appetite by his re¬ ligious scruple. My father was one of those who knew its taste, so now' and then we used to treat ourselves co beef. But where did we eat it? We did not eat ft inside the house. We cooked and ate it in the open air, and in cooking and eating it we did not use the ordinary utensils, but used the special ones kept for the purpose. Why .all these things? Because beef was unclean and we did not like to spread its uncleanliness into our house wherein the ’god shelf’ is kept and into our ordinary utensils which might be used in making offerings to the gods. The day when we ate beef my father did not offer lights to the gods nor say evening prayers to them, as he did usually, for he knew he was unclean and could not approach the gods.” New Use for Electricity. Some time ago the statement was made that the advance of senile de- cay could be checked by the applica- tion of electricity to the base of the brain. Now a French scientist, Dr. Remond, has made the discovery that electricity may be used in tho devel- opment of mental culture. This does not, of course, mean that there is now a royal road to learning, and that all the learning of Greece and Rome can bo transferred into any skull by so many "according volts of electricity. But it means, to Dr. Itemond’s claims that the receptivity of the brain can be so Increased and the capacity for learning extended. The volts do not take instantaneous ef- feet; the course must be prolonged. MAN'S PHY6ICAL DEFECTS. Uneven Shoulders, An n, Less and Mips Are Knmerous. A man can be measured to the best advantage, tailors say, away from a glass. Standing before a mirror he is almost certain to throw out his cheat, If he does not habitually carry It so, and take an attitude that ho would like to have, rather than the one he com¬ monly holds; whereas the tailor wants him, as the portrait painter wants his subject, In his natural pose and man¬ ner. With the man in that attitude, the tailor can bring his art to beai—if that is required—in the overcoming of any physical defect, and produce clothes that will give the best attain¬ able effect upon the figure, as they will be actually worn. The physical defoct most common in man is unevenness of the shoulders. One shoulder is higher than the other, and this is a defect often encountered, though the differ¬ ence in the height may not be so great as to be noticeable, except by one ac¬ customed to taking note of such things. This is a defect that is easily overcome by the tailor, when it exists in a com¬ paratively moderate degree. It is done sometimes simply by cutting the coat to fit on each shoulder, the perfect fit¬ ting coat carrying with it the idea and the appearance of symmetry. Some¬ times, and this is commonly done in cases of more pronounced difference, symmetry is attained by the familiar method of building up or padding the lower shoulder. The influence of the lower shoulder extends down on that side of the body, so that sometimes it is necessary below the arm to cut that side of the coat shorter. Next to un¬ evenness of the shoulders, round shoul¬ ders are perhaps the commonest defect. A very common thing is unevenness of ihe hips. A difference of half an inch here would not be at all remarkable; it is sometimes much more. If a man finds one leg of his trousers—the legs, as he knows, being alike in length— touching the ground, while the other clears it, he may reasonably consider that there is a difference somewhere in his legs. It may be that one leg is longer than the other, hut it is more probable that one liip is higher than the other, or one leg fuller, so that it takes up the trousers more and thus gradually raises the bottom more. It would be a common thing if men were seen with their waistcoats off, to find suspenders set at uneven heights. The variation in the suspenders might be required, to be sure, by a difference in the shoulders, and not in the legs. It is common to find men’s arms of differ¬ ent lengths. The difference may be so slight as to require no special atten¬ tion in the making of their clothes, but it is frequently necessary to make the coat sleeves of different lengths. The- fact appears to be that there are not many perfect men, that is, men of per¬ fect harmony of development and per¬ fect symmetry of proportions, in which respect man is like all things else in nature, like horses, for instance, and trees; but in the greater number of men these defects are within such lim¬ its that they might be described as variations rather than as substantial defects. MAJOR RUSSELL B. HARRISON. Major Russell B. Harrison, inspector general at Santiago, who was recently critically ill with yellow fever, is the only son of former President Benja¬ min Harrison. Major Harrison has had a varied experience. First he was a mining engineer; next he was em¬ ployed for eight years at the United States mint at Philadelphia. Then he went to the west again and served as secretary-treasurer of a big cattle com¬ pany. He turned to journalism and published his own paper in Montana. In 1S88 he became interested In Judge and Leslie’s Illustrated Paper, in New York. Returning to Indiana, he en¬ gaged in the electric railway and elec¬ tric lighting business. For some time R §1 If # / ( MAJOR RUSSELL B. IIAnRISON. the enterprise prospered greatly, but in the period of depression following 1893 Mr. Harrison’s interests suffered considerably, and when the Spanlsh- American war broke out he entered the army with a major’s commission. Ma¬ jor Harrison is really a man of fine qualities, and is popular—in spite of the latent antipathy which his fre¬ quent public mention awakened while his father was president. Ftctorlnl Fostcrd C,«c Some idea of the pictorial postcard craze in Germany is given by the fig- ures 3 ust Published by our consul at Frankfort, says the London Globe, About 12,000 workmen are employed producing these postal souvenirs, and ^ * s estimated that every day about 100 new designs are published, Allowing for each card an issue of 1.000 only—and this is a modest esti- mate it means a total of 100,000 per day- or something iike 30,000,000 per annum. Since the introduction of the souvenir card the number of postcards dispatched in Germany has increased by 12,000,000. The latest cards are a j I great and improvement bear etchings on the by earlier artists oues, of some repute. YOUNG LORD GRAHAM TITLED ENGLISHMAN MAKING HIMSELF USEFUL. ITim Irately floae to Sea as Ship's Mote iu the Merchant Marine—1* the Future Dulce of Montrose—Lords Can lie of Uencilt to Mankind. Once In a while some member of the English nobility breaks away anil really does something. It may be on the stage as a female impersonator, or on the street as an organ grinder, or on the high seas before the mast. Trough the misty glamour of royal vicissitudes shines the beautiful senti¬ ment, “Blood will tell." Now, there’s the marquis of Graham, the future duke of Montrose, who has shipped as a mate in the mercantile marine. Just what his ultimate ambi¬ tion is has not been divulged, but he evidently is going to learn something, and the London papers reward this praiseworthy aim by remarking, “He¬ redity will tell,” and relating the list of his distinguished ancestors. It is heralded that no wonder the love for fine deeds should come out in Lord Graham, for he is not only descended 9 MB “■Ifc A . ^iSKssaiiiiiBy 1 im •^pgigiggp * iKillitiir nr d- TllSlIr C55S iig iHt —- : ShJSSSiT * :• ____________ =5SSS ss ZZ m m m mm rfliH PiilSIS! S' m it THE MARQUIS OP GRAHAM. from the poet-soldier marquis of the seventeentn century, but he has a dash of the blood of the wonderful Sheri¬ dans in him. His great-aunt married the son of the author of “The School for Scandal,” and his maternal grand¬ mother was also half a Sheridan. The first marquis of Graham distinguished himself in the campaigns of the Cov¬ enanters. The present marquis is just over 21, and is shortly to he examined for a yachtmaster’s certificate. He Is writing a book on the subject of the manning of the mercantile marine. It must be something rarely heroic which the marquis is attempting, for Clark Russell composed this for one of the London papers: “This gallant and high-spirited young nobleman quitted the exalted social platform he adorns to enter the arena cf human labor that, by personal experience, he might qualify himself hereafter to deal with what your able contemporary, the Naval and Military Records, affirms to be the gravest na¬ tional question of the century. Such virtues of sympathy and humanity are, to use the language of that sweet and gentle genius, Sir Henry Wotton, ‘more precious than the most glorious triple diadem.’ ” This, however, is the nautical career of the marquis. When he left Eaton, in 1S95, he joined H. M. S. Volage, a training ship for boys, where he re¬ mained for a year and a half, and then, after some yachting in the Mediter¬ ranean, went in H. M. S. Melpomene to India on an expedition lasting from October, 1897, to April, 1898, to observe the solar eclipse. In these ships he had sufficiently mastered seamanship and navigation to join Devitt and Moore’s vessel, the Hesperus, as a junior mate, In which capacity he served from November last year till the end of last June, visting Australia. An Old Indian Custom. Near the town called The Needles, about twelve miles across the Colorado river, on the California side, writes W. E, Curtis, from Flagstaff. Ariz.. to the Chicago Record, Is an area of about 1.000 acres, more or less, where the Hualapais Indians rake up the stones In winrcws In a most mysterious man- ner and for a reason that p naver been satisfactorily explained to the white citizens in that section. It la a dreary and dusty desert. Rain sel¬ dom falls. The surface of the ground, a hard clay that has been baking In the sun for centuries, is covered with brok¬ en lava and pumice stone, which at some time was discharged from one of the groat volcanoes, whoso silent cra¬ ters can be seen in the San Berdardino mountains. This is the ordinary ap¬ pearance of the country for leagues around. You can travel an hour, or ten hours, for that matter, in any di¬ rection away from the river bed, with¬ out seeing anything green or any plant or thing of life, except a cactus or a sage brush. Under the shadow of a group of mighty hills Is a mesa, or tableland, that is almost level, and there, once a year, upon some anni¬ versary whose significance is not un¬ derstood, and cannot be ascertained, the Hualapais tribe gather at night and rake the lava and pumice stones into wlnrows. Some of the winrow3 are two miles long, They are regular in length and In intervals, and the aver¬ age height is about twelve or fifteen inches, just about the height of a win- row of hay left by a borserake in a meadow. THE SULTAN’S SON. The young son of “the sick man of Europe,” as he has been called for so long, has just been admitted to the re¬ ligion of the Mussulman, and to cele¬ brate that event has had his photo¬ graph taken. The little Prince Abdul Rahim Effendi is just 5 years old, the if' i* a i'! h it mi ffl m ■ m HI m m m ■ Ste m si/; PRINCE EFFENDI. necessary age for initiation Into the mysteries of the religion of Islam. His admission into the sacred order was made the occasion of a grand fete.