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Those leaving the city during the summer can have the Daily and Sunday Courier-Journal sent to their address for 75 cents a month. The address will be changed as often as desired, Leave order at Courier-Journal Counting-room. 4, 1899 "Business." Saturday Evening, July close of the week was marked by a continuation of the most encouraging returns, and although failures have shown a slight increase they are still proportionately very small, taking into consideration the present conditions. The quarterly statement which was promulgated today shows an aggregate of $34.498,074, which is the smallest of any second quar. ter since 1890.

The exports of wheat continue enormous. During the week they were, flour included, 4.006,890 bushels from Atlantic ports, against 2.064.172 last vear, and Pacino ports The cotton situation is also very favor. able: It is estimated by experts that about 90 per cent. of the cotton manufactory machinery is now employed and yet the output is not greater than requirements, as the demand continues to strengthen. The heavy foreign stocks indicate that there has been a diminution in the usual demand from Great Britain.

Although some improvement is anticipated in wool shortly by many, the transactions for the week indicate that the demand was conOned to needs for orders in hands, and very little outside trading has been feeted. The boot and shoe market has remained practically, unchanged from last. week's condition and the phase of the situation that requires mention is that shipments have slightly decreased, The iron industry has been characterized by a cessation, to some extent, in activity, and the situation as a whole has not been as satisfactory or encouraging as anticipated and prices have declined, Probably the most striking feature in the financial situation is the sudden and unexpected change in the character of railroad gross earnings. Roads which but short time ago reported heavy increases now report, small Increases, while some roads actually report losses. The Glorious Fourth At Santiago.

The news from the front is encouraging this morning. The reports are that Cervera's squadron, with the exception of one vessel, has been destroyed. Shafter has demanded the surrender. of Santiago and thinks that his demand will be acceded to. The first expedition of our troops to the Philippines has arrived at Manila.

It'1 is not. impossible, therefore, that this Fourth day of July may. see both Santiago and Manila under the Stars and Stripes. However that may be, our possession of these cities can not now be long delayed. With Cervera's squadron no.

more and our army beleaguering Santiago by land, backed by practically un. limited cements it needed, the city is bound to fell. With the destruction of the Spanish squadron, which met Its fate in an attempt to steal out of the harbor, the real object of our investment of Santiago will have been accomplished, although, of course, now we shall not finish our work there until both the and probably the entire eastern end of Cuba are in our hands. This news comes all the more gratefully because the country was disturbed yesterday by a dispatch from Gen. Shafter, announcing that he had found the defenses of Santiago too strong for him to successfully storm, supplemented by a reported declaration by Gen.

Miles that Shafter would probably abandon the points of vantage he had won by the battles of Friday and Saturday and retire to the hills to await moving re-enforcements. There seems to 1 be no doubt that Shafter made the mistake of underestimating the strength of the Spanish defenses, or he would not have begun his attack until he had brought his siege guns up from the beach at Baiquiri, but if the reported developments of Saturday, night and yesterday shall turn out to be true all that we should have gained by victoriously storming the city will be ours, and another great, if not final, step will have been taken toward bringing Spain to hers senses and' ending the war. What We Celebrate, It is the Fourth of July. The proposal that this anniversary be celebrated with uncommon zeal and universality has met with general favor, But it is important that we understand what it is we are celebrating. A Massachusetts clergyman in his sermon to precede the Fourth takes the ground that Government is not a mutual compact entered into by citizens; that it is not the result of voluntary association; that it is not an economic arrangement guaranteeing titles and promoting trade; that it is not an arrangement to curb the selfishness of men and to restrain fraud and violence.

He finds proof of this in the assumption that God condemned it by putting down the Confed. erate rebellion, and that Greece was enslaved when it exchanged the national Idea for the confederate idea. The sin of the contract theory of nationality, he says, consists in that it means that the foundation of human order rest the caprice of man rather than on the will of God. He continues: "For the nation is a divine institution, and not a human device. Neither can theory account for it, justify it, or adequately describe it, which does not concede its divine foundation, and its divine character.

"The nation is not the creature of human wills. It is not to be enrolled among the devices of human ingenuity. It is not the product of the citizens who compose it, but conversely citizens are its product." With the theological questions raised or suggested in this surprising view of the Government of the United States we have nothing to do. We wish merely to remark that this is not the doctrine of the Declaration of Independence, and it is not what the people of the United States are called upon to celebrate today. It is not the difference between the national and confederate Idea with which we have to deal, but rather with the origin of governmental power itself.

We may remark, however, that the Declaration of Independence was soon followed by the formation of a confederacy, and a very loose confederacy at that, under which the war for independence was brought to a successful conclusion and a treaty of peace negotiated. Afterwards, a more perfect Union was desired, and it was formed by "the at has' been supposed ever since, to be the product of the citizens, the people, But we desire to call attention to the lesson of the day found in the great declaration which is to be read all over the country before the sun shall set. Jefferson and the Continental Congress adopting his words said: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, would dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light or transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." This extract is sufficient to show the principle upon which the Declaration of Independence was founded.

Its essential idea la that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, the people, the citizens. The divine agency indeed is distinctly recognized, not in setting up governments, but in endowing men with inallenable rights for the protection of which they are authorized to set up governments and to alter or abolish them when the necessities of the case are so imperative as to justify so grave a step. The passage we have quoted is not mere bit of rhetoric put into the Decla. ration to give it a literary finish. It had a distinct and perfectly well understood purpose.

It combated a theory of government in which many of the subjects of Great Britain in the thirteen colonies had. been brought up, and to which many, perhaps a majority of them, still adhered. This theory was that kings ruled by divine right, that they were the Lord's anointed, whom It was implety as well as treason to resist. According to this theory it was the kings, and not the people, who had been endowed with rights, and the people received all their grants, if any, through the medium of the Lord's anointed: This Idea had given the theologians a good deal of trouble at the time of the deposition of James but they found a way to get around it then, and the patriots: of 1776 repudiated it in express terms. The large number of Tories of that day, however, shows that there were many who still held to the old doctrine of the divine right of kings.

The essence of oppression is not in the form of government, though we are not to infer from this that one form is as good as another. There are monarchies, however. where there la as much freedom as in some republics, and even more. The theory that the government makes the citizen, and not the citizen the government, is contrary to the Declaration of Independence, and so far as our Government, under the Constitution, is concerned, it is contrary to the truth of history. To stand up for the Government, to support it and to defend it, is, indeed, a duty of the citizen; not because the Government made him, but because he or his representatives made the Government.

He may alter the Government, if possible, by peaceable means, but the Declaration teaches that he is not to try to abolish it "while evils are sufferable." Fidelity to the Government is, therefore. a high civic virtue unless it has ceased to answer the ends for which it was instituted. No such case as that is now presented, and we trust that none ever will be. But the right to change a bad Government into good one can not well be denied in this country, and if it be denied the Fourth of July is a bad day on which to do it. Wigwagger Duffeld, The reports of Friday's engagement around Santiago put Gen.

Duffleld in a light which hardly has a resemblance to a halo. Duffleld was assigned to take the coast village of Aguadores while Sampson reduced its defenses from the sea. Duffeld's troops approached the town on a railroad train. When they got off Cuban scouts were sent forward to reconnoiter. Sampson wigwagged Duffield and inquired when the bombardment from the sea should begin.

Dutfield answered: "When the rest of the command arrives. Then I will signal you." In about four hours the rest of the command arrived and Duffleld wigwagged Sampson to begin firing. Sampson demolished the Spanish forts and riddled the rifle pits, till there seemed that there was nothing else for him to do, especially as there was no sign of reply from the Spanlards. But after an hour and a half of this work, and Sampson had ceased firing because there was nothing more tofire at, Duffeld wigwagged Sampson that no damage had been done the Spanish rifle pits. Sampson replied that he had hit the pits several times and there was nobody in them, but to satisfy Duffeld he poured more shells into them.

About an hour later Duffield wigwagged Sampson the question: "What's the news?" Sampson replied: "There is not Spaniard left in the rifle pits." Later Duffield wigwagged Sampson that he thought Spaniards were marching to the battered old fort. Sampson assured 1 Duffield that there 1 was not Spaniard left in that vicinity, but that if any appeared the Gloucester would take care of them, that he could not cross the creek. and, notwithstanding the fact that there was a trestle over it, only part of one span, nearest Duffleld, having been destroyed, Duffeld put his troops on the train and went back to Altares without having made an attempt to carry out his part in the programme which the other commands were so gallantly pushing forward. Duffleld, who is from Michigan, and is one of Alger's pets, may not be a duffer, as the appearances against him may do him injustice, but he is certainly a wigwagger. Of course the land-lubbers need not be expected to understand why when Sampson sends ships to destroy Spanish vessels he does not make sure of it by sending real men-of-war instead of hastily converted eggshells like the Hist and the Hornet.

He has over a dozen vessels at Santiago, any one of which could have destroyed or captured all the Spanisa craft in the harbor of Manzanillo, which whipped the little Hist, Hor. net and Wampatuck. The superiority of the Courier-3 nal's war news service has often been demonstrated, but never more clearly than in the reports published yesterday giving in graphic detail the story of the flerce struggle at Santiago Friday and Saturday. No other newspaper in this territory had anything to approach the account published by the Courier-Journal. The enormous sales of the paper Saturday and yesterday attest the public appreciation of this service.

The mountaineers in Capt. Shelley's company at Lexington have the proper idea of food for soldiers. They objected to the rations given them, but instead of an appeal for pies and cake asked for corn bread and bacon. Such fare as that will give strength for the most arduous toil in the hottest climate, as the experience of millions of Southern tarmers and laborers the whole year round will testify. The Spanish Captain who ended an engagement by running his vessel on shore and bursting her boller is the next hero in order for decoration at Madrid.

Somehow or other, though, the tactics of these, Spanish heroes have a monotonous sameness about them, since they usually terminate in the destruction of their ships and forces. The war editors of the German press, we are told by a Berlin dispatch, "continue to regard the situation as. very unfavorable for the. Americans, as well as for the For whom do they Spaniards," regard it as favorable, then -the Germans? Lieut. Carranza, we are informed from Montreal, has been missing since MonTay.

Perhaps he has gone out to fight duel with himselt. ENERGY Promised By Washington To Meet the Situation REPORTED BY SHAFTER. Will Try Hard To Get ReStarted. DISTRESS IN SANTIAGO REPORTED BY FOREIGN CONSULS IN THE -BUILDINGS RIDDLED. SOME NEWS WITHHELD.

Washington, July the heat and carnage of the battlefield of Santiago, where for the last three days the American forces have pressed forward against an intrenched enemy, Gen. Shafter to-day sent the following dispatch summarizing the situation: Playa del Este, July 3-To the Secretary of War, Washington: Camp Near Sevilla, Cuba, July We have the town well invested on the north and east, but with a very thin line. Upon approaching it we And it of such a character and the defenses so strong it will be impossible to carry it by storm with my present force. Our losses up to date will aggregate a thousand, but list has not yet been made. Little sickness outside of exhaustion from heat and exertions of the battle of the day before yesterday and the almost constant fire which is kept up on the trenches.

Wagon road to the rear is kept up with some difficulty on account of rains, but I will be able to use it for the present. Gen. Wheeler is seriously ill and will probably have to go to the rear to-day. Gen. Young also very ill; confined to his bed.

Gen. Hawkins slightly wounded in the foot during the sortie the enemy made last night, which was handsomely repulsed. The behavior of the troops was magnificent. Gen. Garcia reports that he holds the railroad from Santiago to San Luis, and has burned a bridge and removed some rails; also that Gen Pando has arrived at Palma and that the French Consul, with about.

four. yesterday from Santiago. Have directed him to treat them with every courtesy possible. SHAFTER, Major General. Secretary Alger sent the following re- plv to Gen.

Shafter: To Gen. Shafter: The President atrects me to say that you have the gratitude and thanks of the nation for the brilliant and effective work of your noble army on Friday, July 1. The steady valor and heroism of officers and men thrill the American people with pride. The country mourns the brave men who fell in battle. have added new names to our roll They of heroes.

R. A. ALGER, Secretary of War. The dispatch speaks for Itself, and, as Adjt. Gen Corbin said, tells what a desperate fight our gallant troops have been in.

It was received at noon today, after a lull of nearly thirty-six hours in the official information from the field. At first, when it became known that the American commander had reported the defenses to be 80 strong it would be impossible to carry them by storm with his present force, there was momentarily a wave of deep apprehension. But this was not shared by the military authorities here. All their energies, all their attention, was turned to meeting the situation as presented by Gen. Shafter.

There was neither time nor disposition to take account of what had gone before, when the fact was plain that the American army had fought its way inch by inch, under a blazing sun, through a dense tropical vegetation, steadily advancing and beating back the foe, taking posttion after position, until, as Gen. Shafter reported, the town was well invested on the north and east by the longdrawn-out line of American troops. That was a sufficient tribute to the valor of our brave men, and it silenced all cavil over the conditions now presented by Gen. Shafter It was a time for action, for re-enforcements, and toward the execution of this end every effort of the Administration was at once turned. The Spanish Losses.

But there was other information of a different tenor, coming about the same time. The American army was not alone feeling the effects of this three shock of arms. Definite, positive information was at hand that Santiago had been literally torn to pieces, and that in the wreck and ruin of demolished buildings the Spanish casualties numbered fully 1,000. This was a fitting offset to any qualms raised by the reports from the American lines. This information came from one of the foreign Consuls stationed at Santiago, who reported to the representative of his country in Washington the fearful havoc within the city wrought.

by the American army and the fleet. The distress of the city even before the battle was clearly shown by the action of this Conaul in serving out rations of one-half pound daily to his felber, for the last month. Evidently there low-countrymen, a few hunared in numwas no food to buy; the Spanish military forces had taken every available pound; only by this official distribution of rationa to the foreign colony could they be kept from starvation. Then came the brief but graphic recital of the terrible effect of the American attack from land and sea. The bursting shells from our fleet had done the greatest damage inside of the city.

Buildings were riddled with rifle shot and mown down with the huge shells and solid projectiles from the ships. Most serious of all the Spanish Commander, Gen. Linares, occupying a place similar to that of Gen. Shafter In the American army, was seriously wounded. This last fact had been grudgingly admitted from Madrid, but the TA- port reaching here.

left no room for doubt as to the seriousness of this feature, With it was the further fact that the Spanish casualties, even behind intrenchments, ran up to a thousand, and were equal to that of the fearless men who fought in the open. With all the lights furnished on the situation, official and unofficial, direct and indirect, It was apparent that each side had suffered terribly, with now a period of lull for those in responsibility to measure their conditions, bury their dead, care for their wounded, and prepare for the graver conflict yet to come. Future Movements. The President and his war advisers remained calm throughout the trying experiences of the day. All their attention was directed to the work of preparation, The future movements of Gen.

Shafter are well established. They had been made known in his dispatch, but it was deemed advisable not to make this portion public, as it would serve to advise the enemy of the American plans. It can only be said that Gen. Shafter's forces will be strongly and favorably located, with the guns of the American warships serving as an additional protection to their front. Re-enforcements will be hurried to them, which will be ample for any emergency, whether it be storm or siege.

With Santiago partially wrecked and filled with a thousand dead and wounded, the condition there is desperate, even critical. There is little likelihood of any Spanish sorties in force under such circumstances, but the possibility still opens that the Spanish garrison may seek relief by evacuating the city and retiring to the mountain paths to the north. But the American plan is for offensive, vigorous action, and with the full resources of men and arms at the command of the country. As Gen. Miles said, 50,000, if need be, will move on Santiago; if more are needed, then it will be 75,900.

The lesson of Santiago has served only to enkindle a greater earnestness throughout every avenue of official life at the national capital. And there is a deep set determination to meet heroic conditions with heroic treatment. Following the report of Gen. Shafter's telegram there was a hurried war conterence at the White House. Secretary Alger, accompanied by Gen.

Corbin, reached there a few minutes before 1 o'clock, and was immediately closeted with the President. Secretary Alger brought the Shafter dispatch with him, and also maps and other data necessary for the important meeting about to take place. Gen. Corbin was with the President and Secretary for a few minutes, and then hurried back to the War Department, where he made public such portion of Gen. Shafter's dispatch as was compatible with public interest.

Assistant Secretary Meikeljohn, who has a thorough knowledge of the transport service, was also hastily summoned, and reached the White House about 1 o'clock. The conference lasted for some time. Gen. Miles' Idea. Gen.

Miles, who also was at the White House, said that re-enforcements would be rushed to the assistance of Gen. Shafter. and, if necessary, these would aggregate 50,000 men, though the Gen-' eral had no Idea that such a number would by any means be necessary. The combined American and Cuban forces now ur der the command of Gen. Shafter amounted approximately, he said, to 23,000 men, while those available for the Spaniards were probably 32,000 soldiers.

These included, however, the men at Holguin, presumably about 10,000, and the force under another Spanish General, amounting to about 8,000 men. Gen. Miles did not say whether the two bodies of men last referred to had actually joined Gen. Linares, but the understanding is here that they have not. Col.

Humphries is in charge of the and he Wur sentr wack to sels that can be spared as rapidly as possible. In fact, word had been received that the transports had started for the United States this morning. If possible the War Department will send 15,000 men from Tampa on these transports. Six vessels have recently Icaded with men, ammunition, arms, suppli es, and are now elther at Key West or on their way to re-enforce Shafter's army. Included in this expedition are some batteries of artillery.

In all these torces constitute about 2,500 or 3,000 men. Gen. Miles, in the course of a brief talk. said to-day that Gen. Shatter might contemplate the withdrawal of his forces to the highlands in the direction of Siboney, where they would be near the sea.

This, however, would a temporary expedient, enabling the soldiers to rest and prepare for the work ahead. The Re-Enforcements. The officials hope to rush the re-enforcements to Gen. Shafter so that there will be from $2.000 to 35,000 men under his command within the next ten days, and sooner, if this can be arranged. This is exclusive of the insurgents, of whom Gen.

Garcia has been able to bring 10 Shafter's command approximately 4,000 men. There were about 15,000 men and officers in the expedition that set out from Tampa less than a month ago. These have since been re-enforced by the troops of Brig. Gen. Duffield's command, amounting to 3,000 men and consisting of the Thirty-third and Thirtyfourth Michigan and Ninth Massachusetts regiments.

The first 1,300 of Gen. Duffleld's brigade have been with Shafter for a week, while the remainder have just debarked. During the past week a second expedition of large proportions was scheduled to leave Tampa carrying a good portion of Gen. Simon Snyder a division of the Fourth corps as re-enforcements for Gen. Shafter.

Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn said. to-day that eleven transports were available to carry Snyder's troops, and while without any official information on the subject, he assumed that probably 5,000 of them were on their way in these transports to join those in Santiago province. The other troops to be sent to the aid of Gen. Shafter will, according to the understanding here, be the remaining portion of Gen. Snyder's division, and such other regiments now at Tampa best equipped and ready for active work.

Gen. Brooke, commanding at Chickamauga, has already received instructions to have fifteen regiments prepared for immediate movement. Gen. Snyder' division, which was under orders for Santiago, included the following regiments: Eleventh and Nineteenth infantry of the regular army, the First District of Columbia, the Second New York, the Filth Maryland, the Third Pennsylva. nia, the 157th Indiana and the First Ohio.

Gen, Garretson's brigade, now at Camp. Alger, is under orders for Santiago Garretson's brigade is composed of the Sixth Illinois, Sixth Massachusetts and the Eighth Ohio volunteer regiments. The army officials, feeling that they have profited by the experiences in preparing the first expedition, say better time will be made with those to follow. The Mohawk, and the Mississippi, two vessels of the American transport line just acquired by the Government, have facilities for about 1,800 men and animals and probably will be utilized in sending aid to Shafter. They are now at New York under orders for Tampa.

Killed At El Caney. Madrid, July dispatch to El Imparcial from Havana says that Maj. Dominguez was killed in the fighting at El Caney. BULLET Brings Instant Death To George Liebegott. LIVELY SHOOTING.

SCRAPE. BYREL HOWLETT ARRESTED FOR THE MURDER. OSCAR FISHER WOUNDED. Outcome of a Quarrel Among Boys and Barkeeper Over the Sale of Beer. ONLY ONE EYE-WITNESS.

A shooting scrape occurred last night at 6 o'clock in the saloon of Liebegott 1348 Fifteenth street, in which George Liebegott was Instantly killed and Oscar Fischer was seriously wounded. Byrel Howlett, seventeen years of age, was ar. rested and charged with murder. Fischer, Ben Ross and John Hunter, who accompanted Howlett, were locked up as accessories to the The prisoners refused to talk concerning the affair. The police, however, after a thorough investigation, told the story of the killing.

Yesterday afternoon Byrel Howlett, Oscar Fisher, Ben Ross and John Hunter, all boys not out of their teens, went to Liebegott saloon and began to drink beer. They sat in the yard in the rear of the place for over an hour and drank till they became. intoxicated. George Liebegott was tending bar. The boys became boisterous, and sent a bucket into the saloon to be filled with beer.

Liebegott told them that they were drunk and that he would sell them nothing more to drink. After arguing for several minutes the quartet left the place and walked out Fit. teenth street. They returned shortly before 6 o'clock and stood on the corner of Fifteenth and Lexington streets. It is said that Hunter and Ross did not want to return to Liebegott's saloon, belleving they would get into trouble.

Fisher and Howlett were persistent, and said they would get beer at Liebegott's place or know the reason why. They started in advance of Hunter and Ross and entered the yard in the rear of the saloon. When Liebegott heard the boys talking he walked to the porch leading into the yard. According to the information of the police, Fisher told Liebegott, that they had come for something to drink, an dthat they were going to get it or have trouble. Liebegott replied that he would not sell them a drop.

Th eupon Fisher started toward him with an open knife in his hand. Liebegott drew a revolver and fired at the ground, believing it would scare Fisher. The latter brandished the knife and continued to advance. Liebegott then fired a second shot, which buried itself in Fisher's right breast. Fisher ran from the yard with blood streaming from the wound and crying that he had been shot.

Then, it is claimed by the police, Howlett drew his revolver and began firing at Liebegott, who was walking backward into the saloon. The third shot from Howlett's revolver took effect in Liebegott's heart and killed him inHowlett, Ross and Hunter ran and made their escape down Lexington street. Fisher staggered into Dr. Howard's office, on Fifteenth street, between Maple and Lexington, and told him that he was badly wounded. While the wound was being dressed Corp.

McPeak placed Fisher under arrest, and 'later took him to jail, where he was registered as an accessory to murder. Sergt. Doran received information that Howlett, Ross and Hunter had been seen in Parkland and that Howlett, in talking to a friend, had said: "We pumped a fellow full of bullets awhile ago." A detail of police, in command of Sergt, Doran, made a search of the woods south of Parkland, and about 9 o'clock located the fugitives on Twenty-eighth street, near the Southern railroad track. The three boys were taken to jail and were locked up as accessories to the crime. Hunter, Ross and Howlett refused to answer any questions asked of them.

Fisher said: "Us fellows had been going to Liebegott's every Sunday afternoon and drinking beer. When I got there today I found Howlett and Liebegott quarreling. Liebegott drew a pistol and shot me. 1 do not think he meant to hit me, though. I ran to the doctor's office.

I heard several shots on the way there, and guess it was then that Liebegott was killed. I do not know who did the shooting. I can not say that it was Howlett." Fisher's story does not coincide with the statements of the police. Coroner Me. Cullough says Alex.

Bohannan was the only eye-witness to the affair. His story agreed with that of the police in every detail. The time for the Inquest in the case has not been fixed. Howlett. Ross, Hunter and Fisher will be presented in the Police Court this morning.

Fisher's physicians say he will be able to appear. Liebegott was widower thirty-five years of age. He leaves three children. Hunter is a son of Patrolman Hunter, and lives on Southgate street, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth. Ross is.

a son of -Deputy Jailer Ross, and resides with his parents, on Fifteenth street, near Lexington. Howlett and Fisher live in the vicinity of the killing. The post-mor. tem examination held by the Coroner developed that the bullet penetrated the right auricle of Liebegott's heart and tore its way through the back. NEWS OF THE TOWN IN BRIEF.

The Mose Greens' outing was to have closed yesterday. Through a spirit of patriotism the members of the club have decided to continue the cemp to-day in order to celebrate July 4 properly. Edward Beyer, a fifteen-year-old boy living at Garden and Madison streets, lost his right thumb as the result of the explosion of a fire cracker yesterday efternoon. Dr. Rudell attended him.

John Baeher attempted to catch a moving car at Fountain Ferry last night and fell, dislocating his collarbone. Dr. Davis get the bone, after which Baeher was taken to his home at Shelby and Green streets. Katherine Wendell, Hardy, an Infant aughter of Mr. and Mrs.

William R. Hard. died yesterday at noon. The funeral will take place this morning at 10 o' eleck tom the residence of Mr. J.

E. Hardy. d. Ferguson, a young boy who lives at Clay and Walnut streets, was having a preliminary celebration of the Fourth yeterday by shooting cannon crackers. In orer to make the discharge more violent he piled reeks on top of a cracker and tourned it off.

One of the rocks struck himon the righ arm, inflicting a painful gash He was attended by Dr. Cutting. Ed O'Neal was arrested at the foot of Thire street yesterday afternoon on the chare of malicious cutting. O'Neal had a fight with Hannah Taylor in a house on the lee, between Third and Fourth, and cut br in the arm and side. Patrolmen Kennel and Fitzgibbons arrested O'Neal and heattempted to make a fight.

He was severer clubbed before he could be subdued. Charla Kuhn, who lives at Campbell and Gren streets, started out for a buggy ride yeterday afternoon. He went out Clay stiet and stopped for a few moments a Walters' brewery, on Clay street, near Waut. Just as he started to reenter the buggy the horse became frightened and ran away, throwing Kuhn Gown. He was severely bruised.

but 10 bones were broken. Harry Swain, of Hook and Ladder Company, No: 2, stopped the horse. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. Samuel H.

Garvin, the jail physician, who 'has been critically ill of jaundice at his residence, 817 West Jefferson street, is much improved and is able to walk about In his room. He has been ill for about six weeks. At one time the attending physicians gave up all hope of his recovery. Miss Stella Vaughan has gone to Toluca Springs for the summer. Mrs.

Charles Klefer is seriously 111 at her home on Preston street. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Price, with their daughter, Miss Katherine Price, and two sons, will leave this week for Roaring Brook, to spend the summer.

Mrs. T. J. Young and daughter, Miss Alice Young, have gone to Lebanon to spend several weeks. They will not return to the city until fall.

Miss Minnie Horton left for Bardstown yesterday, where she will spend two weeks with Mr. Albert Carruthers' family. H. H. Nance, credit man for Richardson Bros.

Nashville, leaves to-day for home after a pleasant visit to Louisville. Mr. Nance came to Louisville to study the credit system of several of Louisville's large business houses. He was much impressed with the system of several houses, but says that the system, of J. M.

Robinson-Norton Company is the finest he ever saw. Mesers. J. D. Gay, of Pine Grove: A.

W. du Bray, of Cincinnati: S. C. Griffith and 0. T.

Britton, Indiarapolis, are registered at the Galt House. They are entered in the bird shooting contest at Fountain Ferry to-day. Mr. and Mrs. R.

W. Whitehead, of Bowling Green, are guests at the Gait House. W. Scott Morrison, of Owensboro, is at the Willard. D.

C. Heron, of Irvington, is at the Wit- lard. Kentuckians In Washington. Washington, July H. Yuntsey, of Covington, arrived this afternoon and has accepted the position of clerk to Capt.

W. H. Lyons, at Camp Alger, Va. Congressman T. Y.

Fitzpatrick returned from Kentucky to-day, and received the congratulations of many friends on his renomination. W. H. Stiglitz, of Louisville, is at the Johnson. Southern People In New York.

New York, July -F. C. Moore, H. H. Koehler, Imperial; H.

Jones, Windsor; J. G. Dean, Albert; H. Everett; J. Macauley, Bartholdi; W.

H. Burke, Sturtevant. Nashville--M. H. Richardson, Grand Union, Maysville, W.

Robertson, Gil- Washington, M. Johnson, Registered At Chicago Hotels. Chicago, July the arrivals in Chicago to-day were: B. F. Leppold, James Fitzgerald, W.

W. Wilder, H. Heady and wife, of Louisville, at the Palmer; J. S. Phelps, Zach Phelps, of Louisville, at the Great Northern.

FOUGHT A WILDCAT. BATTLE IN THE DARK IN HIS BARN. Solution of Nightly Raids On the Roost of a Down-Town Pigeon Fancier. Andrew Rautenbusch, a plasterer who lives at 706 Fifteenth street, had a narrow escape from being killed by a. wild cat several mornings ago at his home.

Rautenbusch is a pigeon fancier and has several hundred fine birds in a roomy barn in the rear of his house. For months he had been missing pigeons. He could assign no cause for the loss of the birds, but finally decided that thieves were making nightly raids on the roost, He sat up one night, but saw no trace of prowlers. He. visited the Sarn the following morning and found that over dozen of his finest pigeons were gone.

He then arrived at the conclusion that cats were killing them. He had never heard of such a thing before, however, and spoke to a number of other fanciers of the mysterious disappearance of his birds. None of them was able to advise him of what course to take. Rautenbusch became desperate, and made up his mind to spend a night at the barn in order to find out the cause of the trouble. The first part of the night was spent quietly, and the pigeons were perched comfortably on their roosts.

Shortly after midnight Rautenbusch heard a slight noise on the floor above. He climbed through a hatch in the floor and looked into the darkness. Away In one corner of the loft and below the pigeon roost he saw a long, sleek figure moving back and forth. Two shining eyes convinced him that the figure in the darkness was an animal of some kind and that the time for trouble had come. Rautenbusch made a noise in moving from his position, and the animal sprang upon him.

It lacerated his arm with its sharp teeth and was tearing the clothing from his body, when he managed to release himself long enough to draw his revolver and fire. Luckily, the bullet took effect, and the animal fell dead to the floor. Rautenbusch ran for a light and discovered that the animal he had killed was a full-grown wildcat. It was pronounced by a taxidermist to be a fine specimen of the Indian wildcat. Rautenbusch says he is at a loss to know how the animal got Into the city, unless it escaped from a circus.

Funeral of Miss O'Connor. The funeral of Miss Alice W. O'Connor will take place this morning at 8 o'clock from the Cathedral. The Rev. Father Ryan, of Illinois, a relative of the deceased, will assist in the service.

Miss O'Connor was an amiable young woman and had a large circle of. friends. The pall-bearers will be as follows: Jerry Bacon, Fred Harrig, Will Kinsella, Henry Colgan, Horace Smith, Allen Glover, Emmet Flattery and Robert Keyer. The interment will take place in St. Louls cemetery.

Mr. Virgil Hewitt Dead. Frankfort, July -Mr. Virgil Hewitt, one of the best-known restdents of this city, died late to-night after an illness lasting a year. He had just returned from Battle Creek, where he went in the hope of recuperating.

He was a brother of Gen. Fayette Hewitt and was in the Auditor's office for some time. He leaves a family. The remains will be sent to Elizabethtown to-morrow and will be buried there Tuesday. Death From Old Age.

Mr. Kennedy, seventy-three years of age, died early last night of old age at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr. Alex. Cronin, 1545 Sotuhgate street, He had been In 111 health for several months. The remains will be sent to Memphis, to-day for interment.

CELEBRATION of the Most Glorious of Fourths of July. ATTRACTIONS ON EVERY SIDE. COMMERCIAL CLUB'S JUBILATION AND OTHER BIG FEATURES. FUN, FIREWORKS AND ORATORY The Fourth of July will be elaborately celebrated Louisville to-day. The good that arrived late last night will lend news all.

Probably the most elabenthusiasm to celebration will be that at Founorate Park. It will be given under tain Ferry of the Commercial Club. the auspices P. Jones, chairman of the Messrs. Sam Committee, and Ed H.

Ba. Entertainment the chairman, have evcon, assistant to erything in readiness. The musical festiwill sing patriotic. airs, the val chorus of Independence will be read Declaration will be made by the Hon. E.

and speeches J. McDermott, Judge Sterling B. Toney The exercises will begin at 4 and others. o'clock. No admission will be charged.

The Turners will also celebrate. the Fourth with a grand athletic carnival Park. The Hon. Wal. at Fountain Ferry ter Evans is expected to be present and deliver an address.

fubllee of the Knights of HonThe silver at Fern Grove will. be one of the bigor gest celebrations of the day. Hibernians will The Ancient the Order Fourth at Phoenix Hill of celebrate will be the order of the Park. Dancing afternoon and evening. Mr.

Matthew He will O'Do- pay herty will deliver the address. his respects to the proposed Anglo-American alliance. Messrs. Thomas William M. Lawler will also speak.

The Knights of Honor lodges of the Falls Cities will hold a jubilee at Fern Grove. for Gol. big gathering at Riverview. This Lum Simons has made preparations a attractive resort will be visited by private families. The East End Club will give a picnic at Button's Grove.

The affair will be under the management of Messrs. Meyer, Fred Rohlander and Martin Jordan. All the parks will be thronged with private picnic parties, while many will preto remain at home and celebrate the fer Fourth under their own vine and fig trees. PROSTRATIONS FROM HEAT. Four Person Topple Over From the Torrid Temperature, But Their Condition Not Serious.

Although the heat yesterday sent the mercury up to 97 degrees, very few prostrations were reported. Edward Lavalle was overcome while in his yard at Twelfth and Green streets about o'clock in the afternoon. He was attended by Dr. Pearce and is now well. Charles Leonard, who lives at Nineteenth and Chestnut streets, was overcome at his home.

Dr. Lee attended him, and he has recovered. Austin Harian was overcome by heat at Jackson and Main streets at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. He was walking down the street, and when near Jackson suddenly fell over unconscious. He was taken to his home on Wenzel street, near Jefferson, His condition is not considered serious.

Mrs. Martha Cardwell, colored, was prostrated by heat on Brook street, between Chestnut and Gray, at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. She was taken to her home in the alley between Second and Third and Walnut and Chestnut street. BIG SHOOT AT NEW YORK. Tournament of National Sharpshooters' Association Begins- Offered In Prizes.

New York, July second shooting tournament or scheutschenfest of the National. Sharpshooters' Association began to-day at Glendale Park, Long Island, and will be continued daily until Monday, July 11. Three years ago the association held its initial tournament on the same grounds and ranges, but the entries for this year's festival are almost double the number on the list in 1896. This year the association is backed by a guarantee fund of $200,000, and the cash prizes alone amount to nearty $30,000. Other prizes, consisting of solid silver trophies, as well as medals, have been presented to the association for the leaders in the several contests, and altogether over $50,000 will be expended in prizes.

The two principal events are the honor target Columbia, otherwise known as the ring target, and the Germania or Stitch target. In the first-named event, the Columbia, the first three prizes of $500, $300 and $200 have been guaranteed by the National Sharpshooters' Union. The first, second and third prizes in the target Germania are $300, $200 and $100. Similar sums have been guaranteed for the contest at the public ring target. Twelve hundred dollars will be split up for the one hundred high scores at the man target and point target, and fifty cash prizes, amountins in all to $1,000, will be distributed among the successful shooters at the American' Standard target.

Three years ago over a dozen experts with the rifle came on here from San Francisco and made an excellent showing, taking back with them to the Pacific coast three first, one second and several minor prizes. This year the extreme West 18 represented by five sharpshooters, only one of whom was here before. They are Fred 0. Young and D. W.

McLaughlin, of the Columbia Rifle Club, San Francisco: R. Stettin and J. D. Heise, of the San Francisco Schuetenverein, and Joseph Singer, of Los Angeles. AN OFFICIAL DENIAL That Germany, France and Russia Have Made An Agreement Regarding the Philippines.

Berlin, July Wolt News Bureau has issued an official denial of the statemen that Germany, France and Russia have reached an understanding relative. to. the Philippine lelands and that an international congress will be held when the Spanish-American war is over, sinilar to the Berlin congress of 1878, 40 far as Germany is concerned. The statement thus denied was rublished in the Frankfurter Zeltung LIEUT. ORD ALIVE.

Report That He Was Killed At tiago a Mistake -Not In the Battle. Fort Thomas, July Mason, wife of Lieut. Mason, of the Sixth regiment Infantry, sister to Lieut. Ord, of the Sixth, who was reported killed in Gen, Shatter's dispatch to-night, recelved a telegram from, her brother, Lieut. Ord, at Playa, Del Este to-day saying: "I am alive well.

Am on Gen. Hawkins' staff; was not in thie battle at all.".