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PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. Mr. I>anforth Brown left yesterday for the seashore. Mr. Frank Cutter has gone to Michigan resorts to spend ten days. Mr. Oliver Eddy, of Washington, D. C., is visiting Mr. William Lilly. Mr. Louis C. Webber is home from a visit to New York and other cities. Mr. Page Chapman has returned from a visit of two weeks in New York. Miss Minnie Mullen, of Paris, 111., is visiting Mis. J 2. M. Johnson and family. Mi*, and Mrs. Henry R. Martin will return to-day from a visit to St. Louis. Br<kebush, of Chicago, is visiting her sister v Jdrs. s - C. Dark, and family. Mr. Morgan Chandler, of Evansville, is Visiting the family of Mr. J. A. Lemcke. Mrs. E. C. Miller and children will leave soon for Charlevoix, Mich., for the summer. Mr. W. P. Kenney and family left yesterday for Atlantic City to spend several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Varney will go to the Victoria the middle of next month to reside. Misses Sarah and Ruth Wilson have gone to Harbor Point, Mich., to join their mother and sisters. Mr. John’ Thomson will return to-day from a visit of several weeks at the Eastern resorts. Mrs. W. *'*. Wiley and son, of Elwood, are visiting her sister, Mrs. Chandler, at the Victoria. Mr. Arba T. Perry will leave to-day for Harbor Point to join his family and remain two or three weeks. Miss Grace Waters, of Wichita, Kan., is visiting the family of Mr. W. E. Shilling, No. 417 North West street. Mrs. J. M. f Chicago, came yesterday to spend a few days with Mrs. Herman Pink, at the Denison. Miss Nellie Cameron left last night for Albany, N. Y.. where she will join friends for a trip to the White mountains. Miss Weller, of Louisville, who has been spending six weeks with Mrs. Holmes and Mrs. L>. R. Levey, has returned home. Misses Alice and Anna Rondthaler, of Chicago, children of Rev. J. A. Rondthaler, are visiting friends on North Illinois street. Mr. and Mrs. William R. • Brown and daughter and Mrs. Minear and son, of Greensburg, went to Atlantic City yesterday. Mrs. S. D. Pray and daughters will leave to-morrow for Bay View, Mich., to join relatives who have been there several weeks. Mrs. Frank A. Hamilton will receive Informally to-morrow afternoon at her home, No. 1428 Central avenue. There are no invitations. Mr. George, H. WHsson and daughter Grace have gone on a trip to Yellowstone Park, and later they will take the boat trip to Duluth. Miss Nettle Chandler and Miss Flora Stanard, of Mobile, Ala., are the guests of Mrs. Goodloe and sisier. Miss Roberts, at the Victoria. Miss Katherine Moore, of Ashland. 0., who has been visiting her cousin, Miss Etether Jordan, for several weeks, has returned home. Mrs. Cheatlna Mauay and son have gone to Ruonville to visit relatives for a few* days before going East for the remainder of the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Horace F. Wood and son. Mrs. W. H. Coleman and daughter left yesterday for Atlantic City and New York to ■pend a month. Miss Caroline Farquhar is spending this week with Mrs. John D. Howland and daughter previous to going to Cincinnati early in August to visit friends. Mrs. Thomas B. Arnold and children, accompanied by her niece, Miss Ferrier, of Philadelphia, will leave to-day for Bayport, Mich., to remain several weeks. Mrs. A. E. Sturtevant is entertaining her mother, Mrs. McEnnery, of Moline, 111., and her sister, Mrs. Courtney, of Chicago, at her home. No. 26 West St. Clair street. Mrs. L. S. Ayres and daughters, Miss Ayres and Mrs. W. B. Wheelock, and her daughter, left last evening for Mackinac to join Mr. arid Mrs. Frederick M. Ayres. Governor and Mrs. Mount entertained Rev. and Mts. J. Cumming Smith, Major and Mrs. McGrow, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Wilson at dinner last evening at their home In Woodruff Place. Mrs. John Knight and daughter, Mrs. Critchlow, Mrs. Kate Y. Vinnedge, Miss Mary Yohn, of this city, and Mrs. Daniel Hughes, of Macon, Ga., left yesterday for Lake Harbor, Mich., to remain six or eight weeks. The ladies of East Washington-street Presbyterian Church will give a reception In honor of their pastor and his wife, Rev. and Mrs. Alexander Urquhart, on Friday evening, July 22. from 8 to 11 o'clock, at the’ church. Mrs. Edwin Spear and daughter Margaret will leave this evening for Cleveland, where she will join her other daughter, and they wHI go to Put-in Bay, and lftter w’ill go East to spend the month of August at Fortune’s Rocks, Me. The ladles who assisted at the lawn fetes recently given for the benefit of Battery A aro requested to meet at the residence of Mrs. Senator Fairbanks on Thursday morning, at 9:30 o'clock, to hear reports and settle all matters of business connected with the entertainments. A lawn fete will be given Friday evening at the residence of Mrs. S. C. Dark, No. 2004 North Illinois street, for the benefit of the Indiana soldiers. The adjoining lawns of J. L. Barnhart. W. C. Barter. C. Me. Jackson, Lucie Pearl Burger, J. Carey Taylor, Mrs. Frank Davey, Mrs. A. J. Taylor, E. A Wales and Mrs. N. A. Moore will be made ready for guests. Mr. Franz Bellinger, of this city, was married yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock to Miss Martha Idell Fletcher at the home of Mr., and Mrs. Joseph C. Meeteer, No. State street, Camden, N. J. After a trip through the Bast Mr. and Mrs. Bellinger will return to this city and will be at home to their friends after Sept. 15 at No, 505 North Delaware street. A successful lawn fete was given last evening at the Knefier house on East Washington street for the benefit of the Covenant Sunday school. There was a large attendance and many attractions in the way of gay illuminations, refreshing things to eat and drink, and gracious women and pretty girls to serve thcnt % A nice sum will be cleared for fund. Mr. and Mrs. James N. Rogers gave a reception to young people last evening in honor of their guest, Mtsa luliette Gardiner, of Laurel, Miss., and of th£ir son, Mr. Hanford Newell Rogers. Mrs. Gardiner, who Is also their visitor, assisted in the reception of guests. The rooms were made attractive with flowefs aid ferns. Mrs.\ Gustav A. Recker and tne-Misses Rogers Vkslsted In the entertainment of guests. The -entertainment was one of the few of the summer season and one of a series which are being given for Mrs. and Miss Gardiner, HR AS6 EUIIMORBLA N D. Special to lisa IndUuapolU Journal*. CITY, Ind.. July lfc-At the *’*"'‘" l " I, .M, morning,

took place the marriage of Miss Juliette Moreland and Alcide Brasseur. Rev Father Dhe performed the ceremony. The bridesmaids and groomsmen were: Misses May Boyle. Laura Bastin, Zema Andre, Jennie Romaine, and Messrs. Jules Moreland, Virgile Haus and Arthur Monoyer. The bridal party, consisting of thirty invited guests, breakfasted at 12 o’clock at the Hotel Martin. Miss Moreland is a native of Fresnes, France, and a graduate of the academy of Madame Bouve, of that city. She also graduated from the musical branch of the National School of Arts, at Valenciennes, France. The groom is a native of Belgium, and a popular young man. TWO OVERCOME BY HEAT. Neither Case Considered Serious— Around Monument l’lace. Complaints of the heat yesterday were more numerous and louder than for some time. Monument place was especially shunned as being too hot for safety. But two cases of heat prostration, how*ever, w*ere reported. D. A. Deboe. 26% South West street, fell on West Washington street yesterday afternoon and was removed to his home in the ambulance. John Colter was the other victim. He dropped In front of the Empire block, at the corner of Massachusetts avenue and Vermont street, and was taken into a near-by store, and then removed to his home on East Thirteenth street in a private conveyance. Neither case is considered serious. BUSINESS IS IMPROVING TIMID CAPITAL IS RECOVERING FROM THE WAR SCARE. Encouraging Reports Received by the President and Cabinet—Peace Generally Expected Before Long. ♦ Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, July 19,-Multlplylng evidences that the great business boom which was interrupted by the war and the events leading thereto has set in again are being received by the President and members of his administration. These repoits, which flow* in from an infinite variety of sources, are exceedingly gratifying to the President. The burden of the advices on the business situation and its bearing upon military affairs is that war has been eliminated from the calculations of those who dominate thought and action in the broad field of finance, commerce and manufactures. Money Is recovering from the season of fear into which It was thrown bv the war, and is again getting behind eng-rprises. The business situation Is described as wondrously encouraging. Bustle is taking the plaee of hesitation and stagnation, and the prophecy is made by leaders in the great communities that the country has entered on the early stages of the greatest period of progress in its history. Business people are not bothering themselves about the way negotiations are to begin and be carried through. They have jumped across the dreary plains of details to the bright beyond, and are planning as though peace had already been declared. The only disturbing element is the Philippine situation, and that does not occasion serious alarm.

Internal Revenne Ruling. WASHINGTON, July 19.—The commissioner of internal revenue has made the following ruling, which has been approved by the Department of Justice: “That papers and instruments executed, made or issued by officers of the government of the United States in the discharge of official functions pertaining to the operation of the governmental machinery and for the use or benefit of the United States are exempt from taxation. In line with this ruling, it is held that all checks and drafts made and issued by the disbursing officers of the United States upon government fundr, on deposit, in payment of government obligations or dues are exempt and all certificates of officers of the United States in the discharge of official functions necessary in carrying on the machinery of the government are also exempt. The same principle would extend to instruments and papers of whatever character (otherwise subject to tax) executed, made or issued by officers of the United States government for governmental purposes. Where, however, certificates or other instruments are issued by any dep. -tment or officer of the government at the request of private persons solely for private use a stamp should be affixed.’* Will Meet nt Qnebee Next Month. WASHINGTON, July 19.—Mr. Kasson and ex-Secretary John W. Foster have returned to Washington from the summer resorts at which they were stopping, preparatory to attending a meeting of the commission appointed by the President to meet a British commission and treat for the settlement of many important questions now at issue between the United States and the Dominion of Canada. This meeting will be Held in the course of a day or two, for, although no formal plans have yet been announced, it is the purpose of the majority of the members to hasten the work of preparation, so that the first meeting of the Canadian commission with the British commissioners will take place at Quebec about the Ist of August. Immigration Act Upheld. WASHINGTON, July 19.-Some time ago the Treasury Department submitted to the attorney general a copy of Section 6 of the immigration act of 1891 for an opinion as to whether the repeated endeavor on the part of transportation companies to bring into the United States aliens afflicted, with a disease pronounced to be loathsome or dangerously contagious was within the meaning of said section, so as to make such companies liable to the penalties prescribed thereby, which is a fine not to exceed SI,OOO. or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both. In an extended opinion Attorney General Griggs has held that the companies are liable to the punishment indicated. Colombia Has Not Paid. WASHINGTON, July 19.—The report of a London paper that the Italian Foreign Office had been informed from Washington that the Cerruti case had been settled from Colombia is said to be erroneous as no report has been sent from Washington and so far as the officials here are aware, the status of the case remains unchanged, with the Italian squadron off Cartagena, Colombia, insisting on speedy settlement, although not yet having adopted a hostile attitude. President to Take an Ontlng. WASHINGTON, July 19.—Next Saturday, If the weather is pleasant, the President will take a few hours’ outing for the first time in several months. Secretary Long today invited the President and the members of the Cabinet to be his guests for an afternoon sail down the Potomac, and next Saturday was selected, as on that day the President was likely to have a little leisure. The trip will likely be made on the Princeton, now at the navy yard. Appointments by the President. WASHINGTON. July 19.-The President to-day made the following appointments: Robert A. Friederlch, of California, to be United States attorney for the district of Alaska; Charles Newell, receiver of public moneys at Burns, Ore.; Tsln Ching Churg, interpreter to the United States consul at Canton, China. General Notes. WASHINGTON. July 19.-The attorney general has rendered an opinion, in which he holds Chinese ''traders,'’ or merchants’ assistants, are not merchants within the meaning of tho Chinese exclusive act. To-day’s statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance. $253,629,140; gold reserve, $185,045,484. F. M. Dice, of Crawfordsvtlle, Ind., recently appointed special agent for the installation of rural free delivery, has been In Washington getting his final instruction*. He left for homo this evening, and after assisting in getting tho Muncie plan under way will proceed to Louisville, Ky., which will be hi* headquarters. The American members of the joint comm'saion to settle differences with Canada will meet in this city to-morrow and organize. Senator Fairbanks has wired that he is •n route and will be here.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1898.

RETURN OF REFUGEES e . GAUNT WOMEN AND EMACIATED CHILDREN BACK IN SANTIAGO. Fight and Scramble for the Snpplies Landed by the Red Cross Steamer State of Texas. CITY IN FILTHY CONDITION a LOWER PORTION RIPE FOR STARTING A YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC. ♦ Beggars Plentiful In the Streets and Much Suffering Among All Classes—Hospitals Filled. a . (Copyright, 1898, by the Associated Press.) HEADQUARTERS OF GENERAL WHEELER, before Santiago, July 16, via Port Antonia and Kingston, Jamaica, July 19, 1:30 p. m. (delayed in transmission.)—The refugees at El Caney received to-day Gen. Shafter's permission to return to Santiago. The starving crowds of women and children, ignorant of the conditions prevailing at Santiago, discussed the advisability of returning and whether they would find food there. They asked themselves, too, whether, as Cubans, they would be safe from maltreatment at the hands of the defeated Spaniards. By 9 o’clock in the morning the most venturesome had started on the four-mile walk to the city and all day long a procession of gaunt women and emaciated children struggled forward, munching mangoes and begging for hardtack. Old' men, too, weak themselves, attempted to assist their exhausted wives and daughters. Two weeks of suffering in the overcrowded and filthy town of Ei Caney had worked sad changes in the appearance of the refugees. As the news came up the road that Sanc tiago could actually be entered the crowds took new heart to push ahead. The American soldiers stood by the roadside watching the procession. The rain that came on in the afternoon was, mercifully, of short duration. Women of evident refinement and good family struggled .along on foot or mule back. Several carriages came out of the city to carry back the families of the Spanish officers and people who were able to pay S2O in gold for a mile ride. A small proportion of the refugees returned to-day. Others still believe that the conditions In Santiago may be worse than at El Caney. Reports that the streets of the city are clogged with dead horses and cattle, the fear of disease from bad sanitary conditions and similar considerations deter many from going in until the Americans shall have occupied Santiago and the much-talked-of disinfection shall have been accomplished in fact. One refugee, a woman, said to-day that when she left Santiago twelve days ago there was a sufficiency of coarse food, like rice, but that meat, meal, flour, potatoes, onions and bread were lacking. She asserted also that there was then no yellow fever or smallpox in the city, adding that if she had the experience to live over again she would face whatever Santiago offered in the way of disease and Spanish retaliation rather than the slow starvation, misery and suffering prevailing at El Caney. There were fourteen deaths at El Caney yesterday and twice that number are expected to-day—all from illness arising from lack of food. There is no yellow fever at El Caney.

FOOD FOR THE STARVING. Red Cross Supplies Landed, and Fought for by the Famishing. (Copyright, 1898, by the Associated Press.) SANTIAGO DE CUBA, July 18, via Kingston, Jamaica, Tuesday (noon), July 19 1 ? The Red Cross Society’s steamer, State of Texas, arrived yesterday at 6 o’clock in the afternoon, and this morning at daybreak Dr. Elwell, who was iri charge of the work of unloading, secured eight stores in the heart of the city and one large shed on the dock, engaged eighty stevedores and began to unload the steamer about 6 o’clock. She had 1,400 tons of provisions on boafd. The distribution began at 3 o’clock, allowing a pound and a half of rations to each citizen. When the unloading began crowds of half-starved citizens rushed to the dock, fighting, trampling one another under foot, breaking open the cases and stealing the supplies. Finally a picket of troops was placed on the wharf, refusing admittance to any one. The entire cargo had been landed before the distribution began. Each applicant w*as furnished with a ration ticket supplied by the local commissioners, with General MeKibbin s indorsement. The water supply of the city, which was cut off on July 3. above El Caney, by Gen. Garcia's troops, leaving the town without w*ater, will be turned on again to-night. The iee factory resumed work to-day. using the rain water supply in the cisterns. All the liquor stores, wholesale and retail, are closed under General Shafter's orders, hut the Spanish soldiers have a large stock of rum on hand, which they are exchanging for our hard tack and corned beef. Last night the city was very quiet and there were no disturbances, the distribution of the supplies from the State of Texas being anxiously awaited, as there was literally nothing in the city to eat. Before the refugees left El Caney flour was selling at $l5O per barrel, barrels of beans at S9O per hundred pounds, condensed milk at $5 a tin and hard tack at $1 per piece. At El Caney the prices were still higher, $25 for a tin of condensed milk and $5 for a piece of hard taek. The ruin and want in the city are almost inconceivable. Twenty-five Cubans, political prisoners, are still in the local Jail, but a report has been submitted on the subject by Cuban residents to v General MeKibbin. the temporary military governor, and their release Is expected. Admiral Sampson, accompanied by Commodore Schley and the marine staff, landed at 9 o’clock this morning from the Vixen and' met the municipal officers of Santiago. SCENES AT SANTIAGO. Beggars Plentiful—Twenty-4Hx Tinge Transports In the Harbor. (Copyright, 1898, by the Associated Press.) SANTIAGO HARBOR, July 18. 5 p. m., via Kingston, Jamaica, July 19. 4:50 a. m.— Santiago now a city of silence. The American .ag waves over the military headquarters on Morro’s flagstaff and Red Cross emblems are as plentiful as the church spires. Almost the entire population this afternoon was gathered about the wharves, where the Spanish shipping, now prizes of the United States, will soon be augmented by a large fleet of transports flying the American colors. . Some stores, mostly for tho sale of l’quor or drugs, are open, but their patrons art< few. Beggars are in evidence, of the same importunate sort which makes Havana unpleasant for foreigners. Now and then a man or woman of the better class begs the correspondent for “milk for my little one, in the name of God.” At the harbor here the Red Cross steamer State of Texas is unloading. A guard of the Ninth Infantry has been mounted, but the soldiers have had little trouble except from the Inroad of bad boys, indigenous to seaport cities. There is no evidence of gloom on the face of the Spanish men and women. These mercurial people are already laughing and are pleased at the military and naval show and at the prospects of getting food other thaa rice and wilt meats. Nearly all the better classes of houses are closed. The residents have not yet re-

turned from El Caney and other suburban places, to w’hich they fled on their fear of bombardment. Filth is noticeable everywhere, and, strange to say, the city is healthy in spite of this; but if Santiago is to continue much sanitary w*ork is necessary. Arrangements, therefore, are now under way to remove the most dangerous features and to improve those which tend to purify the city. The harbor of Santiago de Cuba is a very beautiful place, with its high ramparts of mountains, groves of cocoa palms, banana trees and flowering shrubs, pushing down to the very brink of the bay. The channel is tortuous and marked by bright blue and white buoys, or more clearly defined in places by long booms Jogs marking the entrance of shallow* bays and inlets. Old churches, forts and bastions share the promonitories with light wooden houses for the summer uses of the upper classes. The harbor Was the scene of a beautiful marine pageant this afternoon. A score or more of American transports—the way being pointed out by the Suwanee—glided majestically to the quiet anchorage, something they had not enjoyed for weeks, being compelled instead to stand out to sea at night to be tossed about on the waves or to use the precarious holding grounds off Baiquiri. They were fine boats, many of them being among the largest specimens of the American merchant marine. Nearly all bedecked with flags, they steamed in proudly, making a good show, extending over about a mile of water. A dispatch boat of the Associated Press, on its way out to sea, saluted twenty-six of the transports with blasts from the Siren of the Almirante Oquendo, taken from the ship some time ago and put in place by the enthusiastic crew* of the dispatch boat. The salutes were returned not only from the whistles of the transports, but the cheers of the men on board of them, who had long looked forward to this feature of the campaign. How soon the Spanish troops will be loaded on these transports for shipment to the homes many of them have not seen for three years or more, cannot be announced at present. But, it is understood, the delay will be as shQrt as possible. The big government tug Potomac arrived here to-day from New Orleans. She is provided with modern appliances and will save all that is possible from the sunken remains of Admiral Cervera’s fleet. The broken span of the long bridge on the Juragua railroad connecting Siboney with Santiago has been replaced in a temporary fashion by the American soldiers. The work was completed to-day, and so soon as possible the military will use the railroad to transport from the seaboard the stores, horses and ammunition which were landed at Siboney before the surrender of Santiago. VERITABLE PEST HOLE. Conditions *t Santiago Hipe for an Epidemic of Yellow Fever, SANTIAGO. July 18, via Kingston, Ja-w maica, July 19, noon.—General Shafter has had a thorough examination made of the sanitary condition of Santiago. The work was done by Dr. Goodfellow, of the general’s staff, and by a civilian physician, Dr. Orlando Dwiker. They fi-id that, although there are at present but six cases of yellow fever in the city, in addition to two suspects, the town is ripe for an epidemic. Santiago and Rio Janeiro are considered the greatest fever-breeding centers in the world. This town lacks every sanitary feature at Its best, and now, after two months’ siege, leaving it dirty and repellant, it is a veritable pest hole. The awful stenches that arise from the streets stagger and choke one. No cordial in Santiago has the power to wash out this odor from one’s throat. The city of Santiago is a typical tropical place, with narrow crooked streets and low, one-storied dwellings and stores. Many of the houses are stuccoed and painted with startling colors, sky blue and vivid shades of green predominating. These, with the red tiles of the roofs and the quaint verandas, show* evidences of past picturesqueness, but everything is now in a state of dilapidation and decay, and the city is but a shadow of its former self. The majority of the houses are absolute ruins, and public squares, once green, are now utterly neglected. The iron fences are broken and rusted, while the fountains, on account of the dearth of the water supply, have long been dry*. But here and there, through the open doors of more pretentious dwellings, one meets with the vision of an open court filled with palms, brilliant-hued pouchianos and other flowering trees and plants. It is like glimpses of a happy past, long gone. There is no sewerage system. The city drainage is all from the surface into the harbor, and the lower part of the city, through which much of the drainage runs, especially from the poqr quarter around the bull ring to the northern of the city, is the seeding cefitei* of malaria and other low fevers. There are four hospitals in the city, the civil hospital, presided over by the Sisters of Charity, and the military, Mercedes and Conchas hospitals. In these four hospitals are 1,747 patients, which is a comparatively small number, considering the lack of food and long siege, but it must be remembered that the reconcentrados were never admitted to the hospitals, and when the notification of the proposed bombardment by our batteries was received every patient who could stagger out was driven into the streets. Twenty lepers who were in the civil hospital were turned into the streets, and they have been roaming in the streets ever since. The largest number of patients is in the military hospital, where are thirty-seven wounded Spanish officers and 431 wounded soldiers and sailors. In addition, there are hundreds of cases of malaria and dysentery and six cases of yellow fever. The sailors were wounded in the battle of July 1 and 2. They were disembarked from the ships of Admiral Cervera’s fleet in order to assist in resisting the attack of the American troops by land. These sailors say that when the Spanish fleet sailed out of the harbor half of the sailors and marines on board had been fighting and working in the trenches for forty-eight hours previously. Admiral Cervera, they also assert, sacrificed his fleet in obedience to the popular clamor, both in Spain and Cuba, including Santiago, that he should give battle to the American fleet. Cable Office Reopened. NEW YORK, July 19.—The central cable office of the Western Union Telegraph Company to-day issued the following report: “The office at Santiago de Cuba has been reopened for business. All telegrams must be in plain language, subject to American censor.”

BETA THETA PI CONVENTION Sixty Collpkmi Represented t FiftyNinth Annual Meeting. CINCINNATI, 0., July 19.~Over sixty colleges were represented here to-day at the fifty-ninth annual convention of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. A permanent organization was effected, as follows: President, Burton B. Tuttle, University of Cincinnati; first vice president, F. Sisson, Knoxville College; second vice president, E. R. Hardy, Boston University; third vice president, R. M. Thompson, University of Minnesota; first secretary, W. D. Oakes, De Pauw University; second secretary, Howard Merriman, Western Reserve University; third secretary, J. D. Biithing, Indiana University; first marshal, E. W. JdVg'4pman, Vanderbilt University;-,second marshal, C. Es Waiters, Colgate University. The reports from the board of trustees and other officers showed a greater growth of the order in the past year than usual. The financial showing was satisfactory. Many Homes Burned. NEWPORT, Ky„ July 19,-Fire starting to-night in the old Livesey sawmill, on tne Kicking river, destroyed the mill awl a large quantity of lumber, the whole valued at $75,000. It next communicated to small dwellings on Mill street. Fifth street, Sixth street and Seventh and destroyed them. Thirty dwellings, mostly one-story frames, with a few' two-story bricks are in ashes. In nearly every case all their contents were destroyed. They were occupied and some of them were owned by poor people. Forty families are turned out of their homes and are sheltered in public buildings. The sawmill and lumber yard were owned by Frank Enewehr. The loss on dwellings is $55,000, making the total loss $130.000. The insurance is $50,000, mostly on Enewehr’s mill. Fifty workmen are thrown out of employment. Soldier** Store Closed, SPRTNGFIKLD, lll.,‘July l£i_The furniture store of Barkley Lasch has been closed by creditors. Gen. James H. Barkley. the senior member of the firm, was commander of the Second Brigade, Illinois National Guard. He was appointed a brigadier general of United States volunteers and is under Gen. Fitxhugh Lee at Jacksonville, Fla. Four Girl* Drowned. PAYSON, Utah, July 19.—Four girls were drowned In the Utah lake this afternoon. Their names were Lucy Keel, Emma Keel, Susie Keel and Steener Bautr. Their ages range from fifteen to twenty years. The girls were flouting on a plank. One of the girls was drowned and the others lost their lives in trying to rescue her. The bodies have not been recovered.

TROUBLE AT MANILA OADMIRAL DEWEY WANTED TO SEARCH GERMAN W AR SHIPS, ♦ But Admiral Yon Jlledrleh* Would Not Consent, According to the Authorities at Berlin. WASHINGTON NOT CONCERNED ■■ SATISFACTORY EXPLANATION FROM THE KAISER’S GOVERNMENT. ■ .. Dewey Too Cautions to Commit the United States—Departure of Another Expedition to Manila. * BERLIN. July 19.-All official information as to the incident in which the German cruiser Irene figured at Subig bay, Philippine islands, in regard to the shot fired across her bows by the United Staves auxiliary cruiser McCulloch and regarding Admiral Von Diedrichs’s interview with Capt. Chichester, of the British war ship Immoralite, as to w’hat the latter would do if the Germans interfered with the bombardment of Manila, Captain Chichester replying that only Admiral Dewey and himself knew that, is refused here. The German officials will only admit that differences of opinion between Admiral Dewey and Admiral Von Diedrichs as to the right of searching war ships have occurred and the Germans add Admiral Von Diedrichs refused to allow German war ships to be searched. The Vossische Zeitung, in a much-dis-cussed article prefaced by the statement that some rectification is needed of the errors regarding German feeling toward America, asserts that the unfriendly sentiments are fostered by the interested English press. It proceeds to declare that Germany has always stood by America and reminds the Americans of Germany’s friendly attitude during the civil war. On the other hand, it says, Germany has suffered many fietty annoyances from Spain, still she canot help her admiration of Spanish valor. The article reflects the general veering of the press in favor of the United States.

DEWEY CAUTIOUS. He Has Not Committed the Government in Dealing with Insurgents. WASHINGTON, July 19.—1 t was stated at the Navy Department to-day that no dispatches had been received from Admiral Dewey relating to the important events in the Philippines described in the press cablegrams. It is evident, however, that the officials do not now feel the same concern relative to the attitude of the German naval forces at Manila they did when the admiral’s last dispatch was received. It is not so stated officially, but there la good reason to believe that either through Ambassador White at Berlin or the representative of the German government here the State Department has received some assurances as to the attitude of Germany towards the Philippines that have in a large measure removed the grave apprehension heretofore entertained that Germany would offer obstacles to the execution of our plans. It is not known just what the nature of these assurances is, and it may be that they are based o'n some facts communicated by Admiral Dewey as to the exchanges which have taken place between himself and the German admiral in the Philippines, for it is known that for politic reasons the Navy Department withheld from the public a large and important section of Dewey's last cablegram received several days ago. The reported negotiations between the insurgent, Aguinaldo, and the Spanish captain general, Augusti, have not yet been reported officially to our government. It is, however, a matter of congratulation to the officials here that in all the relations we have had so far with tl\e insurgents, Admiral Dewey has carefully refrained from committing the United States in any way, and has never, in the slightest degree, relaxed the extreme caution he adopted originally as his guiding principle in dealing with the insurgents. Unsavory stories of previous exhibitions of lack of integrity on their part put the admiral on guard, and in all his communications with tnls people he has been extremely careful. It does not follow from this that the government is convinced that Aguinaldo is playing false. There is no doubt that the pro-Spanish element in the Philippines and Asia would lose no opportunity to create that impression with a view to causing a breach between the United States military and naval commanders and the insurgents, but the very suggestion of the adoption by the insurgents of the course attributed to them tends very strongly to retard the preparation of plans by the administration to govern the future of the Philippines. Nothing of importance came before today’s Cabinet meeting, one member remarking that an adjournment might have been taken at the end of fifteen minutes so far as the transaction of business was concerned. A dispatch from Admiral Dewey was read, stating that there was no change in the situation there. It was the opinion of the member of the Cabinet that the report of strained relations between Admiral Dewey and the German admiral were without any foundation in fact. This is indicated by the fact that Admiral Dewey's dispatch was taken to Hong-Kong by a German war ship. Both the President and Secretary Day are said to have assured the Cabinet members that nothing of an aggravating nature had occurred at Manila between the American and German forces, and their remarks gave rise to the belief that the President has received fresh assurances from Germany of her intention to adhere strictly to her policy of neutrality. NO ENGLISH GUNNERS. Admlrnl Dewey Did Not Decoy Men from tlie British Fleet. LONDON, J ily 19.—Mr. Goschen. first lord of the admiralty, replying in the House of Commons to-day to Dr. Thomas Gibson Bolles, Conservative, member for Kings Lynn, who asked whether there was any truth in the statement made by Mr. Cun-ningham-Graham, a former member of Parliament, in a letter to the St. James Gazette, saying the excellent gunnery shown by Admiral Dewey’s squadron was due to the fact that most of the gunners were Englishmen decoyed from the British Chinese squadron by promises of SSOO monthly, said no one at the Admiralty had heard such a rumor. Continuing, Mr. Goschen said: “I might add with reference to the alleged enlistment of Signalman Matthews, recently courtmartialed at Devonport for the theft of a signal book of the commander of the United States steamer Sommers, that I have received a letter from Lieutenant Colwell, the United States naval attache, in which he writes: ‘That any officer of the United States navy would induce a man of a friendly power to desert I distinctly deny, and in my service I have never known of any deserter knowingly enlisted in my country’s service. Foreign trained men are not regarded favorably in the United States navy, and for several years a law existed absolutely forbidding the enlistment of any but citizens of the United States or aliens who had already taken steps to become naturalized citizens.’ ” OFF FOR MANILA. Departnre o t the Transport Pennsylvania and 1,500 Troops. SAN FRANCISCO. July 19,-The transport steamer Pennsylvania sailed to-day for the Philippines. The announcement that the vessel wouid sail to-day attracted thousands of people to the water front and hundreds of others chartered small boats to accompany the big liner to the Golden Gate. The rolls of heavy smoke Issuing from the smoke stack of the vessel was a preliminary announcement that the time for the departure had come, and a great cheer arose from the thousands of spectators. The Pennsylvania

Montana Regiment and 300 recruits for the First California Volunteers, now at Manila The troops will be under the command of Colonel Kessler. General Merriam to-day announced that the transport Rio Janeiro, bearing Brigadier Gen. Otis and two battalions of South Dakota volunteers, will sail Friday for Manila. The St. Paul will be ready to sail Monday and the Scandla Aug. 1. It has been decided to abanden Camp Merritt and transfer the troops to the Presidio. FOUR MORE PRISONERS DEAD Spaniards Soceunib to Malarial Fever at the Portumimth Camp. PORTSMOUTH. N. H.. July li.-The Spaniards are becoming accustomed to living on the “American plan.” and are making rapid advance in learning our national airs. The officers dress in citizens’ clothes and apparently are enjoying themselves in the freedom they have of Portsmouth and vicinity. Four deaths as a result of malarial fever marked to-day’s mortality in the Spanish camp. Burial ceremonies occurred this afternoon, the bodies being placed in pine boxes. The name and complete history of the men Is marked on each box. SOME LAGGARD STATES PROGRESS OF RECRUITMENT OF VOLUNTEERS UNDER SECOND CALL. Indiana's Quota Exceeded, but North Carolina Furnished Only 55 Men to Its Total of 7sa. WASHINGTON, July 19.—Fairly good progress has been made for the recruitment of the volunteer army under the second call for 75,000 volunteers. The plan adopted by the War Department was to recruit all the volunteer organizations in the array up to their maximum enlisted strength before entering on the recruitment of additional troops. The total number of men required to fill out existing regiments was 37,566, and according to the latest returns the total enlistments under this plan are 27,519 men. In order to show the progress of recruiting under the second call the following statement has been prepared in the office of the adjutant general of the army based on the latest returns: No. re- No. enState. quired, listed. Alabama 675 258 Arkansas 600 379 Colorado 300 96 California 1,016 624 Connecticut 435 331 Georgia 704 255 Illinois 2.380 2,331 Indiana 1.304 1,334 lowa 1,986 1,549 Kansas 900 613 Kentucky 938 602 Louisiana 600 142 Maine 354 159 Maryland 580 533 Massachusetts 1,536 541 Michigan 1,200 878 Minnesota 800 961 Mississippi 60) 2J2 Missouri 1,552 1,567 Nebraska GOO - 167 New Hampshire 300 206 New Jersey 900 92S New York 3,724 8,733 North Carolina 783 55 Ohio 3,846 3,162 Oregon 300 163 Pennsylvania .4,613 4,803 Rhode Island 300 329 Texas 1,128 505 Tennessee 900 300 Virginia 800 294 West Virginia 300 315 Wisconsin 900 913 Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Rhode Island, West Virginia and Wisconsin have exceeded their quota, but all the others are behind in the supply of troops. The worst delinquent is North Carolina, which has furnished only fifty-five soldiers to meet its quota of 753. Other delinquents are Colorado, Louisiana, Nebraska, Tennessee and Virginia, each of which has supplied less than one-third of the number of men required. Alabama, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Oregon and Texas have done very little better and are all very much behind in meeting the requirements. Complaint has been made also that in several of the States an effort has been made to foist poor material on the government. The total enlisted strength of the regular army to date is about 44,000. being about 18,000 short of its legal complement. The volunteer army consists of 183,000 men and is only 17,000 short of its maximum authorized strength under the two calls issued by the President. The total strength of the army, regular and volunteer, is 227,000 as now organized.

M’ISTIRE’S SIGNAL. CORPS. Appointment of Noncommissioned Officers Confirmed by Dunwoody. WASHINGTON. July 19.— Below is the list of formal appointments of noncommissioned officers of Company 14. Indianapolis Signal Corps, stationed at Washington Barracks, as heretofore anticipated. The appointments were made by Capt. C. H. McIntyre and confirmed by Col. H. H. Dunwoody. First sergeants, under the law, receive so 4 per month, second sergeants receive S4O per month, and corporals receive $24 per month. All receive clothing and rations. Lieut. Rollo B. Ogleabee, of Plymouth, has been appointed adjutant of the post. He is the editor of a Plymouth paper, and is known in Indiana polities. The lowa waa ordered to Chtckamauga, leaving four companies at the barracks. The Ohio is the next company out, and the Indiana company will follow, if the usual order is observed. „ „ Corporals—H. G. Yeo, Elwood; C. W. Siemental. Aurora; W. A. Hall, Huntington; G. R. White. Crawfordsvllle:' K. James Burgan, Indianapolis; J. W. Spence, Jonesboro; Jeremiah Foley, Indianapolis; C. W. Thomas. Logansport; Charles Sebein, Indianapolis; Robert Knight. Rochester. First Sergeants—John M. Turrell, Vincennes; William A. Seward, Russiaville; Claude R. Bebe, Logansport; Robert H. Roseberry, Lafayette; Dehl W. Young, Logansport. Second Sergeants—John Lehew, Warsaw; Louis I>. Callison, Warsaw; Louis B. Chaplin, Warsaw; C. Massena. Logansport; Bert E Gregory, Bloomington; C. D. Hubbard, Indianapolis; E. Dogherty. Brownstown; C. F. Keiser, Winamac; James N. D. Nelson, Logansport; Willard N. Keiser, Marion. The Quartermaster'* Department. WASHINGTON, July ID.—Under authority of a recent act of Congress, the quartermaster’s department of the army has been reorganized by the assignment of officers as follows: Major W. S. Patten to have charge of all matters relating to clothing and camp and garrison equipage, with the rank of colonel; Lieut. Col. C. P. Miller, to have charge of all wagon transportation and the purchase of horses, mules, etc., and regular supplies, with the rank of colonel; Captain F. M. Scheriner, to have charge of all matters relating to the personnel of the quartermaster’s department, including civilian employes, with the rank of major; Lieut. Col. A. S. Kimball, to have charge of the New York depot, with the rank oi colonel; Lieut. Col. C. D. Smith, to have charge of the St. Louis depot, with the rank of colonel; Lieut. Col. A. V. Furey, to have charge of the Philadelphia depot, with the rank of colonel; Lieut. Col. C. W. Williams, to have charge of the Jeffersonville depot, with the rank of colonel; Capt. T. E. True, to have charge of the Washington depot, with the rank of major. Col. Bryan's Volunteer*. BLOOMINGTON, 111., July. 19.-The train bearing Colonel Bryan’s regiment of Nebraska volunteers en route for Florida passed through Bloomington In four sections this afternoon. Colonel Bryan was with the last section, which stopped here nearly an hour. The train was met by a large crowd of people, including many women. and was saluted by the firing of cannon. Bryan was called for and made a very brief speech, thanking the people for the honor paid to his command. At Mer.dota and Pana large crowds cheered the Nebraskans. No Disabled Men Wanted. WASHINGTON, July 19.—Information has reached the War Department that, notwithstanding the medical examination prior to muster in, men have been enlisted in the volunteer army who should have been rejected as unlit for military service. The adjutant general has issued an order directing a systematic inquiry, with a view to eliminating such men from th organizations by the medical officers, a board of medical

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INDIANA Dental College Department of Dentistry, University of Indianapolis. S. W. cor. Delaware and Ohio Sts. Receives patients from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m or all kinds of Dental work. The fees are to cover the cost only. officers, the order says, should be appointed in each division to carefully examine and make recommendation in each of the cases submitted by individual or regimental medical officers. In every case where discharge from service Is recommended it should be seen that the certificates of disability embody a statement to the effect that the cause of disqualification for the military service existed prior to the enlistment of the man, if such is found to be the fact. Department and corns commanders are authorized to order discharges on certificates of disability. Trugetly at Jacksonville. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 19.-Prlvate Thomas G. Lake, of the Second Illinois Regiment, was shot three times this afternoon by Private Henry McLain, of the First North Carolina Regiment. Lake Is now in the hospital, hut he is not seriously wounded, two of the bullets entering his right arm and the other the right arm and hip. McLain is under arrest. There seems to have been little provocation for the shooting, although McLain claims he fired in self-defense. Pythian* Warned. SPRINGFIELD, 111., July 19.—John A. Hllsey, president of the board of control of the Endowment Rank of the Knights of Pythias, has issued a circular letter, In which he calls attention to the fact the laws of the order provide tfc&t active service in the army and navy in time of war shall forfeit the certificate of endowment and all claims thereunder. No Yellow Fever. JACKSONVILI.JS, Fla., July 19.—Th* report of yellow fever In Tampa was circulated in and about Jacksonville to-day and a message was dispatched to Hon. W. B. Henderson, president of the State Board of Health, resident in Tampa, which elicited tho following reply: "No foundation for report, not even a suspicious case of fever, either in city or camps.” Notes at the War. Mason Mitchell, one of the Rough Rider*, who is suffering from a wound in the right arm, has arrived at New York on the gunboat; Newport. The Naval Bureau of Construction and Repair is expending $1,260,609 a month upon repairs, fitting and refitting vessels for the war with Spain. Gen. George A. Garretson cabled from Santiago to his wife, in Cleveland, under date of July 18, that he would embark for Porto Rico that day. The Buffalo, the cruiser bought by the United States from Brazil, will be repaired, fitted out with guns und sent Into the war. She has been ordered to New York. The output of smokeless powder for th* Navy Department Ik steadily increasing, and the Ordnance Bureau is receiving mora than eight thousand pounds daily for the big guns. The prize ships Catalina, Miguel JOVer, Buena Ventura and Guido, conveyed by the United States gunboat Newport, arrived at New York last night and are anchored off Tompkinsville, Staten island. Private Charles Kennedy, of Company L, First Tennessee, is dead at the Marine Hospital, San Francisco, of pneumonia, following measles. The number of cases on tho rolls of the division hospital at Camp Merritt is 179. The seventeen companies of tho Volunteer Signal Corps have now been recruited to their full strength. Each company consist* of sixty-three persons, including officers and men, and a company i to be assigned to each division of tlio army. A St. Louis firm has received the largest contract for hay ever let by the United States government. The contract calls for nine million pounds of hay, to be delivered at Chickamauga. Between four hundred and five, hundred cars will lie required to transport it. The contract for oats was awarded to a Cincinnati firm: straw to an Evansville, Ind., firm, and bran to a Chattanooga firm. Tho patriotic Oerman-Amerloana in Now York, anxious to show thetr fealty to the land of thetr adoption, are agitating a movement to present the national government with a modern battle ship armed and" equipped. They expect to open headquarters in this city within a few days, and their countrymen in other cities of tho United States will be asked to organize subcommittees to co-operate with them. The State of California has already furnished over six thousand soldiers for the war with Spain. This is more than 20 per cent, of all the troo|>s that have been assembled in and about San Francisco during the past three months. Os California's six thousand practically two thousand have already embarked for Manila. No other State in the Union Is believed to have furnished so large a proportion at present for the volunteer army. * Major Von Wroohem, of the Royal Cavalry of Germany, now in Washington, ha* tendered his services to the American army in the war against Spain. In Ms letter ha says that he served In the Prussian cavalry, participated in tho late war against Franca and upon application was retired two year# ago. “Being strong and healthy,” he says, “I once more long to enter active servlet.” He transmits his commission In the German army, signed by Emperor William, and also a photograph of riimself in full military uniform, showing numerous badge* and orders of distinction. His application has been sent to the President. Keeping Up the Good Work. The pursuit of the scorcher* was continued last night. Ed Synder, 1513 Woodlawn avenue, and James Smith, a colored coachman at 1329 North Delaware street, were the offender*. 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