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Show VBTCnANO OP THE PUTUnC H rVhat May lie IVsait tn Daily l'atxrs H Thirty Wars llenre. H "The reunion of tho Society of the gsxsKl Survivor nt the lMttle of Cavlto at LsaaHf Madison Square) garden last evening Q waa a moat successful eetaulon from laVxtalfll both a social and fins nets 1 point ot JsBHP I view. Over 7,000 members wero In at- ILaVrai tendance), nearly four-fifths ot Ihe on- DKl(M tire membership, and the necomoda- kSSjK Hobs of the hall wore strained to the ulfllgV I utmost. After the banquet addresses aHHf were mad by a number ef the proral- BOB nent member, and Ittttft of regret KREtS were read from the president and the Lk9v9i governors of New York, Pennsylvania, rWeswi Porto lllco and Cuba. Among thoto XJESs who addressed the meeting wero Ilev. SD George Dewey riltglbbon. Dewey Ma- gBP nlht llrown. Cnvlte O. Jones. Governor IsbssHssV Phllllplnn Olympla Green and Vlco axsn President llalelgh Concord Tubb. After IgslasssH the bsnquet was over dancing was In- B dulged In until a lain hour." "The B Patriotic Order of the Sons ot Cuban H Liberty gave an entertainment In their H hall nt 1047 Ilowery last evening, tbe H receipts of which are to go toward H building a monument to Ihe memory H of the Cubans who lost their lives In H the late war A fair attendance wat H present nnd the niualeal number were H rendered by Mrs. Sautlaga Cortes H Coogan, Clcnfuegns Murphy, Araphlt- H rite Cook nnd Mttantat Jotinton, Mr. H Italians O'Donoghue made qulto a hit H with hit recitation ot 'When Oomta H Marched lo Dinner.' Quito a neat lit- tie turn wat reallied." "From Simp- H son, Ky., cornea a dlsntch which saya that John K I.lltlejohn, a gunners JiJ mile on tho Nashvlllo In the 1st war gBH with Spain, who claims to have fired H the first hostllo shot of the war, died H In that town on Wednesday. We have no wish to doubt the veracity ot the H ttampson llugle, but at the same time Mr. I.lttlejohn Is the twenty-third man H to die since tbe wsr waa ended claim- H Ing the honor ot having fired the first H bc.il I Is shot. Isn't this rather overdo- H Ing It?" "Schley J. O'llrltn, 2S year M of age, waa picked up by OHIrer Gootl H on Illeekrr street last night In an In- toxleated condition. Ilefore Judge Cooley this morning O'llrlen claimed H that his condition was the result ot ;H discussing tho war with Spain In the "Ll Malno saloon yesterday evening with H two old cronies, Illll Dewey Naugh H ton and llaglsy Terror O'ltourko. H Judge Cooley declared that In view ot H tho clrcumitnncc tho prisoner waa , H lucky to offend by n moro plain drunk, H and Mr. O'llrlen waa reletted." "A H youth giving hit ntmo at Auguttua H Cuba I.lbro Ughlfoot wat arrested H yesterday while acting In a suspicious H manner on Ilroadway. Ughttoot Is H thought to bo sn altaa of Hot Shot M Smith, a noted sneak thief, who has ot H late been operating successfully In the jB neltliborhtMxl of Fifth avtnue and H Thirty-eighth attest, Tht prltoner B claims to havo been the first child born on Cuban soil ot American parent BV after tho capitulation of Havana. He JH It ttlll In custody." jH |