The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-11

the present efficiency of the British navy.
it is generally admitted, is In large
measure indebted
A letter from st. Petersburg relates that
the Gear, who is rather proud of his tenor
voice. which is sweet and admirably
trained, though not of great volume, was in
very gay spirits and in excellent form at
recent musical party at the imperial villa
at Livadia. He sung couple of arias par
tucularly WELL and was so pleased with
himself that, turning from the piano to an
appreciative court audience, he laughingly
exclaimed: Well, my children, my enemies
and accuse me Of being destitute OF many
capacities. But defy them to say cannot
sing as well as the best OF them
Although the subscription list to the fund
of one million guineas which the Wesleyan
Methodists are DESTROYS OF raising next will
not be informally oren until Jan. /, fifth
part of the total has already been granted
Central meetings have been held in six out
of the thirty-four administrative districts
into which Wesleyan England is divided
Three London districts greeted granted
$40 000 Birmingham granted G6O,OOO, Leeds
$780, 600 and Manchester $4,000. Twenty
eight districts have not yet been heard from
The auction sale of the Lorillard-Beres-
ford American stable did not evoke the keen
competition anticipated. Diakka, however,
was bought in for 1,45O guineas, and Eifin
was bought in for 200 gu1neas. Dracco
fetched $40 guineas and Bayard IL was
sold for $40 guineass
The United States embassy was recently
asked to make known the fact that Mrs.
Kelley, of Los Angeles, Cal, died leaving
see, 900 to heirs unknown The embassy Of
ficials published this, and ever since they
have been inundated by thousands of letters
from persons claiming relationship with the
deceased or asking for particulars about
her One letter came from a. Glasgow lady,
who wrote that she had lost sight or her
sister years ago. and thought she mao prop
ably married a man named Kelly. Would
the embassy kindly investigate the matter
A parallel of the bruce case is announced
in a dispatch from johannesburg, South
Africa, where a man named Charles Gum
has been arraigned on the charge of fraud.
He declared he was a brother of the late
Duke of Hamilton, and left England after
fighting a duel. For private reasons, he
added, his death was formally announced;
there was a sham funeral and his coffin was
placed in the mausoleum at Hamilton Pal
ace. Lanarkshire Gum asks that the coffin
be opened in order to verify his statement
The story has aroused a great deal OF inter-
est here, as it is tantamount to a claim upon
the DukeQOm OF f1d1tlllIOuy Tie ptCoSAl NuhC
only succeeding to the title owing to the
absence of nearer next OF kin than q
cousin. The late dukes brother, Lord
Charles Geer Archibald Hamilton, was sup
posed to have died at Nice in 1886. His
death was registered at Somerset House, but
the cause of his death was not given
Unprecedented secrecy obtains as to the
conditions of the construction of the Sham
rock, the challenger for the America cup.
Not merely are the most strict precautions
taken to prevent a leakage of the details
of her construction, but even the place
where she is being built is kept secret.
streeters, the jewelers. of Bond street, have
instructed John Cakes, an attorney of New
York, to commence proceedings against L.
Townsend Burden to recover the remainder
of the reward in connection with the rob-
berry of jewels from the Burden mansion in
was stolen from the house by servants. A
reward Of $4,000 was offered by Mr.. Burden
for the recovery of the Jewelry, and the
thieves were arrested in April of the follow
ing year after having offered some of the
jewelry for sale 10 the Streeters, who COM
municated with the police. The Bond-street
jewelers. say esq out of the promised
1,400 Is still unpaid
The police here have made q further re-
covery of jewelry stolen from the Duchess
of Sutherland. Three-fourths of the Jewels
stolen from the duchess have now been re-
covered.
Major General Merritt. AIRS. Merritt and
the generals aic-de-camp, Lieutenant
| Etrother, sail from Liverpool for New York
to-day on board the steamer Lucaiiia-