Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-17
NEWS FROM LONDON
Wales irritable Because of Enforced
Medical Restraint.
CONNAUGHT At FRENCH MANEUVERS
The Dukes Popularity With the
Soldiers and Villagers.
DECOR TED BY FAURE
Copyright. 1898. by the Associated PressD

Copyright. 1898, by the Associated Press.)
LONDON, September 1.-THE drought
continues throughout the greater part of
Great Britain. temporary fall in the
barometer early in the week raised hopes
which were doomed to disappointment. The
temperature has again risen and London
continues bathed in sunshine.
The cutlery in the East End of London,
where the SUPPLY of water has been re-
duced to dangerous limits, is taking the
fern of influential public meetings, which
violently denounce the East End Water
Company for neglectng to take proper
measures to assure a supply of water, and
calling for municipal control of the wafer
works
In the meanwhile, the sanitary conditions
are so bad in some districts that there is
serious fear of epidemicS.
The north of London is also suffering I'M
deserved martyrdom, in the shape of a
street car famine, due to a strike of the
hosters and the consequent dismissal of
couple of agitators. The many thousands
of business people who rely cheap con-
Veyance to the city have been seriously in
conVenienced by the sudden stoppage of
traffic, which occurred on Wednesday last.
Public sympathy inclines to the side of the
company, which has taken the bull by the
horns and has dismissed all the strikers,
engaging outsiders to take their places.
Railroad Outrages.
The whole of Great Britain has been
startled by an epidemic of railroad out
RACES. On the Northwestern and Midland
railroads, in the neighborhood of North
ampton, there have been several most de-
termined attempts to wreck passenger
trains Formidable distractions were con-
structed across the track, and one express
train had most from dis
aster. 1t plowed through veritable bar
ricade, but did not leave the rails. The
most alarming feature of the outrages is
the fact that the police have not been able
to obtain the slightest clue to the Perpe
traitors, though a hundred detectives have
been securing the district. Consequently,
a panic, similar to the Jack the Ripper
scare, prevails.
One theory is that the crimes are the
work of band of train wreckers looking
for plumber, and emulating the far west
hold-upS.
After passing eight weeks on an inva!id's
chair, the Prince of Wales this week. for
the first time, able to walk a few
PAGES with the aid of a stick He travelled
to Balmoral, from his yacht at Portsmouth
Private letters declare the prince lately
has been very irritable at the enforced
| medical restraint, and that he has even de-
cared that a permanent limp would be
cheap penalty to pay for release from his
floating prison. 1t is added that the attend
ing physicians finally yielded and allowed
! the prince to journey to Scotland, in order
| to appease their patient, and also to arrest
the strong stimulus which rest and a sea-
air appetite have given to his increasing
StoutneSS.
The heir apparent will still require to
wear, for many weeks to come, the appa-
ratus which has been fitted to his knee.
Connaught at the Maneuvers.
The Duke Of Connaught has been the hero