The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-18
TROUBLES OF LONDON
INSUFFICIENT WATER SUPPLY AND A
STRIKE OF HOSTLERS.
Efforts to Wreck Railway Trains
The Duke of COnnaught a Hero.


Copyright 1885, by the Associated Press)
LONDON, Sept. 1.-THE drought continues
throughout the greater part of Great Brit
ain. A 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 reduced to dangerous limits, is taking
the form of influential public meetings
which violently denounce the East-end
Water Company for neglecting to take
proper measures to assure a supply of water
and calling for municipal control of the
water works. In the meanwhile the san
itary conditions are so bad in some districts
that there is serious fear of epidemic.
The north of London is also suffering I'M
deserved martyrdom in the shape of a
street-car famine due to strike of the
hostlers and the consequent dismissal of a
couple of agitators. The many thousands
OF business people who rely upon cheap con-
veyance to the city have been seriously in
convenienced by the sudden stopping 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.
The whole of Great Britain has been
startled by an epidemic of railroad outrages.
On the Northwestern and Midland railroads.
in the neighborhood of Northampton, there
has been several most determined efforts to
wreck passenger trains. Formidable OBJ
structions We're constructed across the track
and an express train had most narrow
escape from disaster. 1t plowed through a
veritable barricade but did not leave the
rof nlc o1a TO-, = H.
outrages is the fact that the police have
not been able to obtain the slightest clew to
the perpetrators though hundred detec-
sequenty panic prevails. One theory is
that the crimes are the work of band of
train wreckers looking for plumber and emu
lating the far West hold-up.
After passing eight weeks in an invalid's
chair, the Prince of Wales, for the first
time, was able to walk a few PAGES with
the aid of a stick. He travelled to Balmoral
in his yacht from Portsmouth. Private let
ters declare the prince lately has been very
irritable at the enforced restraint and he
has even declared that a permanent limp
would be a cheap penalty to pay for release
from his floating prison. 1t is added that
the attending 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
sea air appetite have given to his increas-
ing stoutness. The heir apparent will still
require to wear for many weeks to come the
apparatus which has been fitted to his knee.
The Duke of Connaught has been the
hero of the French army maneuvers around
Mouline, which he attended as President
Faures chief guest He has distinguished
himself by a splendid display of horseman-
ship before the French staff. He was riding
a borrowed horse, which, startled by the
firing, tried to bolt, but reared and fell.
The duke disengaged himself and escaped
unhurt. Yesterday the Duke of Connaught
visited the French camp kitchens, and fol-
lowing the great Napoleon's precedent lie
asked to be allowed to taste the soldiers
food, remarking: Il must only take tiny
morsel as L am robbing somebody's share"
Then he forked out and ate a piece of beef,
which he pronounced TO be of excellent
quality. The duke also examined the mens
overcoats, testing their weight and texture.
Connaught very popular with the French
soldiers and villagers. At the hamlet of
ing if the thirsty r President Of the republic
and Queen Victorias stop before lit
tie public house and call for and toss down
q glass of light beer while the hurriedly
assembled band played God Save the
Queen" President Faure has decorated the
duke with the grand cross OF the Legion
The leading newspapers here scathingly
review Herr Mortz Busch's Life of Prince
Bismarck" which was recently published.
The general opinion is that both the au-
thor and his idol suffered greatly by the
revelations made. The British naturally
chiefly resent the late Prince Bismarck's
expressions of hostility to Great Britain and
to the Queen and her daughter, the former
Empress Frederick of Germany, with which
the book teens The Daily Telegraph says
that if the work reveals the real Bismarck
he lowered the moral tone of the whole of
Europe, adding: Everyone knew he made
INSCRIPTIONS use of the press, but accord
ing TO Herr Busch he deliberately instructed
his hireings to disseminate absolute false
hoods The Times remarksi 1T was re-
served to the sublime Inconsistencies of
one Of his sincerest worshipers TO expose
all the meanness. duplicity and brutality
which he combined with so many brilliant
and admirable qualities.
A. photograph of the czarina nursing her
baby recently appeared in an English news
paper. and when it reached the Russian
censor the latter was much puzzled ON