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The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-16

A MUNICIPAL MECCA.
A London Slum which Has Changed
It's Condition.

The Shoreditch Vestry. which has OF re-
cent years justly won for itself the reputa-
ton of being a go-ahead,, self-governing
body, has just topped all its previous
achievements by building artisans dwell
ings for the benefit Of its poor: this is feat
which no other London vestry mas ac-
There are three sets of these tenements.
which have been built on the site of what
Sir Charles Dixie once stigmatized as oeing ns
sns of hs which H serera shs
runs of the most pestilential description
are now to be seen three sets of handsome
brick buildings five stories high, which
act ally form 69 bass new Sdins is
and ready fer use, and over 300 applications
have been made by people offering them-
have cost upwards of si7.0oo. in addition
to the e45.0OO paid as compensation Tor tne
slums which have been swept away; ana the
stand, have been constructed on the most
approved method and the sanitary arrange
ments are considered perfect. =.
of tenants only respectable people being
selected. Overcrowding will be absolutely
forbidden--a necessary course, as IN Snore
is felt most acutely. 1t Is no uncommon
thing for fifteen or sixteen people to herd
In two rooms. The rent charged VIII pe
6s Cd for a two-room set, and as od LOT
three rooms which is distinctly below the
average charge in Shoreditch. with infinitely
better accommodations.
The dwelling will be run on a strictly
paying basis, but, at the same time, phiian-
thropy will not be disregarded, and ser
ious effort is being made to arrange mat
ters so as to enable the tenants to pur-
chase their tenements in the same way that
tenants can purchase their houses under Mr.,
Chamberlain's act. .
Nothing is definitely settled as yet. but 1t
is hoped that Lord Rosebery. who has al
ways taken a very real interest in the life
of Shoreditch. may ultimately be induced
tc open the dwellings.
No one would question for moment that
Shoreditch deserved the honor: Shoreditch
is already becoming the municipal Mecca
of the world. 1t has been visited by deputa.
tions from America. Australia, Ireland and
Scotland consisting of people anxious TO
discover the secret Of success In municipal
matters. - .
This, in brief, is the record Of Shoreditch
A town hall with a music and dancing IL
cense; mechanics technical institute
which has not rufited the feelings OF any
trade unions: a splendid free library; baths
and washhouses; electricity works, supply
ing light at three half-pence below the av-
erage figure and a dust deStructor, the last
three all Welding a profit
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-16
uARCoNrs SYSTEM TESTED.
Messages Sent Ashore from steamer
st. Paul and Replies Received.

LONDON. Nov 15.-The American liner
st. Paul. which arrived at southampton to-
day. had unique experience as she ap-
preached England Sisnor Marconi. from
apparatus attached to the mainmast. estab-
lshed communication with the wireless in
stallation ashore at two points and received
dispatches regarding the war in South At
RIGA, tho wreck of the United States cruiser
Charleston and other important events. This
intelligence was published in the Trans
atlantic Times, printed on board ship. the
paper selling at dollar a copy and the
proceeds being devoted to the seamen's
fund w. w. Bradfield was the editor.
The passengers also availed themselves of
the opportunity to send wireless greetings
10 friends in England, and actually arrang-
ing for a party in town on arrival in Lon
dom
Six of Signor Marconis assistants have
gone to the Cape at the request of the gov
erIment with sets of instruments. He says
ne has sent no plant, either directly or in
directly to the Transvaal
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-16
DEFICIENCY OF $6,61O,777.
Report of the Financial Operation of
the POstOffice Department.

WASHINGTON, Nov. ia postal def
cheney of $6,6lD171 for the fiscal year just
closed. almost % per cent decrease from
last years deficiency, is shown in the an
nual report of Third Assistant Postma ster
General Madden. Total receipts We're over
S95,0OO.OO0. Over 81. 100000 worth of stamps in
all have been supplied to the Philippines
A,OS00oo to Porto Rico, $4,050,0OO to Cuba
and $4,000 to Guam during the fiscal year
New York and Chicago mail is So per cent
of the entire second-class matter
Mr.. Madden urges the general practicable
tty of the letter-carrier registration scheme,
which, he says will be in operation about
Jan. /. This work will not tax any carrier
more than ten minutes per day. The report
suggests making the eight-hour law more
flexible, to meet emergencies. The conSoli-
dation of the third and fourth classes of
mail matter is recommended also confining
the forwarding of overweight mail to ordi-
nary letters; a 1-cent rate for drop letters
at free-deivery offices, and a uniform four
ounce rate for periodicals mailed at letter.
carrier Offices for local delivery. The re-
port calls attention 10 the political and 9TH
er bulk subscriptions. through which vast
quantities of matter are mailed at the pound
rate or free of postage within the county of
publication to nonsubscribers, as a fragrant
abuse CT the spirit of the postal law.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-16
Cable Notes.

The Berlin police yesterday forcibly dis
solved an Anarchist meeting, called to COM
memorate the Chicago executions of 1881
Special dispatches from Bombay state
that cyclone has wrought havoc in the
state of Negaput. There were TO fatalities,
but the loss Of property was immense.
Daniel Dupuys. a well-known French en-
graver. who designed the 10 and 5-centime
coins. was shot dead at Paris yesterday by
his wife, who then committed suicide. She
had recently shown signs of madLess
A manufacturer of Paisley, Scotland, is
about to purchase the yacht Valkyrie. He
intends to race her against the Columbia,
Shamrock, and G. ID. Roses Distant Shore.
which is to be launched from Henderson 5
shipyard Dec. Il.
The Central Red Cross Society has re-
ceived from the French Red Cross Society,
through its president the duke of Auer-
stadt. the gift of a complete equipment of
medical appliances. instruments, etc, suffi-
oient for two field hospitals.
The Italian Chamber of Deputies, by a
vote OF 19S TO li9, yesterday elected Signor
Colombo, formerly minister of the treasury
and the government candidate. to the pres
ideEcy of the house, against the Republican
candidate, SiSnOr Biancheri, formerly presi-
dent of the chamber.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-16
INFlNlTESMAL SUM
Allowed for Vast Claims of the Three
PlankintOn Banks.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Nov. 15.-StartIing
and sensational disclosures came out of the
investigation of the Plankinton bank as
signeeship to-day. By the filing Of three
orders, made by Judge Johnson, April
last, the receivers of three institutions, for
merly banks, authorized the settlement of
claims aggregating sS9o.4SS for the sum of
s5,942 at present and note for the same
amount, to run eight months
The Withholding of the order astounded
the attorneys in the case. The first order
filed is in the Plankinton Bank assignee
ship authorizing William Plankinton to
settle a claim for sl23,S7S against the
Schleisingers for s., ,4S6; the second in the
case of William II. Timlin against the Com
mercial Bank of Milwaukee, authorizing
Receiver Frank H. Thompson to accept a
settlement of the banks claim of 1866, 439
against the Schleisingers tor si,3S5. and the
third and most stupendous order filed is in
the case of the South-side Savings Bank.
which authorizes the settlement, for $6,Ol4,
of claims against the Schleisingers, reach
ing SJ01 166.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-16
Gers and crew. an Of them living in Ger

GERS and crew, all Of them living in Ger
In her short life the Patria was unIucky.
On her first voyage from this port, Feb. 2,
lse5. sne grounded In the main ship channel
near the southern edge of Palestine shoals.
nfty-mfie-an-hour gale was blowing at
Sandy Hook and lee had knocked the cleo
trio lamps from the buoys She passed the
night on the shoal. but tugs hauled her on
uninjured next day.
The Pstri1 was q steel. twiE-screw, four
masfed steamship. with three decks. shelter
deck and frames. She was built for the
Hamburg-American line by the Vulcan
Ship-building Company, at Stettn, in 1884
Her total tonnage was 6,664. her tonnage un-
der the brige s.fi6 and her net tonnage 4.2i9
She was $50 feet long fifty-two-foot beam
and 81 feet inches deep. Her horse power
was $50
ger steamship. carrying technically only
second cabin and steerage passengers. She
sailed from New York for Hamburg Nov. T.
Following Is the passenger list: William
Bace. Charles Bramm. Mrs. Ida Coldwell.
Lee j. Coldwell. Mrs. Berthat Drohn. Mr..
and Mrs. Du Place. Miss NJ. Fohl. Mrs.
Fisher. Mr.. and Mrs. L. Feyler Miss
Helere Feyler, Masters Edison and Alfred
Feyier. Miss Lima Furkert, Rev. and Mrs.
r. c. Gotwald, Master l.. Gotwald. Miss
Goodwin. Mrs. Goldstein and child. Miss
Hecker.= Mrs. H. +. Holahan. Anderson
Hoy. Miss Clara Igelsteom, Mrs. Anna
Jacobson. Miss Amaiia Kamma, Miss Elsie
Kuechel t. Cowden Laughlin. Miss Lud-
gems. Miss Lefty I4nch, Miss J. Rapin,
Hans j. Eternholdt, Miss Annie Schwartz,
Miss Rosie Schwartz, Miss Bertha Tochter-
mann. II. r. Weiman.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-16
HARD-LUCK STORY.
shipwrecked Fishermen Charge
Consul with Negligence.

BOSTON, Nov. 15.-The crew OF the
Gloucester fishing schooner Ethel Jacobs,
which was lost in Dunnane bay, Abbey
island. west coast of Ireland. Oct. ., were
landed here to-day from the Cunarder
Utopia, from Liverpool. The crew tell a
story of very hard luck on the rocks OF
Abbey island and complain of the treatment
OF United States Consul Sweeney, at
Queenstown, who. they say, refused to fur
nlsh transportation for the men from the
mainland near where they were wrecked to
Queenstown. They had TO sell everything
they could spare, including dory saved
from the wreck to buy transportation to
Queenstown. The owner of the schooner.
Capt. Solomon Jacobs. of Gloucester. says
he will make complaint of the action of
Sweeney to the consular department at
Washington.
The schooner was fishing for maekerel
outside the three-mile limit off the coast of
Ireland and encountered heavy seas, which
drove IL on the rocks. the crew barely
reaching shore. Although they think that
Consul Sweeney was negligent, they admit
that he furnished them with transportation
to Boston from Queenstown
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-16
THE BOERs ARE BITTER.
Their Fierceness in War Expresses
Hate Long Felt.
r. S. D., i'm Pail Mall Gazette.

il. >. d., in Pall Mail GaZelte
Some twenty years ago l was sitting In
a Southampton-bound carriage at Waterloo
station, when three burly men, evidently
foreigners, entered my compartment. They
had lot of luggage including many cigar
boxes One was dark, saturnine and sleepy.
Another fell asleep at once Inc tnlrd man
sat opposite to me. / can only describe him
as huge had read OF ,od nn hS Su, ,nrs
nous knees, were nearly foot across
There was a sense of elephantine power
about him. He looked as II he could nave
caught hold of me and snapped me across
his knee like carrot If he had wanted to;
but fortunately he didn't want to-he
! noticed and supplied the want. and he
lit up and puffed away fiercely. His cigar
and his eyes seemed TO glow together, and
as he alternately sucked and puffed got
into conversation and found / was talking
10 a Mr. Joubert, one of the delegates from
the Transvaal Beers who had come TO Eng
land TO protest against the annexation OF
their country had failed to impress Lord
Kimberley, and were going home. seeing
Paris en- route, via Southampton and
H2yre.
Mr.. Joubert was very. bitter about his
failure with our Colonial Office. and very
frank To my ignorant mind-as ignorant
as, believe, most Engnshmens were at
that time, more's the pity-he seemed a
trifie crazy. He denounced the English rule
and all its ways, saying we didn't under
stand the Zulus or how to deal with them.
why" said he. ''you are going to war-r-r
Chat was how he pronounced the word)
with the Zulus now.
/ said the English were going to crush the
Zulus in self-defense, and also to protect the
Beers themselves.
BAH said he. "You leave US alone.
Did not we beat Pandah? All, yes. And
Dinga-ahn? All. yes, And you say we are
cruel to MATHIS, Bah again, You do not
know Listen-see land he leaned toward
me, spluttering. while as he grew excited
his beard and mustache literally bristled
like pinwire). Those MATHIS. TO whom you
say we are CRUEL. they came down one time
and killed our women and children. We
followed them. / was one who followed,
yes. They ran to hde-in caves. We wait
ed, but we could not get them a-out. We
roll stone to the caves-big stone. And then
Che raised himself from his seaD We sit on
the stone there he dropped back on the
cushion with an appalling plump. and We
sit and st-for six weeks" He paused. and
added quietly. Then We come a-away."
/ fully realized the impossibility of any
fugitiyes, unprovided with gunpowder in
large quantities or powerful machinery,
raising a stone on which Mr.. Joubert might
happen at the moment to be sitting. and
also the danger OF disturbing him. even
from above ground. when engaged In his
agreeable occupation ! merely asked him
what he and his people meant to do.
I'VE shall wait. he answered. In cool,
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-16
OBITUARY..
John III. Haswell, Inventor of the Cow
ernment's Cipher Codes.

ALBANY, N. Y, Nov. 15.-John II. Has
we'll is dead at his home in this city, aged
fifty-eight years. For thirty-four years he
was clerk in the State Department at
Washington. For number of years Mr.
HasNell was in charge of all the diplomatic
correspondence, arranging it for presenta-
ton to Congress. From the memoranda
furnished him Mr. Haswell formulated the
treaty for the acquisition of Alaska. He
also had charge of all the correspondence
relative to the Alabama claims. In 1876 he
devised a cipher code. which has been en-
ployed by the government ever since as a
means of communicating with its repre-
sentativeS abroad. Mr.. HaSwell COM
pleted a second code. which was first used
by the federal government Sept. 80 last in
transmitting a dispatch TO the United
States minister TO Great Britain. In 1898
he issued a special code TO be used dur
ing the war with Spain. One OF the most
important works which he compiled was a
chronological history of the Department of
State ard Foreign Relations of the govern
ment from Sept. 5, IVA, to 1884.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-16
STILL CUT OFF.
Concluded from First Page,

To-day all is quiet. We have been bonn
barded pretty heavily all week. Friday
night Captain Fitzclarence and Lieutenant
Swinburn, with a squadron of the Proctecto-
rate regiment, made a magnificent bayonet
charge upon the Beers intrenchment. driv-
ing them from their positions and bayonet-
ing numbers of the Beers, who must have
lost very heayily. The charge was most
gallant and determined The party could
not hold the trenches and lost six men
Killed. two prisoners and nine wounded in
their retirement. We expect a general at
tack tomorrow. The bombardment has
been most ineffective Everybody remains
under shell-proof protection. Thus far the
shells have wounded only one man. The
enemy are using one 94-pounder gun and
several other guns. The town is most cheer
full and determined TO resist attack TO the
utmost. The Beers are intrenched on every
side In great numbers and are pushing grad
ually closer and closer TO the town fortifica-
tions. We are well off for provisions and
water, though very tired lodging shells and
lighting. Quite on civilized lines. General
CrOnje has always given due notice of a
bombardment and allowed an ambulance
party two hours on Saturday to return the
bodies of six dead left in the vicinity of the
Boer trenches. On Friday night Jan Botha,
the well-known Boer commander. told a
man with the ambulance party that their
loss had been heavy and that his heart was
FitZclarence and Lieutenant Swinburn both
slightly. In skirmish at the outposts yes
terday one trooper was killed and nine were
wounded
''Only fifty-five men of ID squadron were
engaged in the attack. though they were as
sisted by the flanking fire of gun OF the
Cape police. The Beers made a desperate
attempt 10 drive back the British and their
rear trenches opened a terrible fire i'm every
direction. the flash OF the rifles lighting up
the entire position. hail OF bullets ratified
on the roofs OF the houses of the town. Upon
completing circuit OF the Boer front and
the line OF trenches the British withdrew
In independent lines of retreat, covered by
the flank fire from the Cape police. The
night. The Boer loss Is estimated al one
hundred killed and wounded. The Boer
commander Informed an officer In charge of
a fig of truce that he estimated the at
tacxing squadron at 10oo and was not aware
that the British force at Mafeking was so
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-16
CLAN-NA-GAEL PROTESTS.

large. The Beers were observed from Mafe-
king burying their dead all day long"
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-16
A MAGNIFICENT GIFT
CARNEGIE WILL ADD $1..OO.OOO TO
HIS PITTSBURG BENEFICENCE.
Promises that Amount for the En-
louisville People Independent.

PITTSBURG, Nov 15.-In half an hour
to-day Andrew Carnegie listened 10 and ap-
proved the plans for library building that
will make Pittsburg famous the world
cver-a building unequaled in any land. Mr..
Carnegie toll w. F. Frew. chairman of the
board OF trustees of the Carnegie Institute,
that 81. 10000 was at the disposal of the
managers to be used in enlarging the build
irgs. and to proceed with the work. The
institute is to be made three and one-half
times the size Of the present building. Un-
der the one roof will he found departments
devoted to science. music, art and literature.
Ii will be the only institution of the kind in
the world and will be the greatest monu-
ment to Mr.. Carnegie that he will rear.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-16
william Franklin Durfee.

NEW YORK. Nov. 15.-The death is an
nounced at Middletown, n. Y. of William
Franklin Durfee. engineer and inventor,
aged sixty-six years. In 1861 he was a
member of the New York Legislature and
introduced a resolution requesting Congress
TO repeal ''all laws which deprive any class
of loyal subjects of the government from
bearing arms for the common defense >
This is believed to have been the first for
NAL proposition for arming negro troops.
Mr. Durfee designed a gun for naval use.
In. June. 1852, he went to Lake Superior
TO test the suitability of the iron ores for
the manufacture of steel by method in
vented by William Kelley. He succeeded
in producing some ingots of steel from
which. on May % 1865. were rolled the first
steel rails made in this country. He then
established at Wyandotte, Mich. the first
analytical laboratory built as an adjunct
to steel works in the United States for the
purpose of studying the bessemer process
and the use of the regenerative furnace.
He afterward built at Ansonia. Conn, the
first successful furnaces for refining copper
by the of gaseous fuels.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-16
ACTIVITY NEAR FORT TULI.
Col. SprecLIey's Camp SheIled by a
Party of Beers.

CAPE TOWN. Friday. Nov 1O.-A dis
patch from Buluwayo, dated Friday, Nov.
3, says an armored train proceeded south
close 10 Machudi, where a culvert was
found damaged. The Basuto police, the dis
patch adds, report that a party of Beers
have been looting and damaging property.
A Fort Tuli dispatch. under date of Nov.
3. says: There is great activity in the Boer
camp south of here accommodating party
sent along the line heard heavy firing i'm the
distance. The party returned to Colonel
Spreckley's camp, on which the enemy was
advancing i'm force. 1t was shelled at mid
day, stampedinS every horse and mule but
not touching a man. The Beers number
four hundred. It appears the Beers sur
rounded Bych Store, where a small party
stubbornly resisted. ultimately retiring to
| the bush and gaining Fort Tuli An officer
and five troopers are missing from Spreck-
ley's force. which has been out some days
accommodating the enemy's force, and which
Tuii."
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-16
DIVORCE AND THE CHURCH.
Bishop DOane Urges n Crusade against
n Growing Evil.

ALBANY, N. Y, Nov. 15.-Bishop Doane
in his address to. the diocesan convention
to-day dwelt at length upon the divorce
question. He said in part:
Il am most urgent that we should con-
slider the duty of giving a tone to society
in the hope that when it can be induced to
set its ban upon offenses against Gods law
there will be a power at work far more
efficient to arrest the evil than can be
measured by its good influence on those
who are determined to sin. Speaking prac-
ticaly, L beg you to consider whether the
exigency of the social crisis does not de-
mand the heroic treatment of absolute and
unvarying prohibition. If this church can
by any language or by any enactment of
canon or rubric rid herself of all response
bility for remarriage after divorce she will
have set up barrier against the foul tide
of the desecration of marriage, of the
degradation of family, of the deterioration
of home which must turn the current aside
until it finds its way where 1t belongs, into
the sewage and not into the sources of sup
ply"
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-16
GersOu SieGel.

NEW YORK, Nov. 15-Gerson Siegel, vice
president of the Siegel-Cooper Company,
died to-day at his home in this city. after an
illness of three months. He was sixty-two
years old. Heart trouble was the cause of
death.
BY his death the corporation Of Siegel
Bros, manufacturers of underwear in this
city. lost its president and the corporation
of the Siegel-Cooper Company also lost its
vice president, OF the -hrst-named corpora
tion he was the acting executive head, but
in the affairs OF the Siegel-Cooper Company
he was passive. while having a large in
terest in the house. Mr.. Siegel was born
in Mannheim, Germany. Early in life he
came to America TO better his condition.
He was without capital or rich friends. but
overcame all obstacles and for more than
thirty years was a prominent figure in New
York commercial life. He is survived by a
widow and three children. His children are
Mrs. Edward Seigman, whose husband is
senior member of the importing house of
Seigman a Well: Mrs. Frank Vogel, of Chi
cago, and Jerome Siegel. of Siegel Bros.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-16
TO UNEARTH NIPPUR.
Expedition of ExcavatOrs Fitted Out
by Pennsylvania University.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 15.-The Univer-
sity OF Pennsylvania has just fitted out an
other expedition to Babylonia TO complete
the excavation of the ancient city of Nippur.
The work is under the direct control of
DR.. Herman V. Hilprecht, of the university.
the famous Assyriologist. The university
has been conducting these excavations for
the last ten years at a total expense of
more than 100000. The cost of the present
expedition will be about $35,0O0
The party will proceed to Aden on the
Persian gulf. and thence up the Tigris river
TO Bagdad from which city the journey will
be for several days through the Arabian
desert. The expedition will reach Nippur
about the latter part of January. The work
is done under a special firman issued by
the Sultan of Turkey TO the University of
PENNSYLVANIA.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-11-16
Movements of Steamers.

CHERBOURG. Nov. 15.-Sailed: Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse, from Bremen and
Southampton for New York.
HAMBURG. Nov. 15.-Arrived: Brazilian,
from New York. Sailed: Belgravia, for Bal
timore.
QUEENSTOWN. Nov. 15.-Arrived: Bel
genland, from Philadelphia for Liverpool.
NAPLES, Nov. 15.-Arrived: Auguste Vic
f0ria. from New York for Genoa
SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 15.-Arrived: ST.
Paul. from New York.
ANTWERP. Nov. 15.-Arrived: Nederland
from Philadelphia.
LONDON, Nov. 15-Arrived: Marquette,
from New York.
NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-Sailed: Oceanic
for Liverpool
BOSTON. Nov. 15.-Arrived: Ultonia, from
Liverpool. 4lt:sssE