The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-12
Col. j. G. Evans, Former Governor of
South Carolina, to superintend De-
partment of Corrections.
TWO MORE INDIANIANS ILL
THREE CASES OF SMALLPOX NOW IN
THE HOOSIER CAMP.
Mayor of Ccrvantes Threatened with
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Wood COnfers
with President Mckinley.

HAVANA, Jan. n.-Senor Perfecto La
coste who was president of the Havana
Junta Patriotica, will be appointed alcalde
or mayor of Havana, by Major General
Ludlow military governor of the depart
ment of Havana. Senor Lacoste is a wealthy
planter. popular among all classes of Cubans
and a resident e1 Havana.
The Cuban general, Mario Menocal, will
be chief of police, and Colonel j. G. Evans
of the South Carolina Volunteers, former
Governor of South Carolina, and now one
of General Ludlows staff officers, will be
appointed superintendent of the department
Of corrections. embracing the police, the
minor courts and the correctional institu-
tions. Ex-Chief McCullagh, of New York
city, will remain here for a time to help
carry out the police plan he had devised,
with Colonel Mcuhon, of the Second Illi-
nois Regiment, who was yesterday super
seded as military chief of police, and has
returned to his regiment with Major General
Lee, at Quemados. Some of the important
features Of the Moulton-McC Cullagh plan will
be retained.
General Mario Menocal, on being invited
to accept the post of chief of police, in
quired of the executive commission repre-
senting the Cuban Assembly whether he
ought to do so. the commission replied that
it was his duty to undertake the office as
he could serve the people of Cuba better
as chief of police of Havana than as COM
mander of the Fifth Cuban Army Corps.
When the appointment is formally an
nounced Menocal will resign his army COM
mand. General Rafael Cardenas will prob
ably be appointed deputy chief of police.
The police appointments of Colonel Moulton
have been officially declared by General
Ludlow to be unauthorized and subject to
revision.
Two more suspected cases of smallpox de-
veloped in the One-hundred-and-s
Indiana to-day, making three in all. The
sick are carefully isolated and the entire
regiment will remain in quarantine inside
the regimental camp limits. The general
health of the troops is remarkably good,
there being only 119 in the general hospital
out of 14O0O men. Private Harry Becker,
Company A. Forty-ninth Iowa Regiment,
died yesterday of old injuries received on
board the United States transport Mime
waska, and Private Shovel, Company G.,
died of appendicitis.
Francisco Valdes, a resident of Cervantes,
Matanzas province, recently complained to
General Sanger, military governor of the
city of Matanzas and in temporary COM
mand of the Department of Matanzas prior
to the arrival at Matanzas city yesterday Of
Maj. Gen. J. II. Wilson, that Domingo Con
zales a Cuban ex-officer had ordered him to
leave Cervantes and not to return. General
Sanger Immediately addressed a communi-
cation to the mayor of Cervantes saying
that if Gonzales made any further trouble
he would be arrested and locked up at Ma
tanzas. General Sanger added You, sir,
are charged with the preservation of the
peace of the town of Cervantes. Unless you
are able to keep the peace it will be neces-
sary to remove you and to appoint some
one who can. All residents of the island,
black or white, Spanish or Cuban, are en-
titled to the protection of the law in per-
son and property. 1 have been sent here
to see that they receive it and shall un-
doubtedly perform my duties."
La Discussion described the finding of fif-
ty human skeletons in a well on a planta-
ton near Manguito. The writer of the story
asserts that these people were undoubtedly
thrown in while alive. He says that in
some cases the finger bones are severed,
and the suppositon is that this was due to
the efforts of the victims to raise them
selves out of the pit The body of Senior
Pedro Alayon, a prominent Cuban, who dis
appeared mysteriously during the insurrec-
tion, has been identified. La Discussion ac-
cuses the guerrilla chief Antonio Ries, Ser
geant Jean Peres and Vicenta Zalgo a
schoolmaster, of being the authors of the
terrible crime. All are said to be in Havana
La Discussion prints also a story from Ma
tanzas of the finding there of the remains
of from 200 to 800 persons in a well near the
headquarters of the civil guard.
William Nathaniel Hammond person Of
clerical appearance, who came here after
the blockade, represented that he was a
bishop in Christian denomination and had
been Roman Catholic priest spoke Span
ish freely and impressed prominent people
with the truth of his representations, was
able to open soda fountain business under
the firm name of Hammond & Co. on Sun
day last he disappeared. 1t is said he OBJ
tained a large sum of money, about $1,000,
from man named Barlow on representa-
tions which are alleged to have been false.
In well in the Spanish artillery quarters
at Puerto Principe the Americans found
1000 charges for rapid-fire guns, 1900 shells,
several million Mauser cartridges and many
sabres and Remington rifles.
The United States hospital ship Missouri,
which left Savannah on Jan. S, arrived here
to-day.
WOOD AT WASHINGTON.