The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-17
Idle Men Put to Work, UnfOrtunates
Taken on the Streets.
TWO NEW CASES OF SMALLPOX
FIVE MEMBERS OF THE 161ST INDI-
ANA NOW ILL WITH THE PEST.
Gen. BrOOke's Cabinet-SurgeOn Gen
eraI Sternberg's ObservatiOns-$4O,-
100000 Asked for Cuban Army.

HAVANA, Jan. 16.-The colossal task of
putting into proper sanitary condition every
dwelling in Havana began to-day, Surgeon
Major Davis hiring one hundred resident
physicians for a house-to-house inspection,
to compel obedience to the new regulations.
All cesspools under houses are to be closed
and sealed. Garbage is to be removed dali
ly. 1t is expected that the city will be in
a fair sanitary condition within three
months, without underground sewerage. The
old residents regard the new health regula-
tion as unnecessary and meddlesome, and
even some well-to-do and well-informed per-
sons, when making their objections, describe
themselves as healthy enough" To-day
thousand people were engaged in the work
of cleaning the streets and public buildings.
Captain Huston, of the Second Engineers,
who was assigned to this service, is report
ed sick with low fever
There are two more cases of smallpox in
the ne-hundred-and-sixty- Indiana
Regiment, at Camp Columbia, making five
in all, and there is one case of suspected
yellow fever in the First Texas Regiment.
The man has been isolated. 1t is a faVorite
trick of the soldiers when escaping from the
camp without leave, to hire Cuban uniforms
so as to pass the sentries. Sometimes the
clothing has been exposed to infection and
the usual results follow. Nevertheless there
is so little sickness among the United States
troops that twenty female nurses, out of the
one hundred originally employed, have been
dismissed.
The casemate in the artillery cuartel
chosen for Major General Ludlows office,
near the palace, proved so foul that air
extinguished candles anC4 sufforHted dogs
and cats that ran in.
General Menocal and ex-Superintendent
McCullagh examined to-day three hundred
applicants for positions on the police force
here About eighty patrolmen have been ac-
cepted so far, and of this number some
thirty men are Spaniards. Menocal is act
ing fairly towards the Spanish candidates.
If physically and morally up to the stand
ard they are accepted. Some former Spanish
officers are among the applicants. Two lieu
tenants accepted appointments as patrolmen
on Saturday. The height required, five feet
six inches, shuts out many applicants in
Guiding lot of Nenocafs men. The force
will be selected in the main by the end of
the week. The weakest part Of the system
is the pay. Fifty dollars a month for patrol
men is regarded as too little money for
high-class, honest men. San Juan de Porto
Rico pays SO per month. The question of
raising the pay of patrolmen here to that
figure is under consideration.
The testimony in the trial of Private Jo-
seph Buckley, Company Il, Second Louisiana
Volunteers, for the killing of Private J. d.
Hughes on Jan. 7, is closed, and the court
martial will consider its verdict tomorrow
The cruiser Brooklyn has arrived from
Key West, with Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Allen on board.
General Arnold arrived to-day to take
command of the Second Division of the Sew
enth Army Corps.
Senor Eduardo Zayas and his son. while
journeying from Las Tunas to Puerto Prin-
cipe, with $1,000 to buy cattle, were murdered
by bandits.
The first piles were driven to-day for the
construction of the United States per at
Triscornia. Colonel Hecker was present. The
construction of seven warehouses is begin
ming at the railroad terminal line. They will
be finished in about a month. About 300
men are at work.
Senior Alfred Rego has applied to General
Ludlow for the privilege of inspecting cattle
entering this port and collecting fees for
so doing, in Spanish style His application
was not considered.
The United States transport Manitoba,
from Savannah, Ca, Jan. 8, has arrived
here.
The French steamer Versailles, Captain
Villeaumeras, belonging to the Compagnie
Generate Transatantique, from ST. Nazaire,
for Vera Cruz, ashore last n:ght be-
tween Bahia Honda and Cabanas, ninety
miles west of here. The coast there is rocky
and the position OF the steamer IS consid-
ed dangerous. Tugs have been sent to her
assistance