The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-22
VIII Be Taken from Mafanzas to Del
aware Breakwater and Go from
There to Camp Meade.
COL. DURBIN'S MEN MUST WAIT
GOVERNMENT HAS NOT YET PROVID-
ED TRANSPORT FOR THEM.
Summer Camps In the south to BE Re-
tained-American InrOads on
South African Trade.
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dred-and-sixtieth Indiana will be brought
| from Matanzas, Cuba, TO Delaware break
water, whence they will go to Camp Meade,
where they will be detained until danger
of their having contracted yellow fever or
| any other contagion or infection Is fully
past. The regiment will be brought to the
| United States on the government transport
| Thomas, now at Savannah. The department
| wants to get the Southern troops in first,
as the quarantine regulations of the Treas
! ury Department which are enforced by the
| revenue Marine Hospital Service go into eff
| feet April l next. However, the One-hun-
| dred-and-sixtieth Indiana will be brought
| back among the first of the Northern vol
unteers. The misunderstanding irst
| Indiana and the Second Illinois. at Havana,
have been ordered back and will come as
| soon as transportation, of which the gov
eminent is very short, can be had.
Thomas D..Scott, of Indiana, has been APP
! pointed a clerk in the indianapolis station
| Of the Bureau of Animal Industry, at $40
| per annum.
| Miss Minnie Hill, Of Terre Haute, has re-
| signed the position in the Postofiice De-
| partment she held for several months 90
| resume her place as private secretary OF
| w. w. Harson, president OF the State
| Normal School. The vacancy in the Post
office Department has been filled by the
appointment of Miss Wood. of Evansville
Sixty employees were discharged from the
| government printing office, among them w.
| NJ. Bass, of Fort Wayne, who ran the
| TRANSPORTATION department for the Republic
| an congressional committee during the re-
| cent campaign.
An effort is being made to have Robert
| W. Medkirk reinstated in the pension
agency at Indianapolis. which can be done,
as he is an old soldier, and then have him
| transferred to the bureau here.
! The bond of Hugh Stewart. Of Fort
] Wayne, as a post trader in Indian Terri
| tory, was approved to-day and his commits
| sion mailed him. The matter was hurried
! through by First Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Heath and Auditor Hart. The latter
left for indianapolis. to-day.
Dr. n. w. Hiatt. of Marion, is In Wash
| ington.
The War Department has been investigat-
| ing the charge that four Of the second lieu
| tenants recently appointed in the army hav-
| ing been previously discharged from the
West Point Military Academy were there
! fore ineligible for appointment. While the
| provision Of the law is no cadet who has
| been discharged shall be appointed in the
army ahead of the class In which he was
| serving. The men named are Edward r.
| Downes, appointed from Texas and now IN
| the Philippines; Nathaniel X. Chambliss, jr.,
| appointed from Alabama; Louis j. Van
| Schaick, New York. and Edward r. Haskell
| 1t appears from the records in the War De-
| partment that two of these, DoWneS ana van
| Schaick, come within the law ana Will not
| be commissioned Neitner OF thelr classes
| have graduated. Haskell Is of the class OF
| 1892, and although he was discharged, the
| entire class petitioned and the academic
| board recommended him for appointment,
and under the law such recommendations
| can be accepted. Haskell was wounded al
San Juan. Chambliss was of the class OF
| 1885, which graduated Feb. 10, 1899, and al
| though he was discharged in 1895 his class
has been commissioned ahead of him.
The English merchants have been startled
| by the heavy inroads being made by Amer
| leans into their trade with the British colony
| of Capetown and there is much talk of COM
| bination to repress this. Consul General
| Stowe at Capetown, in a report to the State
| Department, points out some instances OF
| the success of the American enterprise III
| that line of recent occurrence. Two orders
| for American rails and tubing, amounting tC
| 81, 500 000 have just been placed at a price
20 per cent. below British quotations. and
the Scotch makers. refusing to make the
| tubes as long as required. the order went &c
| America. large match factory is being
erected in Capetown TO use American ma.
| chinery. Large shipments of barbed gal
vanized wire are being made to Natal by
| American manufacturers also at prices
% per cent. below English quota.
of Pocahontas coal from w Virginia
| has just reached Capetown. The consul
must pay taR of in Nsa unde1
penalty OF heavy fine and imprisonment
Samp he aTe subject to duty though they
the commercial traveller Is taxed 10 the
amount of s121 .66. Johannesburg, taxes hi
| cycles S2.43 yearly and fines rider on the
wrong side of the street $24.33.
| Mr.. Dawes, the controller of the currency
has been informed that Judge Speer has dis
charged the receiver of the First Nationa
Bank of Cordee, Ga, appointed by him
and that the effects of the bank have beer
| turned over to the receiver appointed by Mr.
| Dawes. -
Patents were issued to Indianians to-daN
| as follows: Charles A. Bottorf, Elwood
sheet metal shears; Emerson Davis, Indi.
annapolis. bicycle brake; Richards W. Jamie.
son. Roanoke, nut-lock; William II. John
fence stay; William H. May, dwell kitchen
cabinet; Marshall 7. Reeves. j. n. Kailol
stacker: George " Weaver. Brazil iu' terra "a
| Gotta or clay die.
Secretary Alger has come TO the deter.
| mination to maintain summer camps 70,
the United States troops in the Southern
| States, and the delegation of Georgians who
| called on him yesterday to secure that OBJ
ject will be so informed Ii is also the in
| tention to maintain one of the camps i'm the
| neighborhood OF Atlanta. The only cOndi
| ton is that the present Georgia quarantin,
| regulations. which operate a $ to prevent
the free movement of troops. shall b.
adapted to the requirements. The number
Of troops to be located at any one camI
will not be large. for IL is said at the de
partment that only about 1900 soldiers viii
be so located. but there is likely 10 be much
changing around among the men. Troop,
returning from Cuba are to be detained In
the Georgia camps about twenty days a
least before being sent TO their homes or e
the Northern posts.
Preparations are being made by Chic
| Wilkie of the Secret Service, to destroy
81, %, 3o5,9SS worth of counterfeit coin ant
bogus notes which have been accumulated
by his bureau. OF this amount s117 243 rep
resent United States treasury notes. silver
| certificates. bank notes and fractional cur
rency; $lo.O2l Is in imitation gold silver
| nickel and copper coin. The balance of thi!
and securities, including fac-smiles OF Ten
nessee State warrants, Missouri defens,
bonds. State bank notes and flash notes
| When spurious coin and notes. together Will
the counterfeiters' outfit, are captured an
inventory is taken of them and they ar.
| properly labeled and boxed until the tim.
arrives for them to be destroyed. The pa