The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-03
Orders Received by the Wreclxing
Company to Suspend Operations
and Come Home.
HAVANA APPARENTLY QUIET
BUT AMERICANS ADVISED TO AVOID
DARK AND LONELY PLACES.
Threats Made When Rumor Was
Circulated that y=rar Had Been De-
cIared-COnsuEs May Leave.

HAVANA, April 2.-Orders were received
here to-day for the closing of the contract
with the wreckers now at work on the
Maine and directing that salvage operations
should be suspended. The tug Merritt and
the barges Chief and Sharp will proceed
north as soon as practicable. The tattered
flag at tbs poop of the Maine probably will
be removed Any further action that may
be taken will be the subject of a confer
ence The decision arrived at is doubtless
based upon the report of Captain Chad
wick, Lieutenant Commander Cowles and
Lieutenant Commander Wainwright, COM
posing the board appointed to decide what
was best to be done with the Maine wreck.
In their report it is believed, the board sets
forth that it was not possible to save the
+en-inch guns unless dynamite was used to
blow the tops from the turrets. All the
other valuable material of the Maine which
was not destroyed by the explosion or sunk
deep in the harbor mud has already been
sent north The bodies of the victims of the
explosion which have not been recovered,
numbering seventy-five or seventy-six, are
by this time probably completely disinte-
grated. but arrangements be made with
the local authorities, should any bodies aD-
pear on the surface, that they will be cared
for and shipped north by Ward line steam
ers.
La Lucha, in an editorial under the cap
ton Commerce in Philanthropy and Char
ity'' to-day says that many business houses
in Havana have ceased buying supplies out
side the island finding it possible to get
their stocks much more cheaply in other
ports in Cuba. This, the paper says, is due
to enormous smuggling operations made
possible by the admission of relief supplies
from the United States free of duty, and it
demands that the government impose duties
on such relief supplies, thus preventing the
Illegal entry of goods, which is seriously
unfair to the government resources" La
Lucha claims that many persons who for
mery never earned or had dollar are be-
coming well to do through their connec-
ton with the relief work.
The newspapers here, from news which
they have received from the exterior and
interior of the island, regard the situation
as critical The tone of all the papers is
intensely patriotic. The Constitution this
morning says cit is time to let the public
know the real state of affairs between the
United States and Spain. We deprecate un-
due fanfaronade or cries OF to Washing
ton,' like those of "a Berlin of.France be-
fore Sedan. The interest taken here in the
situation is great but order has been pre-
served up to the present writing, while the
authorities are taking measures to secure
continued tranquility in the city,
Havana is, to all appearances, quiet and
orderly, whatever hostile feeling may exist
being well restrained. United States Con-
sui General Lee has been assured that
every effort viii be made by The govern
ment to protect his person and those of
other Americans from violence at the hands
of irresponsible persons who are to be
found IN all cities.
One hody was recovered from the wreck
of the Maine to-day.
The volunteers have been drilling on the
praao the last two esenings.
II Is clalmest by merchants IN interior
towns that the reconcentrados ilre selling
posak Ia he nrocasN for 10 eepfs . pound in