The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-07
LUDLOW SEARCHING FOR ARMS
THREE HUNDRED RIFLES FOUND IN
HAVANA AND SEIZED.
Proclamation to BE Issued Asking the
People to Surrender Their Weap-
Ons-NO Reply to Gomez.

havana we're signed under the late regime
| by the captain general and subjected TO a
tax of $3.50 each. He has issued.instructioas
to the rector of the university and the al
rectors to grant diplomas hereafter without
diploma tax. Three hundred young men
are now in attendance at the university.
At the request of General Brooke the Bank
of Spain has reported IS to the amount of
/ the primary schol funds it holds on deposit
The bank has $4,000 in paper currency.
worth about cents on the dollar, $10l in
/ silver and $77 in bronze. The teachers have
| been unpaid for a long time, the arrears
varying in individual cases according to
political influence.
Nothing can be done at present for edu-
/ cation sanitation road building. Every
thing must wait until Generals Brooke and
! Ludlow and their stats can get definite
grasp of perplexing situations There is
! nnumerable company of volunteer advisers
always available, always suggesting tearing
up everything and substituting something
new. The courts are an intricate subject.
Probably one two Cuban lawyers will be
retained to aid Judge Advocate Dudley in
preparing plan for supreme court to act
as tribunal of last resort.
General Brooke received the following tel
egram yesterday from Remedies on Jan. 2:
/
that General-in-chief Gomez has just ar
rived at his camp at Guanguabo and that
he does not know when he will leave for
the capital. RAFAEL CARRANZA."
AS the dispatch is not in answer to an in
quiry it was not replied to.
ARMS MUST BE SURRENDERED
Major General Ludlow, governor of the
Department of Havana, has decided to is
sue a proclamation inviting the surrender
| of arms at the arsenal. Receipts will be
given for the arms, which will probably be
returned later. There are supposed to be
as many as 10000 rifles in private possess
sion, held chiefly by former Spanish volun-
teers.
Acting on reports received from various
agents, Adjutant General Greble and Cap
tain Blunt have searched at night time this
week a dozen dwellings and seized alto
gether about three hundred rifles. with a
number of machetes The largest cOllec-
| ton found in any once instance was in a
chocolate factory, where twenty rifles were
! found. Parties of Cubans have been going
| into the residences OF former volunteers,
! taking their rifles and handing them over
| to the nearest American patrol But this is
! quite another matter. Nine CubanS were
| caught in the act to-day, among them
! colonel, a captain and a lieutenant They
| We're arrested, taken before General Lud-
| low, lectured roundly and dismissed. The
military administration has objection to
| individuals having revolver or a sporting
rifle or so in their residences and the
| Searchers decline to take the weapon in
such cases. They make seizures only where
| two or more military rifles are found and
| no acceptable explanation is forthcoming.
! A Spanish former lieutenant colonel asked
! General Ludlow to-day to send to his house
and seize thirty Mausers. as he did not seem
! to wish to give them up voluntarily. This
was done. A local dealer in arms has 4500
rifles in stock, but agrees not to sell them
! at present. All these are simply precau-
! 9~xy falx
! BILE diturbanCe
The funeral services over the remains of
! Col W. II. Mabry, of the First Texas, who
] died at Quemados camp on Jan. 4, took
place yesterday. The coffin, draped with
the stars and stripes, rested in front of the
/ cOloneIS tent. The First Texas stood ut
parade rest" when the services were read
| by the chaplain. The body was brought to
| Havana last night.
| ing Of negro by the United States patrol
/ on Wednesday show that Privates Weiss
and Cox, of Company E, Eighth Regiment,
| arrested negro VINO had In his possession
! a Krag-Jorgenson bayonet. On his way to
! jail the man tried to escape and was
| dered to halt But, he continued run
ming. Weiss fired a shot in the air. This
| did not stop the negro, and Weiss shot him
| through the heart. Weiss has been arrest
| ed pending an inquiry into the case.
The United States transport Mobile. which
| left Savannah on Jan. B. has arrived here,
| having on board the Fourth and Ninth Illi-
| nois regiments.
Kings holiday was observed to-day,
| just as though the king reigned over Cuba.
| The business houses were closed, but the
! Americans kept the public offices open.
| Captain Sgsbee had a thousand guests on
| board the United States battle ship Texas
| to witness the regatta to-day. Punch was
served and there was dancing The race
| for ten-oared cutters marines, in COMPETE
| ton for the purse offered by +he owners of
| the yatch Coronet was won by the Brook
| lyn. The race for six-oared gigs for the
| American Club cup was won by the Are
| thusa. The race for ten-oared cutters, fire.
| men, for a purse offered by the Coronet
/ was won by the Texas. The race for four
| cared dingies for a Coronet purse was won
! by the Brooklyn. The race for ten-oared
cutters, for the cup offered by Mr.. G. l..
| Childs and other local bankers was won by
Colonel Richards, General Broole's adju-
! tant general has arrived here from Porto
! Rico via Santiago and Cienfuegos. He left
! Ctenfuegos yesterday. tie said that Gem
/ eral Bates. of the Sixth Ohio, has arrived
! there with Dusenberry's Second Illinois
! battalion, which makes 1900 Americans and
! 30 Geo Spaniards camped in and about the
| city. The Cuban camp is near the Amer
| lean camp, but strict military discipline is
maintained, and there have been no dis
Colonel Biddle. from Matanzas, who has
! just arrived here said there were 5000
! Spaniards and 400 Americans there when
| the American flag was raised. There are
now 1900 Americans there and everything
| Captain Matias one of the late Colonel
| Warnings assistants, is engaged in super
! vising the work Of cleaning the streets here
| donga, the latter with 230 exiled Nanigos
! have arrived here from Spain
The United States transport Manitoba has
| arrived at MatanZas from Charleston
The United States military commissioners
| gave Il farewell concert and dance at the
| Trocha Hotel last night. a number of dis
tinguished Cubans and Spaniards were pres
ent.
The United States guards at San Severino
fortress, MatanZas. found a prisoner in an
obscure cell who had been three days with
out food The Spaniards had neglected to
| release him.
Colonel Manuel Girauta. secretary of the
Spanish evacuation commission called with
General Clous upon Governor General
| Brooke to-day. He remains here to settle
some trihng points in connection with the
| evacuation.
General Maxine Gomez has arrived at
Remedies BROADER General Jose Miguel
/ Gomez sailed for New York to-day.
! The Second Illinois battalion, under Major
Duzenberry now at Cienfuegos where Maj.
Duzenberry raised the United States Nag
| on Tuesday will return to Havana
province for service under Major General
| Lee.
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