The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-10
CONFLICT OF AUTHORITY
THAT ENDED IN THE RESIGNATION
OF THE CIVIL GOVERNOR.
Senior De Castro Couldn't Realize He
Brooke Protests Against Wood.

HAVANA, Jan. 9.-Major General Ludlow,
military governor of the Department of Ha-
Vara, recently requested the Cuban Gen.
Julio Sanguilly to stay outside the city, or,
in the event of his entering it, not to wear
his uniform in public Sanguilly was in
formed in writing that he would be severely
dealt with in the event of provoking any
moro trouble such as occurred at the Albisu
Theater, a few nights ago, when, with
party of friends, he almost provoked
physical conflict with two members of the
municipal police who had not saluted him.
General Ludlow sent copy of the letter to
Gen. Mayia Rodriguez, Sanguilly's superior
ard it is understood that General Rodriguez
also cautioned him. But to-day he has been
seen around the city conspicuously in a
white duck suit and white-brimmed Panama
hat, wearing the three gold stars of a major
general Attended by eight or ten friends,
curling his long gray mustache and twisting
his imperial, he has been ostentatiously pos
ing in the cafes, utterly without regard to
General Ludlow's directions. Sanguilly
seems to be looking for trouble. Though un-
popular with the Cuban chiefs, he has a
large following among the lower classes.
The attention of General Rodriguez will be
called to his obstreperous behavior, and it is
considered better to let bis own people
handle him.
Senior Fernandez de Castro. the civil gov
ernor of Havana, acts as though he had his
former powers. He has ordered the hygienc
hospital to be closed. General Ludlow, the
military governor of the district of Havana,
who had not been consulted in the matter,
was displeased when he heard of the action
taken and directed that the hospital be re-
opened. De Castro ordered the newspapers
last week not to print certain business adj
vertisements which were distasteful to him.
They did not do So This afternoon De
Castro wrote to General Ludlow, asking to
be relieved as soon as convenient.
John Gary Evans, though not exactly al
cade, or mayor, of Havana has been di-
lected by General Ludlow to reconstruct the
minor courts and supervise the police and
some of the civil departments.
A dispatch from Remedies says that Gen.
Maxine Gomez danced poll1as and mazour-
kas at ball there on Saturday last.
The board appointed to inquire into the
sentences passed upon Spanish soldiers now
serving terms of imprisonment in the Ha-
vana penitentiary began its sessions to-day.
Governor General Brooke has telegraphed
to Washington an expression of his aston
ishment that General Wood, military gov
ernor of the Department of Santiago,
should have permitted the recent demonstra-
tons at Santiago against the proposed order
for concentrating customs at Havana to
take the form of abuse of the governor of
the island.
Private Weiss, Company f. Eighth United
States Infantry, who while On patrol last
Wednesday night shot and killed an escap-
ing Cuban negro arrested for having in his
possession a Krag- Jorgensen bayonet, has
been discharged by the military authorities
and commend ID by Major General Ludlow
for courage and good judgment in endeav-
oring to stop a lawbreaker before shooting
to kill, and for GOODNESS in shooting when
that became necessary"
Mrs. E. c. RathbCne is president of the
newly established employment bureau and
day nurses school, the latter for the care
of children while the parents are seeking
work or doing It Ten prominent Cuban
women are associated with her The move
ment will help to diminish the number of
mothers begging with their children in their
arms in the street.
Under General Ludows orders 400 chill
dren have been removed from the Ruenos
Ayres and Fernandez Castro Orphan
Asylum to the Beneficenca Asylum, where
they will have better accommodation and
care. The closing of the first two institu-
tons will, ii is estimated, effect a saving of
100000 a year.
La Lucia to-day publishes a dispatch from
Vaguajay near Caibarien, province of San
ia Clara, reporting that on Saturday the
in the employ of the Spanish authorities.
The dispatch says that Gen Maxine Gomez
promptly arrested six members of his staff
who were concerned in the killing and
turned them over to the municipal authori-
ties at Caibarien.
Surgeon General Sternberg devoted yester-
day and the greater part of to-day to thor
ough inspection of all the Havana hospitals.
The proceedings against Dr. G. G. Joliffe,
the discharged army contract surgeon who
was arrested on Saturday by the United
States authorities on the charge of practic-
ing without a license, unlawfully wearing
the United States uniform and failing to
report a case of infectious disease, were dis
missed to-day and DR.. Joliffe was released
from custody.
The customs receipts to-day were $4,000.