The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-11
HOMAGE TO THE DEAD
CUBANS AND AMERICANS VIEW THE
REMAINS OF GEN. GARCIA.
Funeral of the Patriot to Take Place
TO-DaS-GOmez Due at Havana
Early Next Week.

HAVANA Feb. 1o.-About three hundred
wreaths and floral emblems from individ-
uals and societies have been piled at the
foot of the bier of Gen. Calixto Garcia.
whose body arrived here from the United
States yesterday afternoon on the United
States gunboat Nashville. The body lies in
the municipal council chamber of the palace
and crowds continue to silently file past the
coffin. The remains will lie in state until
the interment, which will take place at 1
o'clock tomorrow afternoon. All day long
Havana has paid silent homage to the dead
warrior Young women and children of the
best families, gray haired ladies', laborers
and negresses have visited the council
chamber passed the guard of Cuban ard
American soldiers, looked upon the face OF
the dead and quietly moved away. Many
carried flowers, which were deposited at the
foot of the bier. The streets around the
palace have been crowded with soldiery and
the honors paid by the American authorities
have greatly pleased the Cubans. Governor
General Brooke and staff will attend the
interment tomorrow and the review of the
Seventh Army Corps will be postponed The
Cuban troops guarding the streets near the
palace are objects of much curiosity to
passers by.
United States Senator Redfield Proctor re-
turned this afternoon from Matanzas,
whittier he had gone to exchange express
sions with Gen. Maxine Gomez He did not
find the Cuban commander-in-chief but
learned that Gomez was expected to arrive
at Santa Clara this evening, at Cardenas
tomorrow, at Matanzas on Sunday and
probably on Monday or Tuesday at Havana.
Brlgadler General Davis, who has been
relieved of his duties as governor of the
military department of Pinar del Rio and
ordered to report to Washington to serve on
the court of inquiry for the investigation of
charges by General Niles regarding the
American troops in the war with Spain, ar
rived here this evening and will sail to-
morrow for Tampa.
Maj William J.. Kneedler, surgeon of the
First Brigade Second Army Corps, wired
this morning from Guanajay province of
Pinar del Rio to Chief Surgeon Lieut.. Col.
O'Reillv thar there had been one death from
yellow fever among the members of IL
TWo-hundred-and-s New York Regi-
This afternoon dispatch was received from
Major Kneedler saying that the autopsy
showed that the cause of death was not yell
low fever but pernicious malarial fever, and
that 1t was really doubtful whether there
is any case of yellow fever in the regiment.
Nevertheless, the camp will be moved. DR..
OReilly says the case in the Eighteenth
Regular Infantry which was first supposed
to be yellow fever, is undoubtedly malarial,
ana tnat with the exception or the ave posi-
BILE cases at Guanajay there is not case of
yellow fever among the American troops in
the island.
Private j. Crotty, Battery l, Second Regu-
lar Artillery, last night killed a couIade
at Castillo del Principe, in the suburbs of
Havana. He was Immediately placed under
arrest.
Applicants for rations here have been ex-
amined in many cases by army representa-
tives who are ignorant of the language of
the people Misrepresentation and abuses
have resulted. People have been receiving
food who have been at work and who are
able to work. A new system consequently
was started by Mayor Lacoste, who is APP
pointing citizens to examine the applica-
tons and claims who will write the orders
for relief which the army will fill. The citi-
zens, it is asserted are much better able
to determine the merits of such cases.
General Ludlow yesterday awarded con-
tract to A. e. Woolf TO manufacture and
supply patent disinfectants for Havana A
plant is to be established Immediately to
supply $4,000 gallons of the disinfectaht
every twelve hours, the work to be COM
pleted early in March. The disinfectant will
be used to sprinkle the streets, flush the
cess pools, scrub houses and keep up con-
tinual flow in the sewers.