Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1899 — ROW OVER GARCIA’S FUNERAL. [ARTICLE]

ROW OVER GARCIA’S FUNERAL.

Cuban* A altered Because They Are Refused the Post of Honor.

The late General Calixto Garcia was buried at Havana without the presence Of a single uniformed comrade in arms. Immense throngs of his compatriots paid honor to his memory, wondering as the long procession filed through the streets of Havana where the Cuban soldiers were. The townspeople learned after the funeral that the Cuban generals had had a dispute with Governor General Brooke’s staff over the question of precedence and had withdrawn in anger, ordering 150 other officers and 200 privates out of the lines.* The members of the Cuban assembly also withdrew.