The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-11-15
FUNDS in PLENTY
Cuban Insurgents We'll Supplied
With War SinewS.
De Campos' Headquarters Will Surely BE
Inyested-Activity of the Insurgents Is
worrying the Spaniards.

worrying the Spanlaruss
HABANA, Nov. 11-All the insurgents
great leaders, including Maxine Gomez,
are sending messengers and circulars to
the big farmers and planters, ordering
them to contribute to the treasury of the
Cuban republic, under penalty of having
their property destroyed by fire.
The result is that the insurgents are
really better provided with funds than
are the Spanish government officials here.
The money thus obtained from the gov
ernment's friends, the planters and big
farmers, is in time forwarded to New
York or other American ports, where it is
used for the purchase of arms and am
munition, and the equippng of additional
expeditions.
The Spanish government is we'll aware
of this fact and has done everything pos
sible to prevent the insurgents from rails
ing funds, as well as trying to capture the
messengers which they send to the United
States and elsewhere. But in spite of the
Spanish blockades of the coast. the in
surgents' expeditions find little or no diff
Guilty in landing, and they have hitherto
succeeded in maintaining an uninterrupted
line of communication with their friends
in the United States.
A rumor has reached here that strong
| force of insurgents has invaded the prov
| ince of Matanzas from the province of
Santa Clara with the intention of joining
| issue with the Cubans already in arms in
| Matanzas for series of operations against
! the cities of Colon, Cardenas and the cap
| ital of Matanzas itself. If this Is true,
| there must be quite a number of insur-
| gents between Santa Clara and Habana,
| should retreat be necessary from the
| former place, which is not anticipated by
| the government officials
In face of all preparation for bloodshed,
| it is satisfactory to know tlat General de
| Cnmpos is in favor of granting some form
| OF home rule to Cuba, and hopes are ex-
pressed that his advice will be taken be-
| fore it is too late. He is known to have
made strong representations of this sub
| jeCt to the Spanish government, but he is
strongly opposed by the wealthy and most
| influential classes on the island.
1t is now admitted even in official cir
Giles, that the insurgents have recently
| made such progress in the different PROV
| inces they are operating in, and that they
| have received a quantity of arms ammu-
milton and dynamite, that affairs may be
| said to b. reaching a crisis
There is no doubt that the headquarters
| of General de Campos, the city of Santa
| Clara, is being slowly but surely invested
| by the insurgent forces. They are advanc-
| ing from ali sides, but mainly from the
| province of Puerto Principe.
Gomez Advancing.
General Maxine Gomez the insurgent
| commander-in-chief, has crossed the Dor
| ders with II considerable body of men, and
| is at this writing encamped near Siguanea,
| south of the important town of Sancti
| Spititts, which is occupied by considera-
| BILE body of Spanish troops, and which is
! one of the points where the captain gen.
eral recently established Photograph sta
ton to try and keep up communication
between the cities of Santa Clara and
| Puerto Principe.
| But that route is now occupied by the
insurgents, and every road recently ira
! versed by the captain general, when he so
narrowly escaped death or capture, are
| now in possession of the insurgents, and
it will be very difficult, if not impossible,
for the Spanish commander to maintain
communication with Puerto Principe.
In ildition, the Roloff and Cespedes ex-
petitions, well-armed and equipped have
Joined forces and are preparing to enter
into active cooperation with Maxine
Gomez in Santa Clara Then, again, the
insurgent commander, Serafin Sanchez,
is in strong force encamped at Abrous,
near Cenfuegos the most important port
of the province of Santa Clara and one of
the most important cities of the island of
Cuba. He is openly recruiting his fol-
lowers, and just burned all houses of Lab
arinto, EstadOs UnidOs and Heseras, val
liable farms and the property of the Mar
quis Auezeteguia.
Rolotf and Cespedes are making things
very lively for the captain general in the
province of Santa Clara, where most of
the insurgent activity is now being dis
played. They are driving the farmers
away from the towns, under penalty of
being shot, and the latter cannot be in
duced to return even under the promises
of land and protection held out to them
by De Campos.
In the direction of Remedies and Sagua
La Grande, the insurgents are also active.
and it will thus be seen that they are
moving from four different points upon
the city of Santa Clara, which is garri-
soned by some of the best troops of Spain
and the most reliable volunteers
For Police to Unravel.
PAwTUCKET, X. l., Nov. 1.-THE police
of this city and Providence are investi-
eating the circumstances attending the re-
cent disappearance of young Italian
named Antonio Eillippone, as compan-
ion named Balestra, who was the last
person seen with Fillippone previous to