The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-28
Reports from Havana of RevO=
lutiOnist ReverSes
SPANISH PRISONS ARE FULL
A Fair 10 Assist the Famons Red Cross
Society
General Campos Sees the Likelihood of Recog-
milton by unitci States os
Cuban Bellfgerency
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
HAVANA, Oct. 27.-Lieutenant of
Volunteers Berna, with detachment OF
twenty troops, surprised an insurgent
band .at Aceau, at the farm of Luisa,
killing five OF them and taking three
rifles.
The prison at Santa Clara is overflow
ing and twenty prisoners confined there
have been released and number of in
cendiaries, who were also among the
prisoners, have been sent to Cienfuesos.
The insurgents have burned the plan
tation of San Rafael. in the district Of
Remedies.
Senior Risero, editor OF the Diaro Ma
rino, was last night attacked by an un-
known person and received a terrible
blow from an iron rod, which inflicted a
wound in the forehead above the right
eye. 1t was the general belief tn Q cause
of ths assault was the writing of attacks
upon the regulations OF others, land of
anti patriotic articles.
The president of the Red Cross society,
the Marquis Pinar del Rio, accompanied
by GeneralE Arderius, opened fair last
night to assist the Work of the Red Cross
society. The Marquis Balboa, Santos
Gazeman, Hers Delven, Blanche, Corfu
ugado, aud all the elite in Havana soci-
ETY., were present. The Spanish casino,
where the fair was held, proved too small
TO contain all the people.
Chief Munez, with 200 insurgents, at
lacked the village of Aureus, in the dis
trict of Clenfuegos. They burned one
store and one citizen was killed and one
volunteer wounded. The insurgents re-
tired upon the approach OF troops.
Lieutenant Galindo. of the battalion
Canarias, at La Jas, while laborlng under
strong mentl excitement, wounded three
soldiers, one of them seriously. He was
imprisoned and thereupon committed
suicide.
The gunboat Carload, which was sunk
off Cardenas province of Matanzas, as
exclusively reported in the Associated
Press dispatches last Friday, has been
put afoat and the engine has been found
to be damaged.
General Campos has signed the SEN
tence of death of soldier who deserted
to the insurgents and was afterwards
captured.
The mayor of Queados Guineas, dis
trict of Sagua. with force of twenty
men, fired upon Il band of sixty insur-
gents, VINO retreated.
: The force of Captain Mala at the plan
tation of Indio, district of Sagua, has
captured twenty wounded insurgents.
MADRID, Oct 81. "A dispatch to I'M
parcial from Havana contains an interview
with General Campos, in which he says
that the United States will recognize the
insurgents as belligerents when it suits
her international policy. The prospect
has not alarmed him, he says. for Spain
would think now exastlly how matters
stood.
ATLANTA. Ga, Oct. 27.-At n meet
ing today OF the directors OF the Cotton
States and International exposition,
many directors who were not present
when day set aside for Cuba, brought
the matter up again and insisted that the
exposition company should not take part
in matters of international concern. Aft
er discussion, the day was postponed from
Novembe 6 to December 18th. This is
regarded as virtually an indefinite post
ponement
TAMPA, Fla, Oct. 81. Libel informa-
tiun was recently filed IN the north dis
trict OF Florida at Tallahassee against
arms, ammunition and provisions seized
at Cedar Keys, August %, praying for
their forfeiture to the government on ac-
count of their intended use in an expedi-
ton against Spain. Attorneys of the
place yesterday fled exec otions to the
libel on the ground that there is no
United States statutes providing for con-
tiscatioD of property where it is intended
for such purposes. The property seized
consists of 100 Remington carbines, 100
cavalry swo:ds, $500 Winchester cart
ridges, So knapsacks and large assort-
ment OF provisions.
VERA CRUZ, Mex, Oct 27.-Sevsral
famous Spanish bull fighters have arrived
on the steamer Espanol. which left Her.
mosllo and Havana with six splendid
bulls from Spain. The weather is warm
but not unhealthy. No recurrence OF yell
low fever has occurred. The Cubans are
an ond bty frn tba toln b,,4
are strictly complying with the neutrality
laws.