Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-06-28
FLAG OF FREE CUBA.
he Island Revolution Is Daily Grow
ing In Importance.

Ing In importance.
Havana, June 19.-The whole prov
ince of Matanzas, which adjoins the
province of Havana, is on the verge OF
rising in arms against the government
The first uprising took place there, but
the insurgents plans in that section
were frustrated. The sympathizers
with the revolution have been carefully
laying plans and waiting for favor
able opportunity to strike.
The autonomist political party OF
Matanzas has been dissolved to express
the change of opinion and approval OF
the revolution.
The autonomist party in Havana is
likely to follow suit. The principal
officers and most influential members
cannot agree. The majority acknowl-
edge the increasing Importance of the
revolution, and the number who favor
free Cuba constantly grows
From the interior of the island come
reports showing that members of the
autonomist party are abandoning it one
by one.
The newspaper Ell Pals, the organ of
the autonomist party, and about the
only paper read by the Cubans, has
published of late such strong articles
against the revolution and in favor of
Spanish sovereignty, that more than
1, 800 persons have stopped taking it.
The subscription list continues to
shrink every day.
The regulation rifle (Mauser) used by
the government is too complicated for
the Spanish soldiers, and mishaps are
constant. They are being replaced by
Remington rifles.
The business men were called to meet
at the produce exchange to raise money
to carry on the war. Few representa-
tives of the larger houses were present.
The subscriptions amounted to $780,
900.
The Santiago mine-owners have no.
titled the government that they will
have to suspend work if not allowed
troops enough to protect them, for they
are often raided by the rebels, who
take all their provisions. The gov
eminent has given an evasive answer
The closing of the mines would senc
many men into the insurgent ranks.
Colonel Copello, with a force of vol
unteers and civil guards amounting tt
ITO men, engaged the insurgents neal
Jamaica district of Guantanamo. The
: Insurgents were commanded by Perez
and Maceo, and numbered 500 men
, The Spanish forces captured the insur
gents camp, quantity of arms anc
, ammunition and thirty two horses. The
; insurgents lost four killed, among
t whom was the insurgent Captain Ores
/ cendo Castillo. They also had sever
wounded. On the side of the troops
: only one was killed and three wounded
Marine General Delgado Peretno has
arrived here from Spain, and assumed
, command of the naval forces. He will
t give severe instructions to the com
/ manders of the warships.
3 Cienfuegos and three others have
been imprisoned, it being said they
, were going to raise a band of insur
, gents. Correspondence and documents
! taken from them compromise them ant
r others.
Manuel Toledo, who was one of thost
| who raised a band of insurgents in Sal
r Spiritus, was drowned, with three mel
t in the overfowed river. The rest O
the band entered Camaguay. In Ma
' guerra they raised other bands.
t fernando with 200 troops after hal
an hours fight routed the band of Jos
, Maceo in Rio Seco hotly pursuing then
and obliging them to retire to tn
mountains of Santa Cruz. 1t is rumor
ed that small expedition landed a
Caibaronca.