Omaha daily bee., 1895-12-07
INSURGENTS BURN HOUSES
Rowing Band Attacks Small Garrison and
Destroys Several Humble Homes,
CAMPos' LATE LETTER is COMMENDED
Home Rule Organ ut Havana Praises
Its Temperate Tone and Hints mt
the Interest of Insurgents
in America.

in America.
Copyrighted 1895. by Press Publishing Company
| HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 6.-tNew York World
| Cablcgram-Special elegram)-Insurgents
attacked on Tuesday small fort near ojo de
Aqua, village in the Cienfuegos district
The fort was garrsoned by fifty soldiers of
| the Canary Island battalion, commanded by
Captain Gomez Of the Spanish army. The in
surgents were led by Ygnacio Suarez, one of
the lieutenants Of Rego, the leader in the
| Trinidad mountains. AS usual, no assault
was made, although the insurgents had a
| force large enough to overrun the small gar
| rison. The revolutionists fired at the fort
| then burned sixteen houses, all belonging to
| Cubans.
| There was no military necessity for such
! destruction. The owners of the houses,
| mostly poor people, begged the insurgents to
spare their property. But the band, deter
mined to do something, applied the torch
and then retired to the mountains
Lieutenants Churchill and Barnes will
start back to England on Saturday. Each was
| decorated today by the government with the
| Cross of Military Merit. While with the
| Spanish column in Puerto Principe, Leuten-
ants Churchill and Barnes went bathing in a
river in company with two Spanish officers.
Some insurgents suddenly fired on the group
from a thicket They were compelled to
rush to cover, seizing their clothes as they
ran. The insurgents continued firing until
| driven off by the soldiers.
| La Discussion, a home rule newspaper of
very liberal tendencies, says today of the re-
F, cent statement made by the governor gen.
eral:
General Campos, with his dignifed words
has exercised much better judgment toward
| the United States than the conversatives
| here have. In a statement to the New York
World few days ago, he was just to the
| American people and to their government
and when he spoke of why he thought the
! Insurgents might be recognized, he reduced
| the question to its real dimensions. To serve
lSpain 1t is not necessary to take events in
too tragic light. If the friendly relations
between Spain and the United States were
broken, no one would celebrate more than
the insurgents
DIVIDING THE ARMY.
| The Spanish army in Cuba will be di-
| vided December 10 into two corps and two
| separate commands. The first corps, COM
manded by Lieutenant General Pando, will
| have headquarters in Santiago 1t will have
| three divisions, as follows First division,
under General of Division Moreno, with
headquarters at Santiago; First brigade,
| Brigader General Lenares headquarters at
Santiago and San Luis; Second brigade,
| Brgadier General Navano, headquarters at
| Songo; Third brigade, Brigadier General
Canelas, headquarters at Guantanamo;
Fourth brigade, Brigadier General Obregon,
| headquarters at Baracoa and Mayorl.
The Second division, under General of Di-
| vision Gonzales Munroe, with Headquarters
| at Bayamo; First brigade, Brigader General
Gaseo, headquarters at Bayamo; Second
| brigade, Brigadier General Ordonez, head
| quarters az Manzanilo.
| Third division, under General of Division
| Piu, with headquarters at Holguin; First
brigade Brgader General Echague, head
quarters at Holgun; second brigade Briga-
der General Horal, headquarters Victoria de
las Tunas.
The second army corps will have its head
quarters at Santa Clara city, and will be
commanded by Lieutenant General Sabas
Martin. 1t will include three divisions, as
follows:
First division-Under General of Division
suarez Valdez, with headquarters at Santa
Clara; First brigade, Brigader General
Luque, headquarters at Trinidad, and Santa
Clara; Third brigade, Brigader General
Godoy, headquarters at Sagua; Second brig
ade, Brigadier General Cornell headquarters
at Cienfuegos.
Second Divlsion-Under General OF Di-
vision Caselanos. with headquarters at
Santo Espritu and Remefos; First brigade,
Brgadier General oliver, headquarters at
Remedies; Second brigade, Brigadler Gen.
eral Arpizua, headquarters at Santo Es-
piritu; Third brigade the trocha). Brlgader
General Alcavela, headquarters at Ciego de
Avila.
Then there will be the first general COM
mand, under General of Division Mella with
headquarters at Puerto Principe, with its
First brigade led by Bragadier General
Altimra and Second brigade by Brigadier
General Aldecoa.
PRECAUTIONARY DIVISIONS.
The provinces of Pinar del Rio, Havana
and Matanzas will be under second general
command under General of Division
Arderius, with headquarters at Havana It's
First brigade, under Brigadler General Prat,
will have headquarters at Matanzas, and
the Second brigade, Brigadier General Maran,
will have headquarters at Pinar del RIO
The two last named brigades are located for
precautionary reasons. There are no rebels |
in Pinar del Rio, and in Matanzas there are |
only few small bands Of bandits, which |
General Campos does not consider insurgents. |
Havana has no regular troops, except the |
usual garrison of artillery and engineers in |
the forts.
Each brigade will have four or five bat
talions of infantry of 965 men each, while |
some will haxe six, together with cavarIy |
and mountain artillery to say nothing of
numerous volunteer corps and civil guards.
Twelve thousand additional infantry will
leave Spain about the holidays. All the bat
talions now on the island have full OF very
nearly full ranks.
WILLIAM SHAW BOWEN