The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-03-20
."CUEA WILL Be FREE"
Provisional Government Organized. and
3Iarti Made President

| Nartl Made president
TAMPA, Fla, March 14.--When the
+ -Olivette : crived tlGs eyeairs from Ha-
INA, a rush was made for the passen-
! GERS N search Of Cuban revolutionary
news. Very few would admit know
Ing. anything until finally the Times
Union correspondent strucka Cuban
WHO mad come OH an important mis-
sion. lie stated that a provisional
government had been organized and
that General Marti had been made
Provisional President. General Go
mez was made General-in-chief. The
revolutionary army IS now organized.
consists Of five thousand infantry and
three thousand cavalry. The Cubans
are armed with machetes and rifles,
while the Spanish forces are armed
wite rifles and the old style sword,
which is very clumsy.
This morning Edward Castleton, the
man who created a sensation yester-
>day by shooting into the Office of the
Spanish vice consul at this port, was
fined IS in the mayors court and was
taken in charge by the State. 6 He is
| now in jail. This morning he sent
three telegrams to the Spanish, consul
at Washington, butup to this hour no
reply had been received. Deputy Vice
Consul J. NJ. Fernandez, wired to the
consul at Washington yeterday con-
cerning ;Castleton land the reply was,
| I'VE know nothing. of him" The
kilograms sent by Castleton today were
in cypher. ..,..
Last Saturday a Seace commission
in behalf of the government visited
Manzanilla and corffeEed with the in
surgent- Commander General Maslo,
| with a>view to inducing that officer
and his command to lay down their
arms and take the oath of allegiance to
the government, nr~which case they
would be granted pardon. The.com-
mission consisted. of General- Marco
Garcia, one of the most noted rebel
leaders of the last insurrection, and F
Spoturno. Tuesday they returned un-
successful and. thoroughly disguised.
Gen. Maslo received them courteously,
listened to their argunents.and granted
them an hour in which to leave camp,
or else suffer the penalty of being shot
''Cuba will be free from Spanish
misrule," said Gen. Maslo, for war
| will endure ten years or longer if
| necessary"
From Santa Clara in the eastern
part of the island, come reports of a
general uprising during.the past ten
days. In Havana there are no signs
of rebellion, although during Tuesday
night the police quietly raided house
on St. Nicholas street and confscated
magazine of cartridges and powder
stored there. No arrests were made,
as the house had no occupants at the
time of the raid. In Havana, up to
the time Of the departure Of the Olivette,
no wori had been received regarding
the firing upon the Colon-New York
mail steamship Allianca by Spanish
gunboat.
If the outrage occurred; as there is
noreason to doubt from the statement
of Captain Crossman,::' said a we'll in
| formed passenger, 1T must have been
the torpedo boat NueTo Espania, which
| has been painted black since being as
signed to shore patrol, duty" The
Nuevo ESpania is.known.to' be on'the
| east cost and is only capable of run
ming fifteen t0seventeen knotsan hour,
which accounts for the-ease with which
the AlEanca distanced.ter.
Rumors have for several days cir
culated in Tampa that q consignment
Of arms was en- route to a gulf port
for reshipment to Cuba in aid of the
Cuban insurrection. Rumors further
seemed founded that a Hibustering ex-
pedition would receive the arms at this
niace and sal! for Cuba. On Tuesday
, morning Edward Castleton. evidently.
al Amecican, Visited Gavino Cutler
rez, tie Spn;sh v ice Consul At Tampa,
presenting a passport, issued in New
York. 70 CUBA and asking that 1t be
endorsed. He presented no credentials,
yethe represented himself as an Amer
ican agsnt'of the Spanish government
! and requested the Copsups cipher code,.
stating that he must have it. He also
requested the names of all the Consuls.
secret service agents in Florida. These
were. refused, and the .Censul's suspi-
cions were, aroused. Castlet one xnib-'
I'ited a. a.telegram from the Spanish Min
ister at Washington OF Identification.
The Consul wired to- Washington to
verrE.it, thinking it a forgery: Castle:
ton was shadowed. He chartered a yacht
and a'schooner: These were followed
and. examined: Nothing suspicious
was found, Castleton was arrested.
The Consul construed the move as
strategem covering up the real motive,
and 'cane here last night. Today all
freight houses. We're examined for con-
.signments of arms. Nothing was
found that-could he shipped aboard
fishing yacht and transferred at sea-.
A suspicious person has been discov-
cred and is being shadowed. There
are no boats import or about to leave
port deserving suspicion. A secret
/ agent has been stationed here.
KiIIed a Whale