The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-04
cuBHS WAR ON IN EARNEST.
THE REBEL FORCE IN SANTIAGO
SAID TO BE 5000 STRONG.

Tventy-TwO Insurgents Found
stranded on the Coast Near Bara-
roa-Her Captain KILLED by the
Rebels because He Refused 10 Land
Them where They Directed-The
nand Put 10 Flight soon After
rpuding-Maceo and Combret With
Them.
Havana. April S.-The governor OF the
--oyince of Santiago reports that the gun
boat Yndia. while cruising along the
coast came upon foreign fishing smack
branded on the beach at Duaba, a short
distance west of Baracoa. The captain
o4 the smack was dead. Two sailors.
7r-o we're captured and taken aboard the
vrdia reported they had landed twenty
,7-o insurgents There had been trouble.
r5av said. between the insurgents and the
,aptain because he had refused to land
Them at the point designated by them.
When the captain refused to yield to their
threats they killed him and threw his
body overheard.
After landing the insurgents met a small
column of Spanish troops The s1irmish
was almost bloodless. The insurgents
we're put to flight without having lost
man killed or wounded. One of them was
captured in hiding an hour after the
skirmish. but the rest are in the noun
,ains. The prisoner would give little in
formation. He is said to have admitted,
however, that Maceo and Combret, the
insurgent leaders. are with the fugitive
band. Several companies of troops are
pursuing the twenty-one men. but had
not got within shooting distance of them
al the time of the governors dispatch.
A part from these events the district
round Baracoa is quiet
Col. Saliedo, who is in charge of the
military operations round Holquin. re-
ports that he attacked and dispersed a
party Of insurgents at Martillo, near San
Andres. The arrival of re-enforcements
for the regular troops in Santiago has re-
stored confidence throughout the province
New York, April "a special cable dis
patch to the Herald from Kingston, ia
1naica says: 1.-The British steamer Ethelred
which cleared March q from Boston,
Mass, for Port Antonio, Jamaica, when
of Cape Maysi, Cuba, was fired upon by
a Spanish gunboat. The Ethelred stopped
and was boarded and examined by the Off
GERS of the gunboat. after which she pro-
coded on her voyage"
special cable dispatch to the Herald
from Nassau, n. b, says: WORD has
been received from Santiago de Cuba that
a convention Of revolutionary subchiefs
and delegates, representing the sections in
which Holgun, ManzaniIlo, Bayame,
Jiguani, Guantanamo and Baracoa are sit
uated met on March 2S near Arroyo.
Blanco. Gen. Bartoltome Masso was
chosen provisional commander-in-chief of
the Cuban revolutionary forces in the
province Of Santiago pending the arrival
Of Gen. Gomez. Gen. Masso has issued
a proclamation in which he repudiates all
acts of brigandage as foreign to the pro-
gramme of the revolutionist. He pledges
that the revolutionary forces viii protect
the persons and property of non-combat-
ant Spanish residents on the island and
will respect the wives and children of their
enemies in the field. Gen. Masso and his
leutenants in that province has from 5000
to 5000 men under arms About one-fifth
Of the men are mounted as cavalry, but
they lack arms and ammunition.
Private advices from Port au Prince,
Hayti, indicate that President Hippolyte
is lending active support to the Cuban in
surgents. Joseph Z. Martfs agents are
reported to be negotiating for the pur-
chase of a vessel now used by the Haytian
government as a transport She has a
speed of eight knots an hour
The removal of the young Lieut.. Ybana
from command of the Spanish gunboat
Condo de Venadito, which fired upon the
American steamer Alliance, is regarded
in Santiago de Cuba as not being in any
way due to the Alliance affair. Lieut..
Ybana was in only temporary command of
the Condo de Venadito, her captain having
stopped in Teneriffe because he had been
taken suddenly Ill on the voyage from
Spain. 1t is understood in Santiago de
Cuba that the Spanish Admiral Ty has
warmly congratulated Lieut.. Ybana for
his action off Cape Maysi."
passenger on the steamer Vigilancia
which arrived from Havana this morning
reports that at Manzanilla, where ne
had been staying. the sympathy of the
Inhabitants is all with the insurgents,
and if the latter would approach the city
and make a demonstration the whole
town would probably readily embrace the
revolutionary cause. There were frequent
sklrmishes between the insurgents and
Spanish troops, but the former were too
crafty to risk decisive battle as vet
strength daily. About ten days ago it
was reported at Monzanilla that the in
surgent forces were about to invest the
town, and for a time there was great
excitement, but the rumor was soon
traced to unreliable sources and the town
again became quiet.
On the Vigilancia came also SIX of the
crew Of the Dutch bark Marie, condemn
ca at Havana. She sprang leak while
on a voyage from Pensacola for Delfzyl
holland, and put into Havana in distress.
Washington, April S-Commissioner
chamberlain, of the treasury bureau of
navigation, says that the Ethelred. re,
ported as having been fired upon, halted
ana searched by a Spanish cruiser off
ape Maysi, Cuba, is practically an Amer
lcan vessel, though she flies the British
ensign. She is engaged in the fruit trade
between Boston and Cuban ports The
vessel was built in England, but it is
owned in Boston. AS the vessel was built
abroad, by our laws she could not sail
under the American flag, though owned
mere. No report of the incident has been
received either at the state department
or by the Spanish legation.
Kingston, Jamaica, April S-The British
steamship Ethelred, from Boston, has ar
rVed at Port Antonio, Jamaica. Capt