The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-20
AFFAIRS IN CUBA.
Three Rebels Were Killed and Three
 Prisoners Taken by Troops.

Ihree Rebels were Aiiieu ana Three
 Prisoners Taken by Troops.
 Santiago de Cuba. Aug. 10, via Key
 West, Fla, Aug, 19-Rebels under
 Major General Gomez had an encoun-
 ter on the fourth instant with Span
 ish troops under General Mella in
 Puerto Principe between the road from
 Santiago and the railroad of Neuvi- tas. According to Spanish report the rebels had three killed. The Spaniards also took three prisoners. They do not |report the number of wounded. In another encounter where the insur- gents attacked convoy that the Span iards Were taking to Guaimaro on the 9th instant, the rebels had fourteen
 killed and forty wounded. Among the insurgents killed they mention Civil Engineer Menocal, but
 this has not yet been proven officially. loss in either of these engagements.
 Affairs in Puerto Principe seem very bad for the Spaniards. Great numbers of Cubans have left the city lately and
 joined the rebels. A passenger who ar rived here yesterday from Havana said that few moments before he sailed from that city there was a ru-
 nor there that General Mella, govern or of Puerto Principe, had been killed. A captain of artillery will leave this | city to-day with a company for Puerto l Principe He has received orders to go | immediately. The government has officially acknowledged the landing of | two large expeditions, one of Serafina | Sanchez and Roloff, with 255 men, 1000 | mausers and 550,000 cartridges; and the | other of Mayla Roderiguez who serv- ] ed the whole ten years of the first war. The news of the landing of these expe- ditions has disheartened the Spaniards very much. and enlivened the Cubans
 greatly
 | On the night of the eighteenth in- stant a party of insurgents, under
 Joaquin Pal Planas. set fire to the Mo- ron station of the American railroad, completely destroying it, having a slight skirmish with the soldiers that were in the fort.
 1 On the eighth instnat an encounter took place in Zacatecas, near this city. | Cubans lost four killed and seven wounded, and the Spaniards six killed and eighteen wounded, among the lat | ter a lieutenant,
 | General Bartolome Maso has been
 proclaimed provisional president oi I the Republic of Cuba.
 l The Marquis of Santa Lucia, minister of the interior
 General Maximo Gomez, vice presi-
 dent of tMe republic and minister of 1 war
 | Gonzalo De -Quesade, secretary of foreign relations with residence 1T | the United States.
 General Antonio Maceo, general in l chief of the Cuban army. | General Jose Maceo commander of
 the eastern army, with Bedro Poroe2 | Capote and Angel Guerra y Rabi as | generals of brigade.
 | According to official report from General Antonio Maceo, eighteen reg l iments of 800 men each have been or | ganized in the eastern district of Gu | ba, 5000 of which are cavalry. General Maceo says that 1000 men
 are we'll armed with Remingtons, Win. | chester and Maussers; five thousand l with machets, revolvers and shorr | firing weapons, and the rest with ma
 chetes only, the troops being all in very good spirits.
 l General Gomez has been informed that he has 4,000 men in Puerto Prin. | cipe and 5000 in Las Villas.
 It is said that Dr. Cotillo will be ap. ponted diplomatic agent of the repub- l lie at Washington and Mexico