Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-03-15
FOR \ CUBAN REPUBLIC
Patriots Have Organized a Pro-
 visional Government.
JOSE MARTI WAS MADE PRESIDENT

 The Insurgents Reported to Have Killed
 Five Hundred Spaniards In Battle-They
 Have Quite n Respectable Army-General
 Gomez In Full Command.
 TAMPA, Fla, March 15.-Cuban ad- vices per steamer Olivetto arc as follows:
 Deputies of insurgent bands and socie- ties havo met in Los Negros and formed a provisional government General Max imus Gomez has been chosen commander in-Chicf.
 Jose Marti has boon designated an en- voy to obtain from foreign countries a rec ognition of the rebels as belligerents.
 Five hundred Spaniards are said to havs been killed in the battle of Veglnta.
 The revolutionary army as now organiz- ed consists of 3. 900 infantry and 3. 900 cav airy. The Cubans are armed with ma chetes and rifles, while the Spanish forces are armed with rifles and the old style sword, which is very clumsy.
 A peace commission in behalf of the government visited Mansilla last Saturday and conferred with the insurgent com mandor General Maso, with view to inducing that officer and his command to lay down their arms and take the oath
 
 case they would be granted pardon. The commission consisted of General Marco Garcia one of tho most noted rebel leaders of tho last insurrcction, and +. Spoturno They returned unsuccessful and thoroughly diSgusted on Tuesday. Patriots Eject Peace Envoys. General Maso received them courteous | ly, listened to their arguments and grant | ed them an hour in which to leave camp | or else suffer tho penalty of being shot, Cuba will be free from Spanish mis- rule, said General Maso. flor war will endure ton years or longer if necessary.
 From Santa Clara, in the eastern part of the island. come reports of a general up- rising during the past ten days In Havana there are no signs of rebel l lion, although during Tuesday night the l police quietly raided a house on St. Nicholas street and confiscated a magazine of car tridges and powder stored there. No ar rests were made as the house had no oc- l cupants at the time of the raid. Rumors have for several days been circu- | lating in Tampa that a consignment of arms was on route to gulf port for re- shipment to Cuba in aid of the Cuban in- surrection. and that n filibustering expcdi- | tion would receive tho arms at this place | and sail for Cuba
 Edward Castfeton, evidently an Amer ican, visited Gavino Gutierrez. Spanish vice consul at Tampa, on Tuesday morn ing, presenting passport issued in Now | York to Cuba and asked that it be indorscd. He presented no credentials, yot ho rep resented himself as an American agent of | tho Spanish government and requested the | COnsuls cipher code, stating that hc must have it. He also requested all the names | of the consul's secret service agents in | Florida. These wore refused, and tho con sul's suspicious were aroused. | An American Suspect In Jail.
 Castloton exhibited n telegram of idcn- tification from tho Spanish minister at Washington. Tho consul wired to Wash ingtOn to verify it, thinking it a forgery. CaStloton was shadowcd. He chartered a | yacht and a schooner
 These wcrc followed and examined. l Nothing suspicious was found. Castleton was arrcstcd, tho consul cOnstruing the mOvo as a stratagom covering up the real l motive and came hero last night.
 CastlctOn created a sensation by shoot ing into the office of the Spanisa vice con. sul at this port. He was fined s5 in the mayors court and was taken in charge by the state. He Is now in jail
 He sent three telegrams to the Spanish minister at Washington, but up to this hour no reply has been received. Deputy Vice Consul J. M. Fernandez wired the minister at Washington yesterday concern ing Castlcton. and the reply was. ''Ws know nothing of him." Tho telcgraml sent by Castleton were in cipher.
 All freighthoEses wero examined fol consignments of arms. Nothing was found that could be shipped aboard a fishing smack and transferred at sca. A suspi. cious person has been discovered and Is being shadowed. There are no boats in port or about to lcavc port deserving sus- picion. A secret agent has been stationed | hero