The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-12-01
WEYLER MARCHING ON.
But Thus Far He Has Not Met
the Insurgent Forces.
THE SCENES OF DBsOLATION

Through Which the Spanish Troops Passed
In Their Reported Search for the Enemy.
a Letter from General Garcia Reports
His Troops in Good Con di tion.
HAVANA, Dec "details of the move
ments of General Weyler reached here yes.
terday. AT o'clock during the afternoon
of Thursday he left Artemisa, following
the advanced guard of his columns, which
were flanked by squadrons from the Prin
cipe regiment. He was accompanied by
General Ruiz, who commands the brigade
and by General Escribano, his chief Of
staff, and the aides de camp.
The Spanish forces followed the high
way, and little else but ruins, ashes dyna
mited culvenSs and des olation were seen
in place of the once picturesque landscape
Twice the columns were compelled to hall
on account of the partly destroyed road
way, and It was not until o'clock the
same evening that the troops arrived al
the River Bayate, three miles from Can
delaria. By that time darkness had al.
ready set in, and so the columns camped
there for the night.
The captain general was very gracious
to General Escribano and to the corre-
spondent of FL Imparcial, of Madrid, who.
as very great favor, was allowed to ac'
company the troops operating against An
tonic Maceo. The captain general and his
invited guests for supper that night had
chicken and rice and omelettes.
The next morning breakfast was hur.
riedly prepared and at 6 o'clock the col.
umns resumed the march to Candelaria,
/ still following the highway Some time
! later the troops arrived in sight of spot
| upon which an engagement evidently had
! been fought with the insurgents, and il
soon became known that it was where the
] Spanish force, under General Segura, met
the enemy under Maceo on Feb. Z, and the
former afterward occupied San Cristobal
The troops on Friday last, found the
bridge near the spot destroyed by fire, anC
the highway being thus impossible tht
columns made a detour, camped for tn,
night at a convenient place near the Rive
Calveras and entered San Cristobal at
o'clock the next morning. There thel
found all the houses decorated, and wer,
welcomed by a crowd of people.
During the past week column o.
troops led by General Obregon has beeI
accommodating in the direction of Sabana
Another column commanded by Genera
SECURE, has been operating in the direc
!
umn, under General Hernandez, has beeI
feeling for the enemy in the vicinity o
Macurijes. But, after five days of toll
some work, the commanders Of the thre
columns report that the insurgents wer
not to be found, although they have re
Gently destroyed number of prefecture
and country dwellings, ReconnoiterinI
extended from the railroad to the coast
At 8 o'clock yesterday morning a sicl
soldier in the Havana Military hospital
while looking out of window, was sho
by a sentinel, who had been ordered to pre-
vent the inmates from looking out, mas
much as persons who had been imprisoned
for political offenses and We're ill were il
the hospital, The sentinel thought tn
soldier was one of these political prisoner
attempting to escape.
La Lucha commenting upon the lette
from Fitzhugh Lee Jr., son of the Unite
States consul general, asserted that hi
father was not responsible for much of tn
talk attributed to him in newspapers Il
the United States, says: "The genera
talks what and when he likes, and nc
when others wish. That we already knoN
here but there are many persons in Cub
and in the United States who do nc
know 1T y