Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-28

the canefields Of the Spaniard. Don Jose
Suris, and killed the overseer of the plan
tation. The excuse he gave for this act
was that he thought the owner was
Cuban
ION the 10Th of February the Cuban gen.
eral Maceo, routed the Spanish general,
Prots, between the plantations La Perla' y
Ponce (Guamacaro). in the province of
MatanZas. The killed on the Spanish side
were 100 The panic among the routed
was such that they abandoned their wound
ed, who were taken care of by the Cuban
surgeons. In his fight Gen. Prots passed
through the plantation 'Diamante,' and
there he avenged mis- defeat by ASA ssinat
ing peaceful peasants, the following among
them: Don Francisco Lautana, of over
seventy years Of age; Don Antonio and Don
Francisco Diaz were violently taken from
their houses and killed with the machetc.
Don Locano DiaZ was able to escape this
butchery by running to canefeld, to
which the Spaniard set fire, with the object
Of burning the fugitive, which, fortunate
ly, did not happen. A short distance from
the house the soldiers assassinated Don
Antonio Dominguez, and threw his corpse
in the burning canefield. The same fate
was meted out to DamaZo Gonzales, Je-
ronimo Linares and an unknown colored
man. Among the shot was Don Manuel
Monies and four other men, who We're in
his house; also a lady seventy-six years
old, who was killed SO that she might not
give an account of this horrible deed. All
this was witnessed by a neghbor, who es-
capeQ Dy nlulnS.
Other Outrages.
Don Fernando Aguiar, a young man
twenty-six years old, brother of the dis
trict school teacher of Torneguin in Ell
Rogue, province of Matanzas, was in
famously assassinated on the 9th of Feb
ruary, fer which purpose they took him out
of his house at night.
Gen. Aldecoa arrested and insulted Don
Il Cy,a,
CiGio, province of MatanZas, simply be-
cause he did not allow the troops to rob
the peaceful citizens Of that town.
Gen. Bernal arrested and sent to the town
of Guira de Macurijes ffty-three pacific
men from the district of Manuel Diaz and
ordered them to be beaten Iii the face The
authorities to whom these men were de-
livered afterward set them at liberty be-
cause nothing was found inculpa ting them
in any crime.
1.-The mayor of Santa Ana, province of
Matanzas. slept all of one night with his
feet in the stocks because he refused to
allow the troops to commit outrages in his
town.
-Four days ago, among the wounded in
the encounter of the Spaniards with the
party of the Cuban chief Jose Maria
Aguirre, was the Spanish chief, Sotomayor,
and while receiving treatment in the sta
ton Of Bainoa there arrived a passenger
train from Matanzas filled with Spanish
soldiers who brought along a mulatto as
prisoner, whom the neighbors guaranteed
as to his innocence and loyal to the govern
Inent But the sanguinary Sotomayor
said: Eat very bad hour has he come;
he will pay me some of what the others
(rebels) owe me. These pains from the
wounds) l will not suffer unrevenged! Sol
diers. you already know what to do! The
soldiers took away the unfortunate mulatto
and behind clump of bushes a short dis
lance away they removed him from the
sight of the passengers. What happened
there no one knows, except that the pas
sengers saw that the soldiers returned
without their prisoner, and that they came
back wiping their bloody bayonets.
Weyler's Secret Orders.
Lieutenant Colonel Marquis de Mendi-
gorria of the Wadro's battalion who oper-
ates in the district of Vuelta-Abajo, before
leaving for his post, said, in Havana, that
Cen. Weyler had given them secret orders
to clean out the pacific Cubans wherever
found in their marches, and to do it without
any scandal.
1.-The forces which garrison Pinar del Rio
city, and which operate in the immediate
vicinity Of said city,not being brave enough
to meet Gen. Maceo, nor even the small
band Of Roberto BeTmudez, who has not
abandoned for one single day the road of
Coloma, in order TO prevent the passage of
Conroy, has committed one Of the many
deeds which have been imputed to the Gu
bans. They left Pinar del Rio in strong
column, and many Of them thought they
would have a battle. The result of this
march was the total destruction by fire and
sacking the estate La Guabina, near Pinar
del Rio city. The family Tincheria owners
of the above estate arrived in the city in
the greatest misery possible. All obeyed
the proposition to revenge themselves be-
cause two young men, members of this
family, had left to join the hberating