The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-10
FORT Seized BY CUBANS
Men in Small Towns Join the In
surQent Army.
FOREIGN PLANTERS PROTEST
Iusursent Leaders Encounter the Spanish
Column 1t Monte OscusO and Force
Them to Retire Town
Of CristO Burned.

! of Saglia De Tanamo. SeiZng after u
three hours fight, one of the forts which
defend the place. The rebels entered
| the fort ana seized arms, ammunition
and provisions. afterward burning the
fort and several houses. The rebels
had two killed and nine wounded.
A rebel force of 100 men under Cap
tain Dominguez, appeared yesterday
the 2Sth in Moron. They burned the
two forts Of the place and took with
| them all the arms. ammunition ana
provisions they found there. There was
| no Spanish garrison In Moron as the
| Spanish trounS had left the uay before
! in compliance with the general order
! uf the military governor oi Saniiag"
to abandon all the small villages. rms
| order has been harmful IL the govern
| ment as all the men Of those small
! places. have Joined the insurgents. the
| foreign planters have presented joint
| protest to their consuls against the
order compelling them to abandon their
! planta tionS.
ON the I'D inst. the rebel forces of
| Brigadier PcriuuitO Perez had an en-
| gagcmrnt in Ramon DE Las Saguaf
! with thu. Spanish column under Colonel
| RecaS. The Spaniards retreated, losing
| eight soldiers killed and twenty wound
/ ed Two mules laden with ammuni-
ton were captured by the rebels. The
( rebels had one killed and seven wound
! ed, among the latter Captain Vega who
! fell into the hands of the troops and
I subsequently died from the effects of
his Wounds.
/ msurcent leaders Salvador Rios and
, Puyals. with their party, had an en-
counter with the Spanish column Of
/ Lieutenant Colonel Escudero, 100 strong,
on the 24th in Monte OscusO, Ba!amo.
! The Spanish column retired to Bayamo
after half an hours fighting, leaving
I-l..
three killed and eight wounded. The
, insurgents had nine wounded.
FORT BLOWN Up.
Day before yesterday the 2ith) a
party of rebels compelled the garri-
son of Fort E.scondido. near Caiman-
era, Guantanamo To surrender. The
insurgents blew up the fort with dyna
mite bombs. The garrison was COM
posed ot one officer and forty soldiers.
| ON the 2ith inst. the Spanish general
| Gonzalez NuneZ. with loo men infan-
try. cavalry and artillery had an en-
counter in LA Herradura and Sal, near
! ManHanillo with the rebel forces of
Mendicta, Vera and Estrada. 1000 in
number The Spanards retreated
leaving on the field twenty-five killed
and eighty wounded. Among the form
er was Lieutenant Colonel i.Olo BoniteZ
of the SaDnish guerrllas. whose body
was taken to Noquita and buried there
Among the latter was Lieutenant col
onel Teiorizo, who was very seriously
| wounded.
There was u fatal fire last night in
the town of Cristo. Several houses We're
burned and the bodies of two soldiers
! were found under the ruins burned to
ashes.
The sugar estates San Luis and Santa
Anna have stopped grinding. all the
employees having joined the rebels.
ARREST OF CIVILIANS.
Havana March :, via. Tampa, Fla,
| March 9.-Arrests of civilians under
the sweeping provisions of General
Wey!er's proclamation of February IS,
have been made at such a rate and in
many cases with SO little evidence of
| guilt that General Weyler was COM
PEELED a week ago to issue instructions
To his officers to the more careful .as he
required more proof than verbal denun-
| citation. Yesterday he ISSUED a circu-
lar. in which he stated that absolute
! proof must be furnished by other than
Interested parties before accused per-
sons will be deported. and warning
commanders that they will be held re-
| sponsihle for false answers. Without
doubt General, Weyler has in view the
effect Of this order abroad. as well as
here, for the manner in which Cubans
who have never borne arms against
! spain have been dragged from their
homes IRON their families, the stores nr
Their farms ana thrown into prison with
ieiohs. ANA afttf a Few DAYS delay
p.a'e' Oh nnaru snip i"r what u prop
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nj the nalar, one I,X ,rI.v wore
Whit ;nteIIipent Io,ir;H,, and ho,o tha
appe.arance of being shop keepers or
nnsnrr tn tbe wentber as ali oro T., ~.
field The only ryidenc,. agojnst tbnsa
mon was n paper purportinr To he n LIST
or the people who wcr. aiding and
was made up by a Spaniard since
that time General Weyl.r has released
others captured in the same way. Hun
dreds have. however. been sent to Ce,,-
ia. Africa. and to the Isle of Pines.
and the arrests are increasi ,g in mum
Der.
General Weyler has relieved the Al.
cades of all towns in whom he had not
absolute confidence. and has appointed,
the ranking military officers of regular
troops ur volunteers alcade or mayor
These men are. usually of the grade. of
| lieutenant or major They possess ar
| bitrarv bowers. Under the proclama-
tion the life or death Of any man. wo-
man or child i'm their zone is i'm tb,i,
hands large proportion of these