The Indianapolis journal., 1896-03-27
NO MERCY TO BE SHOWN.
General Weyler Says Insurgents viii
Re, Trcnfcd rs BansIits.

he Treated Bandits.
HAVANA, March 26.-Captain General
Weyler has once more Issued proclama-
ton. He proclains that in View of the fact
that the insurgents avoid engagements with
the troops and devote themselves entirely
to acts of .ncendiarism, he has resolved -
deal with them as incendaries and bandits,
applying the rule set forth in his former
proclamation.
Maceo is now in the western end of the
island, between the west coast and the
military line running through Maiiei Ma
jana, Guianajay. Waterloo. Artemisa and
Neptune The guardianship of this line has
been intrusted to General Arolas, who is
riding along II with his chief of staff and
column of troops numbering 25.Oo0 men.
This renders Maceo's position very critical
and the Spanish authorities once more ex-.
press their confidence that they have the
insurgents in trap from which they can
not escape. Maxine Gomez is at present
near Guines. but is going westward.
The column OF troops commanded I,.isS ny
surgent cavalry, numbering about one thou
sand men under the leadership of Lacret.
at the plantation of San JOAQUIN. The
latter retreated towards the Grand Cienaga,
south of Matanzas. leaving fifteen killed on
the field. Among the latter were three Off
arms and ammunition and camp equipments.
The columns of troops commanded by
Colonels Sanchez and Echevarria have cap
tured the camps of the insurgents at Cho-
rito and Santa Monica, province OF Pinar
del Rio, and in doing said to have
obtained possession of nearly all the sup
niles of the insurgents in that province
The stores were in charge OF Bermudez.
and in the engagements between the troops
and the insurgents the latter left fifty
killed and retired with many wounded.
The troops destroyed the stores, which
could not be made available for the use OF
the army. Part of the plumber, which be-
ionged to the inhabitants of Pinar del Rio.
who had suffered at the hands OF Maceos
raiders, will be restored to its owners. 1t
is estimated that the stores captured were
worth $200,O00
The public prosecutor at the trial of En-
rique Aleman will ask that the death PEN
General Pando has transferred his head
quarters to Cienfuegos province of Santa
Clara.
into the city of Santa Clara, firing and
shouting "Al Machete." The raid caused
considerable alarm but the insurgents ITS were s
ater, and after some fighting on the Plaza
Armas and in the adjoining streets the in
surgent leader vidwa was killed and the
enemy retired with many wounded.
Sixty-three wounded soldiers have arrived
here from the province of Pinar del Rio.
The insurgents have burned Playa Jiamllo
Marainos, a village near Hoyo Colorado,
some big stables and houses on the highway
near that place. the small plantation or
Tobias and the village of Consequence. kill
ing three children and woundng two others.
The nsurgent leader Anceta Hernandez
has died of mis- wounds near Lajas and his
body was identified.
IT is believed that the movements Of the
insurgents towards Havana and about the
city is intended to draw the attention of the
troops from the military line near Pinar del
Rio.
Colonel Molina reports that he has had a
fight with Coltede Garcia and band of
4 Inc orrc n he r1o n az IN
Matanzas. The insurgents left ten killed
and carried of their wounded A guerrilla
band pursuing caused the insurgents a num-
erous loss
The colonel Of the battalion of Barbestro,
at Guira Melina, has had fight with the
band OF .SaDguilly. numbering three hum
dred FIVE Of them being killed
" General Wenceslao Molina has arrived here
The news of. the landing Of the fiiibustering
steamer Bermuda with an expedition headed
board is confirmed.