The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-11
SPAIN NOT TO SURRENDER.
No NEGOTIATION IN PROGRESS
WITH THE REBELS.

BenIte WaIcon To BE Shot in the Ca
banas Fortress To-day-The Span
ish Authorities Indignant At the
Conduct OF the American Consular
Agent nt Cardenas-GuerrilIas Go
over TO the Insurgents.
Madrid. June 10.-Oflclal denial is given
in the government newspapers to rumors
which have been put In circulation that
the government officials in Cuba have
opened negotiations with the insurgents
and that the hope has been strengthened
Of the acceptance of mediation by the
United States.
London. June 1O-The Standard to-mor-
row viii say with reference to the sug-
gested mediation between the Spanish gov
ernment and the Cuban Insurgents. that
nothing has happened as yet TO induce
spain to accept mediation, especially that
of the United States
Havana. June 10.-Benite Walcon was
sentenced TO death to-day and viii be
shot tomorrow in the Cabanas fortress
for the crime of rebellion.
The military commander at Eermeia. in
the province of Matauzus. reports that "a
party of tWenty-nine guerillas, who were
protecting number of men engaged In
cutting cane yesterday, We're surprised by
"a large force of rebels and We're taken
prisoners and carried away. Seventeen
or the guerlllas returned ten reiOlned the
rebels, and two are believed TO have been
The Spanish authorities are very lndig-
nant at the conduct of the American con-
sular agent at Cawieuas, who is investi-
eating the matter of the burning OF the
crops and buildings upon an estate I'm that
vicinity which is said to have been the
property OF citizen Of the United States
and was burned by Spanish troops.
Washington. June lO.-The petition Of
Capt J. II. s. Wiborg. master Of the
steamer Horsa, for pardon. was presented
to President Cleveland to-day by Capt.
Nlborgs counsel. The petition is in
dorsed by nearly all the members of the
senate ana House, irrespective of party,
and by newspaper men and ship owners
along the Atlantic coast. The latter speak
very highly Of Capt. Wiborg's character.
capt. Wiborg, in his petition, says he did
not make any cOncealment of his par
tcipatiOn I'm the Horsa affair. He claims
that had he supposed that he was vio-
lating any law Of the country, it would
have appeared In the evidence. but the
petitioner Is wholly unconscious Of any
guilt. He calls attention to the fact
that ne is a foreigner and as an officer
Of the Horsa, obeyed the orders OF the
charterers. Capt. Wiborg cOntended that
the federal judges had held IN similar
cases that the facts. as presented, did
not constitute a military expedition. At
tentiOn Is called to the dissenting Opin-
ION OF justice Harlan or the United States
supreme court, on the ground that Capt
WlbOrg did not violate the law OF the
land. The petitioner thinks It hard that
a foreigner who he's all his life followed
the sea should be punished because he
had thus in ignorance and without in
tention done an act which now for the
first time Is declared by a majority OF
the supreme court to be violation of the
law.
New York, June 10.-Among the passen-
gers on the steamer City of Washington
which arrived this morning from Havana,
were ]. @. Delgado and his son, ]. M.
Delgado. Both gentlemen have suffered
many indignities at the hands of the
Spanish officials in Cuba. and are on their
way to Washington, where they will lay
their grievances before President Cleve-
land and Secretary Olney. DR. Delgado
had an interview with Consul General
Lee previous to leaving Havana. The
City Of Washington's passengers in con-
yersation this morning at quarantine
said that the newly appointed consul gem
eral, Gen. Lee, IS rapidly famiiarzing
himself with the routine duties Of his
office. The American residents IN Ha-
yana are much pleased with the aggres.
slve spirit shown by the consul general.
There was also on board the city Of
Washington Felix Cabello an officer N
the Spanish service said to be on an i'm.
portant errand to this country.