The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-05-05
THE Insurgents COMBINE.
A Coalition That FOrebOdeS an AggreS-
Sive Movement.
GARCIA COMMANDS IN THE EAST.
Who Were Landed by the
Schooner Competitor Have Fight
with the Forces of Captain Pozo
and the Guerrilla Palma.

HAVANA, May 5.-The authorities here
are receiving intelligence of renewed ac-
tivity among the insurgents in the prov
inoe of Puerto Principe and "a combina-
tion Of forces there that seems to promise
an aggressive movement. The forces under
Calixto Garcia Mayia Rabi, Capote and
other leaders are said to have effected
a junction at the farm of Santa Lucia
near Guaimaro, in Puerto Principe.
Countrymen also bring Information that
the leader Carrillo has passed towards
Santa Clara, escorted by the band of Ba-
zon Rabi has Joined into one body the
insurgent forces of Puerto Principe, along
the border OF Santiago de Cuba. Among
the Puerto Principe forces are Braulio and
Penas, who landed in Cuba on March Is
at Punta Canada, on the north coast, near
Neuvitas, with an expedition. They
brought with them two cannon, which
were used in the formidable attack on La
Zanja, near Manzanillo, and resulted so
nearly in the reduction of the fort at that
place.
After Rabi had arrived In Puerto Prin-
clpe he was Joined by the Marques of Santa
Lucia and Roloff, with an escort. At this
writing Garcia ought to have reunited
with the Marques Of Santa Lucia, whom
he followed from Santiago de Cuba.
Calixto Garcia, it appears, is to take
command of the insurgent forces in Puerto
Principe and the east of the island. An
tonic Maceo, on the other hand, has been
chosen insurgent chief for the provinces of
Matanzas, Havana and Pinar del Rio.
The insurgent leaders Mora, Villanauva
and Delgado, at the head of about 1000
men, have burned the village of Punta
Al. l. Ia. H., ,f1I.r
from San Quintin and the guerrilla forces
from the neighboring forts attacked the
insurgents and repulsed them with the
loss of forty killed. Several inhabitants
of the village are said to have been burned
to death in their dwellings.
The plantations of Mapos, San Fernando
and Nativided, in the district of Santi
Spiritu, province of Santa Clara, have
been compelled to suspend the grinding of
cane, the insurgents having threatened to
burn the plantations unless they ceased
work.
Socorras and Pilarojas, the insurgent
leaders, are seriously wounded They are
the men who are said to have directed the
destruction by fire of the villages of La
Palma Bahia Honda, Marel and others
in the province of Pinar del Rio. Antonio
| Socorras, son of the noted insurgent leader
of that name, was among those who were
killed at the last engagement at Lechuza,
| Pinar del Rio
Captain Pozo and the guerrilla Palma
have had fight with the tllibusters who
escaped from the schooner Competitor be-
fore she was captured by the Spanish gun
boat
1t is reported that the insurgent leader
Roberto Bermudez has died from wounds.
1t is also reported that the insurgent Cap
tain Vasques has been shot in Pinar del
Rio, because it was learned that he in.
tended to surrender to the Spanish author
| tiles.
Basilio Lassa, an insurgent incendiary,
was shot yesterday morning, There was
no extraordinary incident during the exc
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