The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-01-20
CRISIS IN CUBAN AFFAIRS.
General POlaYieja Recommends General
Weyler.
AND THE LATTER HAS ACCEPTED
1t is Believed That the Policy OF the New
Commander viii be One of Brutal
Annihilation- More Alleged
Spanish Victories.

HAVANA, Jan. pa dispatch from
Madrid announces tha5 General Valcrano
Weyler has accepted tho aPgCintment to
the governorship of Cuba, and viii sail for
the island on Friday next. General Suare7
Valdes has been appointed second in com
mand. General Polavieja, whose name
had been mentioned as the probable sue
cessor of General Campos, had confer
ence on Saturday with the president of the
council of minister's SenOr Canovas del
Castillo, at Madrid. The general expressed
himself as favoring the appointment of
General Valeriano Weyler as captain gem
eral, and in consequence the latter was
sent for.
On saturday General Campos, who will
return Immediately to SPAIN sent the fol-
lowing telegram to Senor Castillo: II
consider your telegram as an order, but
ought to state that L have not given my
resignation. have no sense of failure. l
am the first to congratulate the govern
ment upon its decision, which, perhaps,
will avert disagreements which do not
affect me and yet might be hurtful to
Spain.
There is to be no change in the policy of
the government, it is announced, as the
result of the recent changes in the execu-
tive officers 1t is also asserted that po-
litical reforms will be inaugurated as soon
as the progress of the war will allow No
further specifications are given as to what
the contemplated reforms are or how far
they will extend.
On Saturday Colonel Galbio fought the
forces of the insurgents which have been
in Pinar del Rio at Pozo Redando, north
of Batabano, and on the railroad between
that point and Havana 1t is said that
the insurgent forces were those of Gomez
The troops met the attack of the insur-
gents on their knees, and withheld their
fire until the enemy was within a short
distance. The report says that the insur-
gents left eleven killed on the field and
nine more were found in cane field a
short distance away. The Spanish artil-
lery did good execution. The insurgents
retreated, it Is reported, with numerous
loss, while the loss of the troops was in
significant.
Although the report states that Gomez
was repulsed and defeated it is reported
that he moved afterwards south of Melena
upon Guinas and in the direction of the
village of San Nicolas, These points are
eastward of the military line of Batabano
and would indicate that Gomez was sue
oessful in his attempt to break through
the line which had been established to
keep the insurgents in the Vuelta Abajo
district.
During Saturdays operations Gomez in
vaded Bario and Pueblo Nuevo within
the limits of Pinar del Rio The garrison
made a heroic defense, the colonel taking
part in tho battle, and upon being charged
with the bayoneT the insurgents are re-
ported to have retreated with numerous
loss The troops lost nine.
Gomez is now proceeding in the direc-
ton of Cienaga de Zapata, the great swamp
in the southern part of Matanzas, for the
purpose, 1t is supposed, of awaiting a
junction there of the forces which are ad-
vancing from the eastern provinces.
A report comes from Santa Clara that
the insurgent band of Alberto and Pastor
Rejas, which is part of a force from the
eastern provinces which Maxine Gomez
ordered to the relief of the insurgents in
the west, has made an unsuccessful at
tempt to break through the military line
of La Trocha. This band came from Pla-
cetas, and they attacked the Spanish forces
near Las Cruces, on the railroad running
between Cienfuegos and Sagua La Grange,
which approximately marks the La Trocha
military line. The insurgents also attacked
a fort on the plantation of Constancia in
the Cienfuegos district, and, it is said,
were repulsed with loss of six killed.
The column of Major Cedeno fought the
band of Leoncio Vidal on the plantation
of Natalia in the district of Sagua, the in
surgents losing eight killed and five taken
prisoners, while the troops lost one killed
and one taken prisoner.
In Havana province the insurgents at
tackled a Spanish detachment at the plan
tation of Averhoff, near Aguacato, and
are reported to have been repulsed with
heavy loss. The troops had two killed and
six wounded.
A train from Nuevitas, in the province
Of Santiago de Cuba, was dynamited by
the insurgents and the engine destroyed.
; A large force of the insurgents, consist
ing of the bands of Rabi and Jose Maoeo,
passed the village of Maniuari yesterday.
The insurgents have burned the railroad
station at Caobas, only "a few miles from
Matanzas
The mayor of the village of San Nicolas
has been hanged by the insurgents,
The station at San Cayetano, in Havana
province has been burned