The record-union., 1896-03-10
RIOTING IN SPAIN.
Manifestations Against the United States
Resumed Yesterday.
Gendarmes Who Were Guarding the
Consulate Stoned.
Nine of Them Severely Injured-Re-
Inducements Charge the Mob,
Which Was Quickly Dispersed,
Score of Rioters Being Wounded
and Six Arrested-Students Burn
an American Flag at Salamanca.


and Six Arrested-students Burn
an American Flag at Salamanca.
MADRID, March 9.-Quiet prevailed
in the city of Valencia to-day. More
| arrests were made of persons who took
part in yesterdays riotous demonstra-
tions.
At Bilboa the manifestations against
the United States were resumed to-
day. A large crowd of rioters proceeded
to the American Consulate and stoned
the genda1mes who were guarding the
building. Nine of the guard were quite
severely injured. Reinforcements were
hrrriedly dispatched to the Consulate,
and upon their arrival charge was
made upon the mob, which quickly dis
persed. A score of the rioters were
wounded by the gendarmes and six
were arrested.
The "Heraldo'' says that the Hon.
Hannis Taylor, the American Minister,
is about to send his family away from
Madrid. Their baggage was taken to
the railway station to-day.
The students at Salamanca paraded
the streets to-day, hooting and making
other demonstrations against the
United States. The Governor. tried to
pacify them, but his efforts were in
vain. The crowd stoned the gendarmes,
who finally dispersed them, after they
had burned an American flag. During
the riotous proceedings several persons
were injured
| WHOLESALE ARRESTS IN CUBA.
HAVANA, March Z (via Tampa, Fla,
March 9. Correspondence of the United
Press).-Arrests of civilians under the
sweeping provisions of General Wey-
| ler's proclamations of February 10th
have been made at such 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 be more careful, as he
required more proof than verbal denun
ciation. Yesterday he issued a circular
in which he stated that absolute proof
must be furnished by other than inter
ested parties before accused persons
will be deported, and warning COM
manders that they will be held respon-
| sible for false charges
Without doubt, General Weyler has
i'll view the effect of this order abroad
as we'll as here, for the manner in which
| Cubans who have not borne arms
against Spain have been dragged from
| their homes, from their families, their
stores, etc, and thrown into prisons
! with felons, and after a few days delay
placed on board ships for which is the
vilest penal colony on the face of the
earth, has becomesl shame that cries
aloud for redress.
| General Weyler, upon his arrival, set
| at liberty a number of these civilian
| prisoners whom General Pando had
taken from their daily occupations in
| the eastern end of the island. 1 saw
twenty of them at the palace one day.
They were white, intelligent-looking
and bore the appearance of being shop
| keepers or clerks. They were not
| bronzed by exposure to the weather as
all are in the field The only evidence
| against these men was a paper purport-
| ing to be list of the people who were
aiding the enemy 1t was made up by
a Spaniard. Since that time General
| Weyler has released others captured in
| the same way. Hundreds have, how
ever been sent to Ceuta, Africa, and to
the Isle of Pines. and the arrests are
increasing in number.
| General WeyIer has removed the AL
calde in all towns in which he had not
absolute confidence and appointed the
military officers of regular troops or
volunteers Alcalde or Mayor These
men are usually of the grade of Lieu
| tenant or Major. They possess arbi-
| trary powers.
| Under the proclamation the life or
death of any man, woman or child in
this zone is in their hands. A large
proportion of the commanders believe
| Weyler to be man of severe measures,
man who will quickly approve any ex-
treme act on their part They look
upon his circulars as intended for eff
feet in the United States. They expect
praise and promotion for shooting war
| prisoners as soon as taken. They are
careful to have the prisoners killed
found on the field after an engagement.
General Canella was sent back to
Spain by Weyler either for having shot
down seventeen prisoners, or for hav-
| ing reported seventeen bodies We're
| found in another part of the field" but
| the man who confessed to his friends
| here and probably to General Weyler of
| having killed seventeen people in cold
blood received no more severe punish
! itISHt tuetu DclilS dcpAtNSu OI his COM
mand.
When the horrible story of the butch
cry of eighteen peaceable citizens in the
little hamlet of Guatao was published
in the United States and wired back
here, General Weyler announced that
| he would make a thorough examina-
| tion, and would punish whoever was re-
! sponsible for the outrage, if one had
been committed Two weeks have gone
by since the affair occurred, and no Off
cial has lost his stripes. Guatao was so
near Havana that American CORE
spondents succeeded in demonstrating
the absolute truth of the story.
Dozens of reports of affairs similar, in
that unarmed citizens are killed by
Spanish troops have been received, but
the authorities have placed such obstruc-
tions in the way of correspondents that
it is impossible to visit the localities and
establish the facts. In dozen of cases
refugees from towns where fights have
occurred state that after the rebels are
driven away citizens who took no part
were shot down and counted in the Off
cial reports as dead insurgents The
Government officials deny these stories,
and while it is common talk in Havana
that certain affairs were butcheries, the
correspondents are, in most cases.
obliged to accept the Government YER
sion.
I have visited towns where nearly
every family had fed in terror. leaving
dishes standing on the table and every