Evening star., 1896-06-26
CHOLERA IN CUBA
Spain's Inspector General Reports
It in Matanzas.
SOLDIERS DISCONTENT INCREASING
Grave Charges Against WeyIer
and His Generals.
ATROCITIES CONTIN NUE

The representatives Of the Cuban republic
in this city feel very much encouraged over
the aGvices received from the island of the
Increasing disfavor with which the meth
DDS of the Spanish are being viewed, even
by those who have been, up to a short
time ago, favorable to the Spanish side of
the trouble. Senor GonZalo de Quesada
who is in charge of affairs here, received
letters last night and this morning from
havana OF very recent date. The first
was written June II, and reads as follows:
The infamous knife Of the Spanish gov
ernment is continuing its work of horrible
butchery on the pacificos and the prisoners
OF war. Hardly day passes that in the
pits OF the Laureles in the Cubanas fort
ress, sometimes openly, at others clandes-
timely, large number of victims are not
sacrificed by the criminal policy Of the Herod
of the Cubans. In the last few DAYS two
repugnant and bloody assassina tions have
@ neeh committed. Nine persons in the dis
uict OF tlulVlcan were murdered by Mel
quiZo. The widows came to the palace to
demand justice; they were not received ::
they returned disconsolate Two weeks
ago, In Virtudes. in the district of Arte-
misa, six men, all married and with chill
aIen, We're put to death for no other crime
than that of being Cubans But this is to
be expected. when the chief of the Spanish
q
native of Biscay, who has been IN prison
accused OF theft The rest of the guerillas
are OF the lame kind.
Spanish LOSSES Are Heavy.
VI course, the newspapers here do not
give any account of these atrocities; even
the engagements are suppressed or the
facts distorted. For instance in Cacaraii
cara, where the Spaniards claim to have
had few losses, know from an officer who
was there that the column had $50 among
the killed and wounded; in Consolac acion del
sur, Maceo entered the town, Eotwithstand-
ing the garrison Of 100 men. In Iajas
where Suarez Naldes was wounded the
Spanish loss footed los, and lastly Acosta
on the ION, captured near Mariana fifteen
guerlilas, who were all given their liberty
The famous Trocha viii be the cemetery
for the majority of its garrison. General
Avoiar In fit OF rage, recently struck a
major in the face. This caused the feser-
ton Of the :najor and about 40 men
rearing that If he would continue in the
TrCcha there would be general iusubordina-
ton, he LETT for Havana, where he remained
Tor several days. The principal paymaster
of the SIanish military line has lost Sis
go gambling, and the soldiers have not
been paid.
Cubans Recruiting Near Havana.
The spirit of the Cuban army is excel
lent. They are lowering around the cap
ltal as near as La Eivora, in the outskirts
where Delsardo was a few days ago with
200 men recruiting. Two thousand Spanish
went after him, but We're unable to catch
him."
The other letter is dated June 49, and is
as follows:
After writing my last 1 have received
exact versions of the assassinations at Ar
temisa. The five bodies are still unburied
at the entrance of the plantation Santa
Cantalina de Ramos, being the prey of the
vCttureS imnraSSinn
lnhuman butchery has been such that
many families are leaving for Guanaiay
Among the dead there appeared Cartetano
Ironcoso and Ortega, very esteemed
resident of the locality, known for his
honesty and obedience to law. He leaves
young wife and three children. This man
LETT for Guanajay in search of a carriage
to take his family to that place. He or
dered his wife to go in q cart to the store
called Cayado, which is on the Trocha
She was to wait for him there, and then
they We're to go together in the carriage
she waited In vain. until she finally start
ed for Guanajay by herself In the very
same vehicle that she took for the Journey
was the body of her husband The Spanish
bandit, MueSa, was at odds with the vic
tim, because the latter had gone to collect
his father, which Muesa had rented Muesa
hquidated by killing the collector.
Influential Spanfn rLs Leaving CuIa.
THE Spaniards are losing heart. They
are convinced that they can make no head
way, and are fast leaving the island l
mean the influential Spanish merchants
and well-to-do people. The explosion CT
the two bombs on the aqueduct has dam
pened the bellicose spirit of the volunteers.
and the latter have refused to go to the
Irocha The Spanish generals often visit
Weyler to ask him for money to pay the
tro ops, who have received no pay for four
months, and who are badly discontented In
consequence and are in state bordering
on mutiny. 1t is said, on the other hand
that Weyler has already sent over 5000. .Hx,
to Spain, and l know of a major who. in
three months has taken out drafts for s11
OOo. Spain may send money to Cuba. but a
great part of 1t goes into the pockets of her
leading representatives here, who rob their
sovereign and their soldiers alike
Cholera In Matanxas
THE rains are unusually abundant and
are sometimes terrible. There is more dis
ease than in former summers, and the hos
pitals are full Of stricken Spanish soldiers.
1t is said by no less a person than the
Spanish sanitary inspector general, Losado.
that cholera has appeared among the Span,
tsh troops in MatanZas"