Evening journal., 1896-06-26
PLOT TO KILL mACE0.
Intrepid Patriot Leader
Defeated 1t Neatly.
COMMODORE WAS FIRED ON

ted States Revenue Cutter Sent Vol
\ Us of Solid Shot After the Fiilbuster-Ii
i Believed That She Got Away and VIII
on.inue to Run blockade.
HAVANA, June 20. The reports 81
Dcities committed by the Spanish troops
Il increasing daily. A Spaniard who re-
Etly arrived from Artemisa, on the
.rha, says that the church in that place
been taken for military prison.
hong the prisoners In the church is tho
IL Of an insurgent officer She is tor
& led every day, and at night her cries
ID lamentations can be distinctly heard
a begs to be killed at once so as TO end
4 misery. Other prisoners, this Span
h says, are likewise tortured in this
birch. The citrate says openly that no
SIS will ever again be said in that church
& account of the many crimes committed
are The curate is Spaniard.
EJolonel Landa with a Spanish column,
$ fred on by six mon, part of the ad.
nee guard Of the insurgent Colonel
Ban Delgado near Wajay. nine miles
& m tho city of Havana. After firing one
Hey the insurgents retreated. Colonel
. linda then picked up and murdered the
s lowing caoificos who were living in
( It neighobrhood: Pedro GARLIC, Cast
TO Carrillo, Juan Chico, go years old /;
Ian Febbs and his wife and three sons,
I is Conception, 80 years old; Jose Medi-
i Juan Caro-, Antonio Mata, years
4 and Mauricio Negrin.
I.f 81 .fa1l
T pops where they were murdered. Maui
4 10 Negrin's right hand had been cut of
/ tn lnachete and when found the hand
Is still grasping the implement he had
Z en- working with in the field. He had
4ne vegetables in his other hand.
Lured Them to Death.
lon May 10 Jose Martinez and Nato
.Abeas. living in the district of Cano,
ovince of Havana. went to the town of
|.lahazar to reside. On their arrival they
\ ere both arrested. The following morn
sa MARITIME was told by a Spanish officer
at they wanted him to go to a planta-
sln near by On the road TO the planta-
.,n he was murdered and his body was
III unburied. On Juno 4 his body was
Ill lying by the highway. The people
the locality are afraid to bury any OF
( @ persons that are murdered by the
7lanish troops
! A lieutenant and five Of the Spanish
pops OF the steam launch Belico were
( ught by tho insurgents after fight.
. be lieutenant and four Of the troops
sre wounded The wounded prisoners
are all taken by the insurgents TO the
Danish fort Melones and given over To
4 10 commander.
The Spanish officers, having been un.
Die to check the operations Of Maceo III
he proyinc6 of Pinar del Rio, a company
| Spanish troops, with all their officers
as sent by General Aroles to Maceo Will
distractions to surrender, but they wer,
SO instructed to shoot Maceo at the frs
|lportunity that was offered in which
hey could not be detected. When they ar
we'd, Maoeo suspected something wrong
Ieoause the troops came in such regula
,der, with all their officers He disarme,
|lem and sent them TO work on one Of tn
lsurgont farms, telling them he knew
.ley had been overworked In the Spanisi
|rny and on this farm they would hav'
tile to do, so that they could rest and re
operate.
On June II a body Of about 5000 insur
ents was reported near Bejucal, PROVING
Havana, supposed to be commanded b.
acret. within the last few days sklrmish
have taken place between the ipsurgen
orces under Colonel Cueryo and the span
sh troops at Los Palos, in the eastern par
the province Of Havana, but no detail
ave been brought to this city.