The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-10
MACEO REPORTED DEAD
Killed in Havana Province During
an Engagement.
GoMEz's son FALLS WITH HIM.

According to Havana Reports Small
Body of spaniards succeeds i'm Routing
an Insurgent Force OF from 5000 tn
1000 Men--The Cubans Left Forty Dead
Upon the Field. Among Whom Were
Maeeo and the SON of General Gomez.
New York Dec l0.-The Worlds copy
| righted cable from Havana says: The
afternoon papers are out with extras
seeming to confirm the report of the
death of General Antonio Maceo and
a son of General Gomez. The rumor
which first reached Havana Tuesday
night was that the rebel leader. having
| left Pinar del Rio province. was killed
in Havana province in an engagement
with the Spanish troops under Major
Cirujeda on the Matilde estate near
Punta Bravo.
When attacked by Cirujeda's little
band of $50 infantry and 1913 cavalry.
General Maceo. with from 5000 to 1000
followers. occupied positions under COW
er of stone fence. Maceo was driven
from the position by brilliant Spanish
bayonet charge. The insurgents vain
ly attempted TO make new stands. Sue
cessive efforts To use the machetes
were each time parted. until finally,
upon the adjoining estate of San Claud-
10, they broke i'm disorder The insur-
gents abandoned more than forty dead
DO Not Believe the Report.
DIR. Tomas Estrada Palma and DR..
]. Castillo of the Cuban junta in New
York. refuse to give credence to the re-
port of the death of General Antonio
Maceo in a recent engagement with
Major Cirujeda after crossing the
trocha in the western part of Cuba.
This is the seventh time that the
news of Maceo's death has been circu-
lated with the sembance of official au
thority," said DR.. Castillo. Continuing
the doctor said it had always been the
cusom TO report that Maceo had fallen
in conflict whenever he compelled the
Spanish to retreat with heavy loss of
life. If he is dead, his death will not
end the contest, said DR.. Castillo who
intimated that he looked upon the re-
port in the light of a Spanish fake"
Sixteen of Maceo's Life.
Antonio Maceo was without question
the most brilliant figure of the present
revolution in Cuba. He effected a
landing at Certe de Barancoa on March
81. With him were Flor Crombet and
number of officers. Maceo had been a
member of General Gomez's staff dur
ing the ten years war from 1868 to 1873.
and commanded large bodies of troops |
in the Province of Santiago de Cuba, In
which province his family had lived |
and where he owned large plantation.
After the ten years war Maceo travelled |
in Central America, attempted to raise |
large force to invade Cuba and con-
test the sovereignty of Spain. In 1886 |
he went to Hayti to try to get assist
ance for an invasion Of Cuba but he |
was driven out and lived for a long |
time in retirement in Jamaica and after
that he returned to Cuba and lived very |
quietly on his plantation in the east
ern province, where he was very pop |
ular.
Driven Out of Cuba.
In 1890 he was driven out of Cuba
and came TO New York. At the time
of the present outbreak he was in Flor
ida and he Joined a large expedition,
which set out from Fort Limon in
March, 1895. on the steamer Adiron-
dack. Spanish man-of-war pursued
the steamer for eight hours. and at
last the leaders were compelled to land
on Fortune island. one of the West In
dies. Thence Maceo and the other lead
ers made their way to Cuba. In the
great raid across the island. led by
Maxine Gomez in 1885, Maceo was his
chief co-adjutor, and when Captain
General Campos had finally receded
with his headquarters to'the city of Ha-
vana. Maceo led daring raid into the
fertile Province of Pinar del Rio. where
he devastated the great Vuelta Abajo
tobacco district and raised the whole
province in revolt against Spain. There
he has been ever since with the Span