The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-20
Has Had Open Rupture With
Home Government.
REPLACED BY GEN. PAN0O
wevler Has Sent Word That He
Will Return at Once.
EDITOR coRoNAoo's ESCAPE
After Thrilling Adventure Iahos ~
New York, and Tells His Story
Spanish as Well as Cubans
Anxious For Peace.


Havana, Cuba, Nov. 1s, via Key west
Fla. Nov. 19.-The press censor has re-
fn-ed 10 allow any messages TO be sent
nv wire from this city, and, unless ne
relents. nll news must go VIA Key west
hercaster. That General Weyler has
been asked to resign because of an open
rnnture with the home government IS
rnsitive fact. 1t is thought that Geherai
Pando will succeed him. Weyier mas
sent word to the palace that he viii re-
turn at once
Madrid, Nov. 19.-An official despatch
raep;v,a here from Manila says that the
insurgents have been defeated in an en-
gagement with the Spanish troops fought
-t Santa Cruz and Angra, losing 500 men
killed and the government loss being
light.
Srere BOLIVIA. Nov. 19.-yia Calves
ton.-The Chamber Of Deputies has ask
ed the government for information on tne
nroiest TO recognize the Cuban insur-
ra,,t. as helligerents in accordance with
resolution adopted by the Congress.
verse 10 the project
Tampa, Fla, Nov. 19--Adxaees OF an
ofaeial nature received by to-nlghIs poae
say that on last Sunday nlgnt Nesier
was eneamped on Estrada Cattle pasture,
three miles from Sarva, province Of Pinar
del Rio. He had thirty thousand men
with him. Nothing has been heard from
him since. About fifty refugees came
orsr to-day.
RIJMOR OF ARMISTICE.
london. Nov. 19.-The financial article
in the Times says that Spanish securities
were firm yesterday on the rumor of an
armistiee in Cuba.
A TRAIN BLOWN UP.
Havana, Nov. ia railroad train was
blown mp in Pinar del Rio. Capt. Gen.
Weyler was at Candalia for short time
Yesterday and it is believed the authors
of the explosion believed the Capt. Gen.
to be on the train which was blown up.
The engine and several cars were derail-
ed. The engineer and conductor of the
train. six soldiers and several passen-
GERS were wounded The noise of the ex-
plosion caused considerable excitement
IN Havana.
REBEL EDITORS ESCAPE.
New York. Nov 19-Manuel Nj. Coro
made. the editor of the Cuban patriot
newspaper La Discussion, published in
Havana, who escaped from the city in
the last days of October after General
WeyIer had ordered IS arrest, reached
New York this morning, and went to the
home of his brother, Francisco Coronado.
He brought with him important news for
the Junta in this city, and early in the
afternoon visited the headquarters.
When he learned by private tips that
General Weyler had ordered his arrest,
he disguised himself, and while troops
surrounded his house, made thrilling
escape, and shipped ASA sailor to New
Orleans and coming 10 New York by rail,
arriving this morning. In reply to aues-
ton as to the general condition of the
people living in. Cuba, he said, through
an interpreter:
"Spain holds Cuba by sheer force OF
arms. The whole country, Spanish aftd
Cuban alike, desire peace even OF almost
any sacrifice, and, although it may seem
strange, the Spanish element is quite as
pronounced in this feeling as the Cubans
and desire the independence of Cuba 1t
is thought that Cuba again under Spanish
rule WDU1Q Ue uHtDit 10 pay lIIB
war debt, already incurred, or to stand
Il tremendous taxation which would in
evitably be imposed by Spain upon Cuba,
and another uprising would, under these
conditions, follow Spain would have to
expend great sums Of money to keep Cuba
in submission.
HSpain will soon be forced ty lack of
funds to withdraw her troops. Weyler
does as he pleases. His latest edict is
that oil persons, men, women and children
who are found outside of the Spanish
lines, shall be considered as rebels and
shot as such. This edict was published
only TN the official Gazette in Havana,
which circulates among Spanish officers.
There was no way in which those outside
could learn Of it. There is no railroad
to Pinar del Rio from Havana, and it is
In this province that the edict has cost
the greatest loss Of life. People taken
under this edict are marched outside the
gates and shot. The reports of prisoners
captured by Weyler are only the capture
of these poor devils
BROKE HIS NECK AFTER HIM.