The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-31
IN FOR ANNEXATION.
FOpNDLENGs AND ORPHANS TURNED
GUT IN THE STREET.
Bloody Street Fights-sIutiny ON
Board Il Spanish Troop Ship
Fears That the MutinOus Crew
VIII Join the Insurgents.

NEW YORK, Aug. 30.-A special des-
patch to the Herald from Havana. via
Key West. says: Spanish business
men, the property holding element, are
beginning 10 despair OF Spain's ability
to crush the revolution OF such men
as General Apezteguia, who, by the
way, also represents large American
interests here. These men may come
out openly for annexation, and ask the
United States to step in and end the
chaos here.
The clause in Captain General Wey-
lers currency decree yesterday,
threatening the arrest and punishment
for aiding and abetting sedtion of any
local bank or broker daring to refuse
to accept the new paper money of the
Spanish bank here at par with gold in
payment for gold drafts against New
York, London, Paris and Hamburg
fell like bombshell in local financial
circles. Leading private banking
houses, in consequence. have notified
their customers that for the present
they would draw no foreign bills of
exchange, alleging that they have no
funds abroad to cover them.
In view of this action, heavy ship
ments of coin, Spanish and French
gold will probably follow during the
next fortnight from parties who are
unable otherwise to make needful
foreign remittances. There is great eX-
element in the stock exchange and.
stocks are still declining.
Havana, society is highly indignant
at Captain General Weyler's order con-
fiscating the buildings of the Found
lings and Orphans Home, to be trans
ferred into smallpox and yellow fever
hospitals for Spanish troops. thus turn
ing out into the streets over five hun
dred children. More than one hundred
of these are mere infants.
1t is reported in Havana that the
American, Cepero, has been convicted
in Santa Clara and sentenced to be
shot despite the consufs efforts to save
him.
The Yauigo societies of Havana Ma
fla, an organization of Cuban muiat-
tos and negroes, a secret order of At
rican origin, corresponding to the Woo
docs of Hayti, are sorely split over the
islands policies. The members of one
lodge, the Escorio Efe, have all been
communicated by the papaloi or
chief high priest, for having joined a,
company of black volunteers now be-
ing organized as a guard of honor to
escort Captain General Weyler
War has been declared upon the So
called traitors, and several of them
have been killed in bloody street fights
in the Yanigo quarter of the city,
which has since been heavily reinforced
by government police to preserve or
der and protect the communicated.
The Spanish transatlantic liner the
City of Cadiz, which arrived Friday,
brought 900 reinforcements, sos boxes
of munition, sixty cases of medicine
and 100000 silver dollars consigned to
Captain General Weyler. The COM
mander of the Cadiz reports that a
serious attempt at mutiny was made
by the troops just after the vessel
sailed, but as they had come aboard
without rifles or revolvers and had only
knives, the officers and the crew who
were all well-armed. managed, after
a brief skirmish wherein several
soldiers were killed and wounded, to
subdue the revolters. The leaders were
put in irons.
The sergeant of the mutinous rein
forcements alleges that the men were
foreibly driven aboard the vessel like
so many cattle between double lines of
armed troops. They were furnished
with bad food, and this, with a scar
city Of water, prompted the mutinous
attempt. 1t is feared that the bulk of
these forces, once assembled. viii
desert to the insurgents at the first
opportunity.
General Weyler has ordered that all
letters, post parcels and newspapers
arriving in the mails from the United
States, addressed to Cubans here be
opened and examined by the police be-
fore delivery