The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-11
BRAVE MACE0 IS NOT DEAD
REPORT THAT HE WAS IN PINAR
 DEF RIO THURSD4Y EVENING.

On December i He Turned Weyler's Left
 Flank and Captured More Than 12,OO0
 Stands of Arms-SOn of General Gomez
 Safe in Matanzas- Glorious News for
 Patriots Expected in Few Days.
 Dallas, Tex, Dec. 10.-The head of the local Cuban committee has received dispatches from Key West making ab- solute denial of the Spanish report from Havana of the alleged killing of Gen. eral Antonio Maceo.
 Tine dispatches state that at o'clock last night Maceo was in Pinar del Rio province, and his army was making successful operations against General Weylers forces; that on the turning of Weyler's left flank, December l, Maceo captured more than twelve thousand stands of arms and immense quantities of ammunition medicines and commis- sary supplies.
 The dispatch also states that within the next three days the Cubans are likely to turn Weylers other flank and " III eJ NSClSlSG NlGlOIy. dIltISto JO- meg has not been with Maceo in any of his recent movements, and is safe in MatanZas province. The head of the local committee said to-day: "We know positively that most sensational and glorious news for the patriots will come from Cuba on or about Decem- Der 15 Texas is doing more to help the patriots than any other state in the Union just now, and is favorably located for effective aid"
 New York, Dec. 10.-Cubans in New York do not believe that Maceo is dead. As soon as General Palma heard the report he telegraphed to his private in- fOrmant at Key West, and this after noon he received dispatch which came to Key West from Cuban sources at Havana, absolutely denying that Ma eco was dead. The dispatch read as follows:
 'Maceo passed the trocha December 4, Report of his death absolutely false Contradict it on my authority"
 General Palma said that the dispatch came from a source in which he had entire confidence, and that he believed hdttp to bG SlIil tlilNt.
 Of Dr. Zertucha, who is said to have been Maceo's physician and confirmed the reports of the Cuban generals death, nothing is known at the junta. Some of the attaches knew the man, | however and they declare him to have | been always a political turncoat, and they say that no dependence can be placed in his words
 Havana Dec. 1O.--Up to the time of ! sending this dispatch this evening nothing has been learned of the where l abouts of Maceo's body, and nothing further has trar spirqd to confirm the reports os his death.
 La Lucha, the government organ, Is l the first paper here to speak editorially | of President Cleveland's message. It [ publishes a long leader in which it ex amnes all the points of the Cuban sec- ton of the message and makes severe | criticism of the whole, The paper makes a vigorous protest against the aggressive parts of the message. It says. among other things: The mes sage is no more or no less than a series of hypotheses. It cannot please Spain, 1 but it does not wrong her.
 It adds that Spaniards cannot admit intervention in their own affairs. They have spirit enough to repulse imposi | ton, and will accept nothing degrading or circumscribing their right to con- duct their own affairs. When their honor is concerned they are of the same rank as the people of the most powerful and colossal nation.
 l La Union Constitutional says the lec- ture is unpleasant to Spain, but admits l that MT Clevelands language lacks 1 haughtiness when compared with that which he has used towards other pow CTS It adds that the presidents mes sage will result favorably to Spain. The tone of the article throughout is rather mild.
 The Diario, La Marin La Paris and 1 Fl Comercia make no editorial com- ment on the message.