The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-08
SPANISH FUR FLIES
INSURGENTS ARE FOND OF DASH
ING CAVALRY TACTICS,

Fit to scare the Naughty spaniard Dot
of His Boots, aud Then It's Shoot and
stab. and Burn anything That Comes
Handy TO the Firing and Away Again
Before an Official Dispatch Could be
Written Describing the Affair as a
psuish Victory-The War in Cuba.
Havana. Cuba, April THE insur-
GEMS have plundered and burned chree
stores at Sumidero. province Of Pinar
del Rio.
The news was conveyed TO the nearest
SranIsh commander and force OF cav
airy was sent in pursuit Of the enemy.
The troopers overlook the insurgents
near the city Of Pinar del Rio and killed
six Of them.
At Valios the insurgents have burned
a number Of houses and have destroyed
by fire in this vicinity the splendid farm
Of La Cuavina and all the fields about
Vegas. Rio Seco, San Luis, BarDacoa,
Tirado and BarrigOnas.
The insurgents under Bandera recent
" surprised a detachment Of Spanish
troops at night by advancing upon the
IaJtrer's outposts and cheering for Spain.
But the troops, consisting Of the gueril-
Ia of the village Of Consolation and the
garrison Of the Joyn, Del Norte, soon
found out the deception and opened
fire upon the insurgents. The latter,
however, threw the place into a panic
and succeeded in burning five stores be-
fore they were beaten off. The engage
ment lasted about three hours and was
re1narka bic for the brilliant defense OF
the small fort made by the troops. The
insurgents left twenty-nine killed in the
streets and in the mornig the troops
sent out to reconnoitre found sixty new
~ made graves of insurgents, and it IS
supposed that the latter retired with
many wounded.
SHOTS FROM A GUNBOAT.
Lieutenant Commander Juan Cervera
of the Spanish gunbo2t Alvarado, cruis- |
ing along the coast of Baracoa, province
of Santiago de Cuba, saw a number of
boats containing insurgents trying TO |
hide in the swamps near Port Maravi. |
The Alvarado opened fire upon the in |
surgents, who jumped out of their boats |
and succeeded in gaining the shore, |
from whence they returned the gun
boats fire. The guns and the Mauser |
fire Of the gunboat soon silenced the in |
surgents, who eventually fed. The loss |
of the enemy is not known One sailor |
was seriously wounded.
Delayed advices received here from |
Whales say that Maceo attacked the |
village of Palma, near that place, on |
March %, and succeeded in entering the |
place by passing unobserved through /
the tobacco fields in its vicinity. He |
plundered a number of stores and ap-
preached a church which had been con-
verted into a fort. The insurgents, |
however, were repulsed with the loss of |
thirty-nine killed, and withdrew, taking |
with them the corpses of as many more
killed. The insurgents also retired with /
ninety wounded. The garrison lost six
killed and seventeen wounded
There have been several skirmishes /
recently in tn province of Pinar del Rio,
in addition to those already reported,
during which five insurgents were kill
ed and one was captured.
ALL SPANISH VICTORIES.
The column Of troops from the Rey
battalion, operating in the province of
Pnar del Rio, has found a repository of /
insurgent arms and ammunition on the |
Iris plantation.
General Altamira, leader of columns |
OF troops IN the vicinity of Ciego Avilla,
killed nine insurgents and captured two /
prisoners.
One soldier was killed and three woun
ded during the operations.
Colonel Tied, in the province Of Santi-
ago de Cuba, has had a skirmish with |
the insurgents, during which three of |
the latter We're killed and one captured.
The troops had six wounded.
General Ialnue at MalDaA S OrOViOcA
Of Santa Clara, has had a brush with
the enemy. The latter lost eight killed,
and the troops captured a medicine
chest.
Colonel Moncada, at Jobo, province Of
Santa Clara, has destroyed an insur-
gent camp. killing fourteen of the enc
my who retired with a number of wound
ed.
General Oliver, at Santa Rosa, has
an insuTgent camp. The in
surgents retired with their wounded,
which were numerous. and left many
killed on the field. The troops lost one
lieutenant and four soldiers killed, and
had twenty men wounded.
The insurgents have burned the viii
iage Of Pijirigua, Pinar del Rio, to the
of sixty houses. They also burn
ed 3,l00 tons Of sugar cane at the Cen
al 1'ldlALttL4CIA u INllDTIlt |
dos district and ZOO cords of wood 70 |
the value altogether of s1S0,0o0. The
Insurgents have attacked and partly
burned the village Of La Saluda. The
forts made heroic refense and repuls-
I'd the insurgents with a heavy loss.
Colonel AIOncada fought the insur-
gents near Cienfuegos and put them to
fight They left thirteen killed and
23rried of numerous wounded. The
military line running from Mariel has
been completed with wire, forming an
obstacle which it is impossible for men or
horses TO pass.
As a result Of the vote IN the United
States house Of representa- ivas on the
Cuban delinquency, stocks here fell 5
points today except Banco Of Espanola. |
lNCUBArORS IN CHINA.