El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-24
THE WAR FOR LIBERTY.
The Cuban Forces on the MOve.-Mex-
lean Students Stirred I'D.

The students in the city of Oaxaca
in public meeting have passed resolu
tions deploring the death of Maceo
and urging the government to recog
nize the independence of the Cuban
republic. Cuban sentiment is intense
and all news from the United States
showing equal warmth OF sentiment in
the great republic is read with great
interest.
General Rivera is moving his forces,
and several light engagements have
been reported in the neigh borhOod of
Artemisa and west of that at the foot
of the hills. Ole of Rivere's strong
holds was attacked Saturday at day
light by a large column OF Spanish
troops, and but for Captain Lynn's
efforts with his formjneble dynamite
gun, they would have captured it. AS
it was, they fought for several hours,
but the deadly charges of dynamite
bursting among the thick, crowded
ranks of the troops terrified even the
boldest and the Spaniards retreated
in dismay. 1t is said that the loss of
the Spanish was over 200.
Passengers from Havana report that
Havana military circles are agitated
over the reports coming from Matanzas
province over the dOings of the insur
gent guerilla leader, Arcolo. He has
defeated two Spanish columns with
considerable loss to them, and has
captured three towns held by Spanish
garrisons. He captured two convoy
traiDs near Laperca last week, and
took 100 prisoners, all Of whom, save
one, Cuban, were released. He was
summarily executed, Captain Arcclo
saying, so it is reported, that it was
hard enough to fight the Spanish not
to have Cubans turn against them. In
the towns of Madruga, Limones and
49, ~. l.,
fairly besieged inside their lines OF
sentinels, the insurgents picking off all
who venture outside.
Captain General Weyler'S second
camp paign in Pinar del Rio, says Key
West dispatch, was marked by one of
the most shocking butcheries of the
war. After making vain effort to
locate Maceo, Weyler fixed his head
quarters at San Cristobal, considera-
bic town of Pinar del Rio. The captain
general then issued a proclamation
commanding all the Cuban families
in the neigh borhood of San Cristobal
to leave their homes and come into the
city. In obedience to the proclamation
nearly 200 CubanS-men, women and
children-left their homes and went to
San Cristobal. In a short while food
became scarce and the Cubans appealed
to Weyler to be allowed to return to
their homes, where they could get
something to eat. Weyler finally
agreed, and the Cubans left for their
homes. Two days after the Cubans
departed, Weyler summoned one of his
officers and ordered him to take
battalion and raid the country about
San Cristobal. The officer was
instructed to raid the country and to
treat all persons as enemies in arms,
Weyler stating that their presence at
home after being ordered to San
Cristobal was evidence of their ennity
to Spain. Weyler's instructions were
obeyed literally. The country round
about San Cristobal was laid waste, and
ia the raid twelve Cuban families who
had returned home to procure food by
Weyler's permission were eXterminat-
ed. Many of the Cubans, warned of
the raid, fled to the woods. or many
more would have been butchered.
a dispatch from Rome to the London
Daily News says: "All here seems to
prove that Spain has been preparing
| for the event of warlike complications
with the United States. The hurried
manufacture of. large number of
cartridges has been ordered at Brecia,
/ and four cruisers have been ordered
from the Ansaldo yards in Genoa"