Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-01-28
SIGH FOR PEACE.
Feeling Growing in Cuba in Favor
Of a Compromise.
Eyes Turning Toward the United
States as Mediator-Progress of
the Instruction.


tack by the insurgents upon Sabanilla,
between Matanzas and La Union. on
Wednesday last, have been received.
Tho rebels burned the station and two
or three houses and looted several
stores. The garrison was surprised and
defeated after hot fight, losing
many killed and wounded. Unfortun
ately three women were killed by stray
bullets.
Col. Sanchez reports that the force
under his command has had a fight
that lasted three hours with q rebel
hand under Aulet, near Cienfuegos.
He states that the rebel loss was 10
killed and 10 wounded. The Spuniards
lost II horses.
Thirty-cight refugees have arrived
here on the schooner Maria Carmen
from Guane, on the south coast. They
report that the insurgents under the
command of Afaceo Miro, Gil, Tamayo
and Zayas have invaded many towns
IN the province of Pinar del Rio, taking
horses, arms and supplies. Bands I'M
der DIV. and Lasc are operating ON
the north coast. Antonio Maceo and
u
cruiser Rcina Maria Christine has bonn
barded rebel camps near the coast.
Three employees of the Western rail
road arrived here Friday. Trains on
that road having stopped running. they
were compelled to walk all the way
from tina province of Pinar del Rio.
They say that stations, bridges, cars
and other railway property has been
destroyed in the vicinity of San Cristo-
bal. The tobacco crop has not been in
5ured directly, but the rebels have de-
stroyed the means by which il could be
operated.
Refugees Dependent on Charity.
The authorities now have to face a
serious problem here. The prices of all
kinds OF provisions are going up rap
idly every day. In spite of this, people
ore fiocking into Havana from the coun-
try districts and other provinces, and
in many cases the refugees are people
who have lost almost everything they
possessed, and vast numbers of them,
here and elsewhere, are depending upon
charity. The cost of the war has been
enormous, and the drain created by pro-
yisioning the army has been very great.
Consequently this extra expense, which
the authorities will have to meet in
some manner, is causing them great
deal of anxiety.
However, there is large and ever
increasingexodusof plantersand others
from this city, hundreds leaving by
every ship bound for the United States,
Jamaica, Hayti or South American
ports. The increase of crime in all the
provinces is said to be enormous. Bust
ness is almost at standstill and COM
ynerce is practically a thing of the past.
The work OF streDgt hening and increas-
ing the defenses of Havana continues
without interruption. A number of adj
ditional small forts have been erected
ut Havana, and the authorities claim
that there is absolutely no danger of
a sudden attack by the insurgents,
much less of a successful siege of
Havana.
Hope for a. Compromise.
In spite Of this assurance, however,
feelipE-ef gloom and depression pre-
walls here There is no 1ongc: any talk tail;
OF settling the insnrreclion by crush
E Ing blow, anu although the advent Of
Gen. Weyler is looked forward to as
likely to re the signal for mere active
operations against the insurgents, the
feelings grows that the struggle is a
most exhaustive one for all concerned
and that ouch more blood and treasure
must be Expended by Spain if the in
surrectioa is to be quelled by force of
arms.
Uuder these circumstances, it is not
astonishing that feeling i'll favor OF
some conipromise arrangement is
steadily growing and all eyes are turn
ing toward the United States as likely
to be the great factor in bringing pence
and prosperity once more to unhappy
Cubd. The military author tiles are
sadrawing ali the troops possible from the
eastern part of Cuba, as that part of the
island, especially the province of San
tiago de Cuba, is rapidly resuming a
peaceful aspect, owing to the fact tnat
nearly all the insurgents have moved
eastward