Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-06
WORSE THAN THE MACBETH
Yellow Fever Is Playing Havoc With the Spanish Troops-WeyIer's Star is Waning-n-
 surgents ernciousIy Active.

Havana, June 3, via Tampa, Fla, June 5.-The dry season can be considered practically closed. Ever since the last fifteen days 1t has been raining fearfully. In Havana the rains have been periodical for the last week, beginning at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon and lasting until Corr o'clock. In the country, from reports received all around, the rainfall has been considerable. It is said that the Majana swamp, forming the southern section of the trocha or military line from Marel, has overfiowed, and that the trenches and ditches which had been made have all disappeared. In consequence of this state of things the military operations-at least on the Spanish side-have come to a standstill. All the troops are cooped up in the towns in the interior untouched by the rebels and the fortified cities on the coast.
 Not so with the insurgents, for this is the appropriate season for them, as 1t permits them to rove unmolested through the country, thus justifying the.r boasts that they are the masters of the fields.
 As a result of the climatic change the terrible scourge, yellow fever, has made its appearance, and, it is said, Is playing havoc to an alarming extent, particularly with the troops. The government tries to hide the truth, but somehow it man. ages to leak out, and, although no accu- rate data can be obtained--for no statis- t.cs are allowed to be published-still it Is known that the malady has extended all over the island, and the death rate is very great In some places-as, for instance, the military line-it Is known that there are hundreds attacked with this terrible disease, and that 1t Is increasing daily in alarming proportions. Smallpox has also made it's appearance in many towns and cities especially in Sanctf Spiritus and Cienfuegos, in which latter place ninety six deaths occurred last month, there be- Ing 136 cases now on record.
 That Weyler has failed in his Cuban campaign is admitted by everybody even by the rabid Spaniards His unfit ness to cope with the insurgents is mani fested daily. No outward demonstrations have been made yet, but in private con versations denunciations are made of his inability to quell the revolution. Span iards are getting Respondent, and the emigration of their prominent leaders, including their boss, Santos Guzman, is significant as tending to show the loss of faith in their cause, which they now consider doomed.
 The Madrid papers have already in- itiated campaign against Weyler. Some are very bitter In their attacks as, for instance, La Paz recently started to de- fend the autonomists for Cuba. Another the "Ejercito Espanel," has attracted great deal of attention on account of it's high authority, 1t being the organ of Gen. Lopez Dominguez, sex-minister of war, the ablest. general of the Spanish army. It has published two leading ed- itorials criticising Weyler's tactics and strongly defending General Rernal from the charge made against him in the Ca- carajicara affair, which is judged very severely.
 The Beimonte extradition case Is att Srpctfng some attention here It is known on good authority that the government will deny the extradition of Mendoza,