The herald., 1896-03-17
The REBELLION IN CUBA
INVESTIGATION ORDERED OF THH SHOOT.
ING OF SPANIARDS BY COMRADES
Maceos Progress Through Pinsr del Rio Ex-
planned by the Pact that the Trocha Is
Only Intended to Protect the Railroads.
Spain Grows Very Impatient
Associated Press Special wira

Associated Press Special wira
HAVANA, March 16.-General Weyler
has ordered a thorough investigation to be
made into the disaster at Cano. seven
miles from here, in which seven soldiers
belonging to the San Quentin battalion
were killed and captain, four lieutenants
and twenty-seven soldiers belonging to the
same corps wounded by the Spanish gar
rison of that town, who mistook tho SPAN
iards for q band of insurgents that had
previously attacked that place and been
repulsed:
Perez, died recently in the vicinity of Bar
abas, in the Remedies district, in which
neghborhood seven countrymen were re-
Gently hanged for supplying vegetables to
detachments of Spanish troops.
A dispatch from Violet says that several
families of that place have been compelled
to go to the neighboring towns in order to
gents. Maceo is marching rapidly through
the province of Pinar del Rio. 1t is re-
ported here that Maximo Gomez intends to
60 into the province of Santa Clara.
The progress of Antonio Maceo back in
to Pinar del Rio and past the forts at Ba-
tabano has elected the statement from the
chief Of staff that the military line or
trocha running from Batabano to Havana
has no importance attached to it by the au-
thorities as effective obstruction to tho pas
sage of the insurgent forces and has no
other object than to protect the railroad
and telegraph.
THE ERMUDA's CARGO
New Yo4K March 1.-THE Press this
morning says:
Nothing has been heard of the steamship
Bermuda since she left here on Sunday
morning with arms and ammunition for the
CUBAN insurgents. 1t was said yesterday
on the best authority that the Bermuda
carried away from here 2,OUO,OOO rounds
of cartridges. 700 pounds of dynamite,
two Hotchkiss Runs with great quantities
or ammunition for them, 1000 rifles and a
lot OF bandages and antiseptcs.
DR.. Jose Manuel Delgado, the American
citizen who is reported to have been shot
and nearly killed by Spanish troops under
the command Of General Melqui. arrived
here yesterday. The cuptain.general has
promised the promptest inquiry into the
circumstances OF the case and has given
assurances that the guilty persons will be
most severely punished.
Dr. Delgado is said to have been bound
and shot without trial and without any JUS
and eight of hs fathers employees were
killed.
The United States consul-general. r. y.
Williams, has taken the matter in hand.
10 GERMAN INTERVENTION
LONDON, March 1.-THE Berlin CORE.
spondeHt or the Lines says that the liam
burger correspondent, which is often used
al an official mouthpiece, believes that the
F.! emperor will refuse to intervene in euppor
of Spain in the Cuban affair against the
United States.
A Madrid dispatch to the Standard Gays
! The press and public here express disap
pointment and impatience at Gen. Wey-
ler's failure to suppress the Cuban insur'
gents.
mEg1CO's POSITION
MADRID, March l6.-The attention oi
the newspapers of this city has been at.
tracted to the fact that long interviews
have been taking place between the Mex.
lean minister here and the Spanish minis.
The papers declare that the ties between
Mexicans aud Spaniardf tighten daily, and
that Mexico's position makes her naturally
the vanguard against yankee encroach-
ments upon Latin America"