The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-01-13
liens Forming Battalions
for the City's Protection.
LONG CABLE FROM GOMEZ.
Volunteers in Havana Not TO
Commit 0utrages.
ny Villages Plundered and Burn
ID. and Several Innocent Lives
~acrificed-Farm I-aborers Taken
rom Their Fields Desert-Burnins
Canefields on Every Side.

mpa, Fla. Jan T.-PassenEers arriv-
rom Cuba tonight report that Carlos
ingE rs band has passed over Puntas
koi de, the big bridge near Havana. The
GraI iaTds had stretched heavy chains
spa S the bridge 10 prevent the passage
acT -vaiTy. This did not deter the insur-
or The Havana theaters have sus-
genV "a and the Italian opera troupe which
penS luSt arrived viii not play The pro-
mas exchange Is forming I'VE battaiions
dCcH le defense Of the city. A double guard
for surrounds all the government build
now
ing l. Gomez has sent proclamation 10
q conferences of volunteers in Havana
the % commit any outrages on any citi-
not and threatens to blow UP the city if
zen& dict is disregarded.
the Iito Salono. a chief Of police Of the
AZ OF Havana, was sent to Spain under
por on January 10 and was replaced BY
arrcv 10 MoBagO. Salono was removed for
TruG itting ammunition TO enter Havana
PERI overlooking the passage OF several in
and nt agents. Gen. Weiiey IS soon 10
sura with $3.50 troops from Pinar del
arrlv Cruisers are guarding the coast
Rio. . recent encounter reported 20 have
nj place IN GunaH between Gomcz.
takeO and BurmU3ez, who We're eatreucheI
SayE ana Gems. Garcia and Navarro Gen.
therV os' son is reported 10 have been
CamG led. Reports announce that Calixto
vou o has landed.
Togd aando de Castro. who gave $500 for
ED ling of Manuel Garcia, offers a stIl
the sum for the killing Of Gomez.
large ana, Jan. 12.-Wfth the exception of
Hal gagement between Spanish troops
an band Of 800 insurgents at Managua,
and welve miles southwest of Havana.
only Ii : nothing authentic 10 chronicle con-
there( the movements of the Insurgents
cerntE tack on Managua remained in doubt
n np.uu ffNT
at III eers, but regular troops were dis
v0luIG ID from here to its assistance. IL is
patel ed that the insurgents have burned
repoa 4 houses and killed a number of de-
SeVeTU SIS children.
fense her news received today confirm yes
FuiN 5 report that Maxine Gomez is pro-
terday 10 tha eastward. with a large f0rca
ceediv Irgents stiu left in P.nar del Rio. lie
of in eported today south OF the town OF
was ) and near Melana. moving eastward
Guary n the burned canefields and passing
throuv encia and Guines. At Banes the in
Provt IS have plundered and burned the
surgeL torres. Three clerks were burned and
create yor was killed.
the mU stores in the villages OF Cidra and
The{ Ana. in Matanzas. have also been
Santa red. and in the Carlenas district the
plundX Of Cimar have been burned. From
fields milo go farm laborers who had came
Manz> from the Trinidad district started
there here under the leadership of Saliva
back q eze. About 160 of them got part OF
dor X y toward Santa Clara, but all de-
the W their leader and returned to Manza-
serted
Milo. u engagement with Rabi near XII
In al the report of which has been pub
guiana he insurgent Col. Jaime Masso. four
lished and the leader. Esteban Tamayo
officeH He'd. II is said that SEQ insurgents
We're sen skirmishing in Matanzas prov
have Quintin Bandera is reported 10 be
ince in the neighborhood Of Guiana Mi
movin
randa Insurgents under Louis Perez and
The E are said 10 have had many wounded
Munozv gegement near Sguianca.
in an n all schooner has been captured at
A snE while engaged in supplying the in
Calbar& with ammunition and supplies