San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-28
AUTOCRAT WEYLER.
ALL HAVANA MERCHANTS ARE UN-
DER HIS ORDERS
Floods Hinder Military Movemsnts-WeJ
Ter Can't Take the Field Re-
Inducements Arriving.


Herald from Havana says:
Havana grocers, owners of clothing
establishments, and cigar dealers have
been placed under the same military
supervision as drug stores with regard
20 the sale 10 retailers OF the interior
towns ordering goods from the city.
These in the future, must bring or
send a memorandum of the articles re-
puired, to be approved by the local mil
itary commandant.
Consul General Lee, who has finally
obtained the release of Samuel Tolon
was informed that Tolon must leave
the island on Wednesday next.
The great floods which have oc-
CURED in Pinar del Rio and along the
western trocha, are not alone para
Lying the local military movements in
the west, but may also retard for some
weeks more, the carrying into effect of
Captain General Weyler's new plans
for personal operations against Anton
10 Maceo. I
Troop ships from Spain continue to
enter the port daily bringing new re-
Inducements. About $1,000 men have
been disembarked. Many of these are
veterans of former campaigns here and
elsewhere and consequently are ex-
pected to achieve better results than
the recruits formerly brought over.
Apparently they are full of energy and
enthusiasm and are anxious for the
fray. A majority. of the men are Ian
ded across the bay in Regia and distri-
buted thence, by different routes to
points in the island by rail or coast
transports.
A correspondent in Santiago de Cuba
says that the American prisoners,
Frank Agramonte and Julius SAM
have been transferred from Moro Cas-
tie to the civil prison in the city, to-
gether with Gonzala,a Venezuelan gen.
eral. 1t is expected that they will
soon be called for trial. The Ameri-
cans are visited frequently by Consul
Hyatt or his deputy, Consul Prevail,
who report them as being well treated
by the prison authorities.
The Spanish press of Havana Is en-
gagged in a heated editorial discussion
of the proposition to expel from the is
land, all Cuban negroes as soon as the
triumphs of the Spanish army in the
present struggle shall be assured, and
follow up the step by encouraging
white immigration from the poorer pro-
vinces of the peninsula. The negroes
would be allowed to voluntarily en-
bark for ports of the United States and
Central and South America, but failing
to so leave after reasonable notice,
would then be forcibly transported In
government warships to the coast Of
Africa. With their departure from Gu
Ia, II is alleged, the future peace Of the
island would be assured. Ell CONNER
clio, a Conservative Spanish organ de-
tends the black man and maintains ms
right to remain here unmolested while
certain Liberal papers give tacit ap-
prevail to the proposition for his expul-
sion. Negro labor will be indispensable
the El Commerce. declares, in the ag-
ricul.ural reconstruction Of the island,
after the war shall Re finished, mi the
blame for the present revolt, 1t says,
cannot be laid exclusively at the black
mans door, those really responsible be-
ing his Cuban and alien leaders, with
the mulattoes.