The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-04
REIGN OF MURDER AND RAPINE
4 TERRIBLE RECORD MADE BV
SPANS ARMY N CJBA.

Four Men and woman Arrested
on the Charge Of being Cuban
sympathizers Killed by Their
CRptors - The Non-Combatant
Brother Of an Insurgent shOt-The
spanish officers Under orders
From WeyIer to XIII Every SYM
Pnthizcr with the Insurgents Pos
sibIe.
New Orleans April 3.-The following in
formation has been received from Cuba
by j. Nelson Polhemus. local representa-
tive in this city of the cuban Junta. Mr..
Polhemus vouchos for its authenticity.
I'm the township of Jaruco on the plan
tation Of Morales. the troops of Col Tort
In command OF the rural guards, arrested
four men and one woman on the charge
OF being nsurgent sympathizers. and then
took them 20 the armory, where the men
were beaten and subsequently killed and
also the woman, who refused to state she
was In connection with the rebel forces
The crime Is more horrible. as the woman,
named Margarlta Pedroso, was soon TO
become a mother.
"In the village Of san Antonio de Los
Banos man named Benlto Logado. sus-
pected of insurgent tendencies. and who
had a brother IN the rebel lines, was ar
rested and shot TO death by the soldiers.
being reported as trying to escape. and the
forces being compelled to fire on him.
Ion the plantation Salvador property
of Count de Barrato, the soldiers Of Gen.
Aldrecoas' division maltreated the women.
wives and daughters of the laborers, after
having threatened with death their rela-
tives, many of whom We're tied, witnesses
Of the deed. The same thing happened in
the village OF san Matias. near Jaruco,
where the FORCES of Col. TeleriicO violated
abuche.
"On the plantation OF Cailxto OF Juan
Antonio Hernandez, near san Antonio de
Las vegas, capt, Manuel Ruiz Adame OF
the regiment of Isabel the Catholic, shot
TO death an inoncusVe crazy loon who
had assembled a tree and was throwing
cocoanuts al the troops because he saw
that was the only way TO get through the
"Tho troops under command of Gen.
Echague entered the towns of Limar and
Iumidero boasting that they had sent
thirteen rebel ,sympathzers to meet their
fate, ana showing their bloody arms as
proofs OF their butchery However three
miles from IumiderO, to my knowledge
ana to the knowledge of the commander
OF Inc Spanish forces. Roberto Bermudez
and his division Of insurgents were en-
camped.
q have made a careful inquiry into the
iacts, ana lind that the above are All true
every iota of them, and to further evil
dence the hatred which these moor C,ithan.s
engender ia the soldiers OF the Spaulsh
army / Will relate statement made by a
Spanish officer (Cuhan by BIRTH, and ihe
speaker had been captured Ia Pinar del
Havana. s "
Lieut. Corrally Pedroso OF one Of tho
cavalry battaliOns. made a statement III
the residence OF Carlos Pedroso IN fbc
presence OF var 'ous persons to The effect
that ne had struck down with his sword
When ne left for the Held ne Killed ever,-
cuban he could get hold Of on the sim
piest chafge as every Cuban was an in
suIbeul at heart, and that Gen. Meyler
mad given instructions TO the commandera
OF lne operating columns TO dispose of 40
@ @ntaiiy nsuIEent sympathizers as possible.
ana that he would stop any talk and wouli
stand between the officers and the public,
Dui that the insurgents must be put an
end 10 az all hazards ."
TO further illustrate tha eondftfo, ..
M Llils country, ! viii relate what i heard
IN the city Of Trinidad while there q
rev days ago. The Rev Father C,nar-
worry Canonigo said: 4 believe Thar atI
the Cubans possible should be Killed an
aIlp clear the country, and IN that man
ner make room for families which wonld
De brought over from Spain to cuba Tsbr
negroes ana mulattoes should all be killed
on, silently and without creating anv
comment ana their property conhscated
therefore, when we would bring famiffe,,
over from Spain and coiOnize the island
we could give them this conhscated props
IN life. The Cubans who send their cbit,
uren 70 the United States to be educafac
should be taken hold of by the police and
quietly be placed where they would 40 the
least harm, because those Americans
nave those republican ideas which are
the real cause Of the present desire n
lne Cubans to revolt The yankees ara
Nne only country where sympaf hizeI-i
with tne Cubans are, and they are re-
sponsible for this war;
w hile at Trinidad / slipped throuoh
ana paid a visit to an insurgenf camp
commanded by one of their leaders
beleYe one Lacret and found that the
wives and daughters Of a great many
oI the insurgents were with them and
uhe DAY Following the readoption Of the
resolutions by the House and Senate thew
VIII given a dinner by the leader: and Ii
was resolved to ask Of the Clfban COW
ernment that when Havana shall have
Deen captured that the avenue OF
carlos III shall be known as the
American avenue, and that statues OF
leaqlng senators and representatives who
had defended the Cubans should be placed
az intervals on this passo. Champagn,
HoWed ana speeches were delivered Those
women are not camp women but some
OF the ladies who months ago were shining
social lights of the cities of Matanzar
Cardenas, Cienfugos Santiago Cana
guey and Habana. The eamps were or
derly, well established, discipline being
noticed and above all hygienic measures