The record-union., 1896-07-01
Houses on the Stock Farm Of an Amer
lean Set Fire to and Burned.
Another Filibustering Schooner
Effects Landing on the Island
Insurgents Enter and Loot Town
Under the Very Noses of Garrison
of Spanish Troops.

HAVANA, June -(Correspondence
of the United Press. )-Serafin Slorena,
a clerk 29 years of age, and Emilanio
Poldano, docker, % years of age, resi-
dents Of Jarnice, Havana Province,
were taken from theih homes recently to
the outskirts of the town and killed. No
reasons were assigned for the act.
Colonel Aldeas' men have burned the
houses on the stock farm Of Francisco
Maria Fernandez, near Bolonres, Ma
tanzas Province. Mr.. Fernandez is an
American doctor, and formerly lived in
Brooklyn.
AT sunrise yesterday morning an un-
known schooner was seen off COpimar,
Havana. She was fired on from the
shore, but succeeded in making land
ing further down the coast She was
under the protection of an insurgent
force, believed to be part of Aguzzuo's
command. She was then lost sight of.
1t is said that the schooner sailed from
Havana, despite the vigilance of the
Spanish authorities.
On the night of June Goth the inhabi-
ants Of Mordazo Province of Santa
Clara, were surprised by the presence
of rebels, who had entered the town
without arousing the troops who We're
supposed to be defending the place. The
insurgents looted store and killed
clerk and cousin of the owner. The gar
rison finally learned what was going on
under their very nose, rushed to arms
and attacked the invaders, who were,
according to the Government report,
compelled to retire with the loss of four
killed and twelve wounded. The re-
ports make no comment of any Spanish
loss.
Advices from Bahia Honda give the
details of a hot fight near Cayo Redondo
between Spanish force and the rebels
under command of TRAY. The latter
were defeated with a loss of thirteen
killed. Many wounded were carried off
by the rebels. The Spanish loss is not
mentioned.
SPANISH FAMILIES FLEEING.
NEW YORK, June 30-A cable dis
patch to the Herald" from Havana
says: The coast steamship Triton
brought Sunday from Bahia Honda
| many Spanish families, the feeling in
Pinar del Rio being now one of alarm.
Generals Gonzalez, Munoz and Molinas
arrived here from Pinar del Rio Sunday
night to confer with the Captain Gen
eral.
The "Herald's" correspondent in Puer-
to Principe reports that the insurgent
chiefs Guerra, Calunga, Fonseca and
Armada Sanchez, fighting under Max
imo Gomez in the late battle of Najasa,
were all wounded. Sanchez's arm has
not yet been amputated.
Gomez is said to be now encamped
with only 600 men. all mounted, 400
being from Minas Point, known as Los
Estropados.
Four hundred rebels commanded by
Salvador Revos attacked on the 24th,
Goth and 9th instants the town of Yara,
near Manzanillo, but were vigorously
repulsed with heavy losses. 1t is said
that the rebel chief Perquito Perez en-
camped on the 9th instant at Manga
Larga, near Santodomingo. 1t is said
he came from the east 1t is his inten
ton to march to Vuelta Adaho.
Santiago de Cuba advices report 640
cases of smallpox in that city. Two
sisters of charity belonging to the St.
Vincent de Paul Association, died of it
at the Santa Clara Hospital while at
tending their patients.
Populist National Convention.
ST. LOUIS, June 30.-Sergeant-a at
Arms John Hugh Mcdowell of the Ma