Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-08-27
PROGRESS OF CUBA'S WAR
SpaOlards Report New Victories Over
The Insurgents.
Its Rebels SIN Copndrnt OF victor.
a Plan q Attack
Havana.

LESox, Mass. Aug. 2J.-senor De.
puy dc Lone, tho spanish minister,
has received two oablegrams from the
Duke OF Tetuan, minister Of State In
Madrid. One confirms the deaths Of
tho rebel chiefs Mestre and Clotilde
Garcia, the latter being the chief
dynAmlier. Tho combined columns Of
valasco, Bcgura ana Hefnandtz had
an engagement with the rebels under
Rio. Pa'a ana Befmudez la ftabella
and Poirtr6. Thcy diipofssd the
onomy and drove them into tho noun.
tainf. Tho rebels carried OF their
wounded and abandoned fifteen dead.
Tho second cablogrsm relates 10
Spanish attack on "A fortified camp
near BicAna, In which tue rebels were
disl0dR,d. They hbanGonod nineteen
dead but carried OF the wounded.
Many hofans aud n quantity OF arms
were captured.
A STORY OP THRIILISG ADVENTURE.
81. LOUIS, Aug, ~. Rssser Roe.
MGR, NJ one time captain Of tho old
Busch Xluhves, OF thle city, anu Frank
Il. Hilngass, also OF ~. Louie, who
entered tue CUBAN GeTvice last Novem.
Der, have returned. They ate Ia this
county now ioF the purpose OF secur-
ing arms for tns insursent army, and
bfounht letters 70 this effect ffcr Con.
rrhl Gomtz 10 Delegate Palma nj New
YOrh.
"Roas" Roomcr, as he IL familiarity
called, comes home with n commission
rs lieutenant oolouoi OF Infantry aud
Hillisass that OF n lleutrnani.
To reporter Of the Republic, Col.
Rlumer told ttory null " adventure,
ending with thfllling escape from
tho Sranish, ~ cifoling tbs coast OF
Cubs, u desperate voyage OF 200 miles
on the opsn sea In n sixteen foot boat,
finally lauding Mt Nassau, In the
Bahamas, whence they went 10 New
Y'tk ON the Ward liner Santiago.
From solld weight OF 2i5 poundP,
| R1omur has fsllon TO less than 100 40
the result Of Cuban chile aud fever.
1--WE started from Remandios, In
Puerto Principe" said Cot ROrmtr,
"undef the escort OF Col. MadNbei, the
noted baDdit ana tue Pail Sheridan
Of the Cuban cause, hut were forced
back TO the Malasa mouninins, wherein
Il located the headquarters Of the
| Cuban civil government. There we
obtained letters emitting US 10 travel
with some Americana TO the central
states, aud finally reached the comet
ana escaped IN email bost, In com
many with Geotno, correspondent ol n
New York paper, ana alter many pIi.
vallons living ON cocanuts anu bananas,
wo finally reached Nassau, where we
were quArRntined for three days, anu
from Nassau by steamer from New
York"
Colonel R9emer continuing said.
"Iho CuDsns are BuTo to win. The
| Spanieh Amy has retreated into Pu-
eTto Principe and their commander has
notified General Woyler no will not
again engage Gomez without rein.
| foTcemont VI i've thousand men. Go.
mtz has atsllute control OF all Cuba
outeide the cities anu Mt tho beginning
OF tho dry season Will march toward
Havana ~ the same time that General
| Macel crosses the ir0cla, and Joining
| iOrcea, the two will either drlve the
Spa nish into the sen or 80 badly cripple
| them that further persecution OF tho
war will 10 Impossible. Tue total
strength OF the rebels at present IA
sixty thoueAnd; that Of tho Spanish
oue hundred thousand, TO be reinforced
by forty thousand more already um.
hAfked from 5pail. Tue Cuban soldiers
arc scattered everywhere bur by "a
| thorough tystem OF communication
| they can bp massei together In nm In.
cfedibly ehOrt time.
| ~ ahgll bo glad to return 10 Cuba,
| anu | an likely 10 DO ordered there by
the iunta at hHy moment. Delegate
| Palma IN Now York 10 postnd as TO my
| movements herr,su that ho VIII always
| know exactly where TO reach me-"
| IL will DO remembered that noarly a
yoar ago Roamor auddonly disappeared
| from this city anu was not heard u for
some time, when ho wrote letter to n
friend here IA which he stated he hal
lolnod the Cubans ia their struggle for
libeTiy.