The herald., 1896-12-27

Sickles ex-minister to Spain will speak
on the Cuban question on Jacksons s
birthday. January 8, in Brooklyn, advo-
eating interference by the United States
in favor Of Cuba.
THE EXPECTED DENIAL.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26-It is de-
MED officially and authoritatively that
any European government, either d.
rectly or indirectly, has made any repre-
sentations whatever to the United
States to restrain or prevent its free ac
tion in connection with the Cuban insur-
rection.
A. Won Bruening. secretary of the Ger
man embassy, said today relative to the
statement that Germany had already
prepared to espouse Spain's cause. so
far rs the embassy here was concerned,
no such intimation had been received.
He discredited the whole story.
1--WE have not heard a word concern
ing Cuba" said he, "for three months"
SPAIN WON'T ACCEPT.
MADRID, Dec 26.-It is semi-offlc-
tally stated that the rumors in circula-
tion abroad that Spain would accept the.
good offices of the United States to ter
inmate the war with Cuba was without
foundation.
A SPANISH REPULSE.
CINCINNATI, Dec Pa special
from Key West, Fla, to the Commercial
Tribune says: Reports from Havana
tonight are to the effect that an attack
was made on one of General Rivera's
foothill forts yesterday by some of Wey-
ler's forces and that the Spanish were
repulsed, the big dynamite gun belong
ing to Gen. Rivera's command securing
the victory for the insurgents. 1t Is said
over fifty men were lost on the Spanish
side and fewer in the Cuban ranks. All
information is refused In Havana, where
the officials say no such engagement
took place.
AS the report came through the regu-
lar Cuban channels, 1t is believed here.
Col San Martins column has been
burning houses and destroying planta-
tions all through the section south and
west Of Artemisa as far out as they
dared venture. During the past week
over 400 houses and many plantations
have been destroyed. 400 head of cattle
secured and a number of tobacco fields
and cane patches laid waste. Weyler's
orders are to spare nothing. A number
of pacificos. 1t is reported, offeredresist-
ance to the taking of their cattle, saying
their families would starve, and they
were killed. Over twenty-five such in
stances were recorded. Gen. Riveras
forces are increasing and he has had ac-
cessions to his stock of arms and am
munition this week, an expedition hav-
ing landed on the south side of the island
from Honduras or Mexico. it is pre-
sumed.
An American correspondent, name not
given, has succeeded in going through
the Spanish lines and Joining Rivera's
column.
CHICAGO SYMPATHY.
CHICAGO, Dec. 26-At one Of the
largest meetings in its history. held by
the Commercial club of Chicago at the
auditorium tonight, Marshall Field Of
fered the following resolution, which
was unanimously adopted amid great
applause:
Resolved, That this club heartily and
fully endorses the national administra-
tion in its policy regarding Cuba.
MADE A MISTAKE.
NEW YORK, Dec ga Madrid dis
patch to the World says: Martinez
Campos, captain-general of Cuba be-
fore General Weyler, thinks the Spanish
government made a great mistake IN
carrying out the colonial reforms voted
that the contemplated concessions
might have deferred many autono-
mists and disaffected persons in Cuba
from openly joining the rebellion,
and would have made foreign interfer-
ence impossible. He does not expect
much to result from General Weyler's
system of operations If General Gomez
and the other Cuban chiefs persevere in
their guerilla warfare and policy of
holding out in order to exhaust the mill
tary and financial resources of Spain,
and at the same time to wear out the
patience of the United States.
He is said to persist in the opinion
that the permanent pacification of Cuba
cannot be obtained by force of arms
He would heartily support any Spanish
government in repelling foreign inter-
vention or mediation.
General Calleja, who was governor
general of Cuba when the revolution be-
gan, perseveres in the views he express
ed in the senate and to the queen Re-
gent on her return to Spain, namely.
that the home rule reforms voted
by the Cortes would have contribut. ed
very materially toward checking the
spread and limiting the duration OF
actual insurrection if they had been put
in force in 1895, and might yet prove Of
great assistance in pacification.
General Calleja, like General Campos,
thinks reforms will have to b far more
radical not to produce substantial re-
suits
General Ochando, who was Weyler's
chief of staff in Cuba from February to
August, 1895, says Il think Cen
eral Weyler is likely to obtain a re-
suit in his new plan of campaign in Pinar
del Rio province, because first, he ad :
vances with such overwhelming force
that the rebel bands must break into
units and seek safely in flight, and Sec
ondly, he has very judiciously with
drawn the most of his forces from the
Artemisa-Mariel trocha, thus affording
the old bands of Maceo means of egress
to return to the central and eastern
provinces by passing across the prov
inces of Havana and Matanzas which
they can only do in small groups to
avoid pursuit by the Spanish cavalry
and columns guarding said provinces. !"
NO ADVICE TO OFFER.
PARIS. Dec. 27-The Figaro pub
fishes an article entitled american In
tervention." During the course of this
article the Figaro continues it's attack
upon American jingoism.' It considers
the American rumor to the effect that
European powers will advise Spain to
reach an amicable agreement with the
United States as quite absurd.
AN AWFUL OUTRAGE
CINCINNATI, Dec. ga special to
the Commercial Tribune from Frank
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