The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1896-12-01
CUBlNS ARE ACTIVE
Still. Avoiding. Weyler's
Pursuing Forces.
Definite News of Ills Progress
Received at habana.


ddDGNb, .DSc. line insurgents Ol
| Saturday dynamited the railroad bridge
at Caldcron, province OF Matanzas. and
also exploded bomb beside an armor-
plated repair train. wounding five sol
diers. Details of the movements OF Gen
eral Weyler reached here yesterday. At
o'clock during the afternoon OF Thurs
day he left Artemisa, following the ad-
vance guards OF his columns. which were
hanked by sGuadrons from the Principe
regiment. He was accompanied by Cen
eral Ruiz. who commands brigade. and
by General Escribano, his chief Of staff
and the aides-de-camp.
The Spanish forces followed the high
way, and little else than ruins. ashes,
dynamited culverts and desolation were
seen in place of the once picturesque
landscape. Twice the columns were
compelled TO halt on account of the
partly destroyed roadway. and ii was
not until o'clock the same evening that
the troops arrived at the River Bayate
three miles from Candelaria. BY that
time darkness had already set in, and SO
the columns camped there for the night
forming an interesting and attractive
spectacle, campfres burning brightly Oh
all sides. the cooks preparing supper
hunted for fuel, marked out the camp
lines, helped to put up the tents, washed
brushed. oiled or polished away the
stains of travel left by the days march.
The captain general was very gracious
to General Escribano and to the CORE.
spondent OF FL impartial Of Madrid. who
as a very great favor, was allowed to ac-
company the troops operating against
.'Atonio Maceo The captain general and
his invited guests for supper that night
had chicken and rice and omelettes.
At o'clock the next morning the
reveille was sounded, breakfast was
hurriedly prepared, and at o'clock the
columns resumed the march to Can.
delaria, still following the highway
Some time later the troops arrived IT.
sight of a spot upon which an engage
ment evidently had been fought with the
Insurgents, and 1t soon became known
that it was where tire Spanish force
under General Segura met the enemy
under Maceo on Feb. Z, and the former
| afterward occupied San Crist0bal.
The troops, on Friday last, found the
bridge near that spot destroyed by fre
| and the highway being thus impossible
| the columns made detour. camped FOL
| the night at a convenient place. near the
| River Calvero, and entered San Girls.
tobal at o'clock the next morning
| There they found all the houses dec,
| Grated, and We're welcomed with enthu.
| siasm by a crowd Of people. The columns
were afterward drawn up in the main
street where they were inspected by the
captain general
The Spanish commander, after brei
chat with General Segura. who is ir
command at San Cristobal, left that
town, going westward. Before SO doing
however, General Weyler expressed great
satisfaction at the behavior of the troops
on the march. saying he was much
pleased to notice that there had not beer
break in the columns from the time OF
leaving Artemisa until they arrived al
san Cristobal.
During the past week a column OF
troops led by General Obregon has beer
reconnoitering in the direction Of Sa'
bana. Another column, commanded by
General segura, has been operating ir
the direction OF Puercos Cordos, and q
third column, under the command OF
General Hernandez has been feeling foi
the enemy in the vicinity of Macurijes
But, after five days Of toilsome work, the
commanders of the three columns re.
port that the insurgents were not to be
found, although they have recently de.
stroyed a number Of procedures anC
country dwellings, Reconnoitering con.
tinued from the railroad to the coast
Cutie a quantity OF cattle was found, bui
of the insurgents nothing material was
found.
If il is true that Maceo is i'm the vi.
cinity Of Consolation del Marte, as re.
ported. then General Weyler should, by
this time be within striking distance oil
the insurgents.
At . o'clock yesterday morning a sick
soldier I'm the Habana military hospital
while looking out of a window, was shot
by a sentinel, who had been ordered tt
prevent the inmates from looking out
irasmuch as persons who had been inn.
prisoned for political offenses and were
sick were In the same hospital. The
sentinel thought>the soldier was one "
these political prisoners attempting to
escape.
La Lucha, commenting upon the letter
from Fitzhugh Lee, Jr., son of the United
States consul general, attesting that his
father was not responsible for much ~
the talk attributed to him in newspaper
In the United States, says: The genera
talks what and when he likes, and not
when others wish. That we already
know here. but there many persons In
Cuba and in the United States who dc
not know IL.
Favors Cuban Indepence.
Atlanta, Dec. Limited States Sena-
tor A. o. Bacon Of Macon arrived I'm At
lanta yesterday afternoon. He said:
Unless opinion has changed very ma
terially. and l do not believe that IL has,
there is an undoubted majority In the
present house and senate In favor OF
what some might call radical action
that is the Independence OF the republic
OF Cuba being recognized by the Ameri-
can congress. am not member OF the
foreign relations committee and do not