Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-15
SPAIN HAS FEARSOF MKINLEY
Weylor Said to Have Explicit Promises from
Cleveland's Cabinet,
SPANISH LOSSES LARGER THAN REPORTED
Hard Task 60 DisIodEc Insurgents
from Tbcir Mountain EnsturHScs--
nnttIrS Have Been Many, but
News IL Suppressed.

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 1.-THE Picayune
has received the following frcm its stan cor
respondent
HAVANA. Nov. S.-The latest application
Of gag" law is the decree by Captain Gen
,ral Weyler whereby all uewslealers are
compelled to send one copy Of each and every
newspaper they are going to sell to be ap-
proved or disapproved by the censor. In
this manner all newspapers containing re-
ports of the war are quie .ly squelchcd. TEe.e
is no doubt the election OF Mckinley Is
source Of much worry to the Spanish govern
mcnt. for it is generally conceded the new
president will do something toward recug-
nzing the insurgent governments belligor-
ency. In conversation with officers high in
the Spanish army and who are close to the
Madrid government, they have positively as
serted to me that the home office has assur-
ances from their minister in Washington to
the effect that the Cleveland administration
will not recognize the Cubans under any cir
! cumstancCs At the time that congress
passed the joint resolutions the Spanish min
| lister had conversation with the state de-
| partmont, and he was assured by that de-
| partmcnt that no matter what congress did
the government would under no circum-
| stances recognize the belligerency of the
1 Cuban insurgents.
From one OF General Weylers secre-
/ taries, was also informed that General
! Weyler has issued Instructions to all the
/ captains of cruisers that whenever an eX-
/ petition is caught court-martial is to be
made on the spot and the execution to fol-
/ low in order to avoid international complica-
/ tions such as the Competitor case.
! In the trial of political prisoners here
! there is no such a thing as justice, for
the judges have to give verdict against
! the prisoner or incur the enmity of the
| captain general. As an instance, l will cite
| the case Of Manuel VicudL Viendi was
| the attorney for Julio Sanguilly and
! Aguirre and managed to secure the release
| OF Agurre and the reversal OF Sanguilly's
! case in Spain Well, a trumped up charge
! of conspiracy was made against him aud
| he today Is on his way to the African islands
| II he is not dead. The judges are all-with
one or two exception-Spaniards and men
| who have no knowledge or acquaintance in
the city and hence their interests center
! with the government on which they are de-
! pendent for their living
/ OF battles there have been many. in which
much blood has been spilled. and they have
! been suppressed by the censor. General
| Echague met terrible defeat. aud has
been suite badly wounded, so much so that
! II is feared he will die as the result of the
| various wounds he received The battle
| was fought at Guayabitos The Spaniards
ltll SaDlluBO le Los bdllOS some ,ODO SlIOnb
and with a section of artillery. They met
| the insurgents, who were fortified, and the
fight lasted all day, the Spanish remaining
| on the offensive, only advancing when the
insurgents had withdrawn their men from
the hills From men who were in the en-
gagement | learn the artillery was without
officers, and one entire company of Araples
battalion was almost annihilated The Of
fetal report to the captain general reads
there were only fifteen killed and ninety
three wounded, but from one of the lieu
! tenants who came to Havana | am reliably
| informed the deaths were siXty-hve and the
| wounded l76. Among the wounded We're
Lieutenant Colonels Aragon, Roderiguez and
Romero. 1t seems the insurgents had their
dynamite gun in working order and did
much damage with II.
BY newspapers received from the United
States | learn the insurgents are reported
to have been dslodged from their posi-
tions That is not true The insurgents
are yet in the mountains OF Pnar del Rio.
Maceo, with a small band went to receive
an expedition, and the Spanish officials
cabled that he had been dslodged. They
will have a time getting him out of the
| mountains, as Maxine Gomez, with a
| strong force, Is coming up from Camaguey.
1t is much in doubt IL General Weyler
| will be able to remain In Havana long
He will either have to go 10 Pnar del Rio
or to Santa Clara province TO direct opera
| tions In fact even his own men are com
planning of his inactivity.
At Guayot, the insurgents defeated the
Spanish troops under Bernal, and though
they report only nine dead and thirty
seven wounded, after five hours fighting
and gave the Cubans loss OF 100 dead and
800 wounded, still from a medical student
| who is stationed at Regla | learn that from
this action the Spaniards brought ninety
seven wounded soldiers to the hospital, to
say nothing of the number OF men who were
left behind too badly wounded to be car
| ried.
The executions continue as merrily as
ever and II has come to such a pass now
that the court-martial is held at night and
the officers often decide the death penalty
without even having the prisoner present.
In the past few days twenty-nine Cubans
have been executed