The record-union., 1897-03-24
The Family Of an Insurgent Leader
Murdered in Cold Blood.
The Mother of the Secretary OF the
Interior of the Cuban Government
Captured by Spanish, Tortured,
and Then Burned to Death-1he
Town of CanO, Near Havana, At
tackled and Captured by lnSur-
gents, After a Hot Engagement
With the Garrison.

NEW YORK, March 23.-A special to
the Times from Tampa, Fla, says:
The passengers on the Olivette last
night told story of the horrible MUIR
der committed in Pinar del Rio prov
ince last week, near Artemisa, OF the
family of Captain Luis Perez, a CUBAN
leader, by the Spanish guerrillas.
His wife, three sisters and five chill
dren were killed in cold blood. They
were living some distance from town
when this band approached. The wom-
en- hid and refused to open the doors
when the guerrillas demanded en-
trance They forced the doors with
their muskets and soon found the poor
women.
Mrs. Perez was found in one room,
hidden with the children behind besi.
The guerrillas raised their machetes
to kill them. The mother threw up her
arms, pleading for mercy. They told
her that she must die. She then
pleaded for the lives of her children,
but for answer received saber cash
that split her head open, scattering
her brains and blood upon the helpless
infant she held in her arms. -Four
other children We're slaughtered.
The guerrillas then pillaged the prem
ises. They found the two sisters and
endeavored to extort confessions OF
rebel plots from them. When they
found that nothing could be learned
the women We're subjected to the gross
est indignities and afterward murdered
Not yet satisfied, the band Went
through the house and plundered 1t
thoroughly, and took everything they
could find.
Juan Perez, an aged relative of the
family, had crept up into the loft OF
the old-fashion country house, where
he was silent witness to all that took
place AS soon as the murderers had
gone he fled to the camp of the lnsur-
gents and told them the story.
TO SUCCEED LEE.
NEW YORK, March pa Wash
ington special to the World says:
The President will send a new Consul
General to Havana as soon as he can.
l1e has rendered the office to a distln-
guished citizen, who, after considera-
ton, has declined the offer, saying that
the climate would not agree with him.
BY his request his name is withheld.
President Mckinley had selected a
man who would command the conf
dence of the business and CONNER
cial interests He does not mean to
send to Havana as Consul General or
ito Madrid as Minister any one who
'thas a jingo hair in his head"
In making his Havana selection the
President was moved by a desire to ap-
point a man with a judicial mind and
willing to be guided by the treaty of
1895 with Spain, by the Consular regu-
lations and by the precedents and prac-
tices of international law. Other names
are now under consideration.
INSURGENT VICTORIES.
NEW YORK, March pa special
dispatch to the Sun from Havana
says: The town of Cano, near Havana,
has been attacked by the insurgents
and captured after a hot engagement
with the garrison The insurgents ram
sacked many stores and supplied them
selves with a large stock Of arms, am
munition, clothing, medicines and
money. After an hour in town they
again retired to the country.
One of the stores ransacked belonged
to a Cuban named Gomez, who was a
rich grocer and a strong partisan of the
Spaniards. The insurgents punished
him by taking away all the cash they
found in his store, over SO, 900 in gold,
and all the merchandise, worth $1,000
more. Stripping the man, they obliged