Birmingham state herald., 1897-05-06
MORE SPANISH CONOUESTS Officially Announced With the
 Usual Results AND INSURGENT LOSSES Several Leaders Reported Killed Including Guz- man and Pino-Frightful Smallpox
 Mortality in One Village,

Havana May 5.-The government has ordered the Competitor case to be pro ceeded with immediately. There will be a separate proceeding in the case of the Americans, 0na Melton and William Leavitt to conform with the provisions of the treaty of 1891. It is understood the government is 'favorably disposed' and the result in their cases will be a release. It is stated that Frederico La- borde has not been able to prove his American citizenship
 The insurgent leader, Calixto Sapiento, his adjutant and sixteen of their follow CTS, have surrendered, it is announced to the Spanish authorities, at Sancti Spiritus.
 The Murcio and Puerto Rica battal- ions have had skirmish in Santa Clara with an insurgent force. The insurgent major, Luis Martinez, and fourteen of his command were killed.
 Lieut.. Col. Ferroer, who has been oper- ating against the insurgents in the dis trict of Yaguararmos, province of Santa Clara, says that part of the province and portion east of the Ciomaga de Zap ata is favorable to peace. He adds that the insurgents are unable to face the Spanish forces.
 The well known insurgent leaders, Guz- man and Pino, it is added have been killed at Momenque, and Alomida it is alleged, has been obliged to surrender to the Spanish forces.
 Capt. Gen. Weyler arrived yesterday at Cienfuegos, province of Santa Clara
 Gen. Suarez Ynclan, being informed that a quantity of war material for the insurgents had been landed near the mouth of the river Mosquito, province of Pinar del Rio, sent detachments of Spanish troops in that direction with the result that they captured an insurgent camp at Tallice and another at Oja de Jangue. The enemy left five killed. The government forces captured siXty-three boxes of ammunition containing 35, 800 cartridges for the Spanish mauser rifles and the American Remington rifles.
 The Tetuan battalion at Reforma, province of Santa Clara, it is officially reported has been engaged with the cavalry of Gen. Maxine Gomez inf1icting considerable loss on the nsuTgent forces which retired by way of the woods to San Fernandino. The official report adds that the Spanish troops dislodged an in- surgent infantry force from entrenched positions at the point of the bayonet at Guyua and Cunaban. The Spaniards had two captains lieutenant and twelve privates wounded.
 A scouting detachment of the Spanish troops recently found two dynamite bombs on the railroad between Sancu Spiritus and Tunas, province of Santa Clara.
 
 noitering in the vicinity of the planta- tion of Ynguri, near Callemte, province of Mia tamzas, captured a box containing sixteen new Remington rifles.
 The insurgents have dynamited a tel egraph lina repair train near Minas, be- tween Neuyitas and Puerto Principe, killing two and wounding four soldiers and volunteers. A passenger train, which was passinlg, had a narrow escape from dsaert.r
 Ex-Governor Ordax, of Puerto Prin- cipe, was recently appointed governor of the province of Santa Clara,
 IEsurgents dynamited in three differ ent places the railway track between Holguin and Colgas Holguin, destroying the track for about two lkilometers
 During the month of April there were 536 deaths from smallpox in Guira de Melina, a town of 4,500 inhabitants.
 It is reported that the successor of Marquis Palermeta, as secretary of the government, will be General Vaean, who was formerly secretary of Captain Gen ersl Weylsr at Manili, in the Philippine island, or Francisco Fentanels. The lat ter is a civilian.
 The cruiser Infa rita Isabella, now at New York; will return to Gibara, but the Infanta Marfa Teresa, on leaving New York will proceed to Spain.