The age-herald., 1897-11-09
Grants Psvaon to All Who RebeIled
 Agssist the Mother Country.
coMysnToR PRISONERS TRIAL POSTPONED
[ Iause of Illness of the udge-Wey'er Again Sets Sa-RobeIdo Working in His h. terest in Madrid-Lee Will
 Return to Havana.

Havana, via Key West, Fla, Nov.-S.- l The Anniexa tonists' club has received
 through the columns of newspaper of l .his city hint that it will be well to abandon their meetings The article i'm question conveyed the intimation that the club was to be proceeded against
 as gambling institution, under which
 preitext 1t would be possible to cause it's
 members great deal of trouble, without
 going to the length of accusing them of
 conspiracy. The secret meetings have
 therefore been discontinued.
 Gen. BIanco's formal reception at the
 palace a week ago was a very chilly affair. Outside of lahe officials and rep resentative of commercial bodies, who
 attended, there were only about thirty people present
 Blanco's Reception | Gen. Branlco is said to be in poor
 health, to be cons .anitly in need of medi- | cal attendance, and, therefore, not like l 1y to be able to endure the hardshdps l or an energetic campaign against fhe | insurgents Personally, Gen. Blanco is well liked by the members of all par-. ties. including the conservatives, whos owing to their wealth, generally suc- ceed in swaying '.he masses Of the people In Cuba But the autonomists and con- ssrvabives are far from being hand-in- epove, and no matter which the new cfapta in- general favors, he is pretty sure to have the hostility of the other. Magnanimity of the Queen Marshal Blanco has issued the foilew' ing edict, officially describing as "ex- pressing the magranimous sentiments or the ousen regent and the firm determina- tion of the national gove-nment: "I pardon in full all those who Iave
 been prosecuted for the crime of rebss- lion. Rebels prosecuted TOT common crim;e. independent of rebellion, such as spoliatton. immortality and the like, will be pamdoned as rebers. but not Tor ether offences committed by them. "rhose suffering sentence imposed pKor to the dat4 of this edict will have theh. sentences commuted to certain extent, and perhaps in some cases re- duced.
 ssIfhose persons pardoned will report to the civil and military authorities and reside sn certain places which they shall | designate and communicate to me. aThose living outside of the principal towns will be advised of ths necessity or residing within th+ military zone of cui- tivation. The military authorities will | be careful not to invade the jurisdiction | of the civil authd,it,es.
 l Those pardoned cannot change their l resistance without obtaining the permis- l sion of both civil and military authori- l tiss"
 l Trial Postponed The ssrond nual by courtmaraa1 of prsoners of the American schooner Com 1 netitor of Key West, Fla, which was
 captured by the Spanish gunboat Mesnagra, near Betancourt, on the north
 coast of Pinar del Rio, on April 25, 1896,
 which was to have taken place today. has been postponed owing to the sickness of the president of The court. weyier Again On the Sea An official dispatch received here from
 Potto Rico announces that the Spanish
 steamer Monts:Trat with General Wey-
 Ter on board which left Havana on Sum-
 day last for Spain, via Porto Rico and
 which put into GibIara, province of San-
 tdago del Cuba, owing to mfehap to her
 machinery, left Porto Rico yesterday.
 Another Life Spared
 At the solicitation of Sonora Emile
 Ouesada, widow of Senor Aatua Queeuda, Marshal Blanco has pardonsd
 her son. Julio Quesada, a nephew of
 Senor Gonzales Quesada of the Cuban junta, at New York The young man was under senttnce of death Seven Insurgents were tried by court- martial here today and thirty-three .ii- surgents were sent to the pepal settle- ment on the Isle of Pines.