The evening times., 1897-02-08
Remarkable Daring of Cuban In
SurgentS in Taking a Fort.
GOMEES LATEST de
DECREE
He Gives Warming To Planters That
Sugar-Grinding Must Not Be Re-
sumed and That He VIII Enforce
His FormerOrders- Brutal Treat
ment of Beautiful Girl.

| west says. All havana is gaSpnS over
the audacity of the insurgents, who de-
] stroyei stone fort right under Mai Fon-
deviels nose Saturday night. The build
/ ing, a bIg three-story mansion, strong and
well made, was the advanced picket post
and had garrison of 100 men There also
were kept supplies for the outlying detach-
ments, onnanition, etc.
At midnight force Of 200 Cubans came
/ up secretly and captured and bound the
/ outside Sentipels lefore any alarm could
be given Admission was obtained by
| giving the name OF the officer or the guard,
but sentinel as the Cubans poured i'll,
1 fire his rifle killing Lieut. de Rosna As
the garrison filed into the street the fire
| of the Cubans was terribly effective,
while in the confusion the Spaniards shot
with little execution. Fully half the
garrison were killed, the others escaping
/ fromthe windows.
The Cubans looted the building. The
wooden portion was seton fire and dyna-
mite cartridge tore down the stone walls.
A cavalry detachment arrived from GUana
bacon, and for hair an hour the two forces
! engaged at short range, the Cubans being
protected by barbed wire stretched across
the street. The Cubans then made Sortie,
driving back the Spaniards, and then re-
treated. firing as they left. IL is sup
posed that Hernandez WAS in command.
Thirty wounded soldiers were brought
to Havana, and il lis reported that twenty
four were burned at Guanabacoa. The Gu
ban loss is not known, as they took their
dead and wounded with them.
A dispatch from Havana says: Gen Go
mez has issued proclamation tothe sugar
planters of the island, and especially to
those Of the provinces of Santa Clara and
Matanzas. copies of which have been pri-
vatcly circulated in Havana. He recalls
thc cariirr dccrees ofthe cuban government
and has military orders forbidding the
grinding OF sugar cane. and adds that he is
resolved t. enforce those etliCts and all
/ the more ri-orouSly now that Gen. WeyleT
! permits the manufacture OF sugar in sCIne
/ districts lie adds that i'm some places the
/ Cuban army may be ienirnt when mo doubt
exists that the work Of tire sugar estates
is more profitable TO the revolution than
10 the Spanish government; but hc says that
the principal strength OF Spain is in the
resources II Cuba soil. and the patriots
are obliged. therefore. as an expedient
OF war. 10 prevent the raising OF crops.
All estates preparing to grind and all
those which have begun to do 50, in dis
obedience TO the Cuban DEGREES, will be
wholly destroyed. Gen. Gomez concludes
1 bv declaring that the responsibility for the
/ puverty ' of the island rests upon Spain, but
comforts the proprietors and farmers with
the promise OF a speedy termination OF the
war 10y the triumph OF the revolution. 1t
is well known that Gen. Gomez rejects the
reforms proposed by Spain, and says that
Cuha's struggle is for nothing less than
Independence he says that only on con
ditiun that the Cubans would not accept
any Spanish proposals short OF the abso-
lutte freedom OF the island did he accept
the command OF the army.
4 letter from Gen. Gomez contains the
| following: Were | monster, as Weylcr
1 j., instead OF a man. | should order all
/ Spaniards captured TO be hanged by my
troops: and were 1t not because, in spite OF
Itha Injustice OF the United States Govern
nent toward us, we wish TO prove to the
world that we deserve better treatment,
| should revive in this war the decree OF
Bolivar at Trujillo. condemmng To death all
SpaniardS, even Ilon-combatants, and par
doning all CubanS, even traitors Weyler
and Spain merit this. The war they are
making is Infamous, and il is shame to
countries that wish to be called humane
and civilized that We should fight alone
againtS such assassins."
II is certain that even should MARTINEZ
Campos or Azcarraga or any other Spanish
general come here to replace Weyler, Gen.
Gomez would not pay the slightest attention
to tlieir proposals Of peace. The pacifica-
ton of tie province OF Pinar Del Rio
looks rather sickly, in view OF the fact
that a train at Taco Taco, carrying Span
ish soldiers and provisions, was blown
up with d dynenlte yesterday by the Cubans.
In the province OF Havana, and at the
very gates Of tie capital, the insurgents
Observation-Disclosures whchthrcaten
a new attack on Guiana bacoa. In the prov
ince of MatanZas train from Sabanilla TO
Guareiras has also been blown up by the
insurgents and many Spanish soldiers were
killed
! Near SabaniIla, also at the sugar est ate,
ConcepCion of Aldama, a serious engage
ment is reported, in which both sides, as
usual, claim the victory; but there is no
doubt that the Spaniards suffered loss
| of nearly 100 men. SantaClara province is
all in flames Nearly every country estate
has been fired either by the Cuban or
the Spanish torch. Puerto Principe and
Santiago de Cuba continue fully under the
control Of the insurgents. 1t is said here
that anoth expedition has landed in Pinar
del Rio, and that the arms and ammunition
it brought were safely delivered to a
Cuban force near Guane.
| A dispatch from Havana. via Key West,
saws: Angelina Casio, seventeen years
| old. of that type of Spanish beauty which
inspired Morilo to paint his Madonnas,
is confined in the house OF refuge here, in
a room like tfe one occupied several days
ago by Mrs Eva Adam de Rodriguez, S
already described Mrs. Rodriguez says
the girl is innocent. and her story is only
another illustration of the extraordinary
1 methods employed here to suppress the
rebellion
Senorita Casio is the daughter of we'll
to-do merchant who was in business in
theinterior of ftheisIand. With many others,
he and his daughter were banished to the
Isle of Pines The remarkable beauty Of
Angelina attracted the attention OF the
| governor ofthe island, who made advances
which were repulsed.
In nrevenge the governor, Angelina asserts,
| caused the arrest of her father and herself
and had them transported to Havana. Her
father now occupies cell in Cabanas fort
ress. Father and daughter have been in
ferred, no trial and no prospect of release.
The Van Riswick Will Case.