The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-06
THE COMPETITOR CASES.

Will be Taken up Immediately With the
Spanish Government Favorably Dispos-
ed-Some Encounters in Which 1nsur-
gents, According to Weylers Type
writer, Get the Worst of 1t.
Havana, May 5.-The government has
ordered the Competitor cases to be pro-
ceeded with Immediately. There will be
a separate proceeding in the case of the
Americans, Ona Melton and VIM. Lea
witt, to conform with the provisions of
the treaty of 1921. 1t is understood that
the government is "favorably disposed
and that the result of tibet rial in their
cases will be a release.
1t is stated that Alfredo I.aborde has
not been able to prove his American citi-
zenship.
The insurgent leader Calixto Soto
pence, his adjutant and sixteen of his
followers have surrendered, it is an
nounced to the Spanish authorities at
Sancti Spiritus.
The Murcio and Puerto Rico battal
ions have had a skirmish in Santa Clara
with an insurgent force. The insurgent
Major, Luis Martinez and 10 Of his COM
mand, were killed. ..t -. o..
Lieut.. Col. Ferror, who has been oper-
ating against the insurgents in the district
of YaguaramoS, province Of Santa Clara,
says that part of the province and a por-
ton east of the Cfomaga De Zapata is
favorable to peace. He adds that the
insurgents are unable to face the Span
ish forces. The we'll known insurgent
leaders Guzman and Pine, it is added,
have been killed at Mimemque and AL
moinda has been obliged to surrender to
the Spanish authorities.
Captain General Weyler arrived yes
terday at Cienfuegos, province of Santa
Clara. General Suarez Ynclan., being in
formed 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 Tallero and another at Ojo De
Aqua. The enemy left FIVE men killed.
The government forces captured sixty
three boxes of ammunition containing
$4,000 for the Spanish Mauser rifle and
the American Remington rifle.
The Tetuan battalion. at Reforma,
province of Santa Clara, it is officially
reported, has been engaged with the cav
airy of General Maxine Gomez, infiict-
ing considerable loss on the insurgent
force, which retired by way of the woods
to San Fernandino.
The official report adds that the Span
sh troops dislOdged an insurgent infan-
try force from entrenched positions at the
point of the bayonet at Guaya and Qua
ban. The Spaniards had two captains,
a lieutenant and twelve privates wound
ed.
A scouting detachment of Spanish
troops recently found two dynamite
bombs ON the railroad between Sancti
Spiritus and Tunas, privince of Santa
Clara.
A local guerilla force, while reconnoit-
ering in the vicinity of the plantation of
Ynguarri, near Calimente, province of
Matanzas, captured a box containing six
teen new Remington rifles.
The insurgents have dynamited a tele-
graph line repair train near Minas, be-
tween Nuevitas and Puerto Principe,
killing two and wounding four soldiers
and volunteers. \ passenger train which
was passing had a narrow escape from
disaster
Ex-Governor Ordax, of Puerto Prin-
cipe, was recently appointed Governor of
the province of Santiago De Cuba.
The insurgent leaders Cornelio Rojas
and Yrene Munoz, dynamited in four diff
ferent places the railway track between
Holguin and Aguas Clara, destroying the
track for about two kilometres.
During the month of April there were
536 deaths from smallpox in Guira De
Melena, a town of $500 inhabitants.
1t is reported that the successor of the
Marquis Palmerola, as Secretary of the
Government, will be General Vasan, who
was formerly Secretary of Captain Gen
eral Weyler at Manila, in the Philippine
Islands, or Francisco Fentanals. The
latter is a civilian.
The cruiser Infanta Isabel, now at
New York, will return to 'Gibara, but the
Infarta Maria Teresa, on leaving New
York, will return to Spain.