San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-04-10
BRUTAL SPANISH H[NDS.
COnfine Innocent .WOmen
In Foul Dungeons.
ONE WOMAN SHUT UP SIMPLY
BECAUSE HER SONS WERE
IN THE CUBAN ARMY.
Weyler's Field Campaign A Farce
He Is Afraid OF Gomez Gu
bans Marshal Forces With
in Cannon Shot Of A
Spanish Fort,


the Herald from Havana, Cuba, says.
The extraordinary conduct of Gen.
| Weyler has caused n storm of ad-
verse comment. Since he left Hava
ma on March 81, the captain general
has done simply nothing from a mill
tary standpoint.
Gen. Weyler is now in Trinidad and
it is believed he is going to the Ju
cara Moron Trocha, presumably to
| inspect that much talked of barrier,
which apparently serves no purpose
| but to fence Gen. Gomez off from Ca
| liXtO Garcia.
While it has been notorious that
Gen. Gomez has been near ArrOy
! Blanco since before Gen. Weyler set
out, no attempt has been Tade to dis
lodge him and nearly three weeks of
valuable firing weather has not been
taken advantage of for any military
| operation of even pretended import
ance.
The captain generals morality cam
paign against cOrruptiOnS is a bywOrd
| throughout the island. however. as
much need there is in the Spanish ser
| vice for reform.
Gen. Gomez. it is considered. is the
all important issue, and it has become
plain that Gen. Weylef has been dOdg-
| ing him. 1t is believed here that the
| captain general was warned by Senior
CanOvant not to remain longer i'll Ha~
vana as the great and growing diSSat-
| iSfactiOn might neceSsitate his recall
and his sO-called trip in ibe front was
made simply to give the impression
in Madrid that he had actually taken
to the field. 1t is now learned that a
! few days ago during temporary
marShalling of inSurgent forces in
| this province under Rodriguez. Cas-
| tillo, DelgadO and AcOsta. two thOus-
and men were encamped within can
| non shot of MOrOca Castle. ThiS.With
| the daily reports of fighting. show
what the stories of pacitication
amount to. In the meantime it is es-
timated that he Spanish loses to date
| in the field and in hospitals will reach
| fifty thousand.
Mrs. ROSalie Lanas, "A years old.
| four of whose sons are with tn insur-
gnts and a fifth in a Spanish prison
| in Africa. has sailed for Key West,
having been released after several
months of Imprisonment in Las Rec
cOgita, the lowest class female Grim
| inal prison. OF her five sons three
| joined the insurgents at the outset
and the other two were arrested. One
was released and one was sent with
out trial to Chafarinas, then to ecu
| ia, incommunicadO. The one who
was released then joined the rebels.
As Mrs. Lamas suffered from paral-
ysis her unmarried daughter, ROsalie,
was accorded permission to go with
her to the vile prison. Mrs. Lamas
was finally sentenced to the Isle of
| PinOS, then to Fernando PernO, but
now it has been decided to allow her
to leave Cuba. She was charged
with maintaining correspondence with
rebels and sending them medicines.
In reality her only offense was that
her sons were in arms against Spain
and could only be punished through
her.
There is renewed talk here about
negotiations for peace based on the
belief that Secretary Sherman and
Minister De LONE are discussing some
plan which will have the approval of
the Junta in New York. and Gen. Go
mez and the Cuban civil government.
1t is not thought here that anything
short of independence is under con-
sideratiOn. Gen. Gomez, who hates
Standard. and is too old to reap any
selfish reward, is wholly committed
to the project of freeing the island.