Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-10
REMEMBER STAINS HONOR Said SOmeiIIan's Prosecutor Be-
 fore the Tribunal.
AND SAVE IT, IF NEED BE,
At the Cost of the Americans Liberty-Wey- ler's Antagonist Sails for Home-Cheap
 Honors Conferred by the Queen.

Havana, Jan. 9.-The trial of Louis Someillan, a naturalized American citi- zen, who is charged with conspiracy against the Spanish government, was continued at l o'clock this afternoon. Official duties prevented Consul General Lee from being present, but he sent representative to watch the proceedings in the interest of the accused. After the witnesses had concluded their testimony which contained nothing material to support the charge against the prisoner, the prosecuting attorney made a long speech that was full of patriotic Span ish sentiment. He said he despised those citizens of the United States who had enrolled themselves under the flag of a great and noble nation for the sole pur- pose Of protecting themselves in their crimes of conspiracy against a power with which the United States was friend ly. He declared that if the material charges against Someillan had not been clearly proved there was a moral convic- tion that he was guilty and was there fore deserving of being imprisoned for life. With much vehemence he urged the judges to remember Spains honor above all other considerations and to decide the case according to their convictions.
 The court then adjourned until Mpn-
  heard.
 The report that Domingo de la Garza, Mexican citizen, had been murdered by Spanish troops in Guanabacoa on the occasion of the demonstration there in honor of Col Fondeviola, the military commander of that town, Is untrue. The Mexican consul here says that De la Garza was killed in drunken bout and that no political significance can be at tached to the incident.
 Gen. Arolas has arrived in Havana from Pinar del Rio It is said that he has been ordered to proceed to the central trocha, which extends from Jucaro to Moron, in the province of Puerto Prin- cipe.
 The queen regent has conferred upon Senor Don Prudencie Rabell, a prominent member of the reformist party and man. aging director of Diario De La Marina, the title of Marquis Rabell. She has also conferred the Great Cross for naval mer- it upon the mayor of Havana, Senor Don Antonio Queseda, the Great Cross for military merit upon Senor Don Jose Maria Galvez, chairman of the autonom- ist party, and the White Cross for mili- tary merit upon the correspondent of a certain New York newspa per- whose dis patches, always favorable to the Spanish cause, have created decided impression in his favor among the military com- manders here, who urged Gen. Weyler to recommend to the queen regent that he be honored for his services in the in- terests of Spain.
 The Marquis De Apezteguia, head of the constitutional party here, who has sought to have Gen. Weyler recalled to Spain, will sail tomorrow for Spain.
 The correspondents of the Madrid Inn parcial and Heraldo, who were recently ordered by those journals to proceed to Porto Rico and await further instruc- tions there, will leave tomorrow. Their leaving Cuba is due to the fact that the papers they represent were recently seiz- ed by the Madrid government for expos ing the maladministration in the islands and demanding Weyler's recall.
 It can be stated positively that al- though the authorities here officially deny the statement that the Mexican, Domingo De La Garza, referred to above, was killed by soldiers in Guanabacoa, and that they have obtained the acqui- essence of the Mexican consul to the de- nial. the man was brutally murdered by soldiers for no other reason than they thought he was a Cuban.