Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-03-12

Havana, March 1.-THE correspond
en- of the Associated Press has been able
to make his way to the camp of the
insurgents at Rio Hondo, north OF Can
delaria, and he there met Gen. Ruis
Riveria While there the arrival of
two Havana gentlemen, accompanied
by guide from the Spanish lines, was
announced. They bore passes intro
ducing them as Gonzales JOrrin, law
yer, and Mariana Juarp, ana describing
them as delegates appointed by the
Spanish government to make PROPOSE
tions OF peace on the basis of reform
to be given the island, kind of self
government
Gen. Ruis Rivera received them cor
daily. but gave them to understand
Immediately that he would not hear Of
any proposition of peace not tending
TO the independence of Cuba, and that
therefore he could consider them as
visitors to the camp. During the con-
versatiOn Gen. Rivera showed the two
delegates the printed order of General
Maxine Gomez ordering shot all who
proposed peace on any other terms
than indepedence. and declared Gomez
would accept no proposition but the in
dependence for which they were fight
ing The Spanish delegates remained
three DAYS in Riveria's camp. he
greatest part of his troops are blacks,
armed with Remington rifles, and poor
" dressed. They have two Hotchkss
guns, one dynamite gun and tve dyna-
mite magazines. When the delegates
left the camp Gen. Rivera gave them
a written order. bearing his own sigma
ture. stating that hereafter all ennis
saries proposing peace under any
scheme of autonomy or local reforms
would be tried and shot.
The insurgents surprised the garrl-
son of the village Of Las Palmas, IN
the province Of Pinar del Rio, sacklng
the stores. burning nearly all the
houses and parading through the town.
The commander of the insurgents has
been especially active in the Mama
Milo district. The cane fields Of the
nIantations Esperanza, Sofia, Salvador
and Dos Amigos Isabel, have been
burned. The losses are about S3,OOO,-
900.
In Pinar del Rio the insurgents dyna-
mited pilot train on the Western rail-
road between Herradura and Paso Real
destroying the engine, an iron-clad car
and killing the engineer. \ number
of soldiers were seriously wounded.
Frederick Iowa and three others, own
ers of the plantation NataIia' joined
the insurgents in raiding CalaDdzar VII
lage. in the Sagua district.
The insurgent forces in the district
of Sancti Spiritus are especially ac-
tive. This is due to Capt Gen. Weyler
having all the Spanish forces 70 take
the field. The city is empty OF troops
and is guarded by volunteers only.
Large groups of insurgents are gain
cred around the outskirts. and the torts
are being fired upon. The residents are
in daily fear that the insurgents VIII
invade the city and burn the houses.
Communication with the seaport Las
Tunas has been cut off.
George w. Aguirre. an American, has
boen transferred from Cabanas fortress
to the city jail, upon his own request;
The correspondent Of the AsSoe''''"
Press states that there is absolutely no
truth in the report recently publshed IN
New York that Charles Franklin Scott
the American who was arrested about n
month ago by the spaniards at Regis,
a s,,b1Irb of Havana. will be transferred
from Havana Jail to the jail at Guana'
bacoo Mr.. Scott has not applied to Con-
sui General Lee or the State department
for removal. as has been inaccurate'y re-
ported.
La Lucha says that Secretary sherman
insists upon Consul General Leee remain
ing at Havana. Francisco Larrien. an
American citizen, and II co-proprietor OF
the Precico plantation at Matanzas. and
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