The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-02
LOSSES OF INSURGENTS
SPANISH ACCOUNTS OF CASUALTIES
IN VARIOUS sKIRMIsHEs.
Operation on General Rivera, the Gu
ban Leader, Who Is Confined
in Cabannas Fortress.

HAVANA. July 1.-During the last ten
days. it is officially announced, there have
been numerous skirmishes between the
Spanish troops and the insurgents. In the
province of Puerto Principe the insurgents
are said to have lost six men killed; in the
province of Santa Clara they are reported
to have lost twenty-nine men killed; in the
province of Matanzas they are alleged 10
have lost forty-siX men killed; in the prov
ince of Havana the authorities claim the
insurgents lost 101 men killed, and the
Spaniards assert that the insurgents lost
101 men killed in the province of Pinar del
Rio, and that, in addition, the government
forces captured eleven prisoners and LOG ri
nes. Finally, it is stated officially that
hfty-four armed insurgents have surren-
dered to the SpaniardS within the last ten
days, and that htty-tive armed insurgents
have given themselves up to the local Span
ish authorities during the same period
During these operations, the official report
concludes the Spanish troops have lost
three officers and forty-nine soldiers killed,
and have had five officers and seVenty-seVen
soldiers wounded.
Felix Peers, a local insurgent leader, and
tw elve of his followers have surrendered TO
the Spanish authorities at Naranjo prov
ince of Pinar del Rio, delivering up their
arms md ammunition and 232 pounds or
dynamite.
Angeles, going in the direction of Manzan-
lilo. He was hidden farewell by the arcn-
bishop of Santiago de Cuba and the local
civil and military authorities. Large
crowds of people gathered to witness the
captain generals departure:
La Lucha, commenting editOrially on the
appointment of Gen. Stewart l.. Woodford
as United States minister to Spain. says
1t ought not to surprise any one. The fact
that he expressed an opinion favorable to
Cuban independence during the last war
when he did not form part of the govern
ment ana was without responsibility, IS
La Lucia declares, no reason TO be urged
against his appointment now. The paper
adds: His intimate relations with Presi-
dent Mckinley and his own respectable
character are sufficient guarantees that
the appointment is a timely and that
General Woodford will try to conserve
friendly relations with Spain
Talk with General Rivera.
HAVANA, July 1.-The correspondent of
the Associated Press had an interview with
Gen. Ruiz Rivera in the San Ambrosio Hos
pital, to which he was removed from Ca
bannas fortress by the advice of the at
tending surgeons. After a consultation be-
tween the medical director of the hospital,
DR.. Augustin Muniozguzen, and the head
physician, DIR. Max Fernandez, DR.. Benito
Valdez and other hospital physicians, it
was decided to make an incsOn in the up
per part of the liver. The operation was
performed by Drs. Fernandez and Valdes,
but it was not considered expedient to con-
tinue that line Of treatment and the ply
scians will probably confine themselves
hereafter to the local applications for the
patients relief and to general thera peutic
treatment. The bulletin issued as to the
patients condition says he is suffering
from an absCeSs in the right side of the
stomach, near and above the liver
General Rivera believes this was
due to the fall he had at the
time he wounded. He attached
no importance to it. and, in fact, for
some time did not notice it at all. He ex-
presses himself as satisfied with the medical
and surgical attendance provided as we'll as
the nurses. All the food supplied him is
excellent, his meals being served from a
told the correspondent of the Associated
Press that the wound had healed and that
the limb had never shown any symptoms
Of gangrene. Naturally he suffers a good
deal of anxiety on account of the absceSs.
Since he entered the hospital he has inn
proved somewhat in spirits although his
general condition is very serious owing to
the absence of appetite and the lack of
nutrition for the general system. 1t is
probable that when he RECEIVERS somewhat
more radical operation will be performed
though not to the extent of fatal danger
General Rivera occupies the best room in
the hospital He says: Il cannot expect
to have room in the palace"