The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-03
Depriving the Wounded Sold
iers in Cuba of Food.
AFTER OFFENDERS
PURSUING CUBAN WHO DESIRES
TO SURRENDER.
GOMEZ IN CLOSE QUARTERS
Reported That He is Cornered and
viii Have TO Escape by Sea-
Prisoner by Error Stays
in Jail S Years.
in Jail S Years.

Havana April 2.-Dispatches from
Cienfuegos, province of Senta Clara, an
nounce that Captain General Weyier has
ordered the arrest and Imprisonment of
the chief of police there, Senor Merin.
several police inspectors and 30 other
persons. 1t appears that the Captain
General, while visiting the marine hos
pital, which contained twenty patients
made inquiries which elected the infor-
nation that the rations there were of a
poorer quality than those served in the
military hospitals. where there are 300
patients Thereupon he issued orders
to the effect that while all useless eX-
penditure was to be avoided, all persons
convicted of depriving the sick of what
is due to them, will be severely punished.
Among those who are said to be impli-
Gated in the scandal is a prominent prop
crty owner and IL member of the Santa
Clara deputation. 1t is further believed
that the responsibility will reach other
and more important persons. of high So
cial standing. 1t is also said that several
officers of high rank will shortly be ar
rested i'll connection with the same af-
| fair. The military commander of a GER
tain town in Santa Clara, who recently
telegraphed to the Captain General an
uouncng that the surrender Of an impor-
| tant local insurgent leader and his follow
ers was impending, has asked General
| Weyler to call back the columns of troops
| which were in pursuit of the leader re-
| ferred to, and to stop all active operations
| against him pending the surrender. The
| Captain General replied that he would
not suspend hostilities, adding that the
| lives of those who desired to surrender
| and presented themselves to the Spanish
| authorities would be respected by the
| troops. The military line across the
| province of Puerto Principe, from Ju-
| caro- in the South, to Moron, in the north
| has henn entirely c,Dsed The Spanish
| troops occupying the island Of Turiguans,
| off the Moron coast, have constructed Il
| fort in the only pass which it is possible
| to get through. and the Spanish military
| authorities believe that the line Of forts
| now stretching across that part Of the is
| land has so restrained the movements OF
| the insurgents under General Maxine
| Gomez that nothing is left to the latter
/, but to escape to sea in a boat. \ despatch
| from Santa Clara announces that the ar
| rest there of Senor Joaquin Pena, editor
of El Universe.
The first telegraphic dispatch received
| from San Juan Martinez, in the Western
| part Of the province OF Pinar del Rio,
| since the insurrection broke out, arrived
| here yesterday.
| The Alfonso XIV battalion, at n ford
| across the Henabana river, on the bor-
| ders of Santa Clara, near Gueracabuya,
| was engaged with force of 200 insur-
| gents who were trying to cross the river
| into the province of Matanzas. The en-
emy occupied good position, where they
| awaited the advance of the troops In
| the fight which followed the insurgents
| were defeated with the loss of many men
| There is a great scarcity of water at
| Santiago de Cuba, and the authorities
| there have been compelled to reduce the
| water ratons of the prisoners and sick
| persons in the Jail and in the hospitals.
| A merchant of this city named Michael
| son, has order a Philadelphia steamer,
| bound for Santiago de Cuba, to load min
erals, to carry water ther for thirsty
| residents. -Four hundred casks of water
| arrived there as ballast on the steamer
| Erndale, and thousands of persons gath
| cred about the wharf in order to obtain
! some of it.
| During the tour of inspection which
| the Governor of Matanzas just made
| OF the asylums and jails of the city of
| that name, he learned that four prison
ers had been kept in confinement for
| five years through the error Of q court
| official. The court, it appears, threw
out the charges against them, and the
court clerk in charge OF the matter, for
got to carry out the orders which he had
| received to secure the release Of the pris-
oners. and the papers in the case have
| been lost. The court will now prosecute
| the offenders.