The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-11-25
NEWS BUDGET FROM Havana
a.vya5AA .3A10.5 DYING LIKE SHEEP
HAIR OF the Dcu las Are From stnrSa-
tinn--lii-tue..tNacn OF sick-Au-
tOnUnists DisSusted With
BlancO's Appointments.

Havana, Nov. 21.-Via Key West-La
Lucha, Ill recently published editorial
expresses doubt us TO the sincerity OF the
friendship which is proposed by the
American government. and adds:
III the American government can not
prevent the SAILING from ports OF that
country of expeditions in ald Of the in
surgents and does not respond in other
ways to Spain's efforts to come to favora'
BILE terms, it is useless for Spain to main,
tain friendly relations with America"
Reports from Matanzas say the CON
servatives, having become enraged ut the
change in the governments policy, are
disturbing public order. Elk Mayor Cres-
20 initiated the disorderly conduct by
giving public offense to Senior Armas, the
new civil governor of the province. The
chief of police followed Senior Crespo's
lead by endeavoring to prevent aid being
given to the suffering reconcentradoes by
newspaper correspondents and others.
OF the reconcentradoes in Matanzas,
numbering less than $4,000. seventy nine
died in two days, thirty-seven perishing
from hunger.
Yesterday seventeen deaths were re-
ported, a large proportion of which were
the result of starvation. In Zaruco
about IS per cent of the deaths are
caused by starvation and the same is
true of many other towns.
Owing to the lack of proper clothing
and of blankets, the situation of the re-
concentrates is becoming worse as the
winter season approaches, despite the eff
forts made to relieve them.
Horrible episodes are of daily occur
renee among the reconcentradoes. After
lying three days ON the sidewalk in front
of house in Matanzas. poor negro
woman who was suffering terribly and
was unable to move. was carried away
by flood caused by a heavy fall of rain.
A short time afterward her dead body
was discovered few blocks away and
at last reports was still lying in the
gutter.
A cab driver who was carrying sick
man to hospital, observing that his pas
senger was dying, dragged him from his
cab, leaving him on the church curb stone,
where he died. Gases similar to these
are of frequent occurrence.
Reports from Candelaria say man
who was suffering from smallpox was
driven by the authorities into the in
surgent camp at Cejadela Negro, Pinar
del Rio, where threats were made to hang
the man if he was not taken away.
On Wednesday evening the remaining
cane fields on the plantation of Portugal
late. owned by DR.. Calvo, were destroyed
by fire.
Marshal Blanco has appointed thirty
five new employees at the customs house;
of those FIVE are native Cubans and the
remainder Spaniards and reformists.
The autonOmists are greatly disguised
with these appointments.
Sixty persons employed about the
docks and several others in various parts
of the island have Joined the revolution
lists and a number of prisoners at Guines
who were pardoned under the recent
have returned to the in
Smallpox is ravaging the neighborhood
IF the insurgent headquarters in Pinar
lei Rio and there are in the hospitals
in the hills HOO persons suffering from
the disease.
1t is stated by a prominent resident of
Pinar del Rio, according to an official
report, that there were only 1900 armed
bands which have recently entered the
province under Maj. Rodriguez and by
other leaders. Gen. Hernandez Velasco
confirms the statement that the insur
gents in Pinar del Rio are abundantly
supplied with ammunition. Seventy of
Gen. Velasco's troops have arrived at
Pinar del Rio suffering from wounds re-
ceived in recent engagements.
The financial situation of the military
is bad. The soldiers have
not been paid in eight months. There
is a scarcity in the meat supply of the
hospitals and in many towns no meat
has been obtainable for many days.
Gen. Losada, inspector of the health
department, said recently to a cores
pendent of the FL impartial of Madrid
that there were actually $4,000 soldiers
in the hospitals in Cuba and that about
$1,000 of this number were not suffering
from any disease, but simply from need
of nourishment.
A band of insurgents recently fired on
the town of st. Nicholas. in Havana
province.
The police recently visited the house
department of the United States con-
sulate. at II o'clock at night to make
inquiries as to the destination of guam
tity of food which had been taken into
the house during the day. The inmates
became frightened and refused to- open
the door and insisted upon being informed
of the object of the officers visit. The
police finally retired upon learning that
the inmates were Americans.
The insurgents, it is reported, have
captured $50 mules from the Consolation
del Sur government reservation.
A dispatch from Madrid says that
Senior Gibara. deputy to the Spanish
cortes and leader of the new autonomists.
is on his way to Cuba. where he will
enter the autonomist party upon condi-
ton that Senior Montero Fernandez de
Castro Cueto and Senior Zayas leave the
board of directors of the party. it being
asserted that they are too pronouncedly
Spanish to succeed in inducing the. in
surgents to accept autonomy under their
leadership.
London Finances.
London, Nov. 21.-T'he early part of
last week. with currency returning from
the provinces. the floating supply of