The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-13
GUNB0ATS OPEN THEIR GUNS.
COME UP JUST IN TINE TO SAVE =
STEAMER FROM THE CUBANS.

The Batteries of Another GunbOGt
in Another Part of the Island Also
Turned Loose on IA Band of Insur-
gents-The Dispatch Chief ON the
STAFF of the Late Gen. MnceO Denies
That Correspondent ScOvil Was
Cuban officer.
Havana, Feb. 12.-Advices have been re-
ceved here that party of rebels made
an attack upon the Spanish steamer
Fausto, at Media Luna, a port near Man
zanillo when Commander Pom. on board
the Spanish gun boat, Cuba Espanola,
came up and opened fire on the rebels,
driving them away and compelling them
to leave their dead behind them. The Gu
ba Espanola then retired, but, as the re-
bells came back after the gunboat left and
renewed their attack on the steamer,
Commander Pom returned and again open
ed fire upon them, this time dispensing
them with considerable loss. Commander
Pom then proceeded to the San Juan river,
where he dispersed a party of rebels and
captured boat which they had used.
Commander Cardrera, commander of the
Spanish gun boat Yumuri, has beaten and
dispersed party of rebels at Punta Pilo-
had made an attack on the gun boat.
Military Commander Madruga has de-
feated strong party of rebels on the
Conde rancho. in the Havana province
The rebels lost thirty men killed and
wounded, and the troops lost five killed
and two missing. The camp of the rebels
arms and ammunition and a number of
cattle, which the insurgents left behind
them were captured by the troops.
fight has also taken place at PaliZadas
Garlic in the Pinar del Rio province, in
which three rebels were killed.
The Corona battalion, in conjunction
with the gun boat Reina Christina, has
had an engagemnt with party of rebels
in the Pinar del Rio province, in which
nine Of the enemy, were killed
Springer has returned to Havana.
Emiliao Nunez and a number of other
persons charged with the crime of rebel
lion, have been arrested.
A dispatch from Port Caibarien, in the
Santa Clara province, says that Caps.
Gen. Weyler has donated to the public
treasury the sum of 100000 francs out of
his private funds toward meeting the ex-
penses of the government in prosecuting
the campaign against the Cuban insur-
gents.
A shell accidentally exploded to-day at
the powder works al Cayo Puto, Havana
bay woundng three soldiers, one of them
seriously. The shell was being loaded at
the time the explosion occurred
Fernando Pine Hernandez, Ambrosia
Farcia and Ignacio SandoVal naturalized
here, have been turned over to Consul
General Lee on condition that they leave
the island.
The Marquis de Palmeroal and Inten-
dent Fagoaga returned to-day from Cal
barren, after visiting Capt. Gen. Weyler.
Jacksonville, Fla, Feb. 12.-Col. Perez
Carlo dispatch chief of the staff of the
late Gen. Maceo, is in the city. He is well
versed as to the state of affairs in Cuba,
nd faa
vil the correspondent under arrest in Cuba,
and the circumstances that attended his
presence in the Cuban lines.
In speaking of Scovil, Col. Carlo said:
Sylvester Scovil has never received a
commission from Gen. Maceo, and 1 am
in a good position to know it if such a
thing had taken place. Scovil, Bryson,
| Woodward and other correspondents visit
ed the Cuban camps, and it was the Gus
tom Tor them to march with the staff
officers, and was suggested and maintain
ed by the generals of the armies as a
courtesy to all correspondents.
The, statement Of Dupuy de LONE,
Spanish minister at Washington that See
vii is a commissioned officer in the Gu
ban army is not true, for he Joined the
Cuban forces at camp called La Re-
| forma, in Santa Espirito. after we had
crossed the trocha at Moron, and did so
as a correspondent from the New York
World He was with Gen Gomez first
the entire while with us he marched with
the staff officers, at the request of the
commanders of the different armies At
one time he was with Gomez, at other
times he stayed with Maceo's command
changing as he liked, and having no re-
strctions thrown about him, as would
have been the case had he been an Of
ficer under the command of either of the
generals.
"He was never known to have marched
with us as an officer, or with any author
ity to command a single man. He did not
desire il and would not have accepted it
had it been offered
In speaking of the same affair Gen.
Nunez said this morning: "Scovil was in
this city about a month ago, and told me
of his intentions of going into the Cuban
camps, and / asked him to take some let
ters to Gen. Maceo and he said in reply:
My instructions from my paper are of
such nature that l cannot do it, and will
not do anything in any way whatsoever
that might be construed as a help to the
Cubans. / am directed to remain neutral
and state only the truth in regard to af-
fairs in Cuba"
HARD RAP All HANNA.