The Holly chieftain., 1897-08-13
CUBA ISOLATED.
Spanish Officials suddenly Shut on
Gable Communication.
THE KILLING OF cANovAs.
rhs Assassination Aay Canss the coalap,s
Of spAni~h Authority In CahA-
Female Workers iaersasing In
Gainful Ocenpstloas,

| WASHINGTON, Aug. lL-Communica,
lion between the United States and
Cuba was practically suspended yes
terday. A cable connecA Key West
with Havana 1t might o6well have
been cut III mid-Ruif for q purpose II
served. The time from H3tana to Key
West by boat is only Eve hours, but
this was not sailing day. The Cuban
end of the cable was in possession oi
Spanish officers Ominous silence pre-
vailed. Spanish authority maintain.
a rigid censorship over the cable at ali
times. Immediately following the
news Of the Canovas assassination,
Cuba was isolated from the rest of the
world. All the messages to be sent
out of Havana must be taken to the
palace and passed upon by regularly
detailed censors before the cable com.
pany dares handle them. II they are
stamped censored" they go. If no,
stamped they are waste paper. 1t i,
presumed that the stamping was sus
pended as soon as the news from Spain
was received.
Soon after the state department wa.
opened for business yesterday brie;
cipher message was sent to Consul.
General Lee, giving him official in
formation Of the assassination. Moth
ing had come from him In reply up tc
late hour. 1t was thought at the
state department that the Spanish au
thorities at Havana were trying to sup
press the news until troopscould be con.
centrated and provisions could bt
made for the defense Of Havana. The
state department is prepared for most
startling news from Cuba Diplomacy
prevents utterance for publication, but
privately the leading officials at the
department express the opinion that
the end of the war ia near. Canovas
lwas not only the personal friend o,
iWeyler, but he was the mainstay OF
the Spanish loyalist partyin Cuba. His
removal means SO much this,
lit would not surprise the state
department to see an utter
collapse of the Spanish sathority on
the island. The predictionis made that
there will be no more aggressive cam
paigns by Weyler and that the Spanish
troops will be concentrated rapidly al
the seaport&. IL the i9suxgents ars
sufficiently supplied with &G6lnuuition
lii Is -tko1kAt they Sal1 y ts6nae ta1xs
the field and rapidly possess them
selves of the interior Of the island, re
occupying the provinces Of Pinar de-
Rio. Havana, Matanxas and Santa
Clara, as they now hold Puerto Prin.
sipe and Santiago.
Female workers IncrsasIng.
WAsMrNaroN, Aug. II. ll.-Comparative
figures compiled by the department Of
labor in the form of deductions from
the last census statistics relating tc
workers at gainful occupations point
TO the fact that persons at work espe.
cially females have increased very
much faster than the population at
large. As . result the statement
shows that the proportion OF workers
relative TO the total population and to
the whole number Of people of the re-
spective ages, was considerably greater
In 1890 than at the preced-
ing census periods, and that this
increased proportion is apparent for
each Of the great classes Of occupa-
tions, except agriculture, fisheries and
mining. All this the statement sets
out shows the increasing disinclinstion
of our population to follow agricultur-
al pursuits. The analysis demonstrates
that the increased proportion Of work
ers is found generally ID the higher
walks of business life and in those oc-
cupations which called for skilled la
Dor. The conclusion is accordingly
stated to be inevitable that the great
body Of workers has, as q whole, pro
gressed and risen. Perceptibly in thu
social scale of life.