The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-19
WILLING TOPAY FOR IT.
Spain Ready to Put Up SlO,OOO
For the Ruiz Murder.
BUT WITH A PROyISOR
"a L. that the unitsd states wnl Not
Press sn Omeiai Ciaim-Ihe An
nouno. meat Of This Fact Has
Caused a storm In spain

New York. June is.-A dispatch TO
the World from Madrid says Premier
Canoyas Is willing 20 pay the widow Of
Dr. Ruiz $4,000 II the United States
government will not press an ofncial
claim.
The announcement Of this fact has
aroused vehement public opposition.
which the Madrid press Is innaming
The newspapers blame the government
for allowing DR.. Ruiz TO be killed. but
censure Il most for acknowledging a.
They say Spain Is under the iron heel
Of the Yankees"
The impartial bitterly declares that
neither Cuba nor a hundred Cubaa
would be worth the sad humiliation
10 which. 10 the name Of the nation.
the Canoyas cabinet subjects us with
deplorable frequency. Recognition Of
the claim puts Spain as a nation be-
meath the Moors. because this dentist
for whose death such an enormous
sum will b. paid. was not killed In a
Spanish prison by undlsolplin ma
tlyss and semisavages. but by func-
uonarles Of her Catholic maJestyt
government"
The present Spanish demand FOR the
truth about Cuba. already me, by q
fearless attempt that the military sit
uation there is hopeless. is answered
By the hrsi definite admission Of cruel
~. The oneuses are not 90 much de-
plorej a. their being discovered. while
q f. their being Acknowledged that
causes the anguish.
Senior sayanlll. the leader Of a con.
siderable section OF the spanish Con.
soryatiye party hostile 20 Premier
Canovas. strongly indoues the war
policy 90 Cuba Yet has just said ~
/ Il o. true that the Cuban war o. one
I % conquest 10 order 20 subduo a peo-
/ pie united against Spain. it constitute.
an insolyable problem. and the island
should have been given up year ago
Such a statement would have caused
the speaker 20 BE- publicly stoned q
made ln the streets Of Madrid. but q
was received With prolonged and en-.
thuFlastc cheers from a hlghclal
audience OF Conservative. packing
theaior from plt 90 roof. was warmly
commended by the Liberal and inde
| pendent press and only pcriunctorill
/ criticised by the Conservative organs
The Liberal paper. El Globo says
"Weyler has already had ~ out OF thI
- months iu which Dc promised q
hnish the war By the severe measure
he learned 20 use IN the 10 years strug
gle"
"Weylera martial trocha ls called
horrible burial ditch for thousands. %
military efficacy is declared 90 be- sue
that 70 was TRANQUILITY crossed By Ma
Geo. who only met his death by fallln
into Ciruieda's hands Weylers en-
dCavor 90 surround Gomez is charac
toriled as a four months flourish. dur
ms which the rebel chief never loli
small circle near the Jucaro trochl
and the paclhed provinces are admit
ted 10 be 81 only On name"
REGARDING the present plan % lnvad
the eastern half % Cuba. El Glob
quotes from the report of General 81
tano that during the rainy season tw
batialions v Se0 were reduced 20 so
and 900 by yellow fever. cholera an
dyseutery. adding Daily marches
each costing 10 per cent. the disable
requiring further loss OF eight soldier
90 each stretcher are made IN pui
suit oi an invisible enemy never ope
20 attack. an enemy that is never sui
prised. Tor the country watches for Il
an enemy whose plan OF campaign
% declmate the troops by the mor,a
? ity In The marshes and camps and "a
/, rlgor % the climate.
"Weyler's campaign generally
characterized ~ an expenditure 4,
p many months and immense rssourc,
. IN trying 20 destroy what IN Cuba
indestructlble."