Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-07
WEYLER'S LATEST ORDER. Owners of Plantations Must Give
 Strict Accounts. PERSONS AND PROPERTY
To Be Reported Within Eight Days Under Un-
 usually Severe Penalties.
GOOD NEWS REGARDLESS OF COST
Order by the Government at Madrid-The Dauntless Returns and at Once Seized by United States Officals-An
 Insurgent Defeat Etc.

Havana, Jan. 6.-Another edict has been issued by Gen. Weyler, under which all owners, managers and overseers of estates and farms in the provinces of Pinar del Rio, Havana and Mantanzas shall within eight days from the date of the edict appear before the mayor of the fortified towns nearest to their homes and prove. their ownership of estates or the capacity in which they are employed thereon. Owners of estates will be re- quired to show their receipts for the last taxes paid by them, and statements will have to be made of the number of hands employed on each plantation. Should the examination by the mayor result in the finding of statements submitted to be correct the persons summoned to ap- pear will be allowed to return to their homes, after having obtained proper cer- tificates and passes. In all cases where the authorities discover any irregulari- ty in the statements, the person subjected to examination will be obliged to remove at once to the fortified towns nearest their homes. At the expiration of the eight days allowed for compliance with the terms of the edict troops will be or dered to conduct all persons found with out credentials issued by the mayors to the towns and proceed according to in STruCI1OnS lSSueu to lHGI1. All lOIGlS II residents of the three provinces named who are employed in agricultural or in dustrial pursuits, either as owner, man. agers or overseers, must prove their na- tionality and furnish full information re- garding the persons employed by them, exhibiting their police documents. All live stock found roaming the country will be seized by the authorities until it's ownership can be proved, and all cattle owners are notified that their stock must be kept confined and that certificates of ownership must be shown to any official authorized to examine 1t during the pass age of troops through the provinces.
 A party of insurgents under command of the leader Enrique Penalvora, made an attack last night upon the town of Arroyo Narajo. close to the city of Ha- vana. They were resisted by the local forces, who repulsed them and prevented the sacking and burning of the town. Penalvora and three others of the rebels were killed and seven were wounded. The garrison lost one sentinel killed.
 The trial of the case of Louis Someillan, the naturalized American citizen who was arrested some time ago on the charge of being a rebel and conspiring against the Spanish government, has been set down for Friday next at noon United States Consul General Lee is of the opin- ion that the charge brought against Someillan is too weak and vague to war rant his conviction. Antonio MoSa Do- minguez, counsel for Julio Sanguilly, the American citizen who was recently con- victed and sentenced to imprisonment for life will appear as counsel for Someillan.
 Col. Fondeviela commanding at Guam abacoa, has issued an order for the en- forcement of the edict issued on Jan. by Gen. Weyler, adding a clause prohibiting the removal of objects of domestic use to this city without a special permit in writing issued twenty-four hours in ad- vance of their removal. Any person vio- lating this order will be liable to criminal prosecution
 A largely attended meeting of mer- chants, planters and others was held to- might in the Spanish casino, at which. af- ter hot discussion, it was resolved to send long cable dispatch to the govern ment at Madrid expressing the loyalty of those present at the meeting and their regret a the attacks of the Madrid press upon Gen. Weyler, and requesting the government to continue Gen. Weyler at the head of the administration in Cuba as necessary for the pacification of the is- Tor