The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-03
NO CONVENT IN HERS
EVANGELINA Is TOO MUOB A CUBA
LIBRE GIRL FOR THAT.

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Frame of Mind. and 10 HeIress to . MIL
ion, Which Would Do Her No Coco
There-weyler's Men Put to Work De
| vastatiDg Sweet Potato Patches &c
starve the Rebeis-Havana Paper Kicks
on FilIibusterers.
Havana, Sept 2-If the duke of Te-
tuan's order for the removal Of Evan
gelina Cossio Cisneros from the Recog-
dias to a convent has been received here,
which the authorities will not admit. no
action has yet been taken. According 10
precedent, nothing will be done until
General Weyler returns from the field.
The date of his return is uncertain.
In the meantime there is no danger
that the girl will be harshly dealt with.
1t would appear that her release from
prison is only a question OF time.
Evangelina does not wish to go to a
convent Her chief desire is to face her
accusers In open court. She remembers
that she still has sweetheart, and she
is very anxious concerning her fathers
fate.
She is as comfortably situated now as
possible in a Spanish prison. She is
well dressed, has her meals sent from
restaurant and is afforded privacy.
There is a for tune lying in chancery
here TO which she has a better claim
than anybody else. 1t is not publicly al
legged that any official is trying to cheat
her Of her inheritance, but the matter
Will be investigated. The fortune
amounts to $1,000, 900.
Five thousand of proud Spanish SOL
diers. commanded by blue-blooded Cas-
titan officers, down on their knees pull
ing up sweet potato vines is not an edi-
flying spectacle, yet that is what General
Weyler and his troops are doing since
they left the capital last Sunday. Cen
eral Weyler's idea is to cut off the food
supply of the rebels.
From the outskirts Of Havana to Ia
paste, where he is at present, General
Weyler has cut a swath Of destruction.
Every horse and COW in sight has been
seized and growing crops uprooted. Some
military commanders would simplify
matters by destroying the rebels first,
but that is not Weyler's plan.
KICKS ON FIIBUsTBRERs.
Havana, Sept 2-The organ Of the
Conservative party, La Union Constitu- |
cional, commenting upon the dispatch |
from Madrid announcing that the Span |
ISL government Is considering the man.
States claims for damages as a result Of |
the departure from America and landing |
in Cuba of flibusteing expeditions, !
says that the contemplated action of the
is justified, adding:
rs it not notorious that the influence
and sympathy OF Americans has been
used in support Of the spearatists and
OF the rebellion, and is there any doubt
Of their responsibility before the world,
for the misfortunes which we are suffer-
ing from? Spain, in asking for damages
on this account, only acts within her
rights based on Justice and the spirit OF
which has not been accord
ed Us, although We have religiously sat
isfied the representations and demands
Of Washington in many cases which
were not justified. Therefore, there Is
all the more reason that the United
States meet the demands Of a nation
whose interests have been destroyed by
many Aherican citizens"
FIGHTING IN CUBA.
Havana, Sept. 1T was officially an
today that force of 200 Span
sh infantry, commanded by Captain
Cesaro Ponton, at sunrise yesterday sur
'rised an insurgent force camped on the
heights of Joro. province of Pinar del
Rio. killing twenty-siX Of the enemy and
several others The Spaniards
,aptured several prisoners.
Another Spanish column while recon-
on the hills OF Rubi and La
'una, province Of Pinar del Rio, killed
wenty-four insurgents, the report
avs.
Captain General Weyler escorted by
detachment Of $50 cavalry from Madruga
'assed through San Antonio and San
Nicholas yesterday and camped for the
light at the sugar plantat ton OF Amis-
cad, near Guinea. this province. On his
ray through San Nicholas the captain
eneral fined the mayor of that place 4
100 and imprisoned the military con-
ractor at San Nicholas, both OF them
aving been concerned in delivering in
omplete ratfons TO the troops.
a severe earthquake was felt at San
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