San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-28
CUBA'S CABINET CRISIS.
She Is On The Verge OF
Having One.
PRESIDENT ClSNER0S TRYING
TO EFFECT A RECONCILIATION
AMONG THE MEMBERS.
CnbanS Ambush The Spanish Troops
And J Route Them, Capture
Spanish Prisons Burn
And Abandon Them,
War News.

New York, May 2S.-A special to the
World from Havana, Cuba, via Gal
weston, says:
Rumors are again current to the eff
feet that a cabinet crisis is at hand,
owing TO difference between the
minister of the interior and several
members of the government party.
An effort will be made by the presi-
dent, according to a generally ac-
credited report, to keep the cabinet in
office until the matter which caused
the trouble can be settled in the cham
Der of deputies.
A special to the World from Havana,
via Jacksonville, Fla, says:
Gen. Garcia ambushed two detach-
| ments of Spanish troops near Vegin-
tas, Puerto Principe province. After
fighting them all of one afternoon he
attacked them at night and managed
to get them separated For a while
they were so confused that they fired
at each other. ..
One detachment finally became panic
stricken and fed. Garcia fell on the
other and defeated it, infiicting a loss
of a hundred. He then pursued the
retreating force and catching up with
| it ten miles from the coast, killed or
wounded sixty-four Spaniards more.
The Nunes brothers recently captur-
| ed Spanish fort near Palacios, Pinar
| del Rio, and after occupying it three
days burned it, taking away a large
supply of ammunition and provisions.
There was also sharp fighting at
Minas and st. Felopio, Havana pro-
vince, the Cubans under Martinez
and Garlic, compelling the government
| troops to retire in both instances.
The Spanish loss is not known, but
| more than two hundred wounded SOL
diers have been brought into Havana
since Friday, the men being brought
in at night, so as to avoid observa-
ton. The Spaniards say that Garlic
is wounded, but the report is not be-
| lieved.
Another special to the World, this
one from Key West, Fla, says:
A Cuban hospital near Mulruga, Ha-
vana province, was attacked by Span
ish guerrillas.
The insurgents We're informed of
their approach apd as some of the
wounded could not be moved, those
who could get around fortified the hos
pital with stones and whatever could
be gotten together and stubbornly re-
sisted the Spanish. The enemy final
ly retreated.
Sixteen guerrillas raided camp Of
Pacificos in Mantanzas province and
carried off seven women. One day the
women managed to secure some kind
of poison, which was put in the food
kettles of the band and every guerril-
la died in agony.
Col. Rodriguez and $50 Cubans at
tackled Casiquas, near Jaruco last
week, drove off the garrison and loot
ed the place.
The Herald this morning publishes
an item concerning Chas. N. Gordon,
an American said to have been killed
in Cuba, while with the insurgents in
the vicinity of Cienfuegos.
Says the Herald: Col. Chas. Cor
don disembarked for Cuba last June
and was soon promoted to the rank of
major. His remarkable shooting at
the fight of Vista Hermosa, in the pro-.
vince of Havana, astonished both the
Spanish and Cuban. He crossed the
trocha and Joined Maceo. Maceo pro-
NOTED him for bravery in the field
and thought so much of him that he
was selected as one of the few to cross
the trocha in his company. Gordon
was wounded at the same time that
Maceo was killed.