The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-05-07
THE WAR IN CUBA.
The Competitor Case Ordered to Trial.
Separate Proceedings for the Ameri-
cans-Cuban War Munitions Captured.
Dynaniting Trains.

Cans-SuDdh var SdIIuTtus
Dynamiting Trains.
Havana, May 5.-The government has
ordered the Competitor case to be pro-
ceeded with Immediately. There will
be a separate proceeding in the case
Of the Americans. Ona Melton and
William Leavitt. to conform with the
| provisions of the treaty of 1921. 1t is
understood that the government is
"favOrably disposed" and hat the re-
suit of the trial in their case will be a
release.
1t is stated that Alfredo Laborde has
citizenship.
The insurgent leader, Calixto Soto
pence, his adjutant and sixteen of his
followers, have surrendered. it is an
nounced, to the Spanish authorities at
Sancti Spiritus.
The Murcio and Puerto Rico battal-
ions have had a skirmish in Santa
| Clara with an insurgent force. The in
surgent major. Luis Martinez, and
nineteen of his command, were killed.
Lieutenant Colonel Ferror, who has
been operating against the insurgents
in the district of YaguaramOs, PROV
inCe of Santa Clara, says that part Of
the province and a portion east of CiO-
! maya de aZpata is favorable to peace.
He adds hat the insurgents are unable
to face the Spanish forces. The well
known insurgent leaders, GuZman and
Pine, it is added. ave been killed at
Momenque, and Almoida has been
obliged to surrender to the Spanish
authorities.
Captain General Weyler arrived yes
terday at CienfuegOs, province of Santa
Clara. General Suarez Inclan, being
informed that a quantity Of war ma
terial for the insurgents had been land
ed near the mouth of the River Mos
quito, province of Pinar del Rio, sent
a detachment of Spanish troops in that
direction with the result that they
captured an inSurgent at TalleriO and
another at Ojo de Aqua. The enemy
left five men killed. The government
forces captured sixty-three boxes OF
ammunition containing $500 cartridges
for the Spanish Mauser rifle and the
American Remington rifle.
The Tetuan battalion at RefOrma,
province of Santa Clara, it is officially
reported, has been engaged with the
cavalry of General Maxine Gomez, in
ficting considerable loss on the insur
gent force, which retired by way of the
woods to San FernandinO. The official
report adds that the Spanish troops
~dislodged an insurgent infantry force
from ~entrenched positions at the point
of the bayOnet at Guaya and Guaban
The Spaniards had twO captains, a
lieutenant andtwelve privates wounded
ed.
A scouting detachment of the Span
ish troops recently found two dynamite
bombs on the railroad between Sancti
Spiritus and Tunas, province of Santa
Clara.
A local guerilla force, while recon
noitering in the vicinity of the planta-
ton of Ynguarri near Calimente, prov
ince of MatanZaS, captured a box con-
tanning sixteen new Remington rifles.
The insurgents lave dynamited a
telegraph line repair train near Minas,
between Neuvitas and Puerto Principe
killing two and wounding four soldiers
and volunteers. A passenger train
which was passing had a narrow escape
from disaster. The insurgent leaders,
COrneliO ROjas and Yrene MunOZ,
dynamited in four different places the
railway track between HOlguin and
Aguas Claras. destroying the track for
about two Kilometres.