The herald., 1897-12-11
Planned by the ''Pacified"
Insurgents
A BATTLE EXPECTED HOURLY
SPANISH TROOPS MUSTERINo
FOR ACTION
Insurgent Leaders Hang Spanish
Emissaries Who Offer Money
for Adoption Of Autonomy
Press Special Wire.

for Adoption Of Autonomy
Associated Press Special Wire.
NEW YORK, Dec. 10.-A dispatch to
the World from Havana says an import
ant battle Is expected hourly. Th in
surgents have planned the most formid.
able demonstration against Havana for
a year. Gen. Parridos has started from
this city with a strong column Of troops
to meet the Cubans. Senor Canalejas,
the confidential agent of the Spanish
government, went to ascertain the real
condition Of Havana province. Gen.
Rodriguez, with the combined forces
under Juan Seldago Lodarz and Rafael
de Cardenas, is encamped on Luisa plan
tation, near Guisa de Melina, about
twenty miles south Of here, on the rail-
way to Pinar del Rio. He has fully q
thousand men who are well armed, and
he is said to have a Hotchkiss rapid
firing cannon.
| Emilio Consalo hanged Antonio Ri
vera and the negro Osman. They went
to Colazzo with money and proposition
to lay down his arms and accept autono-
my. A note was pinned to the breasts
Of the hanged men, announcing that any
one coming on similar mission would
meet q like fate.
1t is reported authoritatively that Sum
day the Spanish guerrillas Of Caimenaro,
ArA a. lvA
surgent leader Rodriguez, with $4,000.
So, 900 cartridges and their arms. They
were supposed to have numbered about
fifty men.
Juan Delgado's party lately attacked
Santiago de las Vegas, near Havana.
The place had three companies Of gveril-
llaa and an infantry column. There was
q hot fight for three hours. The insuf-
gents did not enter the town. The Span
ish losses were heavy; those Of the rebels
are not known.
The latest reports Of the late fights
| In Pinar del Rio province show that the
| Spanish loss was more than claimed.
The dead or wounded include one Colo
mel. one Major. seven Captains, eleven
subordinate officers and seventy-four
privates. Most Of the wounded will die,
The rebel loss was fourteen. The rebels
| used explosive bullets. Their agent
here admits it.
FRACTIONAL FIGHTING.
NEW YORK, Dec. 10.-The Spanish
colony in this city has been divided by
a petition sent to Madrid at the time Of
the assassination Of Premier Canovas.
asking for the appointment Of a strong
ICnoopcSnr n Connv Do
to the World the petition was drawn SO
as to attack Senior De LONE without
mentioning his name, and among the
forty prominent Spaniards who signed
were several friends of the minister who
did not see any attack upon him in the
apparently harmless recommendations.
The result is a bitterness among the fac
tions almost as strong as the hatred OF
both for the Cubans. The petition says:
For Spain to succeed in her relations
with the United States she must have in
Washington representative Of ability
and firmness whose heart will beat with
the pulsations of our mother country
and with head well balanced to base
all his diplomatic relations on an indis-
putable right and not allow the right to
be curtailed in the least by unfounded
demands of unjust pretensions from the
expressing party"
The enemies of De LONE are led by
Senor Calejas and A. Taltaguila. They
charge the Minister with lack Of fore
sight and weakness. with permitting
Americans voice in Spanish affairs and
with bowling to the Senate. Their op-
ponents are led by e. Zeraus, formerly
Vice President of the Spanish exchange.
INsURGENT ATROCITY.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1O.-A dispatch to
the Herald from Madrid says: A storm
Of indignation has been provoked here
by news Of tortures inflicted by the
Cuban rebels upon the inhabitants Of
Guisa-women and children being bound
and burned alive. The details are given
by the Imparcial, newspaper by no
means favorable to the present govern
ment's policy, and the news is now
officially confirmed.
One Of the Ministers says that as far
as Is known at present the only crime
the unfortunate creatures appear to
have been guilty Of is that they favored
the acceptance Of autonomy.
HUNGRY REFUGEES
NEW YORK, Dec. 10.-The Journal
and Advertiser says: Weyler's policy Of
determination that he called reconcen-
tration has resulted in an enormous in
dux of Cubans into New York. Hun
dreds, If not thousands, Of them are dy-
ing of hunger here. The number Of the
refugees Is variously estimated from
10000 to 10000. Perhaps the great ma
jority are absolutely without meahs.
There are men and women among them
who were worth thousands Of dollars
before the war began, but are now pen-
niless. Some of these are working a.
walters. porters or seamstresses.
| Emilio Agramontc, President Of the
Marti Charity Association, says that
many of them have actually died from
starvation. and that the majority have
preferred to live quietly in misery rather
than let their desperate wants be known
to those who could help, but who have