The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-11
PREPARED FOR BATTLE
TEN THOUSAND CUBAN INSURGENTS
NEAR GUIRA DE MELINA.
They Are Well Armed and Intend to
Turn Rapid-Fire Cannon Loose
the Spaniprds.

NEW YORK, Dec. 1O.-A dispatch to the
World from Havana says: An important
battle is expected hourly. The insurgents
have planned the most formidable demon
stration against Havana for a year. Gen.
Parade has started from this city with
strong columns of troops to meet the Gu
bans Gen. Maisia Rodriguez, with the
combined Cuban forces under Juan Delgado
Nadreg and Rafael de Cardenas, is en-
camped on La Luisa plantation near Guira
de Melina, about twenty miles south of here,
on the railway to Pinar del Rio. He has
fully ten thousand men, who are well
armed and are said to have Hotchkss
rapid-fire cannon. The topography of the
country is favorable to the Spanish troops.
Emilio Collizo hanged Antonio Rodriguez,
Rivera and the negro Osman They went
to Collazo with money and a proposition
to lay down his arms and accept autonomy.
note was pinned on the breasts of the
hanged men, announcing that any one COM
ing on a similar mission would meet a SIM
lar fate.
1t is reported authoritatively that on Sun
day the Spanish guerrillas of Caimanera,
near Guantanamo, deserted to the insurgent
leader, Rodriguez, with $4,000 $1,000 car
tridges and their arms. They were sup
Juan Delgado's party lately attacked
Santiago de las Vegas, near Havana. The
place had three companies of guerrillas and
an infantry column. There was hot fight
for three hours. The insurgents did not en-
ter the town. The Spanish losses were
heavy; those of the rebels are not known.
The latest reports of the recent fight in
Pirar del Rio province show that the Span
ish loss was greater than was claimed. The
dead or wounded include one colonel, one
officers and seventy-two privates. Most of
the wounded will die The rebel loss was
fourteen. The rebels used explosive bullets.
General Riveria Sails for Cadiz.
HAVANA, Dec. 10.-General Riveria the
irsurgent leader who was captured in
March last in the province of Pinar del Rio
by the Spanish troops under Gen. Herman
DEE de Velasco, and who was recently par
doned by q royal decree, has been released
from the Cabanas fortress, where he had
been imprisoned for several months, and
sailed to-day by the steamer Colon for Ca
diz, his home. The Colon also carries back
to Spain eight hundred sick, wounded and
otherwise ncapacitated soldiers.
In the skirmishing of the last ten days
the insurgents have lost ll3 killed and
thirty-five taken prisoners. Eight chiefs
and officers and ffty-three armed privateS
have surrendered to the Spanish. The
spanish SOihAAh III eAAS pSh nos !OssS
FIVE officers and twenty-five soldiers killed
with eleven officers and ITO soldiers
wounded.
Juan Cosio, who was in charge of the in
surgent dynamite corps in the province of
Puerto Principe is dead at the insurgent
camp. He was a cousin of Sencrita Evan
gelina Cosio Cisneros.
The insurgents fired a cannon shot into
the machinery on the plantation of Mr.
Rigney, an American. in the Manzanillo
district destroying the boilers They have
fcI hidden cane grinding in that neighbour
hood, under threat of burning the cane
fields.