The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-06
COMPETITORS CAPTIVE CREW.
SPAIN ORDERS THE PRISONERS
TRIED AT ONCE.

Separate Proceedings to BE Taken in
the Cases of Ona Melton and Will
lam Leavitt-ReIense Expected to
Follow Their TriaI-AIfredO La
bOrde Reported Unable ia Prove
American Citixcnship-SeveraI Adj
ditiOnnl Surrenders and Defeats of
Insurgents Reported.
Havana, May 5.-The government has
ordered the Competitor case to be pro-
ceeded with Immediately. There will be
separate proceeding in the case of the
Americans, Ona Melten and William Lea
witt to conform with the provisions of
the treaty of 1921. 1t is understood that
the government is favorably disposed, and
that the result of the trial in their cases
will be>a release.
1t is stated that Alfredo Laborde has
not been able to prove his American citi-
zenshin.
The insurgent leader, Calixto Setopence,
his adjutant and sixteen of their followers
have surrendered, it is announced, to the
Spanish authorities at Sancti Spiritus.
The Murcio and Puerto Rico battalions
have had a skirmish in Santa Clara with
an insurgent force. The insurgent Maj.
Luis Martinez and nineteen Of his COM
mand were killed.
Lieut.. Col. Ferror who has been operat-
ing against the insurgents in the district
of Yaguaramos, province of Santa Clara,
says that part of the province and a por-
tion east of the Ciemaga de Zapata is
favorable to peace. He adds that the In
surgents are unable to face the Spanish
forces.
The well known insurgent leaders, Guz-
man and Pineo, 1t is added. have been
killed at Momenque, and Almeida has
been obliged to surrender to the Spanish
| authorities.
Capt. Gen. Weyler arrived yesterday at
| Cienfuegos, province of Santa Clara.
Gen. Saurez Yncian being informed that
a quantity of war material for the insur-
| gents had been landed near the mouth of
| the River Mosquito, province of Pinar del
| Rio. sent detachments of Spanish troops
in that direction, with the result that they
| captured an insurgent camp at Tallero
| and another at Ajo de Aqua. The enemy
| left five men killed. The government
| forces captured siXty-three boxes of am
munition, containing $500 cartridges for
| the Spanish Mauser rifle and the Amer
| lean Remington rifle.
The Tetuan battalion at Reforma, prov
ince of Santa Clara, it is officially report
| ed, has been engaged with the cavalry of
| Gen. Maxine Gomez, inf1icting consider
| able loss on the insurgent forces, which
| retired by way of the woods to San Fer
nandino. The official report adds that the
| Spanish troops dislodged insurgent infan-
try from entrenched positions at the point
of the bayonet at Guayaban. The Span
| iards had two captains, a lieutenant and
| twelve privates wounded.
A scouting detachment of the Spanish
| troops recently found two dynamite bombs
| on the railroad between Sancti Spiritus
| and Tunas, province of Santa Clara.
A local guerrilla force. while recon-
| noitering in the vicinity OF the plantation
of Ynguarri near Calimente, province of
| Matanzas, captured a box containing six
| teen new Remington rifles.
! The insurgents have dynamited a tele-
| graph line repair train near Minas. De-
tween Nuevitas and Puerto Principe, kill
| ing two and wounding four soldiers AMI
| volunteers. A passenger train, which Nos
| passing, had a narrow escape from DIS
| aster.
Ex-Gov. Ordax of Puerto Principe was
| recently appointed governor of the prov
| ince of Santiago de Cuba.
| The insurgent leaders, Cornelo Regias
and Yrene Munez, dynamited in four dif-
| ferent places the railway track between
Holghin and Asbuandguas, destroying the
1 track for about two kilometers
| During the month OF April, there were
| 536 deaths from smallpox in Guiara Del
ema, a town of 4,5OO inhabitants.
| 1t is reported that the successor of the
| Marquis Palmerola, as secretary of the
government, will be Gen. Vanzen, who
was formerly secretary of Captain Cen
eral Weyler. at Manila. in the Philippine
| Islands, or Francisco Fentanals. The lat
! ter is a civilian.
The cruiser Infanta Isabella, now at New
| York, will return to Gibara, but the Infan-
ia Maria Teresa, on leaving New York,
will proceed to Spain.