The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-22
CUBA'S NEW PRESIDENT.
BARToLoME MAsso ELECTED TO
SUCCEED oLSNERoa.

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Plantations harmed By Corners OrdeFs.
HAVANA. Nov. 20. via Key West, Nov. 21.-
The new Government of the republic OF Cuba
has been constituted as follows:
President, Bartolome Masso.
vice.President, Domingo Mendez Capote.
Secretary Of War, Aleman; Secretary Of FL
nRnccs, Fonts Sterling; Secretary Of Foreign Re
~lations, Moreno do Ia Tore; Secretary OF the In
terror. De lula.
The election was held at Guaymarllo. Puerto
Principe. on Nov. 4. and the representatives Of
all tho ak States into which the island Is di.
vided were present. The official nows was de-
laycd in reaching here because 1t was sent by
q special agent who had to cross the Span.
ish lines at the Jucaro-M Moron trocha and
to be escorted by Cuban troops through the
provinces Of Puerto Principe, Santa Clara,
Matanzas and Havana. The official communica-
ton shown to THE SUNS correspondent will 30
in New York on next Wednesday.
The election was orderly, and Masso tri-
umphed by q large majority. Gen. Calixto
Garcia. Salvador Cisneros Betancourt and Do
mingo Mendez Capote also received votes for
the Presidency. The election 20 safely and
peacefully made by deputies from all over the
island is an evidence Of the strength Of tho
revolution, and the new has produced . great
sensation among the Spaniards in Havana.
Tho large sugar plantation P~ortugalete,
owned by Senior Manuel Calvo, q leader OF tho
uncompromising SpaniRrds. was burned yester-
day by the insurgents. Portugaleto is only q
few miles from Havana city. All the sugar
cane in the fields was destroyed. The same fate
has overtaken tho sugar estates Carmen of
Lo,-aa1a- do CaetrO Dro-tdanoia nAor r-f.o.
and all the canedelds near Batabano, San
Felipe, and Quivican, In this province. The
estate Julia Duran, belonging to the Casuso
family, was destroyed and the sugar cane
burned.
Gen. Gomez, in issuing orders for this do.
struction. said that 1t was his answer TO Gen.
Blanco's proclamation allowing the grinding Of
sugar this year and encouraging 1t in order to
increase the revenues of Spain. Not q single
estate. says Gomez, will be allowed to grind
unless it pays a heavy tax to the revolution.
Jose Loreto Cepero, an insurgent Colonel who
was released from the Cabaha fortress some
months ago as an American citizen. has been
appointed by Gen. Gomez to the patri.
OTIS in Havana province in place Of Brigadicr
Adolfo Castillo, murdered last month by the
Spanish. Cepero has inspired terror among the
Spanish columns by his dashing enterprises
recently in Santa Clara province.
A Cuban hospital near Artemisa, Pinar del
Rio province. has been raided by the Spanish,
and twenty sick patriots. women and children
murdered.
The treatment Of the ~pacilcos by the Spanish
soldiers and police is as cruel as in the days OF
Weyler. The Chief Of Police Of Matanzas tor
tured several pacihco women and children yes.
terday because they begged in the streets.
The mortality in Matanzas by starvation II
increasing among these hapless beings. =
All the newly appointed officials in the Custom
House of Havana are Spaniards.
The insurgent Col. Seldom has entered Pinar
del Rio province from Havana with 1000 cav.
airy. Col. Gonzales has entered Santa Clara
from Puerto Principe, crossing the Jucaro-Moron
trocha, with 500 infantry and 500 cavalry.
The latest important engagements have been
the following: Among the Rubi hills, Pinar del
Rio. on last Thursday. the insurgents. under
Pcrico Diaz, Ducassi, and Pedro Delgado. met
the Spanish battalion of San Quintin. commands
ed by Gen. Bernal. At Coliseo Matanzas sew.
eral Spanish guerrilla forces combined fought
the insurgents under Gonzales. In both en-
gagements the losses were heavy on both sides