The record-union., 1897-01-26
In Havana Province the War Assumes
Barbarous Character.
General Weyler's Orders to Lay
Waste the Country Being Faith
fully Carried Out - Property of
Either Friend or Foe Reduced to
Ashes-When Foreigners Protest
They Are Told to Present Their
Claims Through Diplomatic Cham
neIS
nelS.

Claims Through Diplomatic Cham
nels.
NEW YORK, Jan. pa dispatch to
the Sun" from Havana says: In the
province of Havana the war has as
sumed the most barbarous character
since Weyler gave his last orders to
lay waste the entire country.
Around the town Of Guines the Span
iards have destroyed everything. Moth
ing can stay their inhuman work. and
the property of either friend or foe Is
reduced to ashes. Many foreigners have
vainly protested. The protest of a for
eigner is brought to Weyler or in his
absence to his Secretary, the Marquis
Let the foreigners present their claims
through diplomatic channels"
Senorita Sigarron, a distinguished
young woman, has received orders to
leave the island within a week under
pain of punishment, Another Cuban
lady, Emelia Cordova, has received a
similar order of banishnenlt Clemen-
cia Arrange, sister of the Cuban Colonel
Raoul Arrange, was the victim of still
more cruel treatment. The police
searching her rooms for letters from
her brother treated her SO roughly as
to arouse the indignation of all the
neighbors.
An editor of the "Diario de la Mari
ma" was summoned to the palace of
Admiral Navarro as soon as the news
was circulated of the destruction of the
Spanish gunboat Cometa by the insur-
gents near Cayamos, Matanzas The
editor received orders to deny the news,
and accordingly the following lines ap-
peared in yesterdays edition of the
paper:
THE splendid gunboat Cometa is do
ing her duty on the coast of Cuba. She
has not been destroyed by the insur-
gents. The press of New York has
again been deceived by the lies of the
Cuban sympathizers, who, by way Of
Key West, send to the United States
all kinds of false reports"
La Lucha" publishes the same de-
nial as official, which relieves it of any
responsibility in case the authorities
are in the wrong. However, the Cubans
here have ratified the news. It came
to Havana through a trustworthy Gu
ban agent.
That the town of Cayamos, where the
surrendered to the insurgents and was
destroyed, is beyond any question. Ad-
miral Navarro was so angry over the
news that he said:
Il Will order the Cometa to enter
Havana Harbor with all her flags fly
ing and salute Moro Castle with twenty
Shots
Time will show whether Admiral Ma
varro is playing game of bluff.
In Brujo, Pinar del Rio province, a
hot engagement lasting four hours was
fought on Friday, in which the Cubans
numbered more than 1000 men. In
Sagua another engagement of import
ance has occurred, in which the Span
ish Captain Carerras suffered heavy
losses and the Cubans lost three we'll
known leaders, Estanilas, Jose ROGUE
and Pedro Nodarse.
Near Victoria de las Tunas another
encounter is reported between Calixto
Garcia and the Spaniards, in which a
Cuban victory is beyond any doubt.
which is an extraordinary admission in
an official report.
Around Havana and even in the poor
districts of the city, famine is spread
ing, and if the destruction of all the
country continues, as Weyler intends.
the misery of the once rich capital OF
Cuba will attract the attention of the
world
The epidemic of smallpox is aug
mentfng. The cases number 5000 to-
day
DAYS OF INSURRECTION NUM-
BERED.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-"The most
complete news that we have yet re-
ceived from Cuba" said Mr.. Du Bose.
the First Secretary of the Spanish Le-
CATION to-day. reached us by cable
from Madrid last night. 1t is a telegram
from the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
the Duke of Tetuan, embodying the
material points of dispatch sent to
him by the Captain General at Havana
The Dukes dispatch reads as follows:
General Weyler, at the head of four
teen battalions, has traversed the prov
ince of Havana, impelling the prin-
cipal rebel chiefs to fly to Las Villas
a abandoning their horses in the River
many of the fugiTives per-
ishing in Maritimas. The sugar proper
ties in the rear of the troops have al
ready began to grind.
This information, the Minister. Du
Puy de LONE, authorizes me to give to
the United Associated Presses said
Mr. Du Bose. 1T has been confirmed
and may be relied upon as being cor
rect This is the second dispatch that
the Legation has made public in two
The other was the announce
ment of Maceo's death, which was at
first denied here and in New York and
afterward his death was imputed to
treachery.
Il should explain, Mr.. Du Bose Vert
on, that General Weyler started ON
his present trip about eight days ago.
The province of Pinar del Rio has been
under practical subjection ever since
the death of Maceo. The only revolu-
tionists now there are a few scattered
guerrilla bands. The province of Santa
Clara can hardly be said to have ever
been in revolt, and as result we have
four provinces in which there is little
If any disturbance. When the reforms