The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-23
THE SITUATION AT HAVANA
INSURGENTS REPORTED TO BE CO1r-
 NETTING CRIMES AND OUTRAGES.

High Owing to the Custom Duties
 Charged - Insurgent Sympathizers
 Condemn the Acts of the Colonial
 Government.
 Havana, via Key West, Aug. 22.-The civil governor of Havana has received telegram from the mayor of Nueva PaZ stating that the Diario de la Mari na had published letter from a corre- spondent in which it was asserted that the insurgents had committed outrages of various kinds. This the mayor de- clared to be absolutely false. La Lucha will publish denial of the report. The Diario de la Marina sent a special oor- respondent to investigate the matter, and he confirms the story of the out rages and reports many crimes commit ted by the insurgents.
 The American steamer Wandeser ar rived at Cayo Frances on the afternoon tenant O'Hern of the Twenty fifth in- fantry and Lieutenant Madden with tif-
 teen soldiers. The Wanderer, not hav ing obtained permi ;sion from the mtli- tary or customs authorities at Havana to disembark her passengers at Cayo Frances, proceeded to Nuevitas, where it is understood she will discharge a part of her cargo and land Senor Man deg Capote, vice president of the Gu
 ban republic" It is reported that she will then return to Cayo Frances to embark a company of cavalry under Liuetenant Johnson.
 The steamer Cosme Herrera sailed on Friday last for Vera Cruz with a crew for the steamer Maria Herrera, which has been detained at Vera Cruz since the beginning of the war. Seven coal laden schooners have arrived here from
 Sagua La Grande. The steamer Maria Crista has arrived from Cienfuegos with 452 passengers en route for Spain. The
 steamer M. Moran has arrived from
 Key West with five passengers.
 The situation at Havana remains the
 same as during the blockade. Provis- ions and other necessaries of life are very scarce and prices continue high | The colonial government imposed the highest customs duties, which continue in force, making prices high and rem dering the situation of the poor very painful The free kitchens which have been established in Havana daily fur nish about thirty thousand persons with food, but owing to the great nuIn-
 Der of poor in the city. who are without food of any sort, the amount of supplies handled by these kitchens is quite in sufficient to relieve the distress to any great extent Women and children lie
 about the streets pale and emaciated
 and looking more like corpses than liv- | ing beings. Considerable excitement and discon- | tent exists among the insurgent sym | pathizers, who condemn strongly all the | acts of the colonial government, and i many of these sympathizers are leaving | the cities and towns to join the insur- gents. During the past few days hun | dreds of uniforms have been sent to the 1 insurgents from Havana.
 The insurgent general Mario Menocal l is at Ra Janla, near LuEan, about two | leagues distant from Havana, where he | relieved General Alejandro Rodriguez.
 It is said that General Maya Rodriguez is cafhped between GuiFes and San Nic-
 olas with four thousand men. Leader
 Porico Delgado is said to be with him. l An immense majority of the Spanish
 conservatives in the island and the na-
 tives favor the annexation of the island | to the United States, which they con-
 slider the only means of securing a sta-
 ble government in Cuba. Even the most
 ardent Spanish residents now favor an- | nexation.
 The colonial secretaries and number
 of other officials met at the palace a l few night ago to receive orders from General Blanco regarding the prepara- | tion of documents and other prelimi-
 nary steps for the evacuation of the isl-
 and.
 l Reports from Cardenas say that a | party of Spaniards recently captured
 near that city four men who were car
 rying ammunition and provisions to the
 camp of the insurgents.
 l The rumors which have been put in
 circulation of late to the effect that the
 Spanish army would not obey the gov | ernment's decision and evacute Cuba
 are entirely baseless.
 l It is reported that the insurgent forces i from the provinces of Pinar del Rio l and Matanzas are entering Havana | province