Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-01-16
HABANA TRANQUIL.
OFFICIAL ADyICEs CONTINUE TO
DE REAssURING.
SPORADIC GATHERINGS TO-DAY.
These Expected, But No Uncasiness
Is Felt With Respect to Them
Oath OF Office.

| WASHINGTON, January ia cable
gram was received at the State Depart
ment at l o'clock this afternoon from
Consul-General Lee at Habana. stating
that everything was tranquil.
The official advices from Habana, re-
ceived by the Spanish Minister. NJ. Dupuy
| de LONE, continue to be reassuring. A
dispatch sent at o'clock last evening
said that the city was perfectly quiet.
| Another dispatch. sent shortly after mid
| night, and received early this morning,
| stated that a few people gathered in me
public park about 10 O'clock last night.
| There was no demonstration, and under
ordinary circumstances no attention
would have been given to II, as the park
is the central public point Of Habana.
As a matter Of precaution, however the
patrol Of soldiers on duty asked the
people to move away, and this they did
without demonstration or the exercise Of
any force. BY y o'clock the troops were
back in their quarters.
No surprise would be felt II there were
sporadic gatherings Of groups in a city
when the streets are usually filed with
those otherwise engaged during the week.
This customary outpouring Of the people,
doubtless. will occur tomorrow and it
may serve as an incentive for the congre
eating of groups. but it is said this should
not be miscOnstrued into a popular
demonstration, and no uneasiness what
ever is felt that 1t will be the occasion
Of anything more than a few ''viyas,"
even If that much occurs.
FEELING AGAINST GOWN.
Senior Gown. a member of the Autono-
nous Cabinet, arrives at Habana to-
day, and this also. it is said. may serve
as a text for some "vivas" by the ultras.
Gown has been i'm Atlanta Ga. since
the Autonomous Cabinet was formed.
He is regarded as the strongest man OF
that body and for that reason his APP
pOintment has excited intense hostility.
among the insurgents and their friends.
1t led TO a movement TO insult him per-
sonally as he passed through Tampa, ac-
cording TO information submitted to the
Spanish Minister. This led Senior Gown
to change his route. and make sea
trip by way of New York. He sailed
from there last Sunday In view Of the
movement against him at Tampa, ii
would be no surprise 10 the legation
here If this same ultra element at Ha-
bana took his arrival as an opportunity
for a similar expression against him.
Later.-During the afternoon Minister
De LONE was I'm receipt Of advices from
Senior Congosto. showing that up 10
o'clock A. NJ. the city OF Habana had
been absolutely calm. The new Minister
of the Interior, Senior GOWN had ar
rived. and had had a respectful recep-
ton Later. he took the oath of office.
INSURGENT GENERAL KILLED.
HABANA, January ia dispatch re-
ceived from Spanish sources in Pinar del
general Perco del Gado has been killed
by his followers. and that his chef-of-
staff, Luis Lopez Marin. has surrendered
to the Spanish authorities.
Senior Antonio Gown. the Cuban lawyer
who has been appointed Minister Of the
Interior in the Autonomous Cabinet. ar
rived here to-day. The members OF the
Central Committee and a number of his
friends went out on three tugs 10 meet
him. received him on his arrival and
welcomed him back to Habana. Senior |
Gown afterward called upon the presi- |
dent Of the Cuban Cabinet Senior Galvez, |
and took the oath of office.
Captain-General Blanco has issued n |
circular ordering that each battalion Of |
infantry be strengthened by twenty-five |
men, 10 be recruited in their respective |
localities by the generals of division. |
These recruits will be obliged 10 serve |
six months and will receive the same pay /
rs the regular soldiers.
The circular also orders that the local |
yuerillas are TO double their number, /
under the same conditions, when or
sanized.
A dispatch from San Juan de las Yeras,
province of Santa Clara, announces that |
he insurgent leader Lorio Cepero.
laturalized American citizen, has sur
endered 10 the Spanish authorities.