The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-24
THEY FEAR AN OUTBREAK
The Police Are Patrolling the
Streets of Havana.
FAILURE OF AUTONOMY
1t Would Be Welcomed by the Majority
of Spaniards Accomplished
the Surrender of Masso-N News
papers Well Guarded.

Havana, via Key West, Jan. 2s.-The
cigar manufactures and the offices of
FL Dario and La Discussion are stiIl
guarded day and night. The govern
ment to-day prohibited officers passing
through Oreilly street on which are sit
uated the university and the printing
office OF La Reconcentrado. Detach-
ments of police are patrolling the
streets in the vicinity of Central park
and in other localities. These new pre-
cautions give rise to the belief that the
/ authorities fear fresh outbreaks.
Ill Diario de la Marina says that the
papers which preach loyalty most
coldly print the news without fiavoring
the same, adding that I'll Liberal of
| Spain declares tnat there are many
! Spanish who would see with pleasure
the failure of autonomy in order to
| avoid the triumph of principles con-
trary to their own.
The Union Constitutional replies to
the Diario. saying that the autono-
mlsts brag of the surrender of Masso
and try TO credit to autonomy sign of
peace. To prove the success of auton-
omy II is necessary to obtain tho sur
render of the real leaders with the
great masses of their followers The
surrender of Masso was due to the in
| tluence of Marios Garcia, governor of
Pinar del Iiio. and money.
Insurgents concealed behind the rail-
road station at San Miguel. eight miles
from Havana, fired upon "a train, kill
ing several animals in one of the cars.
Another band entered the cultivated
zone Of the town Of Las Vegas near Ha-
vana, destroying all the huts and crops
that had been planted. General Pando
has sent Colonel Domingo or Captain
General Blancos staff back to Spain
under serious charges.
GhG coast line ar har
left Havana with two battalions of
troops and one battery. en- route for
Gibara. to aid the garrison at Holguin,
which is besieged by General Calixto
Garcia.
A private report from Puerto Prin-
cipe confirms the report that General
Castellano has destroyed Esperanze Cat
the extreme west OF the Sierra cubitas)
the headquarters Of the insurgent gov
efnment, which moved To Nava JAZZ.
saving documents and files When the
insurgents retired they lett 81 of their
number dead on the field, but carried
away their wounded. The government
troops lost y killed and 81 wounded
Juan Masso. whose surrender was
recently reported is a nephew of Bar
toioma Masso, president of the Cuban
republic, not brother as before
stated. 1t is reported here that the
governor of Havana province, who
Is stockholder in La Discussion. has
secured subvention of $3.50 monthly
for that paper.
Additional troops are to be sent to
the province of Santiago de Cuba to
carry on the operations there.
The action of the government in
searching certain mail matter before
allowing 1t to be delivered IL consd-
cred by persons well informed upon
the subject, direct violation of the in
ternational postal union treaty. Many
persons, including a number of loyal
Spaniards, such as Senior Francisco
Los Santos Guzman. ex-president of
congress. and others of social standing
In the city. make complaint of the nom
delivery of letters addressed 10 them
II Is reported that in consequence of the
governments action, steps will be TAX
en- to expel Spain from the postal
union.
Endeavors have been made tn induce
DIR. CABRERA to remain at Siguanez and
to obtain the surrender OF the leaders
Rego and Monteaguado. II is said that
$4,000 has been sent to General Aguerre
for the surrender of Masso and his |
party.
held commission in the Spanish army
Of Cuba. but who was dishonored and |
sentenced to Jail, and who escorted Go /
mez and Maceo during their invasion. |
but later surrendered, has now been /
appointed by General Pando, chief OF I
guerrillas. and is now acting as a gov |
ernment agent, riding through the ter |
ritory of the Santa Clara province, try |
ing to induce the insurgents to sur |
render.
The gunboat Galicia has captured a |
schooner manned by four men one of /
whom stated upon being questioned |
that they had been engaged TO assist in /
landing provisions. etc. from an Eng /
lish vessel. The schooner was sighted |
by the gunboat six miles off the coast |
and the crew surrendered. The MEM
ber of the schooner's crew who made
the above statement adds that the in
surgents did not lack clothing, and
that he was ignorant of the fact that
they We're short of ammunition.
Several of the local papers comment |
upon the renort of the surrender of
Masso with 10 followers. which num-
ber they declare is exaggerated