Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-06-07
doubling, though very many families

doubling, though very many families
have left Havana and large numbers Of
houses are to let. Nearly all the houses
about the bay and along the seashore,
from La Punta TO La LarZaro, and the
suburbs of Vedado and Carmelo are unoc-
cupied, their former occupants having
moved to Ell Corro. Jesus del Monte and
to the outskirts of the city, being in fear
of the bombardment of Havana by the
American fleet. On the other hand, many
families from Marianao are coming to
Havana, owing to the withdrawal of the
garrison from that place and the extern
sion of the cultivation zone.
At Esperanza a rich coal mine has been
discovered. 1t is to be Immediately
worked as will the coal mines of Cha
papole at Mariel and Caibarien, for navy
purposes. There is still considerable coal
in Havana. The gas company is using
very little coal at present as only the abb
solutely necessary lights are used. only
about one-quarter of the usual number of
street lamps being lighted. All the stores
and business houses are without gas
light
In spite of regulations In force for gov
erning the price of provisions, the mill
itary governor finds it impossible TO pre-
vent people charging double prices for
everything, owing TO the discount of sill
ver centen being worth 50 silver to-day.
The army and the laboring people are
paid in silver.
The number of unemployed people in
creases every day. Thousands of labor
ers of all classes are without employment.
The commercial houses, not doing any
hnc no, n
wages go per cent. as rule, and many of
them are not paying wages at all, but are
giving clean clothes and food 10 their en-
ployes as the price of their labor, wnich
has led TO many abuses.
The enthusiasm of the volunteers ia
highly commended. They are doing duty
day and night not only without pay, but
supporting themselves into the bargain.
Thousands of additional volunteers are
said to have been enrolled in different
parts of the island. and the Spaniards say
they
COULD GET AS MANY MORE
if they had the arms TO distribute 70
them All the stores of arms belonging
To the government have been exhausted.
The former insurgent leader Masso j.
engaged in completing the formation OF
unteers. They are nearly all natives.
Two battalions of negroes are also being
enlisted here. In spite Of the lack OF
light the volunteers drill every night In
the public squares.
The Spanish officials have discovered in
the house Of an English nurse, Sister
Mary, who attended the sick and wound
ed survivors of the United States battle
ship Maine in the hospitals, consider
able quantity of American relief provis-
ions. Because she had not notified the
authorities Of the existence of the pro-
visions Sister Mary has been ordered to
leave Havana for England al the first op-
portunity. Sister Mary, II appears has
also offended the Spanish authorities in
presenting herself atlthe palace in the in
terest of two American newspaper corre-
spondents who were recently in custody
here. She was denied access to Gen.
Blanco or any other person in authority
and was informed by the adjutant of
Gen. Colano that the prisoners were well
cared for and that there was no necessity
for her to trouble herself about them.