The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-10-25
SPAIN'S BARGAIN SALTS.
Another Protest From American
Commissioners.
SPANISH VOLUNTEER REGIMENTS
DISCUSS DISARMAMENT.
Cubans in Pinar Del Rio Said to Be in
Great Observation-Disclosures Epidimic
of Small Pox In Gibara.

Great Destitution-FrightfulE Epidimic
of Small Pox In Gibara
Havana, October 24.-Captain Foraker
of the United States military commission,
who has been suffering for the past few
days with severe indigestion. isssin a very
hight and the excessive noise at the
Trotcha hotel, the headquarters of the
commission. rendered it advisable to pro-
cure him..a separate house at Vedado into
which he will be moved. DR.. Laine re-
fuse to allow any body to see the captain.
Captain Hart this afternoon delivered
a note to the Spanish commission reiter-
ating the protest of the United States
commissioners against all sale and re.
movals of so-oalled immovable property,
the United Safes claiming the right to
such property.
A United States inspector (?) and a
detective of the police department have
been detailed for service at the Trotcha
hotel, where they were installed this
morning.
General Solano has been sick in bed
since Saturday. He is suffering from ca
tarrhal trouble.
The commanding officers of the volun-
teer regiments Of Havana had a meeting
today with Captain General Blanco in
order to discuss the question of disband-
ing the troops.
Captain Griscom, who recently returned
here from Pinar del Rio, has surveyed
and recon- m ended for selection, a site for
camp capable of accommodating two
thousand men. 1t is easy Of approach by
the high road and by rail and has good
water supply. The suggestion will prob
ably be acted upon.
Colonel Hecker and his staff will leave
here tomorrow for Pinar del Rio.
Captain Griscom says he did not wit
ness the scenes of misery and want In
Pinnr del Rio that he has seen here.
The captain conferred with the Spanish
general, Hernandez.de Velasco, and with
the Cuban general. Leronto. The former
said his troops were badly of but he has
since been receiving shipments of beef
According to General Velasco's statement
the sickness in the Spanish camps in the
province of Pinar del Rio has been rs-
duced from rs to 30 per cent.
On the other hand, the Cubans there
are in great destitution. For some time
are now distributed in band of from 30
| to 40 men who find it easier to provide
| themselves food in such numbers than
when in larger companies General
Leronto keeps a body guard Of 20 men.
The Red Cross sooiety's officers who
arrived today from Matanzas say that
no part of the rations taken there by the
| Red Cross steamer City of San Antonio
will be, or need be, delivered to the
| Matanzas poor as the rations taken by
the Comal have supplied tine local wants.
| A few medical supplies will be turned
over to the Matanzas hospitals and
asylums; but the rations proper will be
distributed among the poor OF Cardenas
Sauga, Colon, Sabanilla and other inter-
| 1or towns.
From Gibara to Holguin comes reports
| of q fearful epidemic of small pox. In
many cases the dead lie unburied over
fifty hours, there being no one to dig the
graves Many victims are buried In the
yards of their houses. The whole district
is panic stricken.
Passengers who arrived from Neuyitas
today report the sailing from that port
on October 10 Of the Spanish steamer
Miguel GallartIn, carrying sick soldiers
belonging to the Puerto Principe divis- :
ion, under command of Colonel Edouado
Reiter and Chief Surgeon Emilio Morales.
HOLGUIN TO BE OCCUPIED.
Washington, October 24.-The follow
ing despatch has been received at the war
department.:
Santiago, de Cuba. October "a.
Telegram directing occupation of Hol-
guin received. Troops sail today to oc-
cupy Gibara, now unoccupied. 1t is an
Important customs port and seaport of
Holguin. From Gibara occupied, Hol.
guin can be made by railroad the mo-
ment Spaniards evacuate.
(Signed)
Wood, Commanding.
The above despatch refers to one sent
by the war department directing the oc-
OF. patton of Holguin, a city in the prov
ince of Santiago, about 30 miles from the
sea coast.
G1bara is on bay on the northeast
coast. Holguin is the seat of Judicial
district.
MARTEL LOOKING FOR TROUBLE.
Havana, October 24.-The Cuban
General Jose Martel has issued procla-
nation addressed to the people OF Cuba
demandiug Cuba for the Cubans."
The proclamation ends by urging all
Cubans to resist the landing of the Ameri
can troops by force. 1t is a highly infiam-
matory document, but finds few to justify
it,