Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-05-04
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WATERFOWL. WIS.
REIGN OF TERROR.
Spaniards Commanded to Fight
Under Penalty of Death
for RefuS IL

Santiago de Cuba, April %, via steamer
Remus, filed at Port Antonio, Jamaica,
April 3O.-Don Arsenso Linares Pombo,
commandant-general of this division of
Cuba proclaimed four days ago that every
man between 10 and so years of age must
enroll that night with the volunteers for
military service, under penalty of arrest,
military trial and death.
Senior Chucho Manduley, magistrate of
the high court Of Santiago and known as
an intense Spanish sympathizer, one of
the most prominent in the district left
for the camp of Cuban Brighten. Cabal-
los. He was accompanied by several kins-
men and his going produced vivid I'M
preston.
The exodus from the city has continued
by night, the Spaniards making no oppo-
sition except that a few men have been
arrested as examples. Five thousand per-
sons have left for the country since the
ploclamation, four-ffths being women and
children.
Threaten the Cubans.
The Spanish soldiery now assume a
bullying attitude and threaten to kill ev-
cry Cuban man and to outrage every Gu
ban woman left in the city when the
blockade begins. When the American
feet appears, as it is daily expected to do,
all the non-combatants will be expelled.
Through the governor of the city, En-
rique Capriles has seized for the govern
ment all the large stores of food in pri-
vate hands. On Monday meat was 40
cents pound, on Tuesday 70 cents, and
today it is 81 a pound. Other prices in
gold today are: Rice, "a cents a pound !;
beans, p cents; flour. 10 cents. and lard,
81 cents. Chickens are $3.50 apiece.
The government announced today to
IN a a l0QHad wit
provisions was expected, but when and
where from nobody knows. The story is
not believed.
Soldiers Are Starving.
The Spanish soldiers, especially the
sick. are abominably fed. Fourteen hun
dred sick in the military hospital here get
nothing except bean soup three times a
day, with an ounce of meat to a plate.
One thousand soldiers in San Luis hOSpi-
tai have had only salt fish this week: and
conditions are now so bad that the Span
iards would almost rejoice to surrender
after one good fight. The preparations
for defense go forward, however.
A new battery has been erected at the
west harbOr entrance, with four rapid-fire
guns. and the correspondent hears that
ten or twelve more rapid-fire, small cali
Der guns Will be mounted on MORO and
the east side battery. The MORO fort
has at least fifty ancient brass cannon,
marked 1854.
There are reports about torpedoes in
the channel and harbOr, but they are con-
fusing. Preparations have certainly been
made to lay torpedoes, but whether it has
been actually done is not known. Strong
floating mines are ready to be placed
The Spaniards assemble nightly in the
chief streets yelling Long live SPAIN
and death to the Yankees" The mill
tary authorities seem to have little control
of the soldiers and the disorderly ele-
ments. Spanish silver is at 81 per cent.
premium. The bank notes issued by the
government bank at Havana are prac-
tically worthless and sometimes pass for
from 3 to cents on the dollar.