The herald., 1898-01-23
HAVANA rs TRANQUIL
ACCORDING TO REPORTS FROM
CONSUL LEE
Information From Other Sources
Shows Great Activity on the
Part Of the Insurgents

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-Consul Gen.
Lee cabled to the state department last
evening that tranquility existed In Ha-
vana but he made no mention of the i'm
portant engagement reported to have
taken place in the Cubitas mountains,
resulting in the capture of the insur-
gent camp.
The only reports of an official charac-
ter on that point that have come to the
notice of the department are those re-
ceived by the Spanish minister here.
USING DYNAMITE
HAVANA, Jan. 22.-The greater part
of Camp 1912 at Jaqueretto, extremity
of the military trocha in the province OF
Santa Clara, has been blown up with
dynamite by the insurgents. The bar
racks were destroyed and quite a num-
Der of lives We're lost while many were
wounded. Details of the disaster have
not been received.
GARCIA NOT DEAD
KEY WEST, Fla, Jan. 22-It is
learned from passengers from the steam
er Olivette which arrived from Havana
today that Gen. Garcia recently entered
the town of Guines and now occupies
that place.
1t Is learned from the same source
that another outbreak in Havana is
imminent which. if it occurs, will prob
ably be directed against Americans.
Gen. Blanco, it Is said, has concentrated
his forces in Havana to be ready to i'm
mediately put down any such demon
stration.
THE CRUISERS SAIL
CINCINNATI, O., Jan. 22.-An En-
Quirer special from Jacksonville, Fla,
says the United States cruisers sailed
for Havana in great haste tonight and
that there is great excitement over re-
ports about violence to Consul General
Lee and other Americans.
CHAOS IN HAVANA
NEW YORK, Jan. ga dispatch
from Havana to the Tribune says:
There seems to be no animosity to Gen.
eral Blaneo as an individual, though de-
cided objections to Secretary General
Congosto on personal grounds are mani
tested. OF course, the Madrid govern
ment will pay no heed to the attacks on
Blanco, because to recall him would be
to revise the policy with which he is
charged, but the knowledge of the feel
ing among Spanish classes must newt
ably make the Sagasta ministry uncom-
Portable.
The time does not yet seem in sight
when the volunteers and the Havana
populace will seek to put the Captain
General on'ship- board and send him out
Of the country or when his own army may
turn against him. 1t may be significant
Of the prevailing unrest that this should
be discussed at all, but the discussion Is
not sign that it will happen. The gov
posure. Since Sunday passed without
expected uprisings of the volunteers,
there has been no danger Of further
outbreak. Whether the heavy reinforce
ments brought in on that day have had
a share in preventing a revolution can
only be surmised.
The volunteers are satisfied with the
situation. Whether the Captain-Gen-
eral actually had orders from Madrid to
disarm them or not, since the events of
week ago, he would not attempt it. The
delegation of officers of the volunteers
who called on General Blanco were pro-
fuse in repudiating the idea of organ
izing insubordinate or disloyal action.
He, on his part, accepted the sponta-
neous demonstration of loyalty, but
there was no understanding on either
side.