Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-02-03
BAYONET ROUT OF CUBANS.
A Spanish Army SGatterS a Bold In
SurSent Force.
FOUGHT FIERCELY, BUT LOST.
General BIanco's Troops in the Eastern
End of the Island Making Desperate
War on the Rebel StronghoIds.

Havana, Jan. 30.-The Spanish General
Luque, with 500 infantry and 160 cavalry,
in two columns, while accommodating near
Macagua and Cauma, beyond Holguin, in
Eastern Cuba, discovered that the Insur-
gents had deconcentrated the forces. He
attacked them at Mejia, and sharp en-
gagement ensueG.
The Spanish accounts say that General
Luque took the Insurgent trenches by a
bayonet charge. The Insurgents fled,
leaving five killed. Of the Spanish Major
Segundo Camarara and Lieutenant Angus
tin Luque, son of General Luque, were Sc
riously wounded; two soldiers were killed
and twenty wounded.
CUBANs HANG A PEACE ENVOY.
1t is reported that Senor Braulio Acosta,
one of General Pando's emissaries at Man.
camilla, in Eastern Cuba, has been hanged
for offering money to the Insurgents to In
duce them to surrender.
Reports from Sancti Spiritus say that
two young insurgents who have surren-
dered, have offered to the Spanish General
Salcedo to murder General Maxine Co
mez for certain sum of money.
Yesterday morning posters appeared
placarded on the principal buildings in
Havana announcing that Insurgent Gen
eral Garcia and the Insurgent Leader Rabi
had captured Holguin on January 81.
Ell Comercio publishes a decree order
ing the payment by the autonomist gov
ernment of the expenses of the trip to Cuba
from Madrid of the Cuban Deputy Giberga,
of the Spanish Cortes, and his wife and
family. Senor Gilberga S arrival is awaited
for the formation of an Automist party,
into which Senor Amblard, the Cuban
minister of justice, may be admitted.
1t is believed that they have agreed with
the Madrid government to turn autonomy
over to the Spanish elements. Ii is also
believed that General 3lanco will ignore
them.
General Arolas has said that Spain can
not carry on the war in Cuba beyond July
ALLEGED PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
Senior Antonio Gown, the minister of
the interior in the Autonomist Cabinet, is
said to have brought the authorization of
the New York Cuban Junta to negotiate
with the Insurgents and the Spanish gov
ernment for the establishment of peace.
The clearing of the River Cauto, so as to
make it navigable, which was ordered by
Spanish General Pando, will, it is feared,
produce an epidemic of malarial fever
among the soldiers, resulting in the death
of hundreds. Two hundred State prison
ers have been sent to assist in clearing tn e
stream.
This morning United States Consul Cen
eral Lee gave banquet at tine Havana
Yacht Club house, at Mariana Beach, to
the officers of the United States war ship
Maine. The guests of the occasion were
Captain Sigsbee, Lieutenants Cattlin, Hol-
man, Hood and Jungen, Chaplain Child
wick, Paymaster Littlefeld, DIR. Henne-
berger, Chief Engineer Howell and Cadets
Holden and Boyd, of Washington. The
company included Correspondents Atkins,
Caldwell, Halstead, Hilgert, Laine, Pepper
and Scovel.
Consul General Lee and Vice Consul Gen
eral Springer distributed aims among a
number of poor people whom curiosity
had attracted to the club house.
After the banquet several officers of the
Maine witnessed bull fight, box having
been provided for them by Acting Captain
General Parade. The attraction was
Mazzantini, Spain's most celebrated bull
fighter.
The forces of General Valderrama, it is
reported, have found the body of Lieuten-
ant Colonel Joaquin Ruiz, who was execu-
ted by the late Brigadier General Nestor
Aranguren.