The herald., 1898-04-12
DISORDER AT San JUAN
GROWING OUT OF COLONIAL
ELECTIONS
Finds Expression in ?e1ting the Stars
and Stripes With Tomatoes and
Ancient Eggs
Associated Press Special Wire

Associated FreSS SpeCldl WlTe
NEW YORK, April n.-Advices to the
World from San Juan Porto Rico say:
1.-THE entrance of the Vizcaya and the
Oquendo from Havana created great ex-
citement.
Preparations for coaling are being
pushed and seven steamers loaded with
Cardiff coal are coming. The work of forti-
fication progresses rapidly and a system of
coast heliographs has been established.
1.-The harbor was mined during the night
last week"
Garrisons have received six months ra-
tious and private families are buying large
supplies of food. Prices advanced forty
per cent in one day and are still ascending.
The Spanish fotilla is expected to call at
Martinique.
Correspondent Halstead's case looks
serious. The Spaniards openly say he
should receive twenty years imprison-
ment.
Others ask the death penalty.
The English consul in weak and indiffer-
ent. The case is an outrageous one. There
is great political excitement over the re-
suit of the elections and cabinet crisis
is imminent. The liberal autonomsts aff1l-
ldlSO with Sd6 6uStu hohLAPuiotSN bOeh hcS
istrations and elections, gaining an over
whelm.ug majority.
Fights were prevalent and there were
several riots. The troops were ordered
to fire on the mob in two cases. Twenty
seven were wounded and three killed.
Indignant defeated parties raided var
ious interior polls where frauds were open
ly practiced The people are dtsillusioned
as to the sincerity of the talk about au-
touomy. The real autonomists, with the
conservatives, openly charge fraud in the
Capital. The opposition are endeavoring
to create crisis and overthrow the liberal
cabinet. The autonomist secret parties of
the provisional cabinet have resigned, but
the Captain General refused acceptance
during the period of elections. The res!g-
nations will be effective today. previous to
the opening of the insular parliament,
which Is composed of twenty-five liberals
and six members of the opposition. The
prisons are full of political offenders.
Two hundred persons have been arrest
ed throughout the island. Four editors
have been jailed for insulting the authorl-
ties by protesting against frauds. Their
sympathzers endeavored to make de-
monstration and street fights and threat
ened riots resulted. The police restored
order and cavalrymen patrolled the streets.
The situation was so serious that Captain
General Macias issued proclamation SIM
liar to the one at the outbreak of the war
in Cuba, appealing to the loyalty of the in
habitants in the name Of the nation to re-
turn in concord, peace and tranquility to
their homes for the preservation of their
interests adding that hidden enemies OF
Spain were using the opportunity to realize
their traitorous plans.
This veiled threat was effective and to.
Gay the situation is calmer.
Dictatorial methods are employed to pre-
vent the escape of the truth. No inform
alton relative to the political or military
situation passes the censor. Obnoxious
messages are delayed for days.
The autonomists have been compelled 10
send Commissioner Ramost to Madrid to
protest the legality of the elections.
Insulted the Flag
KINGSTON, Jamaica, April lit be-
came known today that few nights be-
fore Pulaski F. Hyatt, the United States
Consul at Santiago de Cuba, left that port
under instructions, for Port Antonio, ia
mac.a, a mob of Spaniards made demon
stration before the consulate and threw
toma toes, eggs and stones at the Stars and
Stripes floating over the consulate.
The crowd which took part in this DEM
onstration had just left the theater, where
performance had taken place for the
purpose of raising funds to increase the
strength of the Spanish navy. The Span
iards surrounded the consulate, shouting
Death to Americans" Long live Spain.'
etc., and pelted the flag as already de-
scribed.
The mob was dispersed by the police
1t has developed today that senor Cam
inero, of the United States Marine Hos
pital at Santiago de Cuba, was visited By
the local Spanish committee who asked
him to buy tickets for the benefit to the
Spanish navy. The doctor, in forcible II