Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-08-24
THREATS OF REVENGE
Already Begin to Foreshadow
Cuba as Free and In.
dependent.
NEITHER SIDE WOULD BE SAFE.

0ne Insurgcnt Felicitates Himself on
What He Will Do to Enemy-Phil-
ippine Situation Much More satisfactory
Desire for Annexation Is General
Cabinet Considers instructions to the
Military Commissioners.
Havana, Aug. 24.-IFrom a Spanish
1.-The local papers ex-
press considerable doubt, based upon a
re-reading of President McKinley's
message to congress last April in the
light of recent events, whether the Unit
ed States government has definitely
pledged itself to declare Cuba's inde-
pendence. A number of prominent Ha-
vanese have recently received threat
ering letters signed by insurgents, and
evidently of insurgent origin. Several
of these letters tell those to whom they
are sent that they may choose the sort
of tree on which they will be hanged
after the insurgents have entered Ha-
vana. This correspondent heard a we'll
known resident. who has always been
in the employ of Spanish houses and
treated invariably with consideration,
advise his son. an insurgent leader not
to come to Havana unless at the head
of a victorious column. even if the
Promises Him Awful Death.
PascuaI Goicochea, a prominent ma
tive planter at Guines. has received
letter from the insurgent leader Camejo,
a native of Santo Domingo now at
Nueva Paz, MatanZas province, telling
him he hopes to capture him. Il will
not kill you says Camejo. but L shall
tie you to a tree so that the mosquitoes
may kill you and the aura bird devour
II, farrf
they will be beaten and afterwards
drawn and quartered. Leading mer-
chants at Cienfuegos and planters in
that district have been warned that
they must leave the island.
The FiIipinos and Uncle sam.
London, Aug. "A. - The Associated
Press learns that the Philippine junta
in London received a dispatch from
Manila Monday announcing that mat
ters there are rapidly quieting down
and that the friction between Aguinaldo
and the Americans is disappearing Ac-
cording to the junta's advices the insur-
gents for a time regarded General Mer-
ritt and General Anderson as martinets
and feared they would adopt harsh
methods, like the Spaniards, toward the
Filipinos: but the insurgents, from the
first, have had the greatest confidence
In Admiral Dewey, whom they regard
portant American at Manila. The junta
is satisfied that all friction will soon
disappear and that there will be no
trouble from the insurgents If the
Americans decide to retain the Philip
pires.
All I'm Favor of Annexation.
According to a wealthy Filipino now
in London the Filipinos In Europe are
all well-to-do people. Hitherto they
have held aloof from the insurgents
but they now realize that their interests
demand action and they are about to
form a committee to open negotiations
with the junta here. They are all in
favor OF having the archipelago re-
tanned by the United States. So strong
is their conviction of the desirability of
this course that they had contemplated |
approaching the British foreign office to |
invite Great Britain to intervene. and in |
any event to prevent the islands being |
returned TO the control of Spain. They |
decided however. to wait American ac-
tiun.