The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-12
EXCITEMENT AT PORTO RICO
EARBoR MINED ONE NIGHT
LAST WEEK.
Prices of Provisions Advanced 40 Per
Cent-Spain Will Have to Let Go
This Colony, Also.

New York. April ia dispatch to
the World from San Juan. Porto Rico,
says:
THE entrance of the Vizcaya and
the Oquendo from Havana created
great excitement. Preparations for
coaling are, being pushed, and seven
steamers loaded with Cardiff coal are
crosses rapidly, and a system of coast
photographs has been established.
The harbor was mined during the
night last week. GarrisOns have re-
ceived six months rations. and private
FAMILIES are buying large supplies of
food Prices advanced 40 per cent in
one day and are still ascending. The
Spanish flotilla is expected to call at
Martinique.
Correspondent Halstead's case looks
serious. The Spaniards openly say he
should receive 20 years Imprisonment.
others ask the death penalty. The
English consul is weak and Indifferent.
The case is an outrageous one
There is great political excitement
over the result of the elections, and a
cabinet crisis is imminent. The Liberal
autonomists, affiliated with Sagasta
manipulated both registrations and
elections. ganging an overwhelming
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
partles raided various interior polls.
where frauds We're openly practiced
The people are disillusioned as to the
sincerity Of the talk about autonomy.
The real autonomists. with the Con-
servatlves. openly charge fraud in the
capital The opposition are endeavor-
ing to create a crisis and overthrow
the Liberal cabinet The autonomist
secretaries of the provisional cabinet
nave resigned, but the captain general
refuses acceptance during the period
or the elections. The RESERVATIONS will
be effective the day previous to the
opening of the insular parliament
which is composed of % Liberals and
six members of the opposition. The
prisons are full of political offenders.
Two hundred have been arrested
throughout the island. Four editors
have been jailed for insulting the au-
tnorltles by protesting against frauds.
Ihelr sympathiZers endeayored n
make demonstration, and street
nshts and threatened riots are the re-
suit. The police restored order with
the aid of cavalrymen who patrolled
the streets.
The situation was so serious that
Captain General Macias issued a proc
iamation similar to the one at the out
break of the war in Cuba, appealing to
the loyalty of the inhabitants in the
name of the nation to return in con-
cord, peace and tranquility to their
homes for the preservation of their in
LereSts, adding that hidden enemies of |
SPAIN were using the opportunity to
realize their traitorous plans. This
',ell threat was effective. and today
Dictatorial methods are employed to |
prevent the escape of the truth. No
information relative to the political or
military situation passes the censor /
OBNOXIOUS messages are delayed for
Inc autonomists have been compelled /
- selo commissioner Ramos to Madrid 4
% protest the legality of the elections