The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-01-20
LATEST REPORTS
FROM CUBA.
Cubans are Starving and Immedi
ate Belief eeded-Hundreds
Join the Insurgents.
A BOLD BRIBERY SCHEME

Ia BOLD BRIBERY SCHEME
| Capitalists Hatch Scheme to Secure
Dorn,nAnt Interest In Cuba BY Bribery
General News Notes and War Reports-
The insurgents of Pinar del Rio
have destroyed 100000 tobacco
plants, the property OF the mayor oi
Artemisa.
In the district of Camaiuani. prov
ince Of Santa Clara. the insurgents
have destroyed 500, 900 tobacco
plants and have burned about 1000
tons of cane.
At Matanzas seventy-one persons
died, OF whom twenty-five were
starved to death.
In Holguin, q town of ), 900 inhab-
itants, last year 1,26S persons died
many of them losing their lives
through starvation.
Hundreds Join Insurgents.
In Santiago de Cuba and Guanta-
namo hundreds Of men have joined
the insurgents from the undefended
towns. The insurgents are obiiging
all men to join them.
During the last ten days in various
skirmishes the insurgents, according
to the Spanish reports, lost 81 men
killed, while the troops captured ten
prisoners and AZ rifles. In addition,
81 insurgents surrendered. The
troops in these skirmishes lost %
p1ivates killed, and had six officers
and 6S lrivates wounded.
The insurgents have burned about
1,5OO tons of cane on the plantation
of Toledo, near Habana.
The Captain General of Porto Rico
resigned because he considered au
tonomy to be disastrous to Spanish
sovereignty.
One hundred and eighty five per-
sons who had been exlled to the ISL
and of Pines and we're supposed to
be conspirators, have been released,
but they are really men Of bad char
| acter and "nanigos."
Important Engagement.
At the moment this dispatch is
filed it is reported that an important
engagement has taken place between
the Spaniards and the insurgents un-
der General Rabi in the District of
Mauzanillo. 1t is further reported
that the insurgents lose three hun
dred men killed, while the Spaniards
are said to have lost one hundred
and forty men killed or wounded. No
further details have yet been re-
ceived.
An account of the concentration OF
the insurgent forces few leagues
distant from Habana, General Val.
darama left here with 500 troops, to
engage the enemy.
AS several chiefs of the Spanish
columns have burned farms and cane
fields, and have shot prisoners of
war, including sick and wounded
men, General Blanco has issued a
new decree prohibiting the destruc.
ton of all kinds of property, and for.
bidding the shooting of prisoners
who are sick or wounded. The lat.
ter in the future must be we'll cared
for, and sent to the military hospit
ais. The Captain-General has also
issued DEGREES supplying the plant
ers and farmers, for their defence
with the rifles which belonged to ths
invalided soldiers sent back to Spain
The Cubans are Still Starving.
NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-The tele
grams sent by the Central Commit
tee for the relief of the starving Gu
bans to the governors of all the state
and territories, asking for tho ap
pointment of committees to collect
money and supplies, have been re
sponded to favorably by fourteen
governors to-day.
| They announced that active relic
measures had begun or was about t.
be started. The Governors of Viz
ginia and Texas, among the South
ern governors who announced to tn
people of their states, have been ap
pealed to for help. Replies from 9th
} ers are expected at an early date.
A syndicate's Conspiracy.
MADRID, Jan. 13.-"Correspond
encia de Espana" to-day prints lei
ter from a "Prominent Member o
the Spanish colony in New York
: giving details of q conspiracy by
/ syndicate of American capitalists
! secure q dominant interest in Cub
by Wholesale bribery.
i The writer affirms the intention {
: the syndicate to distribute ST. 900, ,0(
in bribes.
Il Fifty thousand he says, were o
= fered certain statesmen the otht
q day, and the support of New Yor
, newspaper secured for 500. 900. Sci
ators and Congressman quoted {
lower figures. Among others a.
preached is q certain Cuban Gener
t who was offered $250,000.
Klondikers "Havs Troubles Of The
OIL own"
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