Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-07-21
GARCIA REPORTED DEAD
The Report Credited by the Cuban
Junta in New York.
RUM0R DECLARES BE WAS SHOT.
No Details Have Been Received, But
the Counsel For the Junta Thinks 1t
Likely the Cuban Leader Met His
Death Before ManzaniIIo.

No Details Have Been Received, But
the Counsel For the Junta Thinks 1t
Likely the Cuban Leader Met His
Death Before ManzanilIo.
New York, July 21-A Kingston, ia
maica, cable to the Evening Post says:
"Cubans arriving from Sboney bring
in reports Of the death of General Gar
cia. They make a mystery Of it, say
ing that 1t should not be known in Cuba
yet, or in the United States, for reasons
of state, and give no particulars ex-
cept that he was shot. Spanish refu-
gees here who are officially connected
with General Blanco believe the story"
The last word directly received by the
Cuban junta in this city from Garcia
was dated before Santiago, July Ii.
1t was a cable message, and stated
briefly that he was well, and that the
progress of events was satisfactory.
At that time Garcia was to the west of
Santiago, guarding the approaches
from expected reinforcements to the
city.
Horatio S. Rubens, counsel for the
junta. when given the information con-
tanned in the above dispatch, said that
news of Garcia's death had not been
received at the junta, but that at best
communication with the Cuban forces
in the field was irregular. Il am great
ly surprised" he said, but I do not
find it hard to credit the dispatch
During the assault on Santiago Gar
cha was in the west with his command,
with the special duty of intercepting
reinforcements and cutting off the re-
treat of the Spanish soldiery. When
the city fell his duty there kwas at an
end. But it appears the att III on Man
zanillo was then plannecp and it is
probable that Shafter detailed Garcia's
command to cut off reinforcements
there. Holguin lies near this. city, and
was garrisoned by a considerable force,
as the American general must have
known. 1t is not unlikely that Garcia
and his men came into conflict with a
body of Spanish soldiery bound from
Holguin, and that there Garcia met his
death"
Calixto Garcia was in his Goth year
and was regarded by the Cuban in
surgents as one of their most intrepid
soldiers. In the ten years war his skill,
bravery and energies won him con-
tinued promotion until he received a
generals star. Inl an action in 1874
Garcia was surrounded by Spanish
troops. Rather than surrender he shot
himself through the chin with suicidal
intent. He recovered, and was sent to
Spain He was released in 1877, when
the peace of Zenjon was declared.
Garcia at once set out for New York
and organized an expedition to Cuba.
He landed in Santiago de Cuba but
was taken prisoner a second time. He
eluded the vigilance of the prison
guards in Spain one night after a Is
years Imprisonment. and fed to Eng
land
Garcia was the promoter of the Haw-
kins expedition, which left this city in
January, 1896, with 800 men and large
quantity of supplies and ammunition.
The vessel sunk. He next fitted out the
Bermuda, which was seized upon the
eve of her departure, in February, 1896,
by United States marshal and his
deputies. Garcia was arrested and re-
leased in $500 bail. He at once made
another start and landed in Cuba sew
eral days before the day set for his
trial in this city. For the last two years
he had been engaged in conducting the
campaign of the Cubans against Spain
In the province of Santiago de Cuba
Bergen. Norway, boasts a paper
church large enough to seat 1000 per-
sons. The building is rendered water
proof by solution of quicklime, cur
died milk and white of eggs