The herald., 1898-08-29

the WOuuulu8 VI Hiuclecu OtAcis. "A span
ish captain was badly wounded.
On jury 2Sth committee representing tn
guards and jail employees Of this city pre-
scented a request to the civil governor tina
they be paid at least portion Of their loni
overdue salaries.
At Puerto Principe
Reports received here on July Is from til,
province of Puerto Principe show That tn,
situation throughout that section of tn,
island was very bad. Provisions were quit
scarce and the little to be had was held a
exorbitant prices. The civil employees had
received no salary for eight months ant
most Of them had resigned their places
Special efforts were being made to main
tain the efficiency of the civil hospital, and
the civil governor had given orders tina
everything possible be done in this direc-
ton.
According to data furnished by the civil
government the deaths in Santa Clara
city during the month OF May numbered
2265, and during the month of June 1855
From July 26 to August / many persons
arrived at Havana and Caibarien from
Puerto Principe, Nuevitas and adjacent
places which had been abandoned by the
Spanish forces.
Insurgent outrages
The village of Jibaro, near Sancti Spir-
titus, province of Santa Clara, was recent
ly taken by the insurgents who, 1t is said.
captured eighteen Cuban guerrillas, whom
they macheted in a most savage manner.
merely because they were natives Of the
island. Later advices from Jibaro say that
on July / the place was attacked by insurg-
ents under Brigadier Jose Muriel Gomez,
who employed cannon in the assault upon
the forts, which were defended by Span
ish forces. The attack was successful and
the insurgents captured the place. OF
the Spanish forty were killed, seventy
wounded and ninety taken prisoners.
Tax on Produce
The governor of Matanzas on August
issued a bando establishing the contribu-
ton "to be levied on every person who
brings wands and other products to the
Matanzas market for sale.".
The ''coptribution' is to be given in the
form of certain portion Of each Of the va
rious products brought by the vendors, as
follows:
HOI cFSkJ tWChty"iNC pouAAo VA o~ifaAAeAs's
one and one-half pounds to the municipal
ity; for every twenty pounds Of pumpkins,
two pounds; every ten pounds of bread,
one pound, and for every twenty-five
pounds each Of the other products, two
pounds.
Dealers will be allowed to send their
goods to other parts of the province only
when the local resumption is satisfied,
and when this is done an extra contrlbu-
ton is to be levied.
On the night of August detective in
the city of Matanzas visited a kitchen
where food was prepared for sale and dis
covered a trunk containing 373 pounds of
horse meat. The owner OF the kitchen
Ramon Ortega, and his son, were arrested
and have been sent to prison.
Reports from Caibarien say that on July
% an American ship captured at CATO
Fances, the Norwegian steamer Franklyn
and the launches Dos Amigos and Rene
dio. The last named, being empty, was
abandoned by the Americans. but the
Franklyn and Dos Amigos were held by
their captors.
Captured Steamers
La Union Constitutional, referring to the
capture by American vessels of the Spar
ish steamer Humberto Rodriguez, asks in
its issue of August 4:
How would Spain have been Judged II
an American ship, hosting flag Of truce,
had approached the port of Havana and
the city's batteries had fred at it?"
THE same judgment" the paper says,
fought to be pronounced regarding the
80 ID 5ntc IT,
was effected by the American feet in the
high seas while the steamer was towing
two schooners with sick and wounded un-
der the Red Cross society's feg."
La Constitutional further says: 1.-The
Americans fleet ought to have rendered
tribute to the steamer and her convoy and
escorted them to Havana waters, thus
carrying out the rules agreed upon in this
matter at the Geneva convention by the
delegates who framed the convention.
"A naval tribunal may, as it is logically
expected, declare the capture Of the steam
er void, but will they return the lives of
those who died during the long and dan
gerous voyage on which they were car
ried by the Americans? The value of the
captured steamer Is very small, yet her
seizure will not be allowed to pass without
protest against the action OF the Amer
lean ships"
Miscellaneous
On August La Lucha, referring to the
position of the Puerto Principe civil en-
ployes in regard to their salaries, says
the amounts those employees have re-
ceived on account Of their salaries due the
past ten months has hardly been sufficient
to maintain them, not to speak of support.
ing their families.
The Matanzas papers announced on the
9Th instant that for the purpose Of cele-
brating the arrival at that port Of the
Spanish steamer Montserrat, which had
just reached there, 1t had been decided tc
present Captain Deschamps, the com.
mander Of the vessel, with gold media
and a diploma bearing an categorical in
scription signed by every military officer
in Matanzas and by the volunteers in the
city as we'll as by all the most prominent
men Of the town.
An engagement is reported to have taker
place on August IL at Bruto, Pinar del Rio
province, between a detachment Of Span
ish troops from Alquizar and a band o.
insurgents under the leader Collazo. The
insurgents lost four killed.
An engagement is also said to have takcr
place on the same day near Dona Juana
between troops from Santiago Las Vega!
and insurgents.
A steady increase is noticed in the guam.
.ity OF food distributed by the free h1tch
ems in this city. On July "a about 5000 ra.
tons were supplied to the poor; on The