The evening times., 1898-08-04
BANKER BOOK IN HAVANA
Landed by the Aid Of a German
Cruiser.
AMERICAN SHIP NEAR MORRO
H0ists . Flag of Truce and Sails
Under the Castles GuDs-Has Sick
and Wounded Spanish Soldiers
Set AshOre-Ncws From the Block
adcd Capital.

New York, Aug. 4.-The Herald pub
fishes the following dispatch. dated
Havana, yesterday:
Gustave Bock a German banker and
cigar manufacturer of Havana, vino has
been out of Cuba for some time, was
brought to Havana on the German war
ship Geier. which came from Vera Cruz,
arriving at $3.50 o'clock this morning.
When the Geier was coming IN by
Cabanas Fortress the Spanish military
band in the fortress played the German
imperial march.
This morning at 1O:3O O'Clock an Amer
lean ship was in sight of Morro Castle
with flag of truce. The American ship
stayed two miles or Morro. 1t was re-
ported she brings about 400 wounded and
sick soldiers. belonging to the Nuevitas
and Jibara garrisons. cap .ured aboard
the Red Cross Society tugboat Humber
10 Rodriguez. The Spanish. .'grnboat
Pinzon will go out to meet the American
ship.
At quarter to eleven the French
cruiser D'Estaing arrived She reported
that the French steamer Manoubia has
been taken to Key West by the American
ships from Isabelas
There were dealt out today among Ha-
vana's poor 20.0OO rations from the AL
fonso XII.
Yesterday morning the marine COM
mander was advised that q corpse was
floating on the San Lazaro littoral, in
front of Manri0ue Street yVhap tho ,n
thorities reached the spot the corpse had
disappeared. s's.1-t-s s-' s~t'.trsr
proposition was presented to the Gu
ban chambers for calling the council of
administration rtfa '"1hsiIlar Senate" in
stead of the Colonial sSenate='- g.
In Matanzas province local aguerrillas
fought at Ell Estante an insurSent band
under Antonio Trana. the terror Of that
nelshSorhood. killing him and his second
lieutenant Manuel Fresneda. and max
Ing some prisoners. They took arms,
ammunition and a pocketbook with i'm
por,ant documents. The fight was hand
to hand
Secretary General Congosto has been
rewarded by the Madrid government with
the great cross of military merit
The military governor. Arolas. last Sat
urday inspected Havana's batteries and
fortifications.
<AhtSi thN cpdiiSu troops naQ 1DanQDn-
ed the village of Gibara, the jurisdiction
of Sancti Spiritus was occupied by the
insurgents. who capeured eighteen guerril-
las, natives Of Cuba, who had belonged
to the Gibara garrison, and killed them
with machetes. The reason for this
slaughter was that the guerrillas were
Cubans who were fighting for SPAIN
Eight insurgents approached the town
of Sancu Spiritus some days ago with
flag of truce. The commander Of the
garrison allowed the rebel leader En-
rique Pima Jiminez, to enter the city
alone and go to Spanish Headquarters.
Jiminez is well known in Sancti Spiritus
society. He has been in arms since the
beginning of the war. He went to the
commandancy through Real Street. arm
ed and on horseback, and delivered doc
uments from his leader. Jose Miguel CO.
mez, to Gen. Manriaue Lara.
After he had received the papers Gen.
Lara, without giving an answer, ordered
that Jiminez be accompanied by officers
of the civil guard outside the town.
Mrs. Jerome, wife of the acting Brit
ish consul general at Havana, is dead.
The aid given to the rich German
banker and cigar maker by German
vessel is in violation of neutrality laws;
but whether the commanding officer of
the vessel that assisted him in getting
ashore can be made to suffer for his
conduct, is a question. One opinion is
that the captain of the Geier should
have had permit from the United
States to take Book into a blockaded
port. Notwithstanding the fact that the
cruiser might have had a right to put in
there.
On the other hand, however, 1t was
urged that Germany had never made
any proclamation of neutrality and that
this case, If 1t reached the diplomatic
stage. would therefore be one largely
depending on Interpretation.
During the month of June the author-
tiles here had much trouble with Book.
who was in Florida under constant sur
veillance of Government detectives. He
was regarded as influential. and capable
of much harm. He was considered to be
merchant of many years and much
prominence in Havana, with Spanish
sympathies. His every move was con-
stantly watched until he left the State
for New York city, where he stopped at
the Hotel Savoy.
Since then he has vanished from public
view until this report of his landing in
Havana He had tried before to go to
Havana on the Polaria, which had per-
mission to pass the blockade. but the
owners of the Polaria ordered the vessel
back. and Books project failed.
He then tried to get on the cruiser
Geier. but was baff1ed by the watchful-
ness of the detectives. He made the
statement that he would then go to Ger
many via New York. The authorities in
the offlcial papers In the case have not
hesitated to regard him as a man who
was resourceful and dangerous. Indeed.
stronger expressions were used. and there
was a fixed determination that during his
sojourn in Florida he should neither go
to nor communicate with Cuba.
Spend Sunday I'm Baltimore. Only