The herald., 1898-01-14
ing for Nassau, according to original
orders.
NO WAR SHIPS ASKED FOR

| havana.
There is no foundation whatever for
the rumor that Consul-General Fitz-
hugh Lee met with violence during the
disturbance last night or today. During
the height Of the uproar last evening he
walked about freely in Central park and
in front of the Hotel Inglaterra. Today
he has been attending to official business
as usual. This evening when this dis
patch is sent ne Is dining at the Hotel
Inglaterra.
1t is reported that an important en-
gagement has taken place between the
| Spaniards and the insurgents under Gen.
Rabi in the district of Manzenillo, in
which the insurgents lost 100 men killed
and the Spaniards 140 killed and
| wounded.
On account Of the concentration Of the
| insurgent forces a few leagues distant
from Havana, Gen. Valdarama left here
yesterday with 800 troops to engage the
enemy.
AS several chiefs of Spanish columns
have burned farms and cane fields and
have shot prisoners of war; including
sick and wounded men, Gen. Blanco has
issued a new decree prohibiting the de-
struction of all kinds of property and
forbids the holding of prisoners who are
sick or wounded.
The captan-general has also issued
DEGREES supplying the planters and
farmers with the rifles which belonged
to invalided soldiers sent back to Spain.
The correspondent of the Evening
Star at Washington, Charles M. Pepper,
gave $5S to the Guines authorities for
distribution among the concentrates.
General Macy has been transferred to
Santiago de Cuba for having as a chief
of column of troops ordered the shoot
ing of prisoners of war.
THOUSANDS STARVING
HAVANA, Jan. IL. via Key West, Fla,
Jan. 12.-(Delayed in transmission.) La
Discussion prints an energetic editorial
calling attention to the pitiful state Of
the reconcent-ados at the city head
quarters and to the absolute necessity
for saving them from death. The insur-
gents of Pinar del Rio have destroyed
100000 tobacco plants, the property Of
the mayor of Martemesia.
In the district of Camajuano, province
of Santa Clara the insurgents have de-
stroyed 500, 900 tobacco plants and have
hVOV
At the central plantation Of Narcso
the insurgents surprised the laborers,
undressed them entirely and made pris-
oners of several irregulars. They also
carried Off about 100 oxen.
AT Matanzas yesterday seventy-on
persons died, of whom twenty-five were
starved to death. In Holquin, town
of 5000 inhabitants last year. 1888 persons
died. many of these losing their lives
through starvation.
From Santiago de Cuba and Guantan-
amo hundreds of men have Joined the
insurgents from the undefended towns
The insurgents are obliging all men to
join them.
During the last ten days in various
skirhishes the insurgents, according to
Spanish reports. lost eighty men
killed, while the troops captured ten
prisoners and forty-e eight rifles. Ninety
seven insurgents surrendered. The
troops lost twenty-three privates killed
and six officers and sixty-eight privates
were wounded
The captain general of Porto Rico re-
signed because he considered autonomy
to be disastrous to Spanish sovereignty.
General Pando of Santiago de Cuba
goes to Manzanillo. He was unable dur
ing his visit to Nevitas, Puerto Principe
and Gibaro to influence any insurgent
to receive propositions for peace or look
ing to the acceptance of autonomy.
BABIES BEG FOR FOOD
JACKSON, Miss, Jan. 13.-Advices
from Major General L. Donald of Mis-
sissippi, now in Cuba, on whose informa-
tinn the a 70 to
Cuban resolution, say that 10000 per-
sons have perished by starvation in the
province of Santa Clara alone since jan
uary /, 1897.
Major Donald says one cannot go
twenty steps without some poor starving
woman or child begging for something
to eat, and that a person cannot sit
down to a meal without being asked for
bread by starving children.
A PERTINENT INQUIRY
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. = Senator
Cannon of Utah presented the following
resolution to the Senate and 1t was
adopted:
Resolved, That the President Is re-
quested, if in his opinion it is not in
compatible with the public interests. to
transmit to the Senate at his earliest
convenience a statement showing what
measures are in force by this govern
ment in the island of Cuba and in waters
contiguous thereto, to protect the lives,
liberty and property of American citi-
zens now dwelling in Cuba.
HAVANA is QUIET
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-The Span-
ish Minister, Senior Dupuy de LONE, re-
ceived dispatch from Secretary-G Cen
eral Congosto, under date of noon to-
day, from Havana. 1t said:
Your excellency can affirm that the
tumult of yesterday has had so little
Importance that not shot was fired
and there Is no knowledge that anybody
has been wounded or hurt. The agita-
tion was confined to one quarter of the
city,"
This followed closely on a dispatch
from the same authority, filed at Ha-
vana about o'clock this morning. IT
said:
Complete calm. The city has re-
covered its normal condition"
SENIOR FONTEVELS CENSURED
HAVANA, Jan. 13 (via Key West).-
The Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Senor Fonteyels, is hotly censured bv
the Autonomists and other elements for
his improper behavior in office appoint
ments. He has removed employees in
good standing and of many years SER
vice. All are Cubans and many belong
to the blue blood of the population, rep
resenting families who have made large
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