The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-25
HAVANA REVlE[L]RY
Balls, Thcater Parties and DINNERS
Given Daily
Rich Feast while the Poor Starye i'm the Streets.
insurgents i'm Distress but Are Active.
will Defend the City

will Defend the City
BY SPECIAL WIRE
HAVANA July 24-(From Spanish Coepondent). Delayed in
ranmisson) After several days continuous rainfall the whole island
again experiencing the overpoweng effects Of the tropical which
envates the strongest and the spread yellow
ev smallpox dyseney and other diseases common to the rainy
Havana people have the effects Of the Ame
can and are tired Of watching the the bckadng
a which previously formed their chief distractions and the
parks again equentd the Inhabitants and the various places
amusement arefllng up
At most of the heaters patriotic plays containing
references to the with the United States the ausons the conflict
invariably calling forth applause.
At the great Tcon ater the production of LA Dame ACameou
and Maragea of Bogona by whose leading lady
Sonora Lua Marnos Cado Cuban great beauty draw
ing large audiences from the best classes Of society
SWELL To1LLETTEs AND UNIFORMS.
The attendance Of ladies the churches notably those Of San
Felipe and santo Domingo large and many elegant rich
toe are to be Sundays Obspo street. exciting the adm
ton Of strangers visiting the capital.
General Parrada the second command Cuba recently
breakfast in homo the Russian officers Colonel Del
Ginsk and Leu Swedish artist George
Boude who Cuba Spanish army
studying These officers attract great attention they
appear owing their height many
decorations they
report from July 81 said the Americans
had landed troops that place.
tion to attack the simultaneously by sea.
telegram Admiral Mano the Havana
from the port commander Manzno also dated July 2 says
forces landed by the Americans opened fire the
the 2oh instant but that the American ships which made
the 18TH not again. The port commander also reported that
detachment Of Spanish sailors quareed Manzan
WILL FIGHT TO THE LAST.
morning July general headquar
te that Manzano had not been attacked again. and the Spanish
still at their and filled with enthusiasm
tion to repel any attack that might be made
At o'clock the night Of July 81 ship sighted off Havana
with her lights burning She not fred when
and oneha miles off the searohgh turned and she
Immediately withdrew, disappearing in the ofng.
band insurgents recently went the railroad
Hondo Canda in the province Of Pnar Del Rio and despite
the opposition the garrison Of the fort placed dynamite bomb
under the BRIDGE exploding it, and blowing the structure.
THE STARVING POOR
The free kitchens for the poor established Havana
which being steadily increased feed thousands persons
and than before shown the charitable sentiments city
whose generosity has always been poverba
and the of Captain General Banco
expenditures of large Of to relieve the prevailing distress
The insurgents reduced the utmost the provinces
Clara, Matanzas Havana and Pinar Del Rio
reported here that the insurgents the 18th made attack
garrison attacking off, compelling them retire
with the loss of twenty killed wounded The insurgents
their wounded with them they The telephone line
connecting Mnaguas with Havana partly destroyed
gents but the garrison the fort repaired the damage
a. Ad1ss, as Isabelle bells. date
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The essrsgs. was ,g 19Rg Sa distance of shore
attacks forces the city has lately
ss'assRs ya rs
regular TT d00p and the % Military and drills
the invaders and determination their lives defense Of
be difficult find soldiers willing Havana to suffer and
give up their lives as they value their
country. ~
There before Havana today five gunboa
Smallpox Among the Men of the Seventh Regiment
SAN FRANCISCO July 24siokness among the soldiers now here
increasing In the division hospital patients and in the
Preside barracks hospital 49, total Of soldiers counting ner
haps hundred less regmenta hospitals
More soldiers sick than during weather when about
Merritt today there are only little
half that number - 0''A
Dewitt Tucker private Company Iowa died todav
pneumonia The remains will be taken Council Buf r
burial \ ~ -1A' AVE
Joseph Baker, private Company Tennessee died lot.
6aurdaY night at the division hoptal Of - ~