The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-24
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surrendered to the SpanardS at Jaguey la
Grande, province of .Matanzas
According to the official summary of
news from the eastern part of the island
General Pando advanced toward San Juan,
province of Puerto Principe, on the 10Th
inst. and was constantly and energetically
engaged with the insurgents. Gen. Pando,
after strong resistance captured the in
surgent camps Chomenda and Guanoles,
and the insurgents lost eight killed. four
taken prisoner, a large quantity of stores
and ammunition and also their military
hospital The Spanish troops found well
stocked farms i'm the district. with plenty
of horses and cattle. Many of the former
were used to mount guerrillas. On the 21st
the Spanish troops reached Vertientes,
where they rested and provisioned. State
ments made by the insurgent prisoners
show, according to the Spanish reports,
that the insurgents had planned to make a
formidable movement to the west, but that
this had been prevented by the Spanish
troops under General Castellanos from
Puerto Principe and Colonel Cruz Gonzales
from Santa Cruz del Sur. General BernaI
continues operating toward Baracon de
Sierra and Colonel Tejeda is marching to-
wards General Calixto Garcia. whose
whereabouts Is not defined in the official
dispatches.
General Ruiz will soon leave Ground in
command of his brigade. so as to operate
towards Orayo Blanco. Later probably he
will conduct operations along the Moron
Jucaro trocha 1t is believed that the cam
paign should be principally on the western
side of the trocha, where the Spanish
forces are to be reinforced because Gen.
Maxmo Gomez has been calling earnestly
for more ammunition and troops from the
eastern districts. According to the state
ments Of captured and surrendered insur-
gents a considerable force of insurgents
has already passed the trocha and it is re-
ported that a scouting party of thirty in
surgents, carrying orders, is now moving
eastward
General Pando, after due consideration
expresses himself hopeful of being able
largely to pacify tie eastern provinces in.
about four months He expects to enlist
many negroes as guerrllas to overrun the
province of Puerto Principe and he reports
that the health of the Spanish troops is
excellent. All the foregoing information as
to- Spanish military movements comes from
Spanish sources.
Cuba is now in the throes of election ex-
element Every effort is being made to in
duce the Conservatives to VOTE but with
little success thus far. The autonomists
are divided into bitter factions, one wing
declining to take part in the elections at
ali, or to nominate delegates. The Havana
Conservatives say that even if they con-
sented to vote their ballots would not be
counted fairly, as che boxes are in the hands
of autonomist officials. and the stuffed poll
lists will be further padded. 1t is impossi-
Ia fr1 <lt,k 4I
international questions are so overshadow-
ing; but it is hard to see how the present
autonomist government has the least
chance, especially since the last move in the
game-General Blanco's mission to the in
surgents--has proved failure. Among the
most prominent Conservative nominations
of delegates to the Spanish Cortes are senor
Francesca Guzman, former president of the
Cortes, and Colonel Mendez the present
censor at Havana.
On Monday twenty cadavers were discov-
cred near creek in the outskirts of Guam
abacoa, a suburb of Havana. They were
in fearful state of decomposition. On the
head of one deep machete wound could be
seen. The government is investigating the
case 1t is believed that the bodies are
those Of men taken out of Guanabacoa and
killed during the regime of Commander
Fonsdeviela One has been recognized as
that of Santiago Ruiz.
FL Correo and other daily papers advise
the government to expel from the island
'all sensational foreign correspondents At
present yellow fever is almost unknown on
the island, and the season is regarded as re-
markably healthful.
Yesterday the steamer Colon arrived at
Caimanera, province of Santiago de Cuba,
with 1,4O0 troops from Spain. Eighty sick
soldiers were sent hack To Snain tntln.-