The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-01-14
PEACE AGAIN
REICNS AT HAVANA,
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been delivered aboard the warships
within the past few days.
Naval officers decline to discuss the
situation, but point out the fact that the
orders of the squadron to make its WIN
ter cruise in the gulf have not been re-
voked.
KEY WEST (Fla,), Jan. 13.-The war
ships have taken on coal and provisions
to-day, and are being held in readiness
to proceed to sea, should occasion re-
quire. The Marblehead will proceed to
Navassa Island upon the arrival OF the
Detroit from HAITI.
NINETY THOUSAND PERISH.
JACKSON (N1iss.), Jan. 13.-Advices
from Major George l.. Mcdonald Of
Mississippi, now in Cuba, on whose in
formation the State Senate passed d
strong Cuban resolution, say that 3d.
coo persons have persisted by starvation
in the Province of Santa Clara alone
since January /, 1897. Major McDon
aid 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
meal without being asked for bread by
starving children.
WANT THE UNITED STATES TO
INTERVENE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-Private in
formation has been sent to the State
Department and to the mem bers of the
Foreign Affairs Committee in Congress
going to show that powerful influences
are at work to secure independence for
Cuba. Spain has issued bonds to the
gross amount of about S400,OO0,O00,
based specifically upon the resources
and revenues of Cuba. These bonds are
held in large part in Great Britain and
France.
Some of the largest syndicates in
these countries, it is said, have become
convinced that these bonds are about
to become valueless, unless the United
States in some way guarantees their
payment. They are convinced that the
island is entirely devastated, and that it
can be restored only by the influence of
a strong commercial power
representations have already been
made to this country by certain strong
commercial interests to secure active
Intervention. If this We're done, the
United States would become morally re-
sponsible for the payment of the Cuban
loan. This could be done by protec-
torate similar to that of England in
Egypt, or by a direct control of the
Cuban custom houses.
CONSUL LEE DID NOT MEET WITH
VIOLENCE.
HAVANA, Jan. 13.-There is no
foundation whatever for the rumor that
United States Consul-GeneraI Fitzhugh
Lee met with violence during the dis
turbance last night or to-day. During
the hight Of the uproar last evening he
walked about freely in Central Park,
and in front of the Hotel Inglaterra.
To-day he has been attending to Official
business as usual. This evening, when
this dispatch is sent he is dining at the
Hotel Inglaterra.
1t is reported that an important en-
gagement has taken place between the
Spaniards and the insurgents under
General Rabi in the district of Manza-
milo, 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, General Valdarama left
here yesterday with 800 troops to en-
gage 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, General Bianco
has issued a new decree prohibiting the
destruction of all kinds of property, and
forbids the holding of prisoners who are
sick or wounded.
The Captain General has also issued
DEGREES supplying the planters and
farmers for their defense with the re-
fies which belonged to invaded sol
diers sent back to Spain.
The correspondent of the Evening
Star of Washington. Charles M. Pep
per, gave S5S to the Guines authorities
for distribution among the concentra-
dos.
General Macy has been transferred to
Santiago de Cuba for having, as a chief
of column of troops, ordered the
shooting of prisoners of war.
La Discussion" prints an energetic
editorial calling attention to the pitiful
state of the reconcentrados at the city
headquarters, and to the absolute ne
cessity for saving them from death.
The insurgents of Pinar del Rio have
destroyed 100000 tobacco plants, the
of the Mayor of Martemesia
In the district OF Gamajuano, Province
of Santa Clara, the insurgents have de
stroyed 100000 tobacco plants and
have burned about 4 600 tons of cane.
AT the central plantation of Narciso.
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-one
persons died. of whom twenty-five were
starved to death. In Holquin, town
of 5000 inhabitants last year, .26S per
sons died, many of these losing their
lives through starvation.
From Santiago de Cuba and Guam
tanamo 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
skirmishes the insurgents. according to
Spanish reports, lost eighty-seven men
killed, while the troops captured ten
prisoners and forty-eight rifles. Ninety
seven insurgents surrendered The
troops lost twenty-three prfvates killed
and six officers, and sixty-eight privates
were wounded
The Captain-General of Porto Rico
resigned because he considered autono-
my to be disastrous to Spanish sover-
eighty.