Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-03-21
Manages Attack Police, whose Lot
is Not a Happy One.
3 KILLED AND % WOUNDED.
Another Anti-poIicc I,iot Takes Place
In Havana, In which Onlccr.
aud Popuincc Clash.

Havana. March go.--DurinR the
trouble between the Havana police aud
tho populace last night three policemen
were killed, and about twenty-five per-
sons were wounded on both sides. Pub
lie opinion supports the police without
reserve.
There seems 10 be a concerted action
among the Manages. the secret society
u the iawlcss classes here. 20 attack
the police on every possible occasion.
Al the trouble Of the last two nights
occurred In the outlying wards. which
are Inhabited by the worst classes,
The city Of Havana IN much excited
this morning over the rlotinE. and the
bravery ana determination shown by
the police IL much commended. with
the result that the force ~ rapidly re-
gaining the prestige which II had Lost
among the better element.
The police station at Ccrrp was ht.
tackled yesterday afternoon by q num-
her or colorcd mon. a band OF men from
the city slaughter house. The police
rcpcllcd the attack aud the rioters left
three mon badly wounded when they
retired. Upon this occasion no police
men were hurt.
chief u Police Mcnocai gave orders
to suspend the public balls last night
aud Gen. Ludlow. In command NJ the
city Vt Havana. sustained the chief uf
police. The police were approaching
the place whore the ball Of the Society
OF Pillar was In prugrcaa. near Germ,
for the purpose ~ diapcfsing II. In ac-
condancc with orders. when the people
ilrod On them from the houses The IRE
was returned by the police. The result
of the furillndc was that two policemen
were Heriounly injured and eighteen Of
their opponents were wounded.
In different wards three policemen
were aHaassinatod while ON duty. The
inurdercrs crcpt up behind them ana
stabbed the officers 60 death.
Three negroes In Gnliuuu street at
tackled q policeman with knives. The
officer defended himself with his ruvoi-
Yer. killing one OF the nssallnnts and
wounding another one. Tho third man
escaped.
4 cuban officer attached 10 the COM
mand Of Col. Acca attacked the police
man on Fan rafael street with a
mnchotc. The officer shot him through
the heart. An American negroes was
killed by stray bullet.
The police In all eases Of conflict with
the pppulnce have followed their orders
and have FULFILLED their duties. when
c0urtcously. In many cases. they we're
attacked before they had finished
speaking. The agitation promises TO
continue.
Col. John q. Evans. superintendent
OF the department of correction. thinks
the attack on tho police on Saturday
was prcarrangcd to the extent Of word
being sent to the low cafes that the
police were TO be- done up" on San
Jose street which accounts for the
large armed crowd there. Two % the
prisoners captured admit there was a
conspiracy 10 drive the police out OF
the city by a series ~ 0utraRcr.
Fifty cuban soldiers from Mnrlnnno.
belonging 90 the command Of Gen.
Ilodriguczs, kidnapped three former
spanish gucrillaS. employee % the
Toledo plantation. on Saturday. and
took them TO tho bush, whore the
prisoners were maitrcated, and u n
supposed one was killed. The other
two. who We're Hlashcd with machcten.
were rescued by detachment ~ tho
Second Illinois regiment. Three of the
cuhanH were nrrrsted. charged with
murder. The Cubana Hot irc Ia the
plantation In i've places on Saturday
night, hut Mai Russell u. Harrison. the
provost marshal. ana party Of horse
men put out the fires and captured
several OF the cuhans. Tho plantation,
which IN situated two miles from tho
camp ~ General Fltzhugh Ice, was
half destroyed.