Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-21
MORE R|OTNG N HAVANA.

MORE R|OnNG N HAVANA.
The Lawless Element Making Trouble
for the Police.
THREE POLICEMEN KILLED AND
TWENTY-FIVE PERSONS MUIR
ED IN THE RIOTS OF SUNDAY
NIGHT-THE TOUGH ELEMENT
CONSERVING o DRIVE OUT THE
POLICE-PERMITS FOR PUBLIC
BALLS REVOKED-POLICE OF
FICERS STABBED TO DEATH
BY ASSAsSINS WHO STOLE UP
ON THEM FROM THE REAR.
Havana, March 20.-During the
trouble between the Havana police and
the populace last night, three police
men were killed and about twenty-five
persons were wounded on both SIDES.
Public opinion supports the police
without reserve.
There seems to be a concerted action
among the Nanigos, the secret society
OF the lawless class here, to attack the
police upon every possible occasion.
All the trouble of the last two nights
occurred in the outlying wards, which
are inhabited by the worst classes.
The city of Havana is much excited
this morning over the rioting and the
bravery and determination shown by
the police is much commended with
the result that the force is rapidly re-
gaining the prestige which it had lost
among the better element.
The police station at Cerro was at
tackled yesterday evening by a number
of colored men. bad characters from
the city slaughter houses. The police
repealed the attack and the rioters left
three men badly wounded when they
retired. Upon this occasion no police
men were hurt.
Chief of Police Menocal gave orders
to suspend the public balls last night
and Gen. Ludlow, in command OF the
city of Havana, sustained the chlef Oh
police. AS the police were approach
ing the place where the ball OF the So
ciety of Pillar was in progress, near
Cerro, for the purpose of dispensing 1t,
in accordance with orders, people open
ed fire on them from the house. The
fire was returned by the police. The
result of the fusilade was that two
policemen were seriously wounded and
eighteen of their opponents were
wounded.
In different wards three policemen
were assassinated while on duty. The
murderers crept up behind them and
stabbed the officers to death.
Three negroes in Galiano street at
tackled a policeman with knives. The
officer defended himself with his re-
volver, killing one of his assailants
and wounding another. The third man
escaped.
A Cuban officer attached to the COM
mand of Col. Acea attacked a police
man on San Rafael street with ma
chete. The officer shot him through
the heart.
An American negress was killed by
stray bullet.
The police in all cases of conflict with
the populace have followed their orders
and have fulfilled their duties. When APP
preaching disturbers of the peace cour-
teously in many cases they were attacked
before they had finished speaking. The
agitation promises to continue
Col James G. Evans, superintendent of
the department of correction thinks the
attack on the police on Saturday was
prearranged 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 prisoners captured admit there
was a conspiracy to drive the police out
of the city by a series of outrages.
Fifty Cuban soldiers from Maronao be-
longing to the command of Gen Rodriguez,
kidnapped three former Spanish guerillas
employees of the Toledo plantation on Sat
urday and took them into the bush. where
the prisoners We're maltreated and, it is
supposed, one was killed. The other two
who were slashed with machetes, were
rescued by a detachment of the Second
Illinois regiment.
Three of the Cubans were arrested,
charged with the murder. The Cubans set
fire to the plantation in five places on
Saturday night, but Major Russell B. Har-
rson, the provost marshal, and a party
of horsemen, put out the fires and cap
tured several of the Cubans. The plan
tation, which is situated two miles from
the camp of Gen. Fltzhugh Lee, was half
destroyed.