The record-union., 1899-03-21
Three Persons Were Killed and
Many Others Wounded.
Treacherous Work Of Organized Outlaws at
the Cuban Capital.
Members of the Police Force Ac-
credited With Much Bravery
During the Conflict and Have
the Hearty Support Of the Bet
ter Elements of the City.

HAVANA, March 20.-During the
trouble between the Havana police and
the populace last night three policemen
We're killed and about twenty y-five per-
sons were wounded on both sides. Pub
lie opinion supports the police without
reserve
There seems to be concerted action
among the Nanaigos, the secret society
of the lawless classes here, to attack
the police upon every possible occasion.
All tine 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 regain
ing the prestige it had lost among the
better element.
The police station at Cerro was at
tackled yesterday afternoon by num-
ber of cOlored men, a band of men from
the city slaughter house. The police
repelled 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 General Ludlow, in command of
the city of Havana, sustained the Chief
of Police. The police were approaching
the place where the ball of the Society
of Pillar was in progress, near Cerro,
for the purpose Of dispensing it, in ac-
cordance with orders, when the people
fired on them from the house. The fire
was returned by the police. The re-
suit of the fusilade was that two police
men were seriously injured and eigh-
teen of their opponents We're 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 revol-
yer, killing one of his assailants and
wounding another one The third man
escaped.
Cuban officer attached to the COM
mand of Colonel Acea attacked a po-
lfceman on San Rafael street with
machete. 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
approaching disturbers of the peace.
courteously in many cases, they were
attacked before they had finished
speaking. The agitation promises to
continue
Colonel John G. Evans. Superintend-
M hn ort,,
thinks the attack on the police on Sat
urday 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 of the prisoners captured admit
that there was conspiracy to drive
the police out of the city by a series of
outrages.
Fifty Cuban soldiers from Marianao.
belonging to the command of General
Rodriguez, kidnapped three former
Spanish guerrillas, employees of the
Toledo plantation, ON Saturday. and
took them into the bush, where the
prisoners were maltreated, and it is
supposed one was killed.
The other two, who were slashed with
machetes, were rescued by a detacl-
ment of the Second Illinois Regiment.
Three of the Cubans were arrested and
charged with murder. The Cubans set
fire to the plantation in five places on
Saturday night, but Major Russell B.
Harrison, the Provost Marshal. and a
party of horsemen put out the fires and
captured several of the Cubans. The
plantation, which is situated two miles
from the camp of General Fitzhugh
Lee, was half destroyed.