Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-06


Brooke, referring to the complaints
made at Santiago that a. large number
OF laborers have been thrown out of
work by an apparent reduction in the
financial allotment to Santiago prov
ince, says that the funds furnished the
several provinces by the authorities of
Havana, have in all cases been equal
to the respective acquisitions.
Gen. Maxine Gomez yesterday sent
Governor General Brooke by the hand
of Inspector General Roloff, of the Gu
ban army, a statement of the number
of the men in the army. 1t is under
stood that the total reaches $4,000
$4,000 privates, 10000 non-commission-
ed officers, and the rest commissioned
officers from Major Generals to sub
Lieutenants. About 10000 privates en-
listed in 1895, 5000 in 1896, 1000 in
1897, and 5000 in 1898. In the case Of
two thousand, the enlistment date is
not known. These general statements
are insufficient as basis for the pay
ment and more detailed list of the
various commands, with the names
and whereabouts of the soldiers is
necessary.
This, it is understood, Gen. Gomez
will supply.
Gen. Brooke has received a telegram
from Washington saying that paymas-
tiers with the 100000 will arrive here
next week. 1t is not likely that any
trouble which the American officers
cannot circumvent will arise in connec-
ton with the actual payment.
In Manzanillo Spanish laborers are
unable to obtain employment on plan
tations owned by Cubans, the owners
refusing to give them work because of
their nationality. Three hundred have
migrated to Santo Domingo, and dis
patches received from them say that
they have found work and that there IS
room for four thousand more. Many,
however, prefer to remain in Cuba
Certain Spaniards in Havana are making
Rio, where Gen. Williston the military
governor who favors the idea, will CO.
operate in the undertaking.
It is said that Senior Jose Lanuza, sec
rotary of justice in the governor generals
advisory cabinet, is preparing an amnesty
fo, annrONa1 rela9 .
ing all against whom prosecutions are
pending for alleged political offenses.
The newspapers assert that some of the
regulations drafted for the new police
force are contrary to existing civil and
criminal law and that confusion will
surely arise when the two systems come
into conflict. The rule allowing a police
man to enter dwelling house when pur-
suing an offender is especially criticised.
The Cuban industrial relief fund of
New York is establishing its first station
at Guines. La Union, local newspaper
there, devotes two pages to public en-
dorsements of the plan to return to the
cultivation of the land, remarking that
the people, while grateful for the army
rations. desire above all else to become
self-supporting. The local relief commit
tee asserts that rations are now distrlb-
uted to 800 persons and are making pau
pers of three-fourths of them, as the
recipients could work if there were work
TO be had Mr.. VIM. Willard Howell,
general of the industrial fund decided to
begin at Guines because it is the market
garden of Havana.
Major L. w. V. Kennon, of the depart
ment of commerce and agriculture. called
officially upon Gen. Gomez this afternoon.
The United States cruiser Brooklyn,
which had received orders last Friday to
proceed to Hampton Roads, is still here.
1t is understood that the orders were re-
scinded.
The supply ship Comal arrived this af-
ternoon.
The temperature at Havana at three
o'clock this afternoon was IS degrees