The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-20
POLICEMEN STABBED
And Shot While on Duty In
Havana.

Havana, March Occurring the trou-
popuIace last night, three policemen
were killed and about twenty-five
wounded on both sides.
Public opinion supports the police
without reserve.
There seems to be some concerted ac-
ton among the Nanigos, the secret So
ciety of the lawless class here, to attack
the police on 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
today over the rioting and the bravery
and determination shown by the police
is much commended, with the result
that the force is rapidly regaining the
prestige which it had lost among the
better element.
The police station at Cerro was at
tackled yesterday afternoon by num-
Der of colored men, a band of men
from the city slaughter house. The po-
lice repealed the attack and the rioters
left three men badly wounded when
they retired. Upon this occasion no po-
icemen were hurt.
Chief Police Menoca1 gave orders to
suspend the public balls last night, and
Gen. Ludlow, in command of the city
of Havana, sustained the chief of po-
lice. AS the police were approaching
the place where the ball of the Society
of Pillar was in progress in CerrO for
the purpose of dispensing it, in accord
ance with orders, people opened fire on
them from the house. The fire was re-
turned by the police. The result of the
fusillade 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 es-
capped.
"A Cuban officer attached to the COM
mand of Col. Acea attacked a policeman
on San Rafael street with machete.
The officer shot him through the heart.
An American negress was killed by a
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
Col. John 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 of the prisoners captured admit
there was a conspiracy to drive the po-
lice out of the city by a series of out
RACES.
Fifty Cuban soldiers from Marianao
belonging to the command of General
Rodriguez, kidnapped three former Span
ish guerillas, 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 de-
tachment of the Second Illinois regi-
ment. Three of the CubanS were ar
rested charged with murder. The Gu
bans set fire to the plantation in five
places on Saturday night but Major
Russell B. Harrison, the provost mar
shall, and a party of horsemen put out
the fires and captured several of the
Cubans. The plantation which is stu
ated two miles from the camp of Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee, was half destroyed.