The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-12
CUBANS ARB FAVORED
Nryy MAYOR AND CHIEF OF PO-
LICE FOR HAVANA HAVE
BEEN SELECTED
CERvkNTES' MAYOR REBUKED
Informed That Unless He Can Pro-
tect Citizens a Successor Will be
Named by the American Military
Communications Atrocities
Alleged to Have Been Made Pub
lie by the Finding of Bodies.

HAVANA, Jan. 11.-Senor Perfecto
Lacoste, who was president of the Ha-
vana Junta Patrotica, will be appoint
ed alcade, or mayor of Havana, by
Maj Gen. Ludlow. military governor
of the department of Havana. Senior
Lacoste is a wealthy planter. popular
among all classes of Cubans, and a res
ident of Havana
The Cuban general, Mario Menocal,
will be chief of police. and Col. j.
Evans, of the South Carolina volun-
teerS, former governor of South Caro-
lima, and now one of Gen. Ludlows
staff officers, will be appointed super
intendent of the department of correc-
ton, embracing the police, the minor
courts and the correctional institutions
EX-Chief McCullagh, of New York
city, will remain here for a time to help
carry out the police plan he had help
ed to devise, with Col. Moulton, of the
Second Illinois regiment, who was yes
terday superseded as military chief of
police and returned to his regiment
with Gen. Lee, at Quemadcs. Some of
the important features of the Moulton-
McCullagh plan will be retained
Gen. Mario Menocal, on being invited
to accept the post of chief of police. in
CURED of the executive committee, rep
resenting the Cuban assembly, whether
he ought to do so. The committee re-
Piled that it was his duty to under
take the office, as he could serve the
people of Cuba better as chief of DO
lice of Havana than as commander of
tire Fifth Cuban army CORPS When
the appointment is formally announced
Gen. Menocal will resign his army
command. Gen. Rafel Cardenas will
probably be appointed deputy chief Of
police.
Two more suspected cases of small
poX developed in the One Hundred and
Sixty first Indiana today, making six
teen in all. The sick are carefully iso-
lated, and the entire regiment will re-
main In quarantine in the Remedies
district. The general health of the
troops is remarkably good, there being
only ll9 in the general hCsuital ont of
1900. Private Harry Brewer, Compa
ny l, Forty ninth Iowa, died Yesterday
or old injuries received on board the
United States transport Minnewaska
and Private Shotwell, Company D. died
of appendicitis.
CERVANTES' MAYOR REBUKED
francisco Valdez, a resident of Ger
Vantes, Matanzas province, recently
complained to Gen. Sanger. military
governor of the city of MatanZas. and
In temporary command of the depart
ment of Matanzas, prior to the ar
rival at Matanzas city yesterday of
MAJ Gen. Wilson, that Domingo Con
zales. a Cuban officer, had ordered
MN to leave Cervantes, not to return
Gen. Sanger Immediately addressed a
communication to the mayor of Ger
Eantes that, if Gonzales made anv
1urther trouble, he would be arrested
and locked up at Santiago. Gen. San
ger said:
GU, sir, are charged with the pres
erVatlon of peace at the town of Ger
Nantes. If you are unable to keep the
peace, it will be necessary to remove
you and appoint some one who can.
All residents of this island, black or
white, Spanish or Cuban, are entitled
to the protection of the law in person
ana property. L have been sent here
to see that they receive it, and shall
undoubtedly perform my duties"
La Discussion describes the finding
OF fifteen human skeletons in a well on
plantation near Manguilo. The writ
ef OF the story asserts that these peo-
pie were undoubtedly thrown in while
alive He says that in some cases the
hnger bones are severed, and the sup
position that this was due to the ef-
forts OF the victims to raise them
selves out of the pit. The body of Sc
nor PEDRO Alayon, a prominent Gu
ban, who disappeared mysteriously
uuIinS tle lnSurfectlon, has been iden-
tilted. La Discussion accuses the guer
lila chief, Antonio Rios, Sergeant Jean
Derez and Visconto Alzgoa a school,
master, of being the authors of the
terrible crime. All are said to be in
Havana.
La Discussion prints also a story
from Matanzas of the finding there of
the remains of $50 to 200 persons in a
we'll near the headquarters of the civil
guard.
William Nathaniel Hammond, per-