The age-herald., 1899-01-07
UNION OF CUBA
 AND SAN DOMINGO General Gomez Sounds the Army on
 the Proposition. WOULD BE STRONG REPUBLIC Absorption of Hayti Would Only be a
 Matter of Time.
THE KINGS H0LIDAYo IN HAVANA
Citizens of the City Observed the Day as Though the King Still Reign ed Over the Island
 Transports Arrive.

Havana, January GA colonel in the in- surgent army says that Gomez recently sounded the army on his old ambition of uniting Cuba and San Domingo in one gov ernment. The willy old chief says the United States can offer no objection to this plan, which, if accomplished, would create a state strong enough to absorb Hayti soon. With this done, Gomez believes the founda- tion would be laid for a republic which would soon take rank in the western world second only to the United States.
 Major-General Brooke, the governor gen. eral of Cuba, received the following tele- gram yesterday from Remadios, January ?: General Carillo directs me to inform you that General-in-Chief Gomez has just ar rived at his camp in Guanguayabo, and that he does not know when he will leave for the capital. RAFAEL CARRA4>ZA."
 Was Not Replied To
 As the dispatch was not in answer to an inquiry, it was not replied to.
 The funeral services over the remains of Colonel w. H. Mabry, of the First Texas, who died at Quemados camp on January 1, took place yesterday. The coffin, draped with the stars and stripes, rested in front of the colonels tent. The First Texas stood at parade rest" while the services were read by the chaplain. The body was brought to Havana last night.
 Transport Mobile Arrives
 Further particulars concerning the shoot ing of negro by the United States patrol on Wednesday night show that Privates Weiss and Cox, of Company E, Eighth reg u,l,n bad in, I, session Krag-Jorgensen bayonet. On his way to jail the man tried to escape and was ordered to halt, but as he continued running Weiss fired shot in the air. This did not stop the negro and Weiss shot him through the heart. Weiss has been arrested pending an inquiry into the case.
 The United States transport Mobile, which left Savannah on January g. has ar rived here, having on board the Fourth and Ninth Illinois regiments. The customs receipts were $21 coo.
 Adjutant General Dorst, of the Fifth cavalry, is critically i'll with malarial fe- yer.
 "King's holiday was observed today, just as though the king reigned over Cuba. The business houses were closed, but the Amer jeans kept the public offices open. There will be a man-of-war regatta this after noon.
 Colonel Richards, General Brooke's ad- jutant general, has arrived here from Porto Rico via Santiago and Cienfuegos. He left Cienfuegos yesterday. He said that Gen eral Bates, with the Sixth Ohio, has arrived there with Dusenberrys Second Illinois bat talion, which makes 1,500 Americans and 30,000 Spaniards camped in and about the city. The Cuban camp is near the Amer ican's camp but strict military discipline is mainta ned, and there have been no dis turbances.
 Condition in Mantanzas
 Colonel Riddle, from Matanzas, who has just arrived, said there were 15,0OO Span iards and 400 Americans there when the American flag was raised There are 13,000 Americans there now, and everything is quiet
 Captain Matias, one of the late Colonel Warng's assistants is engaged in supervis- ing the work of cleaning the streets here. The steamers Roumanian and Covadonga, the latter with 230 exiled Nantigoes, have arrived here from Spain
 The United States transport Manitoba has arrived at Matanzas from Charleston. The United States military commissioners gave a farewell concert and dance at the Trocha hotel last night. A number of dis tinguished Cubans and Spaniards were present