The record-union., 1899-07-22
A Satisfactory Explanation Has Not
Yet Been Made.
Evidences Point TO the Murder Of the Gap-
tain by the Grew Of the Ship.
Three Of the Men Accused Of the
Crime Placed Under Arrest on
Their Arrival at San Juan,
Porto Rico.

HAVANA, July 21-The schooner
Galilee cleared from this port in April
last for a port in Pinar del Rio prov
ince, but never reached her destination.
Her Captain, at the time of sailing,
had in his possession the sum of $6,
600, and was accompanied by his neph-
ew, an 1S-year-old boy.
The disappearance of the schooner
has never been satisfactorily explained,
but in May a rumor reached Captain
w. L. Pitcher, Superintendent of the
Department of Corrections here, that
four colOred sailors, accompanied by
white boy, were squandering money in
the city. Steps were taken for the ar
rest of these men, but before they
could be taken into custody they dis
appeared.
An investigation was begun, and it
was proved that the negroes in ques-
ton had been aboard the missing
schooner when she sailed, but had re-
turned the next day in small boat,
explaining to their friends that the
schooner had gone down in the night
during a severe storm and the Captain
had been lost. The men finally took
passage for Spain, taking the boy with
Pitcher cab1ed to San Juan de Porto
Rico, at which port the vessel on which
they sailed was to touch. requesting the
authorities to take the men into Gus
tody upon their arrival there One of
the negroes who acted as mate of the
Galilee, and the boy left the vessel at
Ponce and embarked upon another ship
for Spain. Consequently, only three of
~ Co
Captain Pitcher has just received a
cablegram through Senor Sagrario, the
Spanish Consul General here, advising
that Vigo, the mate, and the boy had
been arrested in Ferrol, Spain, and
were held subject to requisition from
Havana
At a meeting of cigarmakers held at
Bejucal, province of Havana, it was
decided to subscribe 5 per cent of the
earnings of all present for the benefit
of the strikers at Tampa, Fla. Other
cigar manufacturing centers intend to
follow this lead until sufficient
amount has been subscribed to keep
an the strikers on full pay as long as
1t is necessary, the intention being not
only to aid the strikers, but to bring
extra business to the cigarmaking in
dustry here. 1t is claimed that the own
ers of many factories desire to see the
strike continued, and will subscribe lib
orally to the fund for the support of the
men who are out in Tampa, believing
that much of the business which was
lost to them during the war can be
brought back if the strike is maintained
for a sufficient length of time, and they
will do all in their power to prevent
the defeat of the strikers.
A meeting was held last. night at Reg
la by the Laborers' Society for the pur-
pose of making collections to assist the
Tampa strikers. AS a result of the ar
rest of some of the men who are out,
delegation of the laborers here waited
upon Senior Manuel Despaigne, acting
Secretary of State in the Governor Cen
erals Advisory Cabinet, urging him to
assist the men who had been arrested.
Senior Despaigne promised the delega-
ton that he would render them all the
assistance in his power
The Havana cigarmakers have ap-
pointed committee to take such steps
as they deem best to aid the strikers.