New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-29
NOTES FROM CUBAN CITIES.
SANIrARY WORK AT HAvANA-TAXEs
REDUCED BY GENERAL BROOKE.

Havana April &.-General Brooke to-day issued
"a decree reducing the taxes on mortgages. deeds.
requests and inhertances so per cent. and In some
INSTANCES to one-third the original amount
DIR. Armstrong, chief surgeon Of the city OF
Puerto Principe. teegraphs that no new cases OF
typhoid fever have developed among the United
States troops there. and that the conValescents
rare doing well. DR.. Wolf is among the SICK.
ia Lucia" publishes telegram from Sanct
Spiritus describing the conditions there as most de-
nIorable The cores pendent says the citizens can
get neither food nor work. and that thousands arc
applying daily for assistance to the municipal an-
.horties ia I.ucha" suggests cleaning and
paving the streets of Sancu Spritus as one way OF
proyidne employment. Sancti Spiritus is propaoiy
the worst managed city OF its size in the world
with population OF less than 10000. 5000 OF thel
Inhabitants are receiving Government rations Inc
entire country surrounding Sanctl Spiritus Is prop
sbly as fine for the purpose of raising fruits Vese
tables and everything required for domestic con-
sumption as is TO be found anywhere Inc ci's
Is doing well as regards stores and cafes, ana yer
there is no local taxation. the revenues oeihs en-
trely derived from the customs receipts OF the
island This source of revenue is nsuncieh. ioi
the maintenance of the city government ana 'no
Mavor Indignantly declares that If he does not re-
ceiye a larger allowance Immediately. he VIII DIS
miss the police force. close the scnoois anu su'
pend the civil government
The condition in the city of Santa Clara Is some
what better than at Sancti Spiritus but II is sun
trouble with Governor Gomez over the "a''ei Vi
PGRsnerai Ludlow will spend s3s5OOO sewerns and
paving the streets Of Havana ana on Tsne ctlens
neerns work Under the new health n fS SeiS honses
Already plumbers have six months %crf f,ne IS at
eand when II will not be possible say truthfuy
Havana has no sewer system ~ Is pi od Of
May and in a few months more this energetic WORK TX
will result in producing a far are Being repSved
and the suburban drives are being bettered mere
are three thousand men at work IN the engineer
fhe Santa Clara Observatory telegraphs the az
proach OF a storm, which is moving IN SOUTH
s newspaper here prints an account of a fight be-
hans at the Mariana Hospital. The trouble arose
said hrSus each se 6eng in in the
hospital seek protection from mythical bsnoitsi
Chairs, bottles and clubs. The hospital steward and
stopped by squad Of the 7th Cavalry. The Mari
snao townspeope are angered the story goes on TO
saw at the supposed brutality Of the Americans,
province DG Of santiago de Cuba reporting that ban
hlts yesterday sacked the villages OF Safo nutid,
Poreg-ina. Caneon and Sauna all in the northern
mart of the province. and that another party or
xfteen attacked San Andres. about twenty miles lies
northwest OF Holguin The outlaws roobea me me
houses at each place. securing principally groceries
and clothing The dispatch says ne ouPan Wene n
salozar with seven men, pursued me Danuies anu
overlook them IN the Vijau Mountains, where , a
driven from behind the rocks. and retreated leav,
ing one dead negro four horses s an1 idsntiae5
as Domingo Martinez. jamaican, who mad long
lived Holguin -,
According 10 la Lucha's" correspondent. the
alarmed inhabitants Of the district will send petit
tion to General Brooke asking authority to raise
Cuban forces to defend the various villages A
SQUAD Of American cavalry has been sent into the
hills from Holgun search for the maraudinG
bands ..,
As bearing on la Lucha's' dispatch. Major
General Leonard Wood. Military Governor OF san,
tiago Department. telegraphs the Governor-Gea
that the planters in the neighborhood OF HoiRuln
= hape-been conniyng AT the operations OF the pan
dts IN order that American troops might De sta-
tionsd on the plantations. General Wood says the
reports Of outrage are exaggerated