The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-09-24
Only a Spark Needed
Last Night to Start
Explosion.
QUIET In MOST PLACES
Several Casualties Noted
Heavy Vote in Cien-
fuegoS.

HAVANA. Sept S-The Liberals ad-
nit that they were badly beaten in the
elections held today TO select members
of the election board 10 serve at the
presidential election to be held on De-
cmber y, but they claim they were
out-voted because the Moderates crowd
ed the polls. and would not admit their
workers, beng aided IL this, they claim.
by the police
kilograms from the interior Indicate
a complete victory for the government
throughout the island
As far as known. the election passed
or quietly in most places. At Placetas.
many shots We're fred during an alter
cation between rival workers No one
was killed although there We're sever
al narrow escapes, and few were in
| jured.
In row tonight in Havana, one man
was fatally shot and another seriously
wounded by being struck by 8 rock
At polling places. the best OF order
was maintained.
The Liberal Club was closed tonight
| owing to a report that Government Sec
retary Anerade intended ordering the
police 20 search the place for arms
Many of the rabble element gathered
J about the club DOORS but officers sta
! toned in windows above, advised all
| to return TO their homes. and tha
| crowds dispersed
| Found Eleven Bombs.
| The governments Santa Clara police
discovered eleven bombs. similar 20
those found at Cienfuegos, which. with
"a small quantity Of arms, Were secret
ed in a place on the outskirts OF tha
city. A Cienfuegos expert, who ex-
amined the bombs found in the room OF
Villuendas. declared that one OF them
contained sufficient explosives 10 blow
UP an entire city block
/ The government has evidence that
villuendas had twelve bombs. but 50
far the police have been unable TO find
others than those discovered In his
rooms
Government dispatches from Cienfue-
gos. the scene OF yesterdays shooting
ARRAY, in which Congressman Enrique
vilIuendas and Chief OF Police Illancs
were killed state that plot on the
part OF the Liberals to blow up the city
! hall and court house and other build
ings with dynamite. has been brought TO
| light
! The plot was discovered through the
action of the Liberals in taking into
| their confidence the Secretary to Chick
| OF Police Illance, a man named Ayala-
Fooled Conspirators.
Ayala was offered a large sum %
money if he would join in the plot and
/ assist in carrying II through He agreed
20 do so in order to learn all the details
of the conspiracy He then informed
the Chief of Police that the Liberals
were preparing TO assassinate all the
judges.
The raid on the Hotel Suizo, with its
attendant tragedy. followed
The house OF representatives at its
special session last night. directed that
| the remains of Villuendas should be er.s-
balrned and brought TO Havana, where
II was proposed that the body Should
lie in state. but, instead, the body was
buried this morning at Cienfuegos. at
the same time that the funeral or Cnlet
IIlance was held
Villuendas' body was carried to the
cemetery on the shoulders of members
of the Liberal party Moderates at
tended the funeral of Iliance and a con-
fict was narrowly averIed in the ceme-
terry.
The latest reports from Cienfuegos in
regard TO the voting today for tie selec-
ton Of members OF the election board.
: state that the election proceeded quiet
+, ly. One small fight occurred at Pfnar-
DeI-Rio in which one man was wounded.
but the police quickly restored order
In Havana, a policeman. while search
ing a colored man near the polls 10 see
whether or not the man was armed
. was stabbed in the back by mulatto
but was net seriously injured
o The situation Is grave. as feeling runs
l. so high that Havana is like a hugs
h powder magazine and all that is needed
e TO cause an explosion IS spark.