Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-09-07
.REVOLTS ARE SPREADING.
NEWS OF UPRISINGS IN PUERTO
PRINCIPE CAUSE MUCH ALARM
IN HAVANA
REBELS TAKE TO SHOOTING
American Property in Many Districts Pill
LACED; Trains Are Held Up; For
eign Estates Robbed.

HAVANA. Sept lit became known
today that the insurrection has spread
10 the province of Puerto Principe. SeV-
enty men have taken up arms at Moran,
that province, led by Garcia CanlZares.
speaker of tue House of Representatives,
during the liberal ascendancy IN that
body. The members of the band openly
equipped themselves and left the town
in an orderly manner. The mayor OF
Moron soon summoned the rural guards
in the vicinity and followed the nsur-
gents with the purpose of engaging
them.
Later the governor OF the province OF
Puerto Principe notified the authorities
here that mounted party OF 2Oo men
had taken up arms at Arroyo blanco'
near CiegOde Avila, twenty-five miles
southwest of Moron. This force is com
manded by Dellon Sanchez, an eX-reYo-
lutlOnary general.
Gov. Silva of Puerto Principe has
been enrolling volunteers. The city OF
Puerto Principe is in state of excite
ment.
Senior Ofarrill, the secretary OF state
and justice, today denied that he paid a
long visit to Vice President MendeZ Ca
pote last night
Peace at Santiago.
Dispatches from Santiago de Cuba an
nounce that rural guards have surround
ed the town of Songo and have captured
Urbano Sanchez, the insurgent leader
there. Z
The recruiting Of insurgents i'll Santi-
ago, the governor of that province as
sertS, has proved unsuccessful and he
aIT dc hot hn hD, NJ
disposal with which he can quickly
crush any uprising in any part OF the
province. He says he had no knowledge
of the existence of any inSurgent organ
iZations in his province
Gen. Rodriguez. commander of the
rural guards, says he does not believe
there are any insurgents in arms in
Santiago de Cuba.
Cienfuegos Is Fortified.
\ band of insurgents, numbering
about 200 men, raided RanchuelO, near
ClenfuegOS. province of Santa Clara.
yesterday, taking all the horses and the
contents of the treasury. $500. The
city hall at CienfuegOS has been for
tilted.
The authorities of the city of Pinar
del Rio have organized a force OF 800
special police and a hundred city militia
men.
1t is said by two reliable eye wit
nesses that Cardenas, which hitherto has
been considered perfectly peaceful
city, was the scene yesterday OF deSul-
tory fighting between police and rural
guards on one side and rowing insurgents
on the other.
peaceful is Puerto Principe. Americans
| having great cattle interests there are
apprphensive lest it, too, become the field
OF lnSurrectonary operations.
Trinidad is surrounded by insurgents
and the government appears powerless
10 protect the property Of Americans and
other foreigners. Railway trains are held
up at will and passengers searched. The
Cuban Central railway has declined to
assume responsibility for the safety OF
passengers or freight.
To add to the general apprehension,
the American Protestant missionaries OF
Havana, who are in general charge of
the field, say that reports from mission
aries outside of Havana are practically
unanimous in stating that the iuSurrec-
ton is sweeping all the country districts
III the western half of the island.
Fear American Intervention.
The increasing gravity of the situation
has revived discussion of the possibility
of Intervention by the United States
La Discussion. the semi-otticiaI organ OF
the administration, i'll an editorial last
evening, calls upon Cubans to lay dowT
their arms and save the republic from
the danger of Intervention. The article
appeals to the patriotism of the people
depicting the results of intervention as
follows:
Permanent intervention would be
worse than death. 1t would be pref
cradle if the Caribbean should enguli
the pearl of the Antilles"
The article further appeals thus tc
racial sentiment:
The cOlOred race may tremble before
the possibility of intervention. Amer
leans hate and despiSe negroes. Ever
their own negroes, with whom they have
been in contact for 200 years. are treat
ed like dogs, lynched, and hardly consid
cred human. If it is so with negroes OF
their own land and language, what
would happen to the Cuban negroE
Unable to Overtake Guerra.
The troops in the western portion of
Pinar del Rio province have not yet
come up with Pine Guerra, and, accord
ing to a correspondent with the troops,
there is no present likelihood of their do
ing so. as the troops might march for
ten years, and all the while Guerra
would still be just ahead of
them in the hills. There are
thousands of mountain trails with
which the insurgents are familiar and
cared to harass the government their
! troops could be killed off by sharpshoot-
ers. The government has no cavalry in
Pinar del Rio, and the only real sol
diers are the artillery men, but as they
are afoot they cannot cope with the
we'll mounted veterans on the insurgent
side.
Misleading Official Reports.
With a view to calming public feeling
a dispatch from the governor of Santa
Clara province was given out at the
palace yesterday, but its statements are
not borne out by any other testimony
Americans who come to the legation
to ask for the protection of their prop,
erty are answered by an immediate cal
upon the government of Cuba. which
promises to do the best it can for them
Charge d'Affaires Sleeper advises all
such callers to file their complaints in
the local courts and forward copies OF
the papers to the legation.
There are many rumors in circulation
as 10 what may happen September i
unless new election is granted.
CONGRESSMAN IS ACCUSED.
8inger Hermann of Oregon Said to Have
Gwen Out and Tin