Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-08-24
TREASON CHARGED
TO CUBAN CHIEFS.
Plot to Assassinate President Palma and
Revolt Involves Son of Gen.
Gomez

HAN ANA. Aug. 20.--Velas Garcia,
| Gen. Carlos Garcia, and Gen. Justo Gar
cha, sons of Gen. Calixto Garcia, Gems.
Monteagudc and Loynaz del Castillo,
and Coils. Piedra and Albert were ar
rested Sunday on charges made by the
secret police of being implicated in a
conspiracy to assassinate President
Palma and overturn the government.
Gen. Loyn2z del Castillo escaped. All
the others were placed in Jail. Warrants
on the same charge are out against Gen.
Demetrio Duany Castillo. Coils. Pine
Guerra. Arturo, Miguel Llarena, Evar-
. isto Estenoz, Juan Gilberto Gomez. and
many others.
All the customs employees have been
armed and the treasury is heavily
guarded. President Palma spent the day
at the palace comforting with the chiefs
of the government Many seditious proc
lamations have been issued.
Receive Money from Agents.
The persons accused are said TO have
received much money from agents
abroad, including Orestes Ferrara, now
in New York.
There were two fights Sunday after
noon at San Juan Y Martinez. The ru-
rales captured two rebels. 1t is rumored
the rebels numbered go.
The sudden blow struck by Palma's
government at the cabal of revolutionists
has brought to light the conspiracy long
known to have been brewing. No po-
litical issue seems to have been evoked
upon which to pin revolt. The attempt
of the malcontents of the opposition par
takes of the nature of political adven-
lures, purely for personal ends.
The conspiracy hung about three men
chiehy-Gen. Carlos Garcia, Gen. 10y
naz del Castillo and Juan Gilberto Com
ez, who We're close friends, and who
shared alike the spirit of protest for pro-
tests sake.
Garcia Foe of Government
Carlos Garcia, one of the sons of
Gen. Calixto Garcia, has been Cuban
minister to Mexico up to about eight
months ago. Then he took umbrage at
President Palma's marked favor for
Vice President Mendez Capotes, who
enemies during the latter years of that
patriots life.
Juan Gilberto Gomez is 4 negro who
was educated in Paris and who has been
a violent malcontent since the republic
first was organized under the liberal
government. About a month ago he and
Loynaz del Castillo went into the prov
ince of Pinar del Rio ostensibly on a
pleasure jaunt, but recent events seem
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fomenting unrest.
Diego Mendoza a Traitor?
BOGOTA, Colombia, Aug. 2O.-Presi-
dent Reyes has declared Diego Mendoza,
ex-minister of Colombia to the United
States, a traitor for publishing a letter
to political friends. The decree orders
Mendoza to present himself within two
months to stand trial, failing to do
which his eXtradition will be requested
In Plot to Kill Fallieres?
MARSEILLES, Aug. 2O.-The police
have arrested an Italian Anarchist named
Cirillo trancese, a bootmaker. on sus-
picion of being in the plot to assassinate
President Fallieres on his approaching
visit the Marseilles exposition.
When Francese's lodgings were
searched the police found a quantity of
illuminate, 500 lead screws, and other
bomb accessories. ell of which uad been
brought from Italy.