Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1895 — THE CUBAN WAR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE CUBAN WAR.

The Insurgents Making Headway in the Struggle for Freedom. Recent reports from Cuba indicate that the insurgent army is gradually encroaching on Havana. It is now on the outskirts of the great sugar district and is increasing its ranks daily. According to a letter from the Marquis de Santa Lucia, who some time ago joined the insurgents, the two divisions of the army number 25,000 men and 10,000 of these are well armed and splendidly equipped. One division is under Gen. Antonio Maceo in

Santiago, while Gen. Gomez commands another in Camaguey. Meantime the Spanish army is becoming daily more disheartened and there are numerous desertions to the ranks of the insurgents. Gen. Campos who, when he reached Cuba, announced that he would have the rebellion crushed in a couple of months has utterly failed to make any impression on the insurgents, although nearly 20,000 troops more than he asked for have been sent him. The cry is still for more troops—a proof in itself that the rebellion is serious and that the Spanish forces to-day on the island are unable to cope with the plucky insurgents. The dining-room of the Howell House at Quogue, L. 1., was the scene of a lively time. Hamilton Fish Jr., son of Senator Fish, who is stopping at the - Howell House, with his uncle, Rev. Mr. Fish, appeared at dinner intoxicated and had a fight with a waiter. George A. Martin, of Sioux City, lowa, has sued the Southern Pacific Company for $40,000. He was on his way home from San Francisco on a round-trip ticket which the conductor charged him with having purchased fronj a scalper and Martin was put off. Dr. Erasmus D. Jones died at Albany, N. Y., in his 77th year. He wae-one of the founders of the New York State Homeopathic Medical Society. He vM a thirty-second degree Mason.

GENERAL. ANTONIO MACEO.