Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1899 — CUBANS FIRE CANE FARMS. [ARTICLE]

CUBANS FIRE CANE FARMS.

Disgruntled Natives Try to Destroy Property iu Cuba. Col. Ray reported in Santiago that an attempt was made to buru the cane on the San Miguel sugar estates near Guantanamo. The property was saved by the arrival of two companies of the Third immunes. Reports from various quarters show that all the cane fires are the work Of disgruntled Cubans, soldiers who have failed to get desirable offices. Bad feeling exists among the negroes in the Cuban army over the evident intention of the white Cubans to occupy the official places to the exclusion of the blacks.