People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1895 — SPANIARDS GIVE UP [ARTICLE]

SPANIARDS GIVE UP

CUBAN INSURGENTS WIN A SUBSTANTIAL victory. Five Hundred Spanish Soldiers Are Taken Prisoners —Provision Train Also Falls Into Bebels’ Hands Alexico Agrees to Arbitrate. Key West, Fla., April 3.—Prlva? advices to a prominent Cuban here, per steamer Olivette, state the Cuban insurgents,- numbering 1,200 under Gen. Masso, March 30,. met a Spanish train of mule teams with provisions and ammunition f( r the Spanish forces. After a short fight, the escort, numbering ."yt< poldiers, surrendered to Gen. Marso. The fight took place at Holguin, near Santiago. The train consisted of sixtynine teams. , The Cubans here arl* elated over the news. It is certain a large army <i Cubans and negroes are'to be organized in Fiend . within a few- weeks. This army vvill be dispatched from either an Atlantic or gulf port of Florida. It is expected that quite a number of Cubans from T.:;-a, Ocala and Key West will join this movement. A convention of Cuban leaders will convene in Jacksonvii ■ in a fevz days to devise plans for conveying men to Cuba. MEXICO WILL BE EASY. Agree to Arbitrate Amount of Indemnity Guatemala Must Pay. City of Mexico, April 3.—The press generally speaks in high praises cf the action of Mexico in finally avert! ug war with Guatemala. There are a f ./ people in this capital who are awwe how closely the sending of a war n ■ - t ' .ve to congress by President Diaz was averted. Yost, rday morning a cable message came from Guatemala to its minister to concede all of - Mexico's claims and sign the treaty, which v. s done at 10 o’clock. The flna| negotiations ar ,. a compromise between t' • ultimatum and reply, it is bell- red that Mexico has agreed to arl-i’ t'.'.p amount of cash indemnity instead of exacting the $2,000,000 first claimed. Cubans Fleeing to Yucatan. Progresso, Yucatan, April 3.—Fvcr;’ shin arriving from Cuba brings law,nur.i ■of revolutionists fleeing from that i eland for refuge in Mexico. S ..■ of the leading residents of Yucatan m ex-Cuban refugees who have s-r safety ,jn this country during fore • disturbances, having never dared venture home. Waiting An Opportunity, Kcw "York, April 3.—A passenger c , the Ward line steamer Vlg'Hnr;--.-, which arrived from Havana, ?< »;<, that at Manzanillo the sympathies f the whole city were with, the incur :mt » and the residents were only wai.ii:,. for a favorable opportunity to hands with the revolutionist force :.