People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — MERCHANTS RAISE A PURSE [ARTICLE]

MERCHANTS RAISE A PURSE

Havana Butlm-s* Men Subscribe 9100,000 to Equip Cavalrymen. Havana, June 13.—A detachment of volunteers in the vicinity of Mounts Augudo and Remedios exchanged shots with the.band of insurgents commanded by Perico Diaz. The Insurgents lost one killed and three of their men were wounded, all the bodies being left upon the field. The merchants of Havana have subscribed the sum of SIOO,OOO with which to organize and sustain two companies of cavalry volunteers. Five men who tried to leave this port in the schooner Candora for Cabanas, province of Plnar Del Rio, without passports and under false names, have been arrested. It is claimed that they were going to Cabanas in order to try to raise a band of insurgents.