People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — HEAVY LOSS FOR REBELS. [ARTICLE]

HEAVY LOSS FOR REBELS.

Cubans Overhauled bv Spanish Troops and Many Are Klein, Havana, July 10.—Lieut. Trujillo has had a skirmish with a band of insurgents under.Regino AJfonse at the Ponce plantation, near Cardenas, province of Matanza. Two of the insurgents were killed. Rabi, the insurgent leader, at the head of 1,200 men, has compelled Maj. Sanchez, with- 400 men-,- to retreat. Gen. Gasco has had a three days’ Ught with the Insurgents in the Sierra Maestra, The insurgents lost a great many killed and the troops captured a quantity of arms, ammunition and horses. No further details of the fighting have been yet received. The steamer San Francisco has arrived here from Spain with 2.200 troops and the steamer Antonio Lopez has arrived with 250 troops.