People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — AN IMPORTANT CAPTURE. [ARTICLE]

AN IMPORTANT CAPTURE.

Caban Leader Fall* Into the Hand* of the Spaniard*. Havana, Jan. 15.—A report has been received that the railroad station and the railroad bridge at Govea have been burned by the insurgents, the bridge being partially destroyed. This is the immediate neighborhood in which an engagement was supposed to be taking place between Gen. Linares and the insurgents, cannonading having been heard in that direction. There isdSothing in the official report given Ait to associate the destruction of tbs railroad property with the battle, nor are any further details given to the public of any engagement in that neighborhood. News comes from Remedies that an Insurgent lieutenant with thirty followers has surrendered to the authorities in that district It is announced that on Sunday last the Spaniards made an Important capture in the person of Jose Cepero, the second in command of the Cuban column commanded by Gen. Rego. Cepero was on his way from Cienfugos, in the province of Santa Clara, to Batabano, the port south of Havana, with important communications from the Santa Clara insurgents to Gomez and Maceo. The insurgent leader was traveling on the steamship Gloria under the name of Lorenzo Dupuy and had papers upon him in that name to show that he was an American citizen traveling In Cuba on business.