People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — Cuban Filibusters Released. [ARTICLE]

Cuban Filibusters Released.

New York, Feb. 26.—Commissioner Shields has ordered the release of all the men arrested in connection with the Bermuda alleged filibustering expedition with the exception of Gen. Garcia, Capt. Hughes and two other leaders. The prisoners were released because /their arrest was in violation of tire instructions sent out from Washington last week by Attorney-General Harmon, that suspicion merely was not suflicient ground for arrest, but that evidence of intention to violate the neutrality laws was required.

Explosion Rills Two Hundred. London, Feb. 26.—A dispatch to the Times from Shanghai says that the Anhui troops at Kiangyin, ninety-five miles from Shanghai, have mutinied. By the explosion of the main powder magazine at that point 200 persons were killed and many wounded. One captain has been killed by the troops and the general has made prisoner and is awaiting death. “The foreign instructors of the-troops are safe, and are being protected by the Hunan troops.