People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1896 — WORRIES WEYLER. [ARTICLE]

WORRIES WEYLER.

OUR RECOGNITION OF CUBAN BELLIGERENCY. Spanish General Losing Sleep Over the Question—The Usual Defeat of Insurgents Reported 'from Havana General News of the War. Havana, March 18—Captain General Weyler betrayß the fact that he is greatly worried about the status of the question of recognizing the belligerency of the insurgents. Before the serious engagements at Candelaria there were five separate engagements with the insurgents. General Suarez Valdez and General Linares have each had an engagement near Candelaria, province of Pinar del Rio, with the insurgents. The latter are said to have lost 200 killed and wounded. They are being pursued by the troops of the two generals mentioned and by other Spanish troops. Six thousand insurgents under Maceo tried to penetrate into Sagua. The Spanish garrison, under Colonel Inclan, repulsed the enemy, killing twenty-two and wounding eighty. The insurgents set fire to the suburbs of the town. There are 226 * political suspects and prisoners of war in Sagua jail, who will be sent to Havana. The guerrilla regiment of Sagua fought a band of insurgents at Guayaba, killing four and wounding seventeen. Several bands of insurgents united again and attacked the guerrillas at the plantation of Carolina, which had already been burned. After an hour’s firing the insurgents were dispersed, leaving seven killed and carrying ofT their wounded. The guerrillas had one killed and three wounded. it is announced that the insurgents have killed fourteen farm laborers at Palmyria, province of Matanzas, and it is added that the local guerrilla force, which went to the assistance of the men in danger, were fired upon,'with the result that five of their number were killed. The insurgent forces commanded by Pancho Perez have destroyed by fire the cane fields of fifteen estates in the province of Matanzas, involving the loss of 1,125,000 tons of cane. Five colored men were charged with horrible assassinations of families at Cayabaos, province of Pinar del Rio, last year. They are being tried by court martial. Insurgents have burned a fine railroad bridge at Coatajales, province of Matanzas.