People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1897 — Spanish Are Badly Defeated. [ARTICLE]

Spanish Are Badly Defeated.

From Puerto Principe city, Cuba, comes news of severe fighting, which lasted ten days, between the Spanish columns of Cols. Rizo and Cruz Gonzales and several bands of insurgents numbering 2,000 men, which resulted, after a series of skirmishes, in a great victory for the patriots, the Spaniards losing 800 men.