Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — KILLED BY HUNDREDS [ARTICLE]

KILLED BY HUNDREDS

FIERCE BATTLE TAKES PLACE ON CUBAN SOIL. Two Htmdred and Eighty Insurgents Killed, While the Government Loss Is Only Fifty—Desperado Killed on i the Street in Chicago. Hanged the Messenger. A severe engagement has taken place between the Spanish troops under the command of Col. Azuar and Gen. Rabi, Ihe insurgent leader, at the head of a large force. Two hundred and eighty of the latter were killed. Maj. Sanchez received information to the effect that a force of 1.500 insurgents under the command of Rabi had occupied strong positions near Manzanillo, province of Santiago de Cuba. Consequently the Major sent a messenger to his superior officer, Gen. Azuar, proposing to him that they should join their forces and .make an attack upon the insurgents. The messenger, however, fell into the hands of the insurgents, who hanged him and sent word to Maj. Sanchez in the name of Col; Azuar to make an attack upon the insurgent position from a point which compelled the troops to approach the insurgents through a narrow thoroughfare. The soldiers carried this position and put the enemy to flight, with the loss upon the field of 280 killed. The troops lost fifty men in killed and wounded.

Chicago Thief Killed. Two thousand persons saw a policeman kill a man Monday night in the heart of Chicago. The man had tried to rob a saloon and kill the man who owned the place. He was put to flight and dashed into the street with the saloon-keeper in pursuit. Through several crowded blocks they ran, over a fable car, and then a mob joined in the chase. The would-be thief fired at his pursuers and wounded two of them. He was brought to bay at last and shot to death. The chase began at MeGloin’s saloon, No. 64 Adams street. The man was killed in front of the woman’s entrance to the Auditorium Hotel in Congress street. The three men who were wounded were badly hurt and one is not expected to live. Trolley Runs Away. At East Liverpool, Ohio, a trolley car with thorty passengers on board became unmanageable and slid down, the Franklin avenue hill on the north side of the city, killing one man and injuring sixteen other people. Nine men were badly injured by the derailing of a trolley car at North Buffalo, N. Y., and a south-bound Paulina street electric ear jumped the track in Chicago and as a result of the accident several people were injured.