Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Advices received from Cuba, via steamship Mascotte, at Key West, Fla., say that a great battle has been fought near Camaguey between the insurgents under Maximo Gomez and the Spaniards under General Mallo. The battle lasted fortyeight hours, and' the Spaniards WererepuTsed with heavy loss. It Is reported that over seven hundred Spaniards were killed and wounded. When the news reached Havana it caused great excitement at the palace. Roloff and his band have been busy, having blown up’ a troop train near Santiago de Cuba and a bridge near Sagua. Spaniards admit the train was blown up, but claim only five men were killed. Advices received, however, state that nearly one hundred soldiers were killed. The hartor of Havana is - almost deserted. —Not u. ship, save Spanish, was there when the Mascotte left. The pitiable rendition of the survivors of the Armenian massacres und the alleged efforts of the Turkish authorities ito retard the work of relief are described in a communication just received at Washington from an American gentleman -bow at the scene of -the—Saesuoamassacre. The letter says in part: “The missionaries in charge of the relief funds are now here, but the opposition of the Turkish Government is so great that they can make but little progress. Two villages, samples of the thirty-two that were destroyed, now marked by crumbling walls, the roofs 60 completely destroyed by the incendiary soldiers that not a chip remains to 6how they ever had roofs. The mass of the survivors of the massacre were scattered about among the villages of the surrounding region and supported by those scarcely better off than themselves. Many have only a few boughs to cover a corner of their former homes and furnishings are bare —a little hay to sleep on, with possibly some filthy rags to throw over them. Food is-very scanty and working tools are lacking. The first estimates of the slain were exaggerated. Probably not more than 4,000 really fell at the time. The others died of want, but the tales of lust and fiendish outrage that come to our ears exceed all we had dreamed of.” "