Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A Brussels firm doing business in the 'West Indies -has received u cablegram frdttL.one. of its employes saying an immense of rifles, swords and cartridges, intended for the Cuban insurgent!, have been seized on the Island of Andros, where they had been secretly brought from -New York. Andros lies , about. 150 miles nortk-ofthelslundoi Cuba. The Spanish cruiser Bareastegui was wrecked at midnight Wednesday by coming in collision with the merchant steamer Mortera in thA-eanal at the entrance of the port of Havana. Marine General Delgado Parejo and three other officers and thirty of the crew were drowned. General Parejo’s body has been recovered. CtfpfSuTYba nez V body was also recovered, but te a badly mutilated condition, indicating that he had been crushed in the collision. The cruiser Bareastegui had been employed in going on government business between different parts of the Island of Cuba. The British steamer Tass, at Boston Tuesday from Cuba, brings the report of the evacuation by the Spaniards of Banes, the most important fruit port on the northern coast, and also reports a most serious state of affairs in that part of the island. The officers of the Tass say the whole country is up iu arms and that everybody favors the rebels. So true is t-his that only boys are left in the Port of Banes totead and unload the vessels, the bulk of the male population having joined the rebel ranks. It is also stated that all the rich planters are in sympathy with the -rebels; —H-was-said at liauea and-Gibara when the Tass left that the Brazilian rebd Admiral Meilo was expected any day with a war vessel and 500 men to aid the insurgents, and one of the officers of the Tass who saw Mello bombard Rio says that there is evidently some good ground for the rumor, nnd he further says that Mello can beat the Spanish gunboats with even a single man-of-war.