Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1895 — CUBA'S BIG VICTORY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CUBA'S BIG VICTORY.

’4SSM3SKrSBf4&I Jy £. Killed by Hundreds. :i was fflP It. .in a jwap ®' e l> t - 1-1, who OWi rwhon^ai^o%^j^delStAil In a law i«Jgage|iemt Ittvro Wpßc4&ured by senten^K tiywSßve^M^rasfiSfffifla tone 1 shot. Trai' sentence was carried out while Rovira 61 the. Spahmvds>Aiphi(<|f< pgp Gen. Tose Maceo Torftned~hls feWp-meu In a plantation house-near th<r€««u>*§ra hospital. * The Spanish Avere crosing in on him some daj-s later whep Sen. and a Cuban column came to.hu relief and made the enemy jevmwnte theii pqsition.* A ehtsagemept ir; which the Spatoish regained *thdr posi' lien, but were liable toJiolS.it tofeyn 'uen.' Ahfbnio on the scene, and, with Cebrec-o and C» .Alienbinit, suceeededcm'yrce|tingsitSßiii l Canalle-and Ggrlko, who' c&mfnindM Tnf • 0 a. -fi|rtil y. o.eigtejt be ► when it was discontinued until the dawi ;

of, theyjteS*-Jeyr-Sert." I. Q ] then" la'Tfetfeat until.,th e 3| reached, the • Igubaimbano • field; wnert. they were able to use their cavallT, -Almifc 1 was impossible on the bfc SAnt3 Marla.' Th'ey'did not gain howevjif.’find afrdr thoir proviu.lons -they -continued to -retrfeqt to tanifi* which place they- cttteredMa- kba'f- : tered groups. 'Phe Cubans had- no cavai rj,i .hut model effective Use bf dypaiiiitV bpmb.s, which, the letter states, Afrti&k . terror to the enemy. In tha engagemenj the CubaJis’ lpss was forty men, wounded' and Killedl The Spaniards last ; oyer ! sofl -men, forty hoi-sds-liild"al fafge '.store : oi’ provisions ;and muhit.ib«A‘df iwo*.--! The’ ; Spaniards, after the. battle, spot a 'cjaKlT •to Spain headed I'.,‘Th.e 1 '~ ‘ Th.e cttplM reward and the advnncg of the officers ii io Cubans Elect a President. Sept.lQ-a-.Qoustit-utiD«aicsmyqntipn:wM-,lh^diftt'KAjnsa,af^i,fiiclt©attofemt'i#(fss6r > was elected President. of the Ouban re--pahlin, Mwenuiivjif. HatitarLpi l !!! "Bfj tne Inferior, Thomas Estrada Palma f ,jtipresentative of the Government in, th£ chterr Some tinfp ago ,when delegates wlrbieftlleok/hfiftw LuHfe* wtfiPii£miond/c ik«; Pifepittent lmbrfesSibn prevailed tfat he ( was the deptimad’ GonstitPtiOnal-P-reiident: sV Mus-'' so | was born sixty ypars fgolatjManzan; 1116. u He is. highly cqpnected and thor-, ougldy ? edueatecL; 'lid left 1 ManAaiiilicr Ebb- and - \v ds, yoii-sidtimd ttft.thfl head of the revolution in the .eastern- de-pai-tment. V; Wh'dn tliife obcuri-ed a committee qf • promipeht - fiufopwi niists aiid some chiefs of the former revolution to dlssuade him, but he was dot 1 pliable. The jco&niittee w,ent. |gain,.te-; enforced by ex-resident Sportono, Who, during his term, published a decree to put to death any person who- should (propose anything but Cuban independence. Mas-, so tecdiVdd 1 him, bnt r idatroiig hisT«rt>osP, 3 ;tqld hiip ,to,leave,the(pamp immediately or his own decree would be enforced. News has been received fit military headquarters in Havana of a desperate -fight at Mefi, near .Palma Sola,-province ! -of Santa Clara; between 300 insurgents', led by Beyiphides; and Ffeitcs, and-a *le-[ tachment of Government;cavalry under '(Japt. Riesfra.’ Thb vanguard of the cav-•ah-y, eonsis-tiqg .of a fawngeanGand -sevien privates, were firyt surrounded by r,thc

Insurgents, and In tne engagement every one of the vanguard was killed. By this time Cnpt. Rieatra, with the main body of cavalry, thirty In number, came up and eafeugCtl the Insurgents, whom he forced .to retnoat; leaving’thteei of their humbct ,4ead 'op the field. .Their, woundep they •caiVied off with them when they reitneMtedi.i ■;[ vrut in tt;nd H VAs the cruiser, IjarcjMtegyi, yhicb was sunk'by the merchantman Mortera Wed- ' nestjayl night,, constitutes a‘ danger to tepwels leaving or entering the portal HaVajna, it has been decided to break up ithsihpH if the vessel with dr samite. The r ? ft W d to work. upon. ;th«i wrec* nccotfnt of. the danger from Jrthdrkß.tt&d localise *Mi iia ]t> ™‘ nt ' jyjfi., i Sparks from the Wires. i Tljcj ball at Bar Harbor in honor M Sectary of the {* g yj_.Herbert,.was n 'brilliant social success. 1 *?*! sloop Jnmbo sunk /( Jvcwbjir*-1 iiUrty blase., and Capt. Stephen Orr and ,pll»orgfe Wqleh ;wt,re drowned. .w.K|je men)bert. #l n Staten Island (N. ffWifJ oop,jr w bfi "Jpslanja^bA’ M Sind'ky.'vas rocked from hit position by the swell of an Incoming steamer and drowned. ' %

OLD SPANISH FORT, SANTIAGO DE CUBA.

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