Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1898 — ARANGUREN SLAIN. [ARTICLE]

ARANGUREN SLAIN.

Leader of the Rebels la Killed and Several Soldiers Arc Taken. Havana advices say that Lieut. Col. Benedicto, with the Spanish Reina battalion, surprised the enmp of the insurgent brigadier Nestor Aranguren, killing Arnnguren and four privates, capturing five of the insurgents and wounding others, who made their escape. The body of Brig. Gen. Araugnrou was brought by train to Havana and delivered to the military authorities. After identification it wns sent to the morgue. According to the Spanish authorities Brigadier Aranguren was surprised while on a visit to a young woman on the Pita farm, between Cnmpo Florida nnd Tapiste. He was wounded, nnd on trying to escape was shot dead. Among the prisoners is the father of the young woman. He was the dynamiter of Aranguren’s band. Consignments of SIOO silver certificates arc being received daily at the Treasury Department nt Washington, but so far the number of new counterfeits is surprisingly small. Up to this time only eighteen have been reported from all sources. A petition protesting against the annexation of Hawaii signed by 100 sugar beet raisers of Ventura County, California, has been forwarded to Washington. A track association in opposition to the National Cycle Track Association is being formed throughout the country.