Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1898 — CUBAN HERO IS DEAD. [ARTICLE]

CUBAN HERO IS DEAD.

Gen. Catixto Garcia Yields to Attack of Pneumonia. Gen. Calixto Garcia, who escaped death in many battles in Cuba, and upon whose head Spain often placed a price, died in Washington Sunday morning. He was one of the Cuban delegates who came to Washington to discuss plans for the future government of the island. Gen. Garcia was one of the great leaders of the Cubans in their rebellion. In 1896 he was placed in command of the army of the east, and such was his reputation as a soldier aud such his success that the province of Santiago de Cuba was regarded as the l>est place for the landing of American troops even before Admiral Cervera took his fleet into the harbor of Santiago and made it necessary that the point of attack should be there. The ojd soldier took a severe cold when he came north, und this developed into pneumonia.' He lived to learn that the peace treaty had been signed. The Cubans in Washington regard his death as an irreparable loss. He was most friendly to the United States, and believed that Cuba would ultimately seek annexation as the best method of securing a liberal and stable government on the basis of home rule. Gen. Garcia’s death was feared, but was unexpected. For forty years he had lived an existence which inured his constitution. to every hardship of the field und camp. He had pnsstsl through battles and plagues, faced bullets and fevers, and when he was attacked by a cold while stopping in New York he laughed at the physicians who warntnl him of the danger attending a neglected cough.