Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1899 — STONE THE SPANISH FLAG. [ARTICLE]

STONE THE SPANISH FLAG.

Havana Hotel-Keeper Makes Mistake in Running It Up. d In Havana, a company of the Tenth infantry was called out Sunday evening to quell an outbreak occasioned by * hotel keeper on the Calzada del Monte running up a Spanish flag. A crowd of Cubans gathered and stoned the flag and threatened the proprietor with violence. The officer in command of the soldiers explained to the proprietor that the fiaffl ought to be lowered, because it was Hkeijr to produce further disorder. The proprietor, in reply, assured the officer that n» offense had been intended, and that, hav-, ing seen the English and German flags flying, he thought he would be at liberty to raise the flag of Spain. Two member* of the company lowered the flag. I At Cienfuegos the Spanish troops, whi*| are thickly quartered in the warehouses and along the wharves, swarm through, the city day and night. Their officers crowd the hotels. The soldiers are poorly, fed and have had no pay for months. They are quiet enough, but their presence makes impossible a proper cleaning of the town and prevents activity on the part of the American administration. The plantations of the district are re-’ suming grinding. The public buildings' in Cienfuegos are still in possession of the Spaniards, and Gen. Bates and his staff, are crowded into inadequate quarters.