Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1899 — News Notes from Cuba. [ARTICLE]

News Notes from Cuba.

There are 2,000 Cubans in the streets of Santiago without work. The new asphalt mines have been discovered at Arroyo Blanco, in Santa Clara province. The Second Illinois regiment, now at Buena Vista, has been ordered by Gen. Lee to the Isle of Pines. In Santiago de Cuba Sunday closings of qll places of business are now in effect, the city market not excepted. An American syndicate has bought 60,000 acres of laud in Porto Principe province for a big cattle and horse ranch. The Chinese of Cuba are emigrating to Mexico. Twenty to thirty leave Havana for Vera Cruz or Progreso every vveek. The United States regulars composing the garrisons of Forts Cabana and Morro have removed their camps to the highlands, west of Cojimar, as a more healthy location. ' Twenty million feet of American lumber is to be employed in the erection of barracks for the United States army of occupation in Cuba, and for commissary and other buildings. Cardenas is so far the only Cuban town i whose municipality has openly and formally protested against Acting Captain General Brooke’s decree removing the old [ fiLviAnacf* atamn Aawna 7 I DpaUlbU Slump