Show MAKING THEIR LiVES A MISERY Spanish Authorities Have It in for the Americans in Cuba THE LATEST OUTRAGE A31BRICAIVS RESIDENCES SEARCHED SEARCH-ED DY SPANISH SOLDIERS I I Work Performed in a Most Brutal Manner Kuriiitare Being Destroyed Des-troyed and the Contents of Trunks and Wardrobes Scattered Many Young Men Leave to Join the Insurgents Spanish Volunteers Volun-teers Fire Sugar Plantations KEY WEST Fla Aug 10 Advices from Havana via steamship Mascotte state > that the Spanish authorities are making life unbearable for Americans on the island They are hounded by I Spanish spies and their homes searched on the slightest pretext The latest l outrage was committed las IL Thursday in the city of Puerto Principe when the residences of several American citizens were searched by Spanish soldiers The soldiers claimed to be in quest of arms and compromis inn documents The search was conducted con-ducted in the most brutal manner furniture fur-niture being destroyed and the contents of trunks and wardrobes being scattered scat-tered Nothing of an incriminating nature was found save in a room occupied by a Cuban woman The woman had a revolver re-volver and her two little girls had correspondence cor-respondence addressed to the chiefs of I the Cuban government at Cufoitasi The mother and girls were hurried off to prison as spies and Weyler has ordered them court martialed Recently many young men have been leaving Puerto Principe to join One insurgents in-surgents The last parity to leave was discovered by Spanish soldiers and three of them Alfredo Adan Miguel Nunez and Augustine Torres were captured cap-tured They were promptly court mar tiaied and sentenced to be shot Torres Tor-res claims to be an American citizen and at his trial protested < against tlhe summary methods of the Spaniards His protest was unheeded and he will be executed unless the United States interferes in-terferes |