Show WEYLES I BOASTFUL Says Cuba Will Be Subdued Within a Very Short Time Havana Feb 17 General Weyler today received the provincial authorities authori-ties of SanctI Spiritus He said that the revolution In Cuba from its very beginning had taken the character of a brigand war and that the insurgents had whenever possible avoided engagements en-gagements with the Spanish forces He prophesied the early ending of the revolution and declared that the pacification of the island would soon be an accomplished fact General Weyler remains In the Sancti Spiritus district A hot fight Is reported to have occurred oc-curred between a band of rebels and a Spanish force in the Tigre hills in Las Villas resulting In numerous losses to the insurgents and the capture cap-ture of the positions occupied by them The Spaniards lost nine killed and 31 wounded General Linares reports that the troops of his column have seized at Cauto Baire a rebel convoy with a quantity of ammunition and supplies Pedro Hernandez Guerasa who for some time has been closely watched by the authorities has been arrested as a political suspect The death is announced of Frapcisco i < v Arazoza publisher of the Gaceta Official Colonel Alfaro reports having a three hours battle with rebels in Matanzas province The rebel losses In killed and wounded was heavy The insurgent insur-gent leader Paul Arango was among the killed The Spaniards had one lieutenant and IS privates wounded Another Big Cuban Expedition New York Feb 17A Sun special from Dallas Tex says Last evening i was given out that news had been received that one of I the largest Cuban expeditions that ever sailed from the gulf coast put to sea Tuesday night for Port Cavallo Tex midway between Galveston and Corpus Christi The vessel carried approximately i ap-proximately 300 fighting men from Colorado New Mexico and Texas all I thoroughly armed with rUles and revolvers re-volvers with an abundant supply of I ammunition I also took about 140000 I rounds of cartridges for rile revolvers re-volvers and shotguns Captain Sillier and Assistant Gunner Bob Allen accompanied by Sailor Tom McDonald were ordered from Florida to Texas a few days after the govern ment seized the Three Friends a second time They were Instructed to act In conjunction with Cuban sympathizers in Dallas Tex and get the new expedition ex-pedition to sea as quickly as possible They did as ordered The 300 southwestern frontiersmen go go to Cuba to fight to the end of the war |