Show CUBANS ELATED They Are Delighted Over the Insurgent Insur-gent Victories Key West Fla April 3 Private advices ad-Vices to a prominent Cuban per steamer Olivett last night state the Cuban Insurgents numbering 1200 under General Masso on the 13th ult met a Spanish convoy offnule teams with provisions and ammunition for the Spanish forces After a short fight the escort numbering 500 soldiers surrendered sur-rendered to General Masso The fight took place at Holiquin near Santiago The convoy consisted of sixtynine teams chiefly laden with provisions The Cubans here are elated over the news It is certain a large army of CUan and negroes are to be organized organ-ized in Florida within a few weeks This army will be dispatched from either an Atlantic or Gulf port of Florida It Is expected that quite a number of Cubans from Tampa Ocala and Key West will join this movement A convention of Cuban leaders will convene in Jacksonville in a few days to devise plans for conveying men to Cuba The opinion of wellInformed Cubans is that they must get their men and munitions into the island before General DIartinez Campos ordered from Spain reaches the island The Cubans fear General Campos more than any of the Spanish generals He is familiar with the country and the Cubans say he will put a cordon of vessels around the island and i impossible to land expeditions Where i He Havana April aMuch speculation is indulged in here as to the movements move-ments of Antonio Maceo the mulatto insurgent leader who was recently reported re-ported as having sailed from a Central American port for the purpose of taking tak-ing the field in Cuba against the government gov-ernment It is the general belief that he took passage on board an American steamer his intention being to land at Cape May I is surmised that he landed at Fortune island where he wrote to his colleagues notifying them of his failure to land in Cuba His movements subsequent to anding on Fortune island can only be guessed at There are not lacking in government supporters who charge that Maceo was on board the American steamer AlIi anca when she was fired at by the Conde Vendito off the east end of Cuba and that he would have been landed at Cape May if the warship had not been there to prevent it Sympathy For the Insurgents New York April 3The Ward line steamer Viligancia Captain McIntosh arrived today from Havana A passenger passen-ger reported at Manzanillo where he had been stopping some time the sympathies sym-pathies of the whole city were with the insurgents There had been several skirmishes between the Spanish troops and insurgents but no decisive engagement en-gagement had taken place to rumor was current at Manzanillo that at last I a force of insurgents were about to in 1 vest the town This caused great ex citement among the inhabitants but the rumor could not be traced to any reliable source |