Show Insurgents Admiissfous HAVANA April 20 During recent + i il 0 > c engagements Between the Spanish troops under General Fort in this province and the insurgents the latter admit having lost eightytwo killed and having 157 wounded Reports received here from La Cretes band of insurgents show a very demoralized condition of things I is said that La Crete is frequently intoxicated in-toxicated and that of twenty Americans cans of an expedition from the United States who recently joined him five have been killed and the rest are disgusted dis-gusted They say they have been deceived de-ceived that there is no war that there i no fighting and that they are living in swamps without clothing compelled com-pelled to eat bad food that the agreements agree-ments entered into with them have not been carried rut and that they are without leaders to lead them to vic tory Persistent rumors are circulated here that Antonio Maceo is desirous of surrendering sur-rendering but no unprejudiced observer ob-server places any belief In the reports At Jaguey La Grande in the Reme dios district of the province of Santa Clara the Insurgents have burned the machinery houses of the Rosario plantation plan-tation and have also burned the railroad road station at Guanabana A dispatch from Mat nzas says that the prominent autonomist leader Artis has been arrested and imprisoned on a poltcl charge but after being sometime I some-time in confinement he was released by order of the captain general The splendid machinery houses of I the plantation of San Narclsco this province have been destroyed by fire and the cane plantations of Loteria Clermen and their colonies have been destroyed with 22000 tons of cone I is now positively asserted that Perico Belgado the well known insurgent in-surgent leader was recently killed in an engagement in the province of Pinar I del Rio n |