Salt Lake Herald | 1897-04-16 | Page 1 | Old Glory Insulted

0 OLD GLORY INSULTED SPANIARDS TEAR UP AN AMERICAN AMER-ICAN FLAG Stars and Stripes Were Found in the Bedroom of a American Citizen America Again Slapped in the Pace by the Bloody Butchers I New York April 15A dispatch to I the Herald from Sagua la Grand via Key West says News has just reached here of an outrage perpetrated near the town of Encrucijada by Spanish troops who destroyed the property owned by the wife of the British viceconsul Mr Harris of Saga and tore up an American Amer-ican flag which the manager of the estate of Mr George Harriswho is an American citizen had draped over his bed bedThe The estate of Mrs Harris called La Palma is about two miles from Encru cijada During Mr Harris absence the regiment Estremadura came along I burst open the locked doors and removed i re-moved the day book and other articles I of value Finding the flag in the managers man-agers bedroom the soldiers carried it out with many epithets and tore it to bits Being satisfied with their vengeance ven-geance upon the bit of bunting in the absence of its owners they departed The matter was reported to Mr Harris Har-ris on his return and he promptly laid i before the British and American consular representatives in Sagua who will cause a thorough investigation I is said that the Spanish assert that they had seen insurgents leaving the estate but this is denied by the manager man-ager The American consul at Sagua his friends say will make a full report on the flag incident He is Mr Parker one of the most vigorous American representatives on the island iG