Show REBEL APM7 r j JT It Is Being Thoroughly Organized and Put In Good Trim New York July 11A dispatch to the Herald from Havana says Major General Pedero Diaz has assumed command com-mand of the Insurgent forces In Plant del Rio province The re > el army of the province is being thorourhr5r re orsranized and put in good trim to cooperate co-operate with the eastern army If the latter succeeds in reaching Havana province The Spaniards have destroyed a numtoer of small forts because they cannot snare men to garrison them An engagement took place this week near Artemisa In which the Spaniards lost heavily Over 400 sick and wounded men have been sent on to Havana In Matanzas town there are over 5000 concentradoes of which EO die every day The Spanish troops have been ordered not to eat mangoes but they disobey the order because they have nothmc else for food Mangoe diet aggravates fever During the last ten days over 800 soldiers were taken to the hospital there The Spanish mail steamer leaving Havana yesterday carried 1000 soldiers many of whom will die on the way home Eleven thousand sick soIQiers have been sent to Spain since January 1 Another American citizen has filed a claim for false imprisonment and damages with the consul general Jose Gonzales for 30 years a resident of Philadelphia claims 530000 for being kept in prison for five months and 30000 for damages to property A local paper published in the interests Gf the merchants in Havana makes a savage attack upon Dr Brunner the acting sanitary inspector appointed by the United States government because be-cause he has reported that the importation impor-tation of sugar from certain warehouses ware-houses here might be responsible for an outbreak of rellow fever or smallpox small-pox in the United States In an interview inter-view had with him Dr Brunner stated that his reason for making the report was that the sugar was shipped from warehouses that had been used as hospitals hos-pitals for fever and smallpox patients a The sugar sacks in many cases were used as beds and he deemed it dangerous danger-ous to have sugar in these same sacks |