Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1877-07-12 | Page 1 | Another Cuban Outrage

Another Cuban Outrage. Boston, 11. A letter from Captain Cap-tain Taylor of the whaling Bchooner Rising Sun states that on the 20th of May be was crusingofT the south keys of Cuban on the lookout for whales. About 9 a. m. a school was lighted. Captain Taylor and his chief mate, Atkins killed two small whales and were pursuing others when be was fired upon by a Spanish cruiser and his chief mate taken prisoner and held as a hostage until the arrival of a Spanish gunboat. Tbe mate was detained five days on board the cruiser, when the Spanish gunboat arrived and declared the papers correct.