Show AVOIDING AN INQUIRY spanish refuse to permit a body to be exhumed CONSUL LEES QUICK ACTION mado made demand dad da d for permission to have IL a postmortem post mortem examination of tile the body of an american who was said to have been murdered in prison and being refused cabled a complaint to washington atou Sp spanish ansh re reported ported to have lost heavily in a fight with gomez new york feb 20 A special to the world front from washington says pays consul general lee cabled from havana to tho the state department this afternoon that he had made a formal I 1 request or c acting capt gen ahumada for per mission to exhume chumo tho the body of 0 dr ricardo ruiz an american dentist who was found dead in a prison at guanabacoa tho guards allege that dr ruiz committed suicide but information was conveyed to gen lea that he ha was ives tn murdered it was wag debated to disinter it the body to d determine c ter ints whether it was a case of 0 m murder arder nor or suicide gen G n lee reported that hm hll request in every way it and made in tho the usual manner nas man refused a and rod all his efforts to havo have the refusal re d had proved unavailing lie he asked instructions from the state stale department part ment assistant rockhill Rock hlll placed the matter before secretary olney and in tho the next hour anti and it a half three or four consultations were held on the subject oen ell lee wil wai wa i directed to renew his request for the elie of the body of dr ruiz and to insist upon compliance with his demand in less than two hours after the receipt or of the GOT gen lees cablegram secretary olney went to tho the executive mansion later the matter was called to the attention of 0 senor do de lome tho the spanish Minli minister oter with the request that ho he straightway have his government instruct its represent representatives st ives in cuba to give five full recognition to the rights of the american consul general BUTTE BOY IN CUBA writes of the th landing of an expedition and a fight butto butte mont feb 20 ed mahoney of butte now engaged in carrying supplies too to tho the cubans cuban writes from new orleans under date of the lith dinst to cart capt thomas bordeaux president of 0 the cuba libre libra club this city ma aloney has just returned to new orleans le ails from ono one of the he says in tour four weeks rounds of ammunition were landed in cuba ill bo olden machetes binef dynamite dyna mlle and medicines tho the C cuban u ban army he says Is 18 no now w well equipped for or thes ummer CaM campilia PILIM the last expedition landed after an exciting experience at the Bortha stem part of the island they had anchored and one small boat was approaching the hie shore when it was waa met by a a shower of bullets from a baLt battalion tallon of spanish infantry A band of 0 cuban cavalry find and surrounded the dmn spaniards 1 fda in the fight that waved twenty five spanish and fifty cubans were killed and fifty three spaniards and seven cubans wounded woun del the rest of the spaniards throw threw down their arms aims ai ms some soma trying to escape what were not killed were made pris oneri all the were immediately shot the men wore were held prisoners twenty four hours when they met diet tho the same fate |