The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, December 24, 1896, Image 3
HOW MACEO MET DEATH.
Detail* of the Killing of the Gallant
Cuban Chief.ain.
Havana, Dec. 16.—Following
are tne full details, as cleaned
bv careful investigation
amongst those who took part in
tW affair, of Antonio Macen;
After crossing trochaby laud,
as has been indicated in pie
vious dispatches to the Associat
ed Press, Antonio Maceo and
staff, it appears, were encamp
ed in the hills and expecting
the arrival of Cuban reinforce
meuts, under Brigadier General
Sanchez and others, ordered by
General Aguirre to receive and
escort the noted Pinar del Rio
chief to the East.
.Major Cirujeda was totally
ignorant of Maceo’s presence
in the district, believing him to
be still West of the trocha But,
learning that a Spanish fort on
the San Pedro had been fired
upon that morning by insur
gents, he started out on a recon
noitering tour at the head of a
remnant of the San Quentin
battalion, accompanied by a
force of local guerrillas under
Captain Peaal. The latter’s
men were dressed in a manner
very similar to that of the in
surgent troops, and they march*
ed in the vanguard of the
Spanish column.
Mistaking these for Sanchez's
vanguard, challenges having
been made and countersigns
given satisfactorily, Maceo,
surrounded by members of his
staff and a handful of flowers,
advanced with all confidence to
meet his friends, when the gur
rillas received them with a rifl^
volley Maceo fell a the first
fire, his men, temporarily di»
concerted with surprise, retir
ing by t» e flanks. Youug
Gomez, though he had been
previously wounded at the
trocha and still had his arm in
a sling, assisted, as the engage
ment became general, in drag
ging his chief to a place of
safety on the grass, and remain
ing by his side until, realizing
ihat they had been abandoned
Gomez wrote the note to his
parents which has been pre
viously telegraphed to the As
sociated Press, and then commit
ted suicide by shooting himself
with a revolver.
After the fight the Spanish
scout, Santa Ana, accompained
by the bugler of the San Qucn
tin battalion, while reconnoiter-
ing the field in quest of docu
ments and other objects of im
portance or value, ran upon the
body of Maceo, who was still
alive.
As the bugler pulled the rinff
from his finger Maceo asked in
an ugonizing tone if they were
Spaniards or Cubans
“Spaniards,” said the bugler,
and he raised his machete as
the dying chief said:
“I die for Cuba and Independ
ence.”
As the knife came down,
almost severing the victim’s
head from the body, the
scout, interposing, remarked:
“That man resembles Maceo.”
“Impossible,” responded the
bugler, “Maceo is in Pinar del
Rio.”
The scout insisted that at
least it was a chief of some im
portance, and, tying the feet to
his horse’s tail, he proceeded.
Meanwhile, the insurgents,
learning that their chief’s body
was in Spanish hands, and be
ing evidently reinforced, rallied
and made a new attack and sue
ceeded in recovering the body.
The Spanish officers, unaware
of its importance, cut it loose as
an unnecessary impediment.
It is thus seen that Major
Cirujeda did not know that his
forces had encountered and kill
ed Maceo till after reaching
Guatao at nightfall and reading
the documents, etc.
The full statements of Dr.
Zertucha have not been allowed
to be telegraphed, even to Mad
rid.
It developed that Maceo Ruiz
Rive.a in charge in Pinar del
Rio and came to Havana pro
vince, with the object of assist
ing to carry out the plans
of Maximo Gomez for the
reorganization of the forces in
the central province, to gather
an army of from 10.000*to 20,900
men to prepare for a decisive
and final blow intended to end 1
the war. It is alleged that
Maceo considered the trocna a
good thing for the insurgents
aud that it would indirectly be
an aid in carrying out Gomez’s
plans. Gomez had compliment
Maceo upon the manner in
which his organization in Pinar
del Rio had been effected by the
formation of battalions and
regiments, the distribution of
arms by zones, the putting on a
war footing of 12,000 men, the
establishment of shops, salt
works and hospitals and the
keeping of communication fre-
vuently by small bouts to the
Florida coast.
Dr. Zertucha says that Maceo
never wore the insignia of his
rank. He adds that the party
left Pinar del Rio amply pre
pared to subsist for a long time.
Dr. Zertucha Is also authority
for a statement that many
Bpanish soldiers are deserting
for the trocha, owing to Gen
eral Arola’s ill-treatment.
Zertucha reports that
Maceo was a great reader of
1 the Madrid, New York and * PRACTICED TOBACCO MAN,
I Paris newspapers, which he A with a thorough know’edge of th»
frequently received, and all of culture ami management of tobacco in
which were read or translated all its branches from
to him. He was a close observ
er Of Spanish politics and OII season. He was raised on a tobacco
Washington affairs.
» • •
habits
h politics and of
affairs. Maceo’s
were sober and he
neither smoked nor drank, nor
allowed others to do so in bis
presence. He was a rigid dis
ciplinarian and always traveled
with a small escort. He con
stantly made inspection of his
military organization. He was
idolized by his men, white as
well as black.
It is asserted that Maceo in
tended to remove General
Aguirre from the position of
brigadier in the Cardenas dis
trict and to replace him by
Paul Arango and Arangueren
Maceo opposed the annexation
sentiment of other Cuban chiefs.
He always carried $15,000 to
$20,000 with him, and always
granted quick succor to needy
pacificos. _
MRS GLADSTONE'S INFLUENCE.
She it Sdrewd end Full of Ttct,
the Queen Does not Like Her.
Mrs. Gladstone is in her way
one of the cleverest women in
England, Her existence has
been almost entirely public for
more than half a century. Dur
ing that time she has been
brought into contact with the
most distinguished Englishman
and English women, from royai
ty downward. AsiHy woman—
any woman, indeed, but a re
markahly shrewd one—must
liav«* perpetrated under these
circumstances a host of blund
ers. 1 rs Gladstone, however,
steired clear of them all She
is to appearances al artlessness,
the elderly incarnation of guile
less naivete, and the matronly
essence of impulsive simplicity
It is only in appearance, how
ever. No one has ever known
her to make a mistake, and her
aplomb is as remarkable as her
discretion. To her Mr. Glad
stone is indebted above every
one else for that marvellous re
teution of his faculties, physical
as well as mental, in his extreme
me old age. It is she who
throughout all his declining
years has watched over him
with a solicitude that has ap
pealed to aimost every honest
heart to preserve him from
every kind of harm—nay, even
from everything that could even
annoy or distress him. Heaven
only knows how many object
ionable people she has kept
away from him, switching them
off, so to speak, with so much
tact and delicacy that they fail
ed to realize at the time how
they were being turned away,
and nothing used to be more
amusing at dinner parties at
hich the Gladstones were pre
sent than to watch the warning
way in which she smilingly
shook her finger at any one
who ventured to broach a topic
distasteful to her illustrious
spouse.
As far as the masses of the
people are concerned she is one
of the most ponular women in
the United Kingdom, constitut
ing, as she does in their eyes,
the ideal of what a wife should
be. Of all the pictures of Mr.
Gladstone none has found such
widespread favor as that which
represents him delivering an
open air speech on some great
national issue, with the once
beautiful Catherine Glynne
standing throughout the entire
address, by his side, holding an
umbrella over his head to shield
him from the glare of the sun.
It was at Greenwich, and
sometimes those who recall the
demonstration of popular en
thusiasm on that occassion are
tempted to ask themselves
whether it was the eloquence of
the old man or the spectacle
presented by the white haired
and devoted woman by his Jde,
which was chiefly responsible
for the success of that political
meeting. Curiously enough,
the Queen does not like Mrs.
Gladstone, and has shown this
in a number of ways, most con-
spiciously, perhaps, by her
neglect to invite Mrs Gladstone
to accompany her husjand
when the latter as prime min
ister • as commanded to Wind
sor or to Osborne.—New York
Tribune.
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