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ment redoubled its watchfulness and made 

 Mime inn-rase in the forces in America. The 

 United Slates (iovernment, on receiving warn- 

 ings from the Spanish legation, made prepara- 

 tions to patrol the Florida coasts with revenue 

 cutters in order to prevent the departure of 

 filibustering expeditions in violation of the neu- 

 trality laws. The Cuban Republican leaders 

 avowed, as they have before, that they were able 

 to give efficient financial support, and also to 

 procure arms and supply men, when the Cubans 

 should rise in a mass to throw off the Spanish 

 yoke, but that no rising would take place until 

 the country was ready for a general revolt and 

 military preparations were made that would in- 

 sure a successful campaign. 



The exiled leaders were taken by surprise 

 when Gen. Manuel Sartorius and his brother 

 Ricardo collected a band in the province ot 

 Santiago de Cuba and proclaimed the revolu- 

 tion, and thought at first that the Government 

 had astutely provoked a premature rising by 

 prompting the provincial authorities to perse- 

 cute these young Republican leaders, or that 

 the latter had been carried away by their im- 

 petuosity. Their hope of a general popular re- 

 volt, well concerted and planned, was disap- 

 pointed ; but still, if the reports were true that 

 bands were collecting in the districts of Man- 

 zanillo, Holguin, Guantanamo, and Las Tunas, 

 and that the Spanish authorities had been taken 

 unprepared and a revolutionary force of 1,500 

 or 2,000 men was already in possession of the 

 mountainous districts of the eastern province, 

 which had held out against the Spanish army 

 during the whole period of the revolution of 

 1868-'78, then if Cuba was ripe for independ- 

 ence the co-operation of the exiles would be 

 needed. It turned out that the movement was 

 only the hasty and isolated act of a few indi- 

 viduals. The brothers Sartorius set out from 

 the village of Puernio, near Holguin, on April 

 24, where they issued their pronunciamento. 

 Their band of 20 followers was joined by 18 

 men from Velasco on the following day, and as 

 they marched toward Milas, on the north coast, 

 the number was swelled to 300. Other bands 

 took up arms in various places, but in a hesi- 

 tating, desultory fashion, without a common 

 plan or leadership. The executive committee 

 of the Autonomist party passed resolutions 

 condemning the outbreak and offering- to give 

 the party's moral support to the authorities. 

 The Cuban Senators and Deputies in Madrid, 

 including the Autonomists, expressed their 



disapproval of the revolt to the Minister of the 

 Colonies. 



The Spanish Captain-General, on April 27, 

 called a council of war, and dispatched troops 

 at once to the rebellious district, and 2 war ves- 

 sels to guard the coast and intercept the re-en- 

 forcements and munitions that Sartorius seemed 

 to be expecting from the United States. On 

 April 28 the Governor-General issued a procla- 

 mation, in which he declared that, since bands 

 had risen up against the integrity of the terri- 

 tory just when the country was making rapid 

 progress in its material interests and its people 

 were in full enjoyment of all the political 

 rights possessed by any citizens of the Spanish 

 nation, he was disposed to repress the criminal 

 attempt and protect peaceful citizens at any 

 cost, and therefore placed the province of San- 

 tiago de Cuba under martial law, but promised 

 exemption from punishment to all rebels who 

 surrendered themselves within eight days. The 

 Government concentrated 4,000 troops in the 

 disturbed district. Seven columns set out in 

 pursuit of the insurgent bands, and strong bod- 

 ies were kept under arms in Havana and other 

 large places to guard against a spread of the in- 

 surrection to new centers. Closely pursued by 

 the troops, the companies of the revolutionists 

 dwindled, until none were left except the origi- 

 nal band of Sartorius, reduced to 29 besides the 

 2 brothers. These finally surrendered on May 2 

 on the assurance of full pardon. The proclama- 

 tion of a state of siege, in Santiago was revoked 

 on May 9. 



Reform Project. The Spanish Minister of 

 the Colonies announced to the Spanish Cortes in 

 the summer of 1893 a legislative project for 

 Cuba that was designed to give partial satisfac- 

 tion to the Home Rule party, which hopes to see 

 an autonomous Parliament. The provincial 

 councils, to which a semblance of legislative 

 authority in local affairs was given, but no real 

 control over financial expenditures or administra- 

 tive acts, he proposes to abolish, in order to 

 create one general legislative council for the 

 whole colony, which shall have authority over 

 the Cuban budget and be empowered to enact 

 measures of administrative reform. Although 

 its legislative power and initiative would De 

 circumscribed, the planters, industrialists, and 

 merchants of Cuba expressed their approval of 

 the Government proposal, recognizing any step 

 that brings the budget under control of Cuban 

 representatives as an advance in the direction of 

 legislative autonomy. 



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DELAWARE, a Middle Atlantic State, one of 

 the original thirteen ; ratified the Federal Con- 

 stitution Dec. 7,1787; area, 2,120 square miles. 

 Population, by the census of 1890, 168,493. 

 Capital, Dover. 



(wovemment. The State officers during the 

 year were : Governor, Robert J. Reynolds, Demo- 

 crat; Secretary of State, David T. Marvel, till 

 Jan. 31, when he resigned to accept the associate 

 fadgeship, and was succeeded by John D. Haw- 

 kins; Treasurer, Wilbur II. Biirnite; Auditor, 



John P. Dulaney: Attorney-General, John R. 

 Nicholson ; Insurance Commissioner, Isaac N. 

 Fooks; Chancellor, James L. Walcott; Chief 

 Justice of the Supreme Court, Joseph P. Com- 

 egys. until Jan. 20, when he retired from the 

 bench ; he died on Feb. 1 ; the Governor appoint- 

 ed as his successor Alfred P. Robinson, who 

 lived but one month after taking the office, dying 

 on Feb. 28; he was succeeded by Charles B, 

 Lore; Associate Justices, Ignatius C. Grubh. 

 Charles M. Cullen, and John W. Houston. Judge 



