If this is true, it will be a very severe blow to Spain.

Reliable news has come that another part of Gomez's force has captured the
town of Holguin, an important town in Santiago de Cuba, and one of the few
strong-holds the Spanish still held in that province. It is said that
quantities of stores and ammunition fell into the Cubans' hands.

A telegram from Havana says that Fondeviella, now a lieutenant-colonel,
has been made Chief of Police in Havana. The Spaniards must certainly
approve of this horrible man's conduct, and Havana is likely to feel still
more uneasy with such a person in power. A later telegram reports the
capture of General Ruis Rivera, who was in command of the Western
Division. If this is true it will be a sad check to the Cuban successes.

[Footnote A: A very good map of Cuba may be purchased on news-stands for
10 cents.]

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Reports have come that the dynamite-gun, of which the Cubans were so
proud, has proved a failure.

The various nations, all over the world, are watching the trial of this
gun with the greatest interest. It can be so easily handled, can be
carried by ten men, and put together and made ready for firing two minutes
after it is unloaded, that other nations are anxious to see if it is
really the valuable weapon it is claimed to be.

Besides the advantages of being light and easy to handle, it can be fired
without noise or smoke, and therefore its whereabouts are not easily