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This girl displeased the Spanish commanders, and in revenge they accused
her of being a dangerous rebel, and had her thrown into prison.
She is a very young girl, but a little over fifteen years of age, but
the Spaniards thrust her into the prison where all the worst women
criminals were kept, and she had for her companions tipsy negresses and
all the roughest and worst kinds of women, white and colored.
Every one who heard of this thought it such a shameful thing for a
delicate young girl to be forced to spend her days in the society of
such terrible companions that the women of this country got up a
monster petition, thousands signing it, and sent it to the Queen of
Spain.
This petition urged the Queen to have little Miss Cisneros removed to a
more suitable prison, and to order that she be given a speedy trial, so
that she might have an opportunity of proving her innocence.
Her Majesty, Queen Christine, did order that the girl should be less
hardly used, but General Weyler saw fit to disregard the royal
instructions, and the child was kept locked up in this horrid prison.
Finding that Weyler did not mean to help Se�orita Cisneros, nor yet to
give her a proper trial, some friends went to her rescue. Hiring a room
opposite to her prison, two young men built a bridge of planks by which
they were enabled to reach the window of her prison, and, as the story
goes, after sending her drugged candies to give to her room-mates so
that they might sleep heavily and not hear what was going on, these men
sawed through the bars of her prison, lifted her out on the roof beside
them, and hurried her away over the bridge to freedom.
She was kept in concealment for a day or two, and then, disguised as a
boy, passed under the nose of the police officer who was watching the
steamers to prevent her escape to this country. Once on board and safely
out of sight of Cuba, she confessed her secret to the stewardess, who
gave her some woman's clothes, and took care of her until she was safely
landed in New York.
One of the New York papers, _The Journal_, claims the credit for the
young girl's rescue, and states that the two men who freed her from her
prison were reporters sent out from the paper to do the work. It is to
be hoped that this is not true, for while we must sympathize with all
unfortunate prisoners, we have no right to break open the jails of
another country and free her criminals. If this story is true, Spain has
a just cause of complaint against us.
* * * * *
Se�or Sagasta has published the contents of the note presented to him by
General Woodford, and which was said by so many people to be practically
a declaration of war. It turns out to have been merely a polite inquiry
as to how much longer the war was going to last, and whether Spain saw a
possibility of bringing it to a speedy close.
The Spanish Cabinet has not yet decided what answer shall be made to
this note, but it is thought that Se�or Sagasta will make a statement
about the reforms that are about to be instituted in Cuba, and will ask
that we wait and see the effect of these changes before we demand a
positive answer to our letter.
The dry-dock has been heard from.
The builders of the dock have received a letter from the captain of the
steamer that is towing it.
The letter was written at Madeira, an island off the western coast of
Africa. In it the captain says that the dry-dock has excellent seagoing
qualities, and that he has no further fear of being able to tow it
safely into port.
Up to the time of writing, the captain had made eleven hundred miles
with his tow, and as he considered the worst part of the voyage over, he
expected to be able to increase the speed a little, and arrive in Cuba
about the 8th of November.
* * * * *
It is stated that his Holiness the Pope is trying to find some means of
bringing the trouble about the excommunication of the Spanish Minister
of Finance to a satisfactory conclusion.
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