Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1896, and the Annual Report of the Secretary of State

Mr. Springer to Mr. Rockhill.

United States Consulate-General,
Habana, November 12, 1896.

No. 211.]

Sir: I have been informed by the sister of Laborde, one of the Competitor prisoners, that he was yesterday afternoon, at the time of her weekly visit to him, seized with cerebral congestion and removed to the old military hospital of this city.

Charles Leavitt, another of the prisoners, was removed several days ago to the same hospital, supposed to be ill with yellow fever, but it seems to be a sort of prison fever, induced by confinement and insufficient food.

Ona Melton, it is stated, is greatly reduced for the same reasons.

I am, etc.,

J. A. Springer.