Juan Bellido De Luna, a well know Cuban patriot, died at his home in Havana, Cuba, April 30, at the age of 74 years. He had friends in this city, and had visited here several times. His son, the late Dr. De Luna, who married Collector F. J. Naramore's sister, was very well known in this city.

Juan Bellido De Luna was a very wealthy and influential patriot in Cuba 25 years ago, and because of his espousal of the Cuban cause was subjected to numerous vicissitudes, including banishment from the island which he lived to see freed from the power of Spain. About 25 years ago he edited one of the leading papers in Havana, and because of an editorial which appeared in it advocating the cause of Cuba, he was seized, thrown in a dungeon and sentenced to die. Influential Spanish friends had this sentence commuted to banishment to the island of Fernando Po, which is located in the Gulf of Guinea, off the west coast of Africa.

On the trip to the island of Fernando Po, De Luna was shipwrecked and picked up by an American merchant vessel which landed him in New York. He became the editor of a Cuban paper published in New York, and remained in this country until the close of the Spanish war, when he returned to Havana, where the United States Government caused to be restored to him a potion of the property which was confiscated by the Spaniards when he was banished. He was selected by President Estrada Palma as the consul-general to the United States from Cuba and would have taken office May 30 had he lived. He was a finely educated man and one of the most ardent of Cuban patriots, whose death will be regretted by Cubans generally and by his friends in this country.