Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-11-27
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LII JIG SISUll SOuIl " -ApDlCLOH N1S., IL.
W. Bass, of Fond du Lac, has recovered a YER
diet of $500 against the Chicago & North
western Railway for his forcible ejectment
from the ladies' car last winter.
The Secretary of War, who was in New
York City on the 18th, is reported to have
said to an intimate friend who called on him:
you are aware that | have been considered
somewhat bloodthirsty in this matter, but the
entire Cabinet are now of my mind. At a
Cabinet meeting held yesterday we were a
unit, and if the American people are not salts
fed with the measures resolved upon at that
meeting to vindicate the National honor, they
must be very hard to please"
The Postrnaster-G General has finished his
annual report. He renews his recommended
ton of a Government postal telegraph, and
enforces at length his views in favor of post
office savings banks. He makes no recon-
mendation of subsidies to steamship lines for
carrying the mails.
Work continued in the Navy yards on Sum
day, the 10th, seven hundred men being en-
ployed at Philadelphia, getting monitors ready
for service.
In a conversation relative to Cuban matters
on the 18th, President Grant said the Gov
eminent was being careful in what it was
dong, and might do, to work upon facts and
not upon assumptions and unfounded reports,
as II was essential that We should be prepared
to maintain our position. He said he shared
IN the denunciation by the public Of the cap
ture on the high seas Of a vessel sailing with
regular clearance papers under the United
States flag, and the startling events which
! Followed Snaip ravar bayfpr appc;IoraI tho
island of Cuba in a State of war, and there
being no proclamation by the United States
according belligerent rights to the insurgents,
the Virginius, if regularly cleared for the
Island of Cuba, had a right to enter
Havana or any other open port of the
the Spanish possessions. This Government
did not recognize any right on the Part
Of Spain in the present state Of affairs to in
t%erfere, in any manner with our merchant ships
upon the seas, except In the usual right in her
own ports, and within one marine league Of
the coast of Cuba or her dominions, and Of
this fact she is aware. He said further that,
as a matter of course, it is the determination
of this Government to protect our citizens in
all their rights, and to compel respect to the
flag. The present naval preparations were
made with this in view, and not to initiate war
by the President; that power being vested in
Congress, but to be prepared for all possible
contingencies.
The charge for registering domestic letters
is t. be reduced from fifteen to eight cents, to
take effect January l.
At a ~mass-meeting of American and Cuban
citizens held in New York on the night of the
nth, it was unanimously resolved that the
Government ought to take the promptest and
most decisive measures in relation to Cuban
affairs, and war was invited as preferable to
submission to the late Outrages.
A Chicago morning daily of the 18th says
the dispatches from all parts of the country
indicated that the popular sentiment as to the
Cuban business was "warlike to a degree that
has not often been witnessed in this country.
In many places this takes the form of offers
of troops, and it is scarcely e~xtravagant to
say that these are sufficient already to consti-
tute an army that could march from one end
OF Cuba to the other. In this State alone the
companies that have rendered their services
would make a brigade Of infantry and q regi-
ment of cavalry"
A Washington dispatch of the 18th SAYS the
Navy Department had ordered recruiting Off
ces to be opened throughout the country, and
the navy will be recruited to the utmost
capacity allowed by law. Recruiting was going
on briskly in Washington.
Tho National Trust Company of Pittsburgh
has suspended.
About half the business portion of Upton,
Mo-, has been destroyed by fire.
A statement is made in a letter from
Havana, recently received in New York, that
on the night of The 18th inst, when the news
OF the capture of the Virginius reached
Santiago, the Spanish volunteers in their
tiendish exultation over their triumph, visited
the widows of the Masons who were shot in
1868, and b~rutally outraged the helpless wo-
men, and in the struggle lit is stated four of
the women were killed, sew en- had since died,
AID several were in such a dangerous condi-
ton that they could not possibly recover. A
petition was being circulated in New York
City, and being signed generally by the Mas
tiers of Masonic Lodges residing in New York.
and Past Masters of Lodges residing in the
city, calling for an emergent session of the
Grand Lodge of the State to take such action
as might be necessary in the case. Similar
action on the part Of the Masonic fraternity
was being taken in New jersey and Massacbu-
sets.
Unusual activity prevailed in the Washing
ton navy yard on the 10Th, and in some of the
departments overtime was being made. A
large force was engaged in the Ordnance De-
partment making ammunition.
1t was said on the 10th, that the impression
was general in official and sther circles in
Washington, that the Spanish Government was
disposed to make every effort to settle the i'm.
pending difficulties, and gentlemen who held
intimate personal relations with the President
asserted their belief that war would not arise
from the existing complications, inasmuch as
Spain, through the Castelar, Government. gave
assurances that all the demands of this Gov
eminent would be complied with.
Washington dispatches of the Goth say it was
evident that Cuban matters would REQUIRE
much correspondence, and consequent de-
lay. 1t was asserted in prominent quar-
ters that no complications need be feared.
as the Administrator sees its way clearly
ana while war will be averted the probability
Is that Cuba will be free. The Secretary of
State had received a dispatch from Consul
General Hall, at Havana, stating that the
Consulate at Santiago reports, under date
of the 18th, that the total number of exac,,-
tions of persons from the Virginius was fifty-
three, and that there had been no executions
since the Sth inst. The statements puhlished
there on the l4th, respecting ffty-seven addi-
tiOual executions prove to he upfoupdad