Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-12-19
EAGER TO FIGHT ron cUeA.


Hundreds of Americans Volunteer to Aid
the Insurgents In tho War for Independ-
enco.
DENVER, Col, Dec. 16. Armed to the
teeth and equipped for war, company
of 300 men with cannon and camp uten-
sils will leave Denver in few days to
cast their fate with the Cuban insur-
gents. The men will be under the
leadership of DIR. II. l.. Darnell, who
has a brother in the Cuban junta in
New York City. Arrangements are
practically complete. Two hundred of
the men have given up lucrative posi-
lions. DIR. Darnell says he cannot as
yet give their names. Some of them
are military men of ability. They will
pay all expenses of their campaign,
even to the expedition on the sea.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 16.-The Cuban
Junta has established several recruit
ing offices in this state and an effort
Will be made to take at least 1000 men
from Indiana to fight for Cuban inde-
pendence. The central recruiting office
was opened in this city with DR.. E. 1.
Wright in charge, He says he has Sc
cured the pledges of 65 men and that
the first expedition will leave here the
latter part of the week. The other
offices are at Evansville, Terre Haute,
Fort Wayne, Kokomo and Anderson.
DIR. Wright tells the men who call upon
him that the junta advances the money
to take the men to Cuba, and furnishes
them arms. The pay for cavalry and
infantry troops is So month and for
artillery service S27 a month. Each
man is to be credited with three
months pay in advance, out of which
his expenses until he reaches the seat
of war will be paid.
BosToN, Dec. 16.-Eighty-fve men,
strong, intelligent and well up in mill
tary drilling, left Boston Monday night
bound for Cuba, where they will fight
in the army of the insurgents. They
were in command of Louis Marshall, of
East Boston, who was corporal in the
army of the rebellion. The men vol
unteered their services to the cause
over a month ago and since that time
they have drilled each day. They re-
| ceived no promises in the way of re-
| turn for their services from the Cuban
junta, but they persisted in their re-
quests to be enlisted as volunteers and
said they We're willing to die If neces-
sary for the cause of Cuba. They even
paid their own expenses and when they
boarded the cars each man carried in
his pocket the latest revised manual of
military tactics and enough money to
purchase supplies for many days They
will buy their own rifles and side arms.
| GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Dec. t6.-James
| E. Mcbride, a prominent member of
the bar and one of the leading popu-
| lists of the state, issued the following
notice Tuesday: "All Michigan people
who wish to free Cuba and annex the
island to the United States and forever
shut Spain out of American territory
please report at my Office this week"
Mr.. Mcbride in speaking of his move
in aid of Cuba said: Il will have one
thousand men ready to march to Cuba
by the end of the present week. Ar
rangements have been perfected to
take the men to point on the Florida
coast in companies of 90 or more and
ship them to Cuba" Mr.. Mcbride said
that most of the men he had already
enlisted were Germans and Hollanders.
PORT HURON, Mich, Dec. 16.-Cuban
sympathizers in this city have organ
lied At a meeting Monday night
military officers were elected and 26
names enrolled as privates for active
service in the Cuban army. The or
ganizer of the campaign is an attorney
of this city, and the officers and men
are members or eX-members of the
national guard.