The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-06-16
Unless Decided Change is Made in
Island Affairs
Must Not be Con-
centrated i'm Small Cities, Where
They Cannot Obtain Sufficient
Food and Medical Treatment, and
Where They Are Exposed to
Ravaging Diseases and Suffer I'M
told Hardships.

| CHICAGO, June 10. A dispatch to-
the Chicago Record" from Washing
| ton says: Unless General Weyler is
Withdrawn soon and there is a change
in the policy of the Spanish Govern
ment so far as her treatment of nom
com batantS is concerned, the President
of the United States will indicate to
Spain in forcible and unmistakabIe Ian
| guage the displeasure with which he
views the atrocities that are being prac-
| ticed upon the helpless pacificos of Gu
ba and the suffering that follows their
concentration in fortified cities. Just
what form this remonstrance will take
has not yet been decided by the Off
Gals of the State Department, who
now have the matter under considera-
ton.
The President has been unofficiaIy
informed that Weyler is to be with
drawn and conciliatOry tactics are to
! be pursued. If such is the case the
whole aspect of the case will be
changed and peace may be restored by
granting complete autonomy without
the interference of this Government.
But if Weyler is permitted to remain
in Cuba as Captain General the Presi-
dent, it is believed will feel compelled
in the interest of humanity to notify
Spain that the non-combatants must
not be concentrated in small cities,
where they cannot obtain sufficient food
and medical treatment, and where they
are exposed to yellow fever and other
ravaging diseases and suffer untold
hardships.
A STRANGE CRAFT.
NEW YORK, June ia dispatch to
the Press from Lockport, n. Y, says:
Last month a young Cuban came here
and took measurement on the canal
locks He could not explain the nature
of his visit. This morning he came
through here on a strange craft, cigar
shaped, fifty feet long, and bound for
New York, where, it is said, he will
turn the boat over to the Cuban Junta.
The boat was built by the Globe Ship
building Works of Cleveland, and is
in charge of Frank Lambson, engineer,
and William Berlin of the Cleveland
company. Three Cubans are on board.
They are Antonio MuzariO, Regina
AguirTe and Calaxto Reveni. The yes
sci is a submarine destroyer The out
er she'll is of steel and the boat itself is
operated by steam. 1t has no smoke
stack, as its generating apparatus con-
sumes no smoke. 1t can attain speed
of twenty eight miles an hour and has
shown even higher rate of speed in a
recent official trial on Lake Erie. The
fires under the boilers are fed with BIZ
luminous coal and crude petroleum..
When beneath the surface of the water
the steam is turned into a condenser,
or reservoir, which will hold it until
the surface is reached, when the vapor
is allowed to escape. Much of the
steam returns to water in the mean
time and is properly secured. The boat
is running through the canal at uni
form rate of ten miles an hour.
Mr.. Boylen said that the boat was to
be used for dynamiting purposes and
to protect the landing of filibustering
expeditions upon the island of Cuba.
This submarine diver is calculated to
battle all the torpedo-catchers and de-
stroyers, and thus fasten death and de-
struction to Spanish gunboats and
cruisers patroling the high seas and
approaches to Cuba