Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-02-24
OUTLOOK is LESS PROMISING
Intense Anxiety Is Shown by Spanish Off,
cials-spain Will Never Sell Cuba.
Hanna Repudiates an Inverview.
Terror on Waiting Orders.

United States were never so much in.
danger of rupture as now. This is the
general feeling. The commercial classes
here are hopeful of American interven-
ton on peaceful lines, but what they
base their hopes on is unknown. The
insurgents continue to win minor mill
tary successes. The autonomists are
restless, and some of the leaders seem
on the point of breaking away from the
government. Army officers continue
to show an anti-American sentiment.
They are apparently the only class that
does not look for an early crisis.
The outlook does not grow more
promising. The exact statement is that
the government officials were never So
much disturbed as today This is part
ly due to information from Washington
and Madrid.
Naval Officials Not Talking.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-There was q
total lack of official news respecting the
Maine disaster in both state and nayy
departments up to noon today, no tele.
grams having come in over night and
none having been dispatched. A re.
mln,-ef OF the disaster, however, reached
the navy department. in the shape of a
water stained and brine favored pack.
age, enclosing the medical journal OF
the Maine. While there remains an
ar OF expectancy among the naval off.
GERS whenever there is the least sup.
gestion of news from Havana. the de.
partment appears to have. settled pretty
well down into its old routine. No or.
ders have yet gone out to the big double
turreted monitor Terror, so the situa-
ton as to her remains as it did yester
day, when Secretary Long stated that
she was being held for orders at Nor
folk. In regard to the statement com
ing from Key West that naval officers
had been warned by Admiral Sicard. at
the instance OF the navy department,
not to discuss the Maine disaster pub
icly and with newspaper men, it is said
by naval officers that this is only the
usual course, for the regulations espe.
cially prohibit such discussions as ara
calculated to affect improperly the con.
cluslon OF the court of inquiry and also
perhaps to cause interposition of obsta.
cles to the investigation 1t is probable
that like instructions have been given
to the few new naval officers who re.
main with Captain Sigsbee at Havana,
engaged in paying the last sad rites to
the bodies of the victims.
Consul General Lee, in the course OF
a friendly talk in Havana with Ameri.
cans, may have expressed the view that
there are at present other places more
desirable as resorts for persons who
have no particular business there, than,
Havana, but the state department auth.
orlzes the announcement that it has
not yet been advised thut he has either
officially oBsemioficially delivered him.
self OF any expression on the subject.
1t is also said at the department. that no
message has been conveyed to the own
ers OF American vessels at New Orleans
or elsewhere that it would not Be safe
for them to visit Cuban ports at this
time. The battleship Texas and the
gunboat Nashville will leave Galveston
today for Key West, where they will
reloin the other vessels of Admiral
Sicard's squadron at that point. The
Nashville has been thought Of in con
nection with the determination to send
another ship when the present excite
ment has calmed, the choice living he.
tween the Nashville and Montgomery.
No determination, however, has vet
been reached on that point,
Hanna Says There Will Be No War.
WASHINGTON Eah 0n Sanca+;o,,,l