Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-02-21
Monday February Il, 1898.
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Pass. No. dup........ ............ 2:osp m.
reight No. 81 INSTRUMENTATION p. Ill.
SOUTH BOUND,
Pass. No. 0:43 a. III.
ass No. II due................... o:3l p. III
Freight No so dua...............12:07 a. IN
F.P. CLURE. Agent.
The whole country is on the alert as
to whether or not the disaster to tbs
battleShip Maine was an accident or Tie
work OF an enemy OF the United States
The tone OF Capt Sigsbees commumca
lions in regard to the horrible destruc
tion of the battle4hipssM is still eau
tions ard reserved He still holds hi
own Judgement in suspense, as he asked
the people OF the United Statss to hold
theirs in his first dispatch. The CUES
tion as to whether the Maine WIS des-
troved bv accident or deslgn is not Vet
settled Capt. Sigsbee say competent
Investigation can determine whether
the explosion WAS produced By exterior
or interior causes" Such competent IN
yestigation can be made by Il diver II hf
finds any noint in the bottom or outside
hull OF the unfortunate ship where
the plates composing the outer sheatin9
are blown inward. that will Indicate the
work of a torpedo projected by an enemy
from without. Ii in all the rents the
pilates are blown outward, that VIII IN
dihates that the explosion came from
within, and viii make the theory Of an
accident tenable.
gSupposing that the ship wasdestroved
by foul play, it does not necessarily fo-
low that the Spanish government IS re-
sponsible. II may have been done by
some spanish Desperate or agent OF
revolutionary society hostile To the exi-
sting government, or by some crank
like Guiteau, the murderer Of Garfield
who disapprOves of the policy al autono-
my and conceived this diabollcai scheme
to end it. Or, it may have done by an
agent of the Cuban juhta for the pul'-
pose Of embroiIing the United States. and
Spain. There are men in the Cuban ser
vice reckless and unprincipled enough
for anything and who will stop at moth
to promote the imsurgent cause.
Ii it ever becomes a welldefined cor
viction in the minds OF orr people that
the Spanish government is responsible
for the aipallIng disaster, nothing could
eyert % war between the two countries.
The American people would rise as one
man and demand that spain be punished,
if it should take our last man and last
dollar.
Tn view of the very boyish performance
of Minister Enrique Dupuy de Lone which
has now come to light, coupled with the
enforced resignation of his predecessor,
who talked too freely to newspaper men
and the recall some years ago OF English
Minister West because of Il letter he had
written. one is led to wonder what
Europe all statesmen were thinking about
when they criticised American diploma
list SO freely some months ago. At all
events our ministers do not get into tron-
that is theydo not get in SO deeply that
they are called home--Wausau Record,
The Mara thon county Jail is supposed
to be one OF the finest and beststructures
for the purpose of keeping those who
have broken the laws in this part Of the
state, but it seems that some OF the M
mates get too familiar with the construc
ton OF the Jail and should they turn
their mind to that line OF business they
could no doubt revOlutlOnlze the system
Jail building an attempt at jail breaking
at Wausau shows that the jail IN that
city is inferior to our own or else the
viyalence of the officers shows slackness.
Two prisoners who escaped once and
were re-cap,ured attempted the samep pro-
cess and ne arly succeeded The Wausau
Record has the facts as to the manner
OF ESCAPE the prisoners planned which
the following will show
1t is evident that Slim Jim and his
companiou in the county Jail, do not
have that comscientiousness about lab
oring on the first day oil the week, that
they should have The greater part OF
Yesterday, was employed by them in
planning and laboring for an escape last
night. Between the hours OF II and l
this morning, the night watch heard
some suspicious noises, and going into
one OF the basement cells struck light.
He saw that considerable plaster was
knocked off the ceiling, and heard some
one working overhead. A shot was
fired in that direction. as gentle indlca-
ton that work should cease. 1t ceased.
Calling up the police, the prisoners were
locked up again. They had broken the
locks on their cages, wrenched away a
large iron bar with which big piece OF
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