Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-05-02

SCfucted 10 secure options on all the
present and future supply.
The Convoy Panther with 800 mar
ines, guarded by two battle-ships,
started for Key West.
The contemplated action Of the pow
ers anent neutrality is construed as
a warning to Spain.
Eight vessels of the North Atlantic
squadron left to blockade other Cuban
ports than Havana.
The entire Atlantic coast is now I'M
der patrol in anticipation of an at
tack by the Spanish.
American troops will first land at
Santiago de Cuba, a place Of great
strategic Importance.
The Canary Islands have been
equipped by Spain with heavy guns
and formidable earthworks.
Havana grocers have pledged them
selves not 70 raise prices owing to
the expected scarcity of food.
The United States will not resort to
privateering and the powers will
probably not permit Spain TO 90 SO.
AN army of 100000 men may be
gathered in Tampa before many
weeks for an Invasion of Cuba.
| Measures for defense are being
taken in Havana. The city, it is
said, can hold out long time.
The naval reserves have been called
to the coast and are assigned to the
various boats they are to man.
Gen. Lee, Assistant Secretary Roose-
welt and Col. Fred Grant, it is said,
will be appointed acknowledgements.
When the Spanish torpedo fotilla
sails from Cape Verde the United
States will blockade Puerto Rico.
The president announces a block
ade of Cuban ports. He also signs
the embargo resolutions of congress.
AT Athens many Greeks are pre-
senting themselves to the United
States forces for the war against
| Spain.
The Spanish squadron at Cape Verde
is thought to be returning home, pre-
ferring to meet our vessels in Span
ish waters.
1t is rumored that one of the Amer
lean monitors had a fight with a
Spanish warship off the coast of
Florida
| The president has decided that
Spanish vessels unadvised OF war
may arrive and unload cargoes and
depart
Europe fears the result of an alli
ance between America and England,
! which a German publicist regards as
inevitable
Congressman Cannon, Ill.,say be-
| tween $15,O0O,0O0 and $20,000,00O of
the $50,O00,O00 national defense fund
is unexpended.
Two hundred passengers left
Havana for New York on a Ward line
steamer, which also brought here
81 ,265, 900 in gold.
The Spanish troops in Cuba have
begun destroying interior towns and
plantations and concentrating in the
coast cities.
The gunboat Nashville fired the first
shots of the war and captured, near
Key West, the Spanish merchant
steamship Buena Ventura.
| lie uIu0S udN0 USCu
placed in position in connection with
the defenses of the Delaware river 40
miles below Philadelphia.
The Prince of Monaco, the man who
runs the bank at Monte Carlo, an
honorary captain in the Spanish navy,
sent $4,000 and regrets" to Spain.
The engineers of the Spanish tor
pedo flotilla are said to have inten-
tionally disabled their engines to
avoid crossing the Atlantic.
Navy officials know the whereabouts
of Oregon and Marinetta, and declare
both safe. A Spanish torpedo-boat left
Buenos Ayers supposedly to head
off the Oregon.
Admiral SIMPSONS fleet stationed
outside of Havana was the target for
the heavy batteries of the Spanish
fort but no reply was made. The
enemy's shots all fell short.
Senator Elkins said he favors pros
ecuting the war vigorously by block
ade, destruction of forts, sending aid
to insurgents and taking all Of
! Spain's colonies as decentralization.
There was mass meeting on Ira
falgar square, London, to protest
against the Spanish barbarities in
| Cuba and the Philippine islands.
,, About 500 socialists and labor men
were present.
The signatories of the declaration Of
{ Paris have not yet decided whether
they will regard coal as contraband.
Spain has requested Italy to not SO
regard it, but it is stated that the re-
quest is not likely to be granted.
The governments of Denmark and
the Netherlands are cabling to their
West Indian possessions to have coal
reserved for naval uses. Only
moderate supply is in store in any
of the islands and prices are rising.
An officer connected with the
naval strategic board said that the
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