The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-04-30
4 PLOT TO GLOW Up
REAMERICAA VESSELS
spaniards Are Fitting Out an Aux
Hilary Torpedo Fleet to Go for
Sampson's Vessels,
WILL SEEK DESPERATE MEANS
yellow Fever Is Increasing in Hay-
ana and Black Small Pox Has
Put in an Appearance,
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WILL SEEK DESPERATE MEANS
SOLDIERS ARE AN EASY PRE-,
Food Is Becoming Very Scarce and
Prices Are Extremely High
--wtn Round Up the
Cattle.

Havana. April 2T.-Havana is pre-
pairing II blow at the %biockading squad
ron. 1t rs planned to fit out some of
the little gnnboats and sea going tugs
in the harbor~as torpedo boats and at
tempt to destroy IL or more of the
American ships ut night. 3
h government has seized the big
tug Aguilar, belonging to Ramon Her
rera, as well as the Susie, Gonzales and
I'll Cano, all tugboats and is preparing
them for the venture. Guards prevent
approach to the tugs, but the secret is
known to half Havana today.
The plan originated with Lieutenant
Peral, brother to the inventor of the
Spanish submarine boat. Admiral
Manteroia, Peral and General Blanco
have been in almost constant consult
tation since the blockade begun.
1t means IA desperate venture, but if
the Spuniards can find an officer of
nerve Havana can see no reason why
Lieutenant Cushing's feat against the
Albemarlc should not be duplicated.
At this season there are nights so thick
that eve Il searchlight cannot pierce
the darkness. II rains in sheets, some
times the whole night through, and
Lieutenant Pcral's plan is to run OUT
in the midst of the fleet and loose a
torpedo at the first American warship
encountered. There is, of course, ev-
cry chance that the vessel attempting
the attack will he destroyed, but it is
the military and naval gossip that Pc.
raj has himself offered TO make the try.
The useless Alfonso MI. is to give
up her torpedo tubes to the tug. They
have ample material to make the big
Aguilar over into Il torpedo boat. in
Havana.
la LuchA's Enigma.
This plan is the key to the enigma
in yesterdays La Lucha, offering a
leather medal prize for the subscriber
who would guess which OF the Amer
lean warships would be the first to
follow the Maine.
Yellow fever is increasing i'll Havana.
In order to avoid n panic the health
department no longer gives out statis-
tics, but the physicians of the town
ure alarmed aud exhausted by their eff
forts. Besides yellow fever, black
smallpox has made its appearance in
the city.
There are $4,000 Spanish soldiers in
and about Havana, mos of them de-
bilitnted by service in the field and ig-
norant OF the commonest sanitary pre-
cautions. Better material for the
plaques could not be found. The hos
pitfalls are crowded. /,
Two big sugar warehouses at Regln
have been taken for the sick of the
army. The unhealthy season in Cuba
has begun early this year. The heat. is
intense, and although floods of rain
fall every morning, they simply add
sultriness to the weather.
Food is getting scarce in Havana.
Milk is SO cents n bottle, meat is so
cents a pound and hard to get even at
this price. Strange looking beef has
appeared in the butcher stalls in the
poorer quarters of the city. 1t is UNI
doubtedly horse and mule meat,
though this statement caused q row
yesterday. A butcher iii Zanja street
beat a negro shoemaker, who accused
him of selling horse meat.
Blanco has issued orders to have all
the cattle in the district rounded up
for the city's use. There is no stock
cattle to be rounded up except the
work cattle employed about the few
plantations which nave been protected
in operating by the presence OF gar
risons.
I The American fleet is still visible
from the highlands about the city. Ha-
vann is quieter than it has been since
the blockade began. 5a
The fact that the fleet did not re-
spond to the fire Of the Morro's guns
Saturday night has made the Havanese
believe that there viii be no lombard
ment after all. Starvation is still some
distance off and they are sure some
thing will happen to saw the city from
that.
A Photograph message from the Pan
OF Matanzns, q high mountain, reports
that the Americans caught q Spanish
achooner.
Three of the American vessels APP
preached very near to Mariel yester-
day. One is said to have sent a boat
ashore during the night. 1t is sup
posed in Havana that this was an
American elnissary to the insurgents.
The insurgents commands of Perico
Delgado and perico Diaz III increased
numbers are both operating near Ma
riel. Blanco dispatched three guerrilla
commands to intercept the landing
party.
Fort Morillo, that guards Matanzas
hnrbor, got Il chance to fire on. the
American fleet. The papers here re-
cord the fact and say there was no re.
turn of the fire, but that the Ameri-
can ships fled incontinently.
Word comes from M%antanxas that at
daybreak the American warships were
chasing n big Spanish steamer, sun