Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-30

are for blood. and are connecting
schemes night and day for shedding 1t.
There is a crisis in the air. OF that
every one feels certain. @
The famine is coming, too. Great car
goes of rice, sugar, spices and dried
fruits were taken to the palace today,
to be packed away for future use. Tho
United States legation is laying in
store. Any minute Havana may close
its entrances and remain in state of
siege, held there by the Cubans. Two
dynamite guns mounted on small ves-
sells We're sighted off Havana today
They belong to the Cubans, The Span
ish warships made no attempt to go
after them. Havana Is holding her own.
Since the riot we have had no public
sale Of newspapers. On the surface
United States newspapers can be offered
for public sale, but so strong is the
anti-Spanish tone that Gen. Blanco has
quietly prohibited them; and you can
scarcely purchase a paper for love or
money. They are bought up by the
government as soon as exposed for sale.
| This is absolutely necessary in order to
| prevent a repetition of the riot of
week ago.
Tho telegraph wires are busy. The
operators are clicking word to Wash
ington and London. Dispatches are
sent to the former every half hour and
to the latter every hour. Americans
must send their letters to Key West by
steamer, from there they can be tele-
graphed. But not from HAVANA
Soldiers are thick in the streets. Any
one may stop you. You must answer
| their. questions and give satisfactory
account of yourself or you cannot go
on. Short replies are punished by ar
| rest. 1t is now Spain against Cuba and
America, SO the Americans in Havana
feel.
The last report is that the batt1e-ship
Maine, the cruiser .Marblehead and the
torpedo boats Porter, Ericsson, Cush-
ing and Dupont are all under orders to
sail here.
chusetts, Maine and Texas are ready to
move down.
We know that six other vessels OF
the American navy are now also per-
forming duties right in southern wat
ers
The Detroit, Montgomery, Marble
head Newport, Annapolis and Vicks-
burg are already in the gulf. scattered
so that they are upon all sides of Cuba.
We can almost see them.
One went to the eastward when the
Haytian affair started. Another carried
the Nicaraguan commission westward
Two more are looking for flibusters,
while the others are ''patrolling.''
The Columbia and Minneapolis are
held in reserve at Philadelphia. the
Puritan at Norfolk, and the Amphitrite
at Port Royal Too far from here
We are greatly cheered by the news
that there are six cutters within easy
sail of Havana, and three can reach
Cuba within twelve hours from the
time orders are received to sail They
are:
The Winona, at Key West, Fla, with
six officers and thirty-two men. She
carries one six-pound Hotchkiss gun
The Forward, at Tampa, Fla, with six
officers and thirty-two men, two 3-pound
breech-loading rifles and one 6-pound
Hotchkiss gun.
The McLane, at Tampa, Fla, with
seven officers, thirty-two men and two
20-pound Dahlgren guns. $50
The Colfax, at Savannah, Ga, with
seven officers, thirty-two men and two
2O-pound Dahlgren guns.
The Morrill, at Wilmington, N &,
with seven officers thirty-two men and
one 6-pound Hotchkiss gun.
The draught of these cutters is from
eight to eleven feet, and would enable
them to nurse the shore of Cuba and
penetrate the rivers, while their guns
would be most effective in an ordinary
shore attack.
At the first arrival of an American
warship hundreds will leave their homes
praying to board it, for we will feel that
the Spanish-American crisis is reached.
Samuel Morrell
United States Citizen.