The herald., 1898-02-28

\ strict account than by frantic and unrea
u soning rush into the unspeakable horror
of war.
i "our duty as citizens, as patriots. a
i Christians. is to stand by the presi1en
who stands at the helm OF the ship o
state. cool headed. clear of eye, strong
handed and warm-hearted, to stand by ou
government rather than by any intemper
! ate speech or action to stir up the wors
passions of our nature"
AFFAIRS AT HAVANA
| HAVANA. Feb. 27.-The day has beer
clear and beautiful and the first day of rea
rest for Captain Sigsbee and his officer.
| Chaplain Chadwick tried to make ar
rangements to send the body OF Frederick
Holzer north by steamer, but 1t was found
impossible on account of the health regula
tions. The body found last Friday was
identified today as that of Jagos, the cop
persmith, German.
One of the bodies found yesterday is still
| unidentified.
The divers did not work today. Many
Americans attended church this morning
and more were present at a bullfight this
afternoon.
Lieutenant Commander West, Admiral
Sicard's chief of staff, who came on the
Mascotte yesterday, returned on the same
vessel to Key West. The story that he
brought important dispatches to Consul
General Lee is denied by the latter. Lieu
tenant Commander West. it is believed,
simply brought dispatches for the court of
inquiry authorizing il to so to Key West.
Senator Proctor was exploring THE city
today. No arrangement has been made
by him for calls on General Blanco and
the other Spanish officials but it is said
that he will call on several informally
during the, week.
The report that Captain Sigsbee and the
officers of the Maine will be examined in
the admiralty court this week is untrue,
as they have not been notified. but the
United States officials believe Spain has a
moral right to make such an examination.
American divers, under Captain Sigs-
bees direction. will be at work on the
wreck at the same time as the Spanish
divers and will afford each other such
help as is consistent in viewing the condi-
tion of the wreckage under water.
THE LATEST STORY
KEY WEST, Fla, Feb. 27.-The latest
story as to the way the Maine was blown
up is contained in letter forwarded by
a secret Cuban club in Havana to ]. NJ.
GOWN, Cuban insurgent agent. The club
received it in the ordinary course of the
mail. 1t was written in English, but was
signed "Macquinista" (machinisD. After
long preamble, saying that the writer
knew the Names fate was due to Span
ish plot, the letter goes on to say that in
an old warehouse at Santa Catalina, two
hundred yards from where the Maine was
moored. some diving apparatus had been
hidden, and that from this base two divers
had worked by night and filled the torpedo
holes of the Maine with dynamite car
tridges, connected with a wire to a battery
on the land, from which the cartridges
were exploded. According to the letter the
divers were to have been paid a large sum,
which has not been forthcoming. The Gu
bans in Key West say that the investi-
CATION in Havana has tended to confirm the
statements of the letter, which will go be-
fore the court of inquiry.
An officer of the Maine, whose attention
was called to the story today, asserted
positively to the correspondent that the
torpedo holes of the Maine had not been
opened during her stay in the harbor.
MILITIA RECRUITING
TACOMA. Wash, Feb. 27.-Gov Rogers
has ordered that the ten companies of in
fantry and two of cavalry. composing the
national guard of Washington, shall be i'm
mediately recruited to their full strength
of sixty men each for infantry and eighty
iiici lOl NdNdhy companies iNcNl ulliiS
is being carried on actively and enthusi-
astically. Gov. Rogers will spend an even
ing this week with the officers of the two
Tacoma companies and another evening
with the Seattle officers. the object of these
conferences being to bring the state militia
up to the highest point of efficiency.
ARSENAL ACTIVITY
ALBANY, N. Y, Feb. 27.-The greatest
activity known since the late rebellion is
witnessed at the Watervliet arsenal. The
entire force is working night and day. On
Friday night an order was received for
the shipment of two carloads of twelve
inch projectiles for Fort Hamilton with
the.sreatest possible haste. Yesterday noon
they were dispatched to that point.
Orders have also been received for the
shipment of all projectiles now on hand
to the several forts about New York and
to forward all complete guns as speedily
as possible to the proving grounds at
Sandy Hook. Such an order has not been
received at Watervliet since the close of
the war 1t is expected that the last six
carloads of projectiles will be shipped dur
ing the present week.
MORET'S AGENT
HAVANA (via Key WesD, Feb. 27.-Mr
Graell, the representative of the National
Investment and Production association of
New York and Washington. He is an agent
of Senior Moret. the Spanish minister for
tine colonies. He is man of discretion and
thoroughly experienced in arranging COM
mercial treaties. having been mainly in
srumental in preparing the details of the
last commercial treaty between Spain and
Germany. He will go to New York and
Washington to assist in arranging the
commercial treaty, but to induce the Cuban
party in the United States senate to enter
into certain compacts. The exact charac-
ter of his proposals is kept a strict secret.
but yet he had a two hours conference
with Senator Giberau. the autonomist who
is suspected at Madrid of secretly treating
with the insurgents in the direction of in
dependence for Cuba.
ORDERED TO SEA
PORTSMOUTH, n. H., Feb 27-The first
positive orders received at the Portsmouth
navy yard since the blowing up of the
came to send the warship Alliance, TO sea
on April 1st. She will be put in first-class
repair by that time.
MILITIA ORDERS
DENVER, Col. Feb. PA special to the
Rocky Mountain News from Laramie.
Wyo.. says: ]. Fred Hesse ir.. captain of
Company A, Wyoming National Guards,
has received orders from Colonel Frank
M Foote of Evanston. Wyo., to get his
company and equipment in readiness for
service on short notice. In the event of a
call being issued the services of the mil
itia of the state of Wyoming will be ten
dcred to the president at once.
SPAIN ALSO AT WORK
FERROL, Spain. Feb. 21.-The work of
naval construction and armament is being