Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-04-28
TnrRSDAY. APRIL ~, 1883.
Progress of the War.

Atll:2i o'clock a. m. Wednes-
day, April Goth, President Mckin-
ley signed the Cuban resolutions
passed by Congress, and at the
same time signed the ultimatum to
Spain demanding that nations
withdrawal from Cuba and giving
it till Saturday to answer its deter
mination. AS soon as the Spanish
Minister TO the United States, Senior
Polo Y Bernabe, learned that Pres
ident Mckinley had signed the res
elutions he asked for his passports
which were given him, and he and
party left for Canada. BernaIe
telegraped the facts in the case to
the Spanish government. In the
meantime Minister Woodford had
been ordered to present the ultima
tum to the Spanish government,
but he delayed as he did in the
Dupuy de LONE case, allowing
Spain to anticipate him and give
him his passports before he could
present the ultimatum. Woodford's
laundering slowness is said to have
chagrined the Administration very
much. Woodford left for France.
The Spanish governments action
was conceded to be a virtual dec
laration Of war, as there was M
means of further official communi-
cation with the U. S. government
Consequently, the North Atlantic
Squadron, commanded by Rear
Admiral Sampson, left Key West
Friday morning for Havana to eff
feet a blockade of Cuba.
Admiral Sampson wasinstructed
TO capture or destroy every Spanish
ship encountered. The Spanish
naval force in the West Indies con-
sists of the 3,900-ton cruiser AL
fonso Mi, disabled, at Havana the
3.O9O- ton cruiser Reina Mercedes
four cruisers of ], loo to ], 200 tons
seven torpedo cruisers of between
500 and 1000 tons and some forty
five small and unimportant gun.
boats from 500 tons down to &c
tons.
On Friday the Havana forts
fred on the U. S. feet, but the latter
ignored this opening active hostil-
tiles. The same day a fisherman
reported seeing a u. S. double
turreted monitor chasing and firing
at Spanish gunboat conveying a
transport with troops. The gunboat
Nashville captured the Spanish
lumber ship Buena Ventura, bound
!. from Pascagoula, Texas, to Rotter.
dam. The New York captured q
Spanish mail steamer, thought to
be the Alfonso XIII.
Texas has sent her Rangers to
the Mexican border TO prevent any
hostile incursions of Spanish sym
pathizers.
The cost of moving the regular
troops last week was nearly 81, 00O,-
600.
The Governors of the two Vir-
ginias are discussing proposition
TO have the President to appoint
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee to command the
consolidated forces from the two
States. Gen. Lee is reported to
have expressed the wish to CON-
nand volunteer army composed
of near equal numbers from the
North and South.
Col. VIM. F. Cody("Buffslo Bill")
offered his scvices to Gen. Miles.
They were accepted and he will
probably have command of body
of scouting cavalry recruited and
selected by himself from the plains
men.
A cavalry company of women of
Chadron. Nebraska, has offered its
services for war to Gov. Holcomb.
They are said to be fine riders and
good shots.
The Cuban insurgents every
where seem to be delighted with
and grateful for the action of the
United States in their behalf and
will cooperate to drive the Span
ish from Cuba.
The United States government
has decided to not engage in pri-
watering, and that course is APP
plauded by Great Britain and Ger
many, who win exert pressure to
induce Spain to adopt similar
policy.
The commander of the Spanish
squadron that lately left Cadiz
and his men knelt at the shrine of
the Virgin and took a vow to never
return to Spain unless victorious.
At Madrid a mob tore the eagle
from an American life insurance
building.