Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-03-17
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.



and will soon sail for Cuba.
Minister Woodford reports that
Srain is unable to raise money.
The report that Spain has bought
Warships in Great Britain and France
is conf, med.
a number OF political prisoners at
Havana have baen seat 20 Ca0a0@a
fortress.
Il will stick to the ship OF state till
the clouds roll by" says Consul Gen
eraI Lee.
The cruiser Montgomery arrived at
Havana and is anchored in circle
OF Spanish ships.
Senior Luis Polo de Barnabe, the
new. Spanish minister to the United
States, arrived at New York.
President Mckinley has secured OPP
lions on five warships nearing com
pletion in English ship-yards.
Spain is said to have arranged a
loan through Foulds bank Of Paris
for the purchase Of warships.
The American Society met in Lon
don and took steps to contribute a
fund toward a memorial Of the
Names dead.
Commander BroWnson, U. S. N, has
sailed for Europe empowered to ne
gotiate for the purchase of warships
and equipments.
Spain begins to see it won't do to
provoke Uncle Sam beyond the point
OF endurance. Some OF the war
clouds go glimmering.
@. r. Flint of New York is build
ing a new torpedo boat for which he
claims a speed of AZ miles an hour,
which he offers the government.
An EngIishman whose name is with
held is quoted as saying that he sold
mines to Spanish officers and that
some of them were placed in Havana
harbor.
Alarmed by the panic in the money
markets Spain made haste to deny
again that she had asked for Gen.
Lees recall or that the pope has made
any declaration in favor of the Gu
bans.
The house passed the Hawley army
increase bill, and it was signed by the
president. Gen Miles ordered every
receiving station along the Atlantic
coast opened for the enlistment of
recruits.
Dynamite and all the materials for
"a submarine mine were shipped to
Havana on the Spanish steamship
Condad Condal on Nov. 20, 1896. The
explosives were bought by order Of
Gen Weyler and were supplied by the
Dittmar Powder company.
Sir Julian Pauncefoote, the British
ambassador, has informed the presi-
dent that the judgment in the Ala
Oama case will not permit the pur-
chase of war ships in Great Britain
by the American government.
Ensign Powelson's testimony is
expected to furnish the key to the yer
dies Of the court of inquiry that is
Investigating the Maine disaster. The
ensign takes the view that the explO-
sion came from outside the ship.
The seeming certainty of great wars
caused a semipanic on the London
stock exchange In parliamentary
quarters it was said that not since
the Napoleonic wars has danger
threatened from so many quarters.
1t is no longer denied that the Nc
Kinley administration proposes to end
the Cuban war by intervention This
determination, it is said, rather than
the Maine incident, is likely to cause
war between Spain and this country
Major General Dickinson has issued
orders for the inspection of all the ma
tional guard of California in the near
future. The naval militia is also tC
inspected, and both branches of the
service placed in readiness for any
emergency.
Senior Gu1lon, Spanish minister oil
foreign affairs, conveyed to Minis.
ter WoOdford an intimation that Spair
desires the recall of Consul-Genera
Lee at Havana. A request was also
made that merchant vessels instead
of warships be used to convey supplies
for the suffering Cubans. Both of thest
were refused from Washington The
president denied both requests.
Sanitary conditions in Cuba threat
en- an epidemic of yellow fever thu
coming summer, which nothing bu
q miracle could prevent spreading tt
The large cities on the Atlantic coast
The president may find himself obliged
TO intervene in Cuban affairs 70
sanitary reasons.
The war department has ISSUED
orders for the immediate transfe
Of ammunition from the Benicia ar
senal to San Francisco. The obiec
is to supply the needs of the batterie
and heavy ordnance at the Presidi,
and Black Point, which constitute tn
most important Of the harbor defense
of San Francisco.
The house passed the Cannon mea
sure appropriating $4,000, 900 TO
national defense, to be used at tn,
discretion of the president. Member
orcke pairs in their eagerness to sup
port the measure, and the roll-cal
showed 81 ayes and not a single dis
asenting voice. The senate did like
wise and the president signed the bill
DOMESTIC.