Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-03-25
205, 600 ARE IN
NEED.
Extent ofthe Relief Work
Undertaken In Cuba.
RED CROSS SOCIETY WITHDRAWS..

It's Labor Henceforth Will be
Confined to Hospitals and Asy-
lums-FOod On Hand Sufficiect
to Last d Week-Nearly 500
Towns and Village Being Sup
pl1ed-Reconcentrados Put to
Workout $4,000 to $4,000
Raised for a Warship.
Havana, March 2O.-The Red
Cross Society of America, having de-
cided to devote itself henceforth in
Cnba to hospital, asylum, and kin
dred work, DIR. Egan prefers not
to serve on the general committee.
The distribution relief committee
new consists of Consul General Lee.
DIR. r. Guzman, representing the
Cuban committee, and MIR. j. l..
Vanderwater, Secretary Of the Yves.
tern Railway of Cuba, representing
the American contributors. Gen.
Lee will act as arbitrator In the
event o, difference of opinion be
tween the two other members.
The food Oh hand will afford relief
to all the needy in the island for a
week or more, and additional sup
plieS are ahoat. Relief has been
Sent &" 134 central points, from
which 462 towns and villages have
beer supplied. Cornmeal is the
principle ration, as being good food
Tor the really hungry, but not likely
to tempt beggars or the unworthy.
Besides. there is no difficulty in get.
ting it through the customs quickly.
Travelling Relief Di stributors.
Special Commissioner Klopsch has
appointed three men to travel con-
stantly through the island to verify
the count of the needy, to see that
the supplies are properly received
and handled, to prevent fraud, and
generally to assist in the work of
distribution. The latest total report
to Mr.. Klopsch is 2O5,OOO necessitous
cases.
Ii the government will sanction
the arrangement, a large building
IN the suburb of Guanabacoa, where
the Alfonso XIII Regiment is now
quartered, will be rem ted by the re.
lief committee. Several hundred
reconcentrados have just been set to
work cultivating ten acres of ground
surrounding the building, in this
way contributing to their own sup
port, The plan is experimental, and
If successful, is capable of extensive
developement elsewhere.
Little Work Done on the Maine.
Little work was done on the wreck
OF the Maine today by the divers or
contractors. The city has been
quiet, after the festivities of last
night, lasting until early this NOR
ming, at the Tacon Theater, where a
dramatic representation was given
in aid of the fund for the Spanish
Navy. There was plenty of enthu.
siasm in the crowded theater. Every
patriotic sentiment was CLEARED to
the echo, but there was no sensation
al features. The proceeds are not
all in yet, but it is believed they
will amount to between $50, 900 and
$4,000 in gold. Former estimates
were too large. Even with the
enormous prices paid for boxes and
seats, it was impossible that any
such figures as $4,000 or 100000
should be realized as was hoped by
some
The Austrian cruiser Donau, which
left for New York last evening is not
expected to reach her destination for
week or two, as she is slow, even
with auxiliary sail power.
Gen. Lee Visits the Cemetery.
Consul General Lee to-day visited
the graves Of tie victims of the
Maine disaster in Colon Cemetary.
The ground has been leveled pre-
paratoty to sodding and ornamen
tation with shrubs and flowers.
Gen. Lee will soon erect a fence.
inclosing all the graves, with q gate.
way The question of o suitable
monument has not yet been raised.
AS result of the action of the
central committee of the Conserva.
tive party in Havana, in urging all
Il.