Connecticut western news., 1898-03-10
WIN sTED

Commissioner Beavers, from the Postmaster Generals Department, Washington, was in Winsted Monday to select quarters for the main post office and the two sub offices, under the new system soon to be insuPurated in Win sted. IL is expected at this writing that the main office will be located in the Opera House block, and that the sub stations will be left where they now are Major Emory Fenp, son of the late Judge Fenn. and for year major with the Cuban insurgents. arrived home last Thursday evening. He serv- ed as an electrical expert in dynamite operations, and during the year was in eight engagements in the eastern de. psrtment of Cuba His work was prin. cipally that of blowing up railroads, bridges, locomotives. etc., and that of planting torpedoes and mines in Cnban bays and harbors. He was, while en route to the coast, captured by Span ish force and after various experiences was sent to Havana and shipped out of the country.
 President Henry Gay, of the Hurlbut National Rank, who has been quite Ill for fortnight, is reported to be con- valescing
 Ex Cattle Commissioner George Fos- kett, who is quite large real estate owner in Winsted, will soon erect six dwelling houses upon part of his land in the south part of Winsted. The dwellings are for rent or sale.
 THE CUBAN QUESTION
 The war fever here, as it is all over else, is fed largely by fsshy New Yoik newspapers, which do not depend upon official news or reliable press dispatches, but are manufactured, like Charley Smiths home made bakery goods, right at home. Saturday uight New York papers were sold on the streets in Win sted, announcing the firing on an Ameri. can vessel in Havana harbor, aud the killing of three men The whole thing, like nine tenths of the alleged news from Havana, was rank fake. designed to sell the Sunday morning newspapers, which 1t did. Hundreds of people bought Sunday New York newspapers, and, as usual. found little or nothing in them. The frozen truth, from Havana, in the matter of news, is bot enough, but lurid as 1t is, 1t does not seem to fill the bill for New York newspaper own. CTS, who for the sake of making their newspapers sell, coin the rankest kind of villainous lies oue day and retail r-hash of the same fakes the next day. Perhaps we shall have war, hut there are more indications of 1t in Spain s di. rection than there is on the part of the American authorities. who from Presi- dent Mckinley to Tom Reed have occu. pied the positions of 'Doubtipg Thomases" iu the matter nf purchasing war ships, by the president. and throw ing obstacles in the way of increasing the regular army. by Tom Reed. The facts are that Mckinley doubts, while Spain buys. Tom Reed obstructa, whi 6 the nation shouts for more haste, and the fskir news mongers, like lot of magpies, chatter away. far more than facts warrant. There certlinly is dan ger of war The tide is setting that way. The country is not rrspared for war. The Qualifications and ships, V hieh should have been built years ag>, were neglected. and in fifteen years S200. 900, 0G0 has been sqnandered m digging out little CT eeks and mud holes and enriching men with pull with pot-house politicians, under the plea that navigation was teing improved. The money that has been wasted in im- proving navigation. so-called, would have built hundred war vessels, and built, armed and equippei forts wher- ever necessary, had the money been ap- piled to that purpose. If dictator could be put in power for one week the first thing he would probably do would be to stop the river and harbor plunder bill business, the next increase the