The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-04-28
EPITOME OF LATE WAR REPORTS


Conference was held yesterday be-
tween American and Cuban civil and
leaders to arrange co.opera-
tive measures for combined land and
water attack on Havana.
Lieut.. Rowan, representing the war
was safely landed in Cuba
and is completing negotiations with
Gomez as to equipping the insurgents.
Orders have been given to attack
Matanzas and land American forces
on Cuban soil. If Spaniards withdraw
any of their forces from Havana to
Illustrate this move Moro castle will
be immediately bombarded.
Spanish fleet has left the PHILIPPINES
to meet our squadron. It is almost
positive that the first great struggle
will take place in Asiatic waters. The
Asiatic squadron of the American
Navy is in charge of Commander
Dewey.
The auxiliary cruiser Panama is the
latest valuable prize taken in. She was
captured by the lighthouse tender Man.
grove, and will make valuable addi-
tion to our navy.
There are other reports by the score,
but they can not be verified.
Judge and Mrs. Olin B. Lewis of St.
Paul were accompanied by Warden
Wolfer on tour of our peaceful her.
mitage Tuesday afternoon.
Secretary Gage is now in New York
negotiating bond issue of five hun
dred million dollars. One-ffth of this
amount will be popular loan to the
government. Wall street takes care of
the other four hundred millions to be
raised for war purposes.
Capt j. p. Masterman of Co. X. with
the following party passed through the
institution Saturday afternoon: Miss
Eleanor Wade, Springfield, Mo-, Mr..
and Mrs. W. E. Nelson, Miss Helen
Gieriet, Miss Margaret O'Brien, Mime
apolis; and J. McDermott, city.
Yesterday was the anniversary of
the birth of General U. S. Grant. 1t
was not holiday occasion, but it re-
called to many veterans who knew the
intrepid General, that these are the
days when the genius and bravery of
such men as Grant will be a stimulus
to the younger generation of military
leaders.
Last Saturday afternoon at Mime
apolis, twenty-three prisoners who had
been convicted of offenses in the pre-
ceding four weeks were sentenced in
one batch. It takes an exceedingly good
memory to recall the details of so
many different cases and to equalize
sentences according to Nervousness and
circumstances.
That occasional "boOming of cannon
heard within the walls the past week
was nOj the echo of the Havana bonn
bardment, as many inmates had hoped.
1t was only the prosy blasting of some
rock in the drainage trenches necessi-
tated by the lowering of the pipes to
draw away surplus water from the bed
of the subterranean oil tanks at the
north gate.
The patriotic people of this city are
showing the right spirit toward their
soldier boys by raising substantial
benefit fund to be at the disposal of
Captain Masterman when he goes to
the front with Company X. 1t is ex-
pected that the fund will amount to
one thousand dollars and will be used
for the purchase of extra supplies and
little luxuries for the boys.
The wife of Night Keeper Deegan
met with serious mishap while walk
ing along the street back of the prison
last Sunday. She was run into by a
young lady bicyclist and was thrown to
the ground with such force that her
arm was broken near the wrist. The
bicyclist or city ordinance was evidently
at fault as Mrs. Deegan was walking
along the sidewalk within the city
limits.
Prof. Moreno, a St Paul musician
who took part in an entertainment
given the inmates two years ago, has
had to leave the sanity city on account
of his nationality. He is Spaniard,
and during the last two months has
been practically boycotted. He says
he will start up business in some other
city where he can pass himself off as
German or italian. Why doesn't he
become an American?