The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-04-01

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April cath TO 2Srh when. it Is asserted,
the tactics Of Sunday last viii be re-
peated.
The relief train carrying supplies to
towns in Havana province. which left
the city this morning at 3 O'Clock was
wrecked about IL O'Clock. twenty-one
miles outside o. Havana. between
Cienaga and BejucaL No n vas
hurt
ALL THE DIVERS LEAVE HAVANA
Key West, Fla. March 2s.-All of the
divers Of the United States navy who
nave been at work on the wreck of the
battleship Maine return$dfrom Havana
on board the Bache. Captain Chad
wick, L. s. N, who went TO Havana
TO investigate the feasibility OF further
| wrecking FORK on the Maine. was also
a passenger on the Bache. 1t Is be-
.ieved Captain Chadwick finds the work
to he impracticable.
| The officers OF the Bache and Man
| grove a everything is ~outwardly
calm at Havana but that the talk Of an
| anti-American demonstration and riot
continues.
Rear Admiral Sicard's appearance be-
fore the medical examining beard, IL
| leaked out today, was ordered by the
navy department. 1t was by no q
IN accordance with his personal wishes.
nor, as was generally understood at
the time, the result of his own appL-
cation. In fact the navy department
ordered him point blank to have the
board of retirement appointed, indicat-
| ed its composition and ordered him to
appear before it.
| Provisions for the CubanS which ar
rived here two weeks ago still lie in the
naval station for want Of authority 10
ship them TO Cuba. The authorities to-
day asked permission TO use the sur
| vey boat Bache for this purpose, but
no answer has yet been received. The
original programme was to send this
shipment by the Fern, but the arrange
| ments We're broker by the sudden cali
of that vessel to Havana.
The torpedo boats tonight made a
mimic attack on h flagship New
York, and the battleship Indiana. the
largest number OF such boat ever en-
ployed in the United States navy in
| an evolution OF this kind participating.
The Montgomery sailed onig'ht for
Hampton Roads. Commander McCalla,
OF the Ma-blehead, returned from Tam
| pa today. His special mission was de-
voted to the coaling facilities at that
port.
The Iowa arrived tonight from the
dry Tortugas, after coaling.
| SPANISH WARSHIPS ON GUARD
DUTY.
Captain Paine, of the British steamer
| Belvidere, from Boston, March oath, for
| Port Antonio, which has arrived there,
| reports that a Spanish iron clad is
| watching the Windward passage, about
| forty miles off the coast
THE SITUATION IN MADRID.
Madrid, March 29.-The s~emi-official
FL Liberal says: "The report on the
| Maine contains no grave statement.
Therefore, president Mckinley will not
use that preteXt for declaring war, but
| will use the relief of the Cubans." 1t
| adds: I'VE believe the Spanish govern
| merIt will never tolerate a foreign ma
ton, in the guise of ph~ilanthrophy,
invading u territory, for it would be
| followed by the unanimous protest of
| the Spanish people" The same paper
then counsels Spain to prepare to re-
| pei any kind of i~ntervention-tO be un-
| compromising, and to accept nothing
affecting the dignity or sovereignty of
| SPAIN"
Beyond the fact that a few police
| men and a couple of civil guards stand
! outside the American legation, there is
absolutely no sign in Madrid tof the
| tension between Spain and America.
| SO far as the general public is con-
cerned, the matter is little discussed,
even the press being today generally
II pt1 III " az
The note United States Minister
| WOOdford presentedis practically a rep
| etitiOn of the one presented in Septem-
Der, which, in the interests of human
ity, asked Spain for immediate cessa-
ton of hostilities i'm Cuba. Upon
SPANS reply to this matter hinges the
conference held at the presidency this
afternoon at which SenCr Sagasta, the
! premier; Senior Gullon, the foreign min
Il lister. Senior MOrat The minister for the
colonies and General Woodford Were
| present, and at which 1T has been hoped
a decision would be cached.
General Woodford's conference was of
an hours duration and the ministers
continued in elaboration after the Uni
ted States minister withdrew.
In the course of an interview after
the conference, Senior SagaSta said to
the correspondent of the Associated
Press that United States Minister
WoOdford, at the conference asserted
that he desired to express the wishes of
his government on the subject of the
situation in Cuba and of the
trados. Senior Sagasta added that the
conference decided some of these points
and that he had promised to study
General Woodford's propositions and to
submit them to the queen-regent and
then to a cabinet council, considering
them from every point of view in order
that the cabinet might take a reSolu-
ton thereon. Senior Sagasta authorized
the correspondent Of the AsOciaSted
Press to deny amy other version of the
conference as untrue. The conference
adjourned to 4 O'Clock Thursday aft
ternoon. United States Minister Wood
ford seemed pleased with the result
and every Indication points to a settle
ment.
WANT OF CONFIDENCE IN THE
PRESIDENT VOTED.
Cincinnati, March &.-The chamber
of m of Cincinnati had before
it today d resolution expressing conf
dence i'm the wisdom and patriotism of
the administration IN dealing with the
Cuban question. but that resolution
was carried off it's feet with a whirl of
enthusiastic patriotism when the fol-
lowing substitute offered by Genera
Hickenlooper was adopted in its stead:
Resolved, That from this time torth
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