Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-04-14
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
SPAIN AND CUBA.

No offer of mediation by foreign
powers has been made and none
would be accepted.
Most of the Spaniards in Havana
are in favor of war, and the local
volunteers are getting many recruits.
Archbishop ireland is in Washington
trying to secure peace through the
good offices of the pope. The latter
is not formally acting as mediator.
The Spanish government admits
that the United States has not asked
or suggested the mediation of the
pope
Robson Post 20, G. A. R., of Hazel
ton, Pa, has asked for authority to
recruit a regiment or battalion for
the reserves.
It is reported from Madrid that the
indications are the United States will
secure what it asked at last weeks
conferences.
President Mckinley in his message
will favor armed intervention, but
not immediate recognition of Cuban
independence.
Clara Barton has returned to
Havana, and has cabled additional
funds by the Cuban relief committee
of the Red Cross society.
The Spanish cruisers ViZcaya and
Almirante Oquendo arrived at San
Juan, Porto Rico, and were received
with popular enthusiasm.
A cablegram from Madrid states
that Spain, in return for conceding
an armistice to the insurgents, asks
that the United States shall with
draw it's warships in Cuban waters.
Horatio S. Rubens, counsel for the
Cuban junta in New York, states that
1f Spain declares an armistice it will
amount to an acknowledgment of
the belligerency of the insurgents.
J. P. Gibbons, an electrical en-
gineer of London, says the Spanish
government recently bought marine
mines in that city which were in
tended for use in Havana harbor.
Officers of the British brigantine
Bella Rosa, from CadiZ for st. Johns,
n. f., state that she was chased and
fired upon by a Spanish vessel soon
after leaving Oporto, Portugal.
Fifteen members of the twenty
Ghird United States infantry, having
been transferred to the seventh United
States Artillery, left Plattsburg for
New York.
Orders have been issued by the
-adjutant general to the commanding
officers of the Illinois naval militia
and national guard to place their COM
mands on war footing" The or
ders are the outcome Of special in
structions received by Governor Tan
ner from the war and navy depart
ments at Washington.
Representative Hull of Iowa, chair
man of the house committee on mill
tary affairs, has introduced a bill
creating a military reserve to be
liable to active duty in time of en-
Urgency.
The president has asked the foreign
relations committee to hold back the
consular reports from the senate for
the present. Secretary Gage still be-
aieves there will be no war, and Sec
rotary Long said peace is not i'm
possible"
The United States cavalry in bar
racks at Fort Ethan Allen, near
Burlington, VT, has been for sew
seral days in position to move at an
hours notice. A railway train has
been placed at the disposal of the
cavalry
Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Bates,
the United States military attache at
london, has returned from his visit
10 Belgium, Holland and Germany
lit is understood he failed to secure
any suitable guns or ammunition for
she United States.
There is movement on foot to
Nave the volunteer firemen of Suffolk
county, New York, organize a naval
reserve of so men to patrol the Long
1sJand coast in case of hostilities with
Spain AS most of these volunteer
hremen are baymen, they would be
able to render valuable service.
A mammoth evaporation was shipped
1rom Cleveland to Key West with
orders from the government that it
oe rushed forward with all possible
haste The evaporation will be To-
Gated permanently at Key West for
the purpose of supplying fresh water
60 war vessels.
A denial, upon the authority of
Consul General Fitzhugh Lee, is pub
&ished of the report that he has
asked the British consul general at
Havana, Mr.. Gollan, to take charge
OF his effects, as he was about to
leave the country.
The Beayerdam Marble company
mas orders from the United States
government to hurry all orders of
crushed stone or other material for
use at the North Point fertilization.
The works are at Cockeysville, Md,
and they have been supplying all the
crushed stone for the Notifications
along the Chesapeake Bay.
Numerous requests for war risks"
We're received by marine insurance
companies in New York. INQUIRIES
We're made concerning rates for early
'ssaIllngs. One American company
asked ten per cent. for covering
American sailing vessels loading on
the south side of Cuba. Steamships
from the same ports brought two per
cent
The naval auxiliary cruiser board
mas recommended the purchase of ten
1leet-coastlng steamers from the