Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-02-24

quested an immediate investigation
and intimated that the reason he sent
all the survivors to Key West was that
b. feared more trouble.
The WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT OF
IN Herald says he stood on the bridge
OF the Maine with Capt. sigsbee a
week ago yesterday and the captain
said to him: Il don't want to be
Obliged to take any coal aboard from
Havana 1t would be a risky expe.
dent Not that Isuspect anyone in
authority, but there is such an ire
sponsible rabble here in Havana and
it would be an easy matter TO get
couple Of sticks Of dynamite in the
coal bunkers without knowing it."
DEAD BURIED IN CUBA.
WASHINGTON. Feb. IS. The follow.
my message was received at the navy
department yesterday from Capt Sigs-
bee at Havana:
Secretary Long. WASHINGTON: Gen Blanco
called on me personally at the hotel last night
and also the mayor Of the city. They have re-
Quested me to permit the government hero to
give public burial to the dead already found
In order that public sympathy may b.
expressed thereby and due honor shown
the dead. Ground for the burial
has been secured Is II assumed
that an expected by the department to bury
the dead here: In ract would be impracticable
to transport remains to the United States.
Means an facilities are lacking, have &C.
cepted the offer Of the authorities and there
will be a public funeral at three O'Clock to-day
All here from the Maine will go, also deega-
ton from the Fern. Fifteen bodies recovered
during operations Operations prevented by
rough weather. SIGsBEE
In answer to the above dispatch Sec
rotary Long sent one approving OF the
burial Of the dead at Havana.
AN INCENDIARY CIRCULAR
New YORK. Feb. 1S-Medical Direct
Or Wood. Of the naval hospital, Brook
Ign. is in possession OF the copy of a
circular, incendiary and outrageous,
which wa, passed about the streets, on
railway cars and other places in Ha-
vana. Mrs. Jungen. wife OF Lieut.
Carl W. Jungen, watch officer on the
Maine, is at the home OF her uncle,
Medical Director Wood, and in answer
to questions as to whether any Of her
husbands letters indicated feeling
existing in Havana against American
officers, she said: "0h, yes. In all the
letters from my husband, he has spoken
of the bitter feeling against the Amer.
leans, which was everywhere apparent,
and in letter dated February 10 he
used the significant expression: III we
don't get away from here soon there
will be trouble"
A WARNING GIVEN.
CHICAGO, Feb. 1S.-A Tribune spe-
cial from Washington says:
Securely reposing in the secret files OF the
state department Is o cipher dispatch from
Capt Siesbee, Of the battleship Maine. 1t was
presumably sent by special courier to Key
West and forwarded from there AT any rate
1t was delivered by Secretary Long to Assist
ant Secretary Day. It contained In effect
solemn warning from Capt Sigsbee that no
more battleships could safely be sent to Ha-
vana harbor without serious consequences.
The captain declared that his ship was in
dangerous position. and that he had reason to
believe that 1t was Intentionally placed where
1t woul be subject 10 the fire OF masked bat
tcries from the land and almost directly over
the submarine mines OF torpedOes He ex-
pressed the opinion, with oil due Difference for
his superiors, that no more ships should be
sent to Havana harbor for show purposes
mercy, or to make demonstration OF force.
He warned the department that this would be
exposing the ships to the possibility Of de-
struction
SENSATIONAL RUMORS DENIED.
WASHINGTON, Feb. IS. In order to
answer inquiries from all sections of
the country regarding sensational ru-
mors, the following statement was
made from the Washington office OF
the Associated press last night:
The cruiser New York has not been ordered
to Havana; Consul General Lee has not been
assassinated; there Is no conference Of the
cabinet; congress is not in session tonight.
both houses having adjourned at the usual
hour until tomorrow; President Mckinley did
not go to the capitol, and the situation Is decd-
eddy quiet