The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-24
CALL TO ARMS
PRESIDENT ISSUES A PROCLAMATION
ASKING FOR VOLUNTEERS.
One Hundred and Twenty-Five Thou
sand Needed, of Which Indiana
VIII Furnish Over 1000.
PLAN OF WAR DECIDED ON
REGULAR ARMY WILL PROBABLY
LAND AT TWO PLACES IN CUBA,
The Insurgents VIII Be Equipped and
Drilled and then the Spaniards
viii BE Driven Out.
FIGHTING MAY BEGIN SOON
BoMBARDMENT OF HAVANA MAY BE
PROVOKED BY GEN. BLANCO.
LITTLE Danger that the Spanish Fleet
Will Go Far from Base of Supplies
-Secretary AIger May Resign.


Yesterdays DEVELOPMENTS.
The President has issued a call
for 125,OOO volunteers in order to
carry into effect the resolution of
Congress directing him to drive
the Spaniards out of Cuba. The
volunteers are to serve two years,
unless sooner discharged. and
each State and Territory is asked
for it's quota of the 125,OOO, ac-
cOrding to population. Governors
of States will be formally notified
on Monday of the number of men
they are expected to supply. The
army reorganization bill was
passed by the House and will be
considered by the Senate ON Mon
day. This measure concerns the
volunteers as well as the regu-
lars, and is of great Importance TO
the military establishment of the
country. Dispatches from many
points indicate the State militia is
eager to enter the Nations serv-
ice.
Havana harbor is now bIOckaded
by the North Atlantic squadron.
The United States war ships ar
rived i'm Cuban waters Friday
morning. Their appearance
caused great Excitement in Ha-
vana. Hurried conferences of the
military authorities were fol-
lowed by great activity at all the
forts. A few bold Spania rds shook
their fists at the vessels and
hut mp to "a late hour last night
not a gun had been fired at the
fOrtifications. How soon the bonn
bardment will begin is not known.
Up to a. m. Saturday no casualty
had occurred, and the correspond
ent ON board the flag ship reported
everything quiet. Part of the
fleet has been sent TO other Cuban
ports.
The cruiser New York, while ap-
preaching Havana, sighted a Span
ish merchant steamer, gave chase
and brought her to with a solid
shot close to her bow. The prize
proved to be the freighter Pedro,
of Bilbao, Spain, instead of the
mail steamer Alfonso XII, as first
reported. She was sent to Key
West under guard, where she ar
rived yesterday. The New York
also stopped another steamer, but
as she displayed the German flag
she was permitted to go. The
Buena Ventura, the prize captured
by the Nashville, is leaking badly,
and is supposed to have been
scuttIed by her Spanish crew. The
little torpedo boat Ericsson dis
tfnguished herself by capturing -
fishing smack under the guns of
MORO Castle. The torpedo boat
Porter ran down a schooner laden
with rum, and 1T is now at Key
West.
Secretary of War AIger has Sc
Iected Washington Richmond and
Atlanta as points of concentration
for the volunteer army. 1t is
thought Fitzhugh Lee will be
made either major general or
brigadier general. The regular
army now reDdczvOusing in the
South has been formed into a.
grand army corps, with temporary
Park, and divisions at New Or
leans, Mobile and Tampa. General
Brooke is in command, and will
lead the army of invasion when it
moves on Cuba.
The usual crop OF war rumOrs is
current. 1t is reported from vari-
GUS points that the American line
.He zav.sss t.
N Spanish war ship, but the story
is discredited. The Paris left
Southampton on Friday, and when
last seen was speeding westward
at the rate of tVventy-twO knots an
hour. The Spanish torpedo boat
Audaz is still i'm Cork harbOr. and
could not, therefore, have inter-
ceDted the Paris. The cruiser To-
peISa, en- route from Falmouth to
New York, was not sunk i'm cOIIi-
sion with the bark AIbatross Ar
thur SewaIl'g ship Shenandoah was
reported to have been seized bya
Spanish cruiser, but, according to
another story, ii was the British
steamer Shenandoah that xyn.
.heId up"
Spanish officials continue tn
work up patriotic demOnstra-
ti0ns, the civil Governor of Mna-
rid leading i'm the manufact of
war sentiment. Reports concern
ing the whereabouts of the Spnn-
ish feet are contradictory, one
dispatch saying 1T mas sailed from
the Cnpe Verde islands ana it's
sudden appearance at some mys-
teriOus place viii create surprise.
other dispatches state that the
neet is stiII at st. Vincent. Officials
mt Madrid are indignant over the
capture OF Spanish merchantmen