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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1898
Page
5
Widespread warnings reach Americans in Havana as General Lee advises departure at the earliest moment. Washington officials view the plea as indicating growing danger and potential for intervention or crisis with Spain.
Washington special reports the administration fears an unavoidable rupture with Spain as pressure mounts in Congress. Supposed conspiracy theories gain traction with officials and the Spanish denial appears absent. Mines in the harbor are alleged though not confirmed.
The House concentrated on business, approving sundry civil appropriations and rejecting a $200,000 quarantine funding increase. Debate covered national versus state quarantine authority, past epidemic funding, and a Yosemite Park appropriation before adjourning at 6:15 p.m.
Senators debated Mr Allen's amendment recognizing Cuban insurgents belligerent rights during consideration of the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. The discussion lasted nearly four hours with general sparring over the Cuba issue.
Commander Buckland of the Wyandotte, who heads the Connecticut Naval Battalion, left New Haven for Washington after orders from the secretary of the navy. He is to report to the navy department on Friday to receive instructions, with a possible mobilization for rapid service if needed.
A Charleston report says after the Maine destruction orders were issued to Fort Sumter and other southern forts to be prepared for any emergency. Fortifications on Sullivan’s Island rush to finish, but ammunition shortages hinder guns. Spain’s Viscaya cruiser expected to visit Charleston. Norfolk and Key West fortifications accelerate. Alabama rifles for National Guards being repaired amid Spanish tensions.
The Crescent City Carnival began Monday as Rex and his retinue arrived. A decorated flotilla lit the river at 2 o'clock when the royal yacht appeared. Warships Austrian French and American were dressed for the celebration.
The Indiana state populist convention in Indianapolis selected a state ticket and three national committeemen and adopted a platform opposing fusion and government by injunction. It backs free silver at 16 to 1, female suffrage, prohibition, and abolition of money issued to national banks. The anti fusion plank passed narrowly, sparking intense feelings and threats and threatening to disrupt the party.
About 2,000 colored farmers from nearly every Southern state gathered at the seventh annual negro conference in the Normal school pavilion at Tuskegee Alabama. Booker T. Washington presided as Bishop Grant spoke on education and agriculture and seeds were distributed to promote gardening. The declarations urged agricultural training, land ownership, school expansion, debt reduction, and the formation of local negro conferences to foster progress and educated leadership.
Washington dispatch notes Wisconsin’s Mr. Spooner arguing for Henry W. Corbett to sit as Oregon’s senator under the governor’s appointment. The Senate adjourned after a quorum question disrupted consideration of an Alaskan homestead bill and the Cuban situation inquiry was withdrawn.
A Birmingham special reports that Hon. William J. Bryan will tour Alabama starting March 1 delivering speeches in Tuscaloosa Birmingham Mobile Pensacola Talladega Montgomery and other towns. The schedule lists Tuscaloosa March 1 Birmingham March 2 Mobile March 3 Pensacola March 4 Talladega March 5 and Montgomery March 7.
In a near unanimous vote 52 to 4 the senate approved a bill to enlist two additional artillery regiments to man coast defense batteries. The measure, reading Washington’s farewell address, cites military needs for 1,600 trained troops to handle large caliber guns and mortars. A separate resolution directs naval committee to report if a George Washington warship can be built within twelve months using US facilities.
Miss Marion Olive Hansen and Ignatius Donnelly wed at the Norwegian Methodist Church in Minneapolis before about 600 guests. A large crowd gathered outside the church to glimpse the bride and groom as they arrived for the pomp filled ceremony.
Chicago dispatch reports Charles Collins confessed after the robbery of the Texas and Southern railway ticket office in Phoenix Arizona worth 8000 dollars in tickets and 700 dollars in money. The break in happened before midnight with a dynamite blast wrecking the safe and strong box and injuring part of the building.
The Tradesman reports heavy March iron buying with supply steady and prices likely to rise slightly. Arkansas and North Georgia show mill growth, several new mills announced, and a Memphis Southern Lumber Manufacturers meeting advances uniform grading. Dozens of mills and plants across Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia are planned or expanding, with diversified outputs from cotton oil to electric plants.
The United States lighthouse tender Mangrove arrived in Havana with the Maine loss court of inquiry aboard. Captains Sampson and Chadwick and Lieutenants Potter and Marix formed the panel with Captain Samp son presiding. Captain Sigsbee testified as the first witness before a noon adjournment.
An Imparcial dispatch from New York claims great military preparations by Spain and the United States. forts reinforced, 300 artillerymen sent to Handy Hook, naval reserves ready, gun cotton and smokeless powder plants active. Crisis in U S Spain relations expected.
A New York representative introduced a resolution in the House calling for appropriation of 102000 to erect a monument at Fort Lafayette New York harbor honoring the officers sailors and marines of the warship Maine who lost their lives in Havana harbor.
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