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Caribbean Played Western Ilerai-tifications are Useless.a weak piece, as ihe entrance is narrow and deep with forts naturally strong-. The forts are not modern, however, and the Spanish g-orernruent holds but a limited area around the city, so that the Spanish will probably make the main defense at Havana and everything be made subservient to holding the capital. In this case, with the Oquendo and Vizcaya reaching-Havana, the great battle of the war will be fought at the entrance of the harbor, 01* the American fleet will blockade ond starve the city into surrender, aided by the Cuban army.The army of small gunboats and torpedo boats is not to be depended on by any blockading squadron. They may be expected to strike from any of the harbors that surround the Caribbean. And at these places we may look for a great- many small actions. During our civil war the Mole St. Nicholas on Hayti was made an improved coaling station for the confederate cruiser Florida. It is a good harbor, and, being uninhabited, coal was brought there from neutral ports, which the Florida came along and picked up. This harbor would be very useful for us at this time. It is at the extremity of the northwest peninsula of Hayti, guarding the Windward passage and menacing the ports of Cuba. .St. Nicholas Mole was an inner and outer harbor, and the latter is land-locked and affords good', deep anchorage...The sympathy of both of the black republics in Hayti is with the United States as against any European power. A moment’s consideration of their history will explain this. The two republics, Hayti in the,west and S^n Domingo in/ the east,, are the only countries in the West Indies_whose?[Continued on 2nd Page.]AWFUL FATE OF MISS FLORA EL LIOTT.—BETRAYED BY HER LOVER.Brought Here From Indiana and Killed By an Operatian.Conrier-Journal, Sunday.Dr. Henry Fitzbutler, colored, is in the Jeffersou county jail oil the charge of murder. He is accused of the murder of Flora Elliott, a white girl. Irvine McCoy, the lover of the girl, is also in jail. He is charged with being accessory to the murder. Both arrests were made by DetectivesArmstrong and Plamp. McCoy was arrested before noon yesterday. Fitzbutler, the colored doc-| tor, was arrested about 6 o’clocklast evening.The arrests are the latest steps taken in an attempt to ferret out the mystery surrounding the deathof an Indiana girl. The circumstances attending the commission of the crime rival the Pearl Bryan mystery, of Cincinnati. Lieut,Steve Wickham, of the - Louisville• lt;9 *police department, deserves the credit for working up the case or rather for finding out that a case was to be worked, up* : 2Shortly after uoop on Friday -Lient. Wjckham'was at the No. 5 engine-house. A c^U came from the City Hospital for the police*man on the beat. Lieut. Wick-, • . .r . * * v lt;. • • \ 0 lt;r lt;ham answered the telephone and foutiii that the hospital authorities wanted to notify a young man named McCoy, at 135 Fast Jefferson street; that his wife was dead,Lieu. Wickham delivered the iries-
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Orleans Progress
Orleans, Indiana, US
Thu, Jun 09, 1898
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