29 Apr 1898
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1898
Page
1
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Maprio reports American fleet poised to land in Cuba Sunday to confront a reinforced Spanish fleet. A Spanish spy is captured on an American vessel likely to be shot. The Monitor Terror and Machias bombard a Cuban port silencing guns and killing Spaniards. The Spanish fleet spread into two groups, awaiting decisive engagement. The $34,000,000 naval appropriation is included in the deficiency bill after Senate action. The president nominates cadet graduates to second lieutenants.
A drum head court martial finds a Spaniard sailor aboard the monitor Puritan guilty of treason. He was caught filing the magazine lock and faces immediate execution. He has a family in Matanza.
Paris reports extraordinary military and naval activity with ships mobilized and kept in fighting trim. Reserves are expected to be called out, signaling heightened state of readiness across France.
St. Vincent April 20 Special report says the Spanish fleet sailed southward at 8:30 this morning with destination unknown as orders will be issued at sea. The armada’s movement is unconfirmed beyond the initial course and timing.
A damaged dispatch notes a collision between Spanish fleet vessels near St Vincent Cape Verde Islands with some ships returning. In Kane County, Judge Grosseup sentenced David Burnham of Elgin to four months in jail for violating pension laws, the term lightened due to his ill health.
Special dispatch reports the Spanish fleet sailing southwest at 8:25 am with four battleships and three torpedo boat destroyers. Three torpedo boats remain in harbor. Officials doubt a westward crossing and expect possible northbound return to Spain. Cardenas bombarded by the Terror and Matthias. many Spaniards killed as shore batteries fall silent.
Fair tonight with warmer readings in the south and central portions. Saturday brings increasing cloudiness with local showers in the afternoon or evening. Variable winds shift to easterly.
Lisson April 29 Special. Portugal's neutrality decree was published today. It forbids the equipment of privateers in Portuguese waters.
Maprio reports on April 29 that fortifications at Matanzas did not suffer damage and that no one was killed in the bombardment by the American fleet, according to official announcements.
Key West April 20. The troop ship Panther arrived this morning and is reported to convey a portion of the United States regular army to Cuba at once. The arrival signals preparations for deployment to the Cuban theater as tensions rise in the region.
The Monitor Terror and the gunboat Machias bombarded Cardenas Cuba killing many Spaniards and silencing the batteries after hours of firing according to a Wall Street News dispatch from New York dated April 20.
Indications point to an imminent Cuban invasion as units break camp. At Cuatrascoca Tennessee on April 20 248 infantry and cavalry headed to Tampa, with high artillery. In Mobile on April 29 the 10th and 22nd infantry depart for Tampa this afternoon.
Hawarven Eng April 29. Memorial Lutheran church ladies sell home made bread stuffs at Karcher Crawford's on Saturday. Wm E Gladstone resting easier but condition less favorable. W C Jencks installed new awnings for Dr W W Krape Gardner's seed store and J Ratz. Gibler's orchestra to play at Argyle tonight. Woman's Relief Corps supper Saturday 6 to 8 for the poor, 15 cents. Baptism performed after prayer service at First Baptist. Dr W D Arnold moved to 236 South Walnut at Jackson end. Weiss & Co display dynamite fuses. L Z Farwell building veranda and improving his home.
In Washington on April 29 the special House session shows a slow debate on the war revenue bill. The military affairs committee has agreed to raise the number of Federal volunteers to a larger quota.
A Rock Grove township ex supervisor William H Bolender was declared insane by a medical commission this morning. He will be taken to Elgin for treatment for presumed metanchosia. Edward Hawke reports his brother George in Chicago is very low with pneumonia. Simon Sieck resigns from F J Young's barber shop to work on a farm. The article includes a long parable about Prometheus and a resort to Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for dyspepsia.
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