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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1898
Page
2
The Weekly Call speculates Gen Weyler could be sent to lead the Cuban campaign. It argues the cry Remember the Maine would spur American troops to quick action. It contrasts this with Francis Joseph of Austria who urges Spain not to surrender Cuba but gives no plan or backing.
An American newspaper correspondent likens a Cuban beauty’s eyes to beaming heavy lids that rest upon and follow you. The writer suggests intervention would arrive too late amid tensions over Spain’s defense prep for the peninsula and Caribbean territories, excluding Cuba.
The rush to the Yukon gold fields has proven a toil filled with hardship. It will take as much as ten million dollars in this season to cover the costs of extracting the gold, with many prospectors succumbing to disease in the bleak Arctic landscape.
A timely fleet won independence at Yorktown and Nelson baffled Napoleon, but Spain declined after the Armada. The speaker argues that the United States must maintain constant attention to developing its navy to ensure future national security and strength.
One of Spain's warships is called Car los V. The name recalls Carlos V era when Spain ruled the world. Now Spain relies on bullfights to raise funds nominally for defending overseas possessions but mainly to avert domestic revolution.
In the case against Spain for Cuba misrule, 266 separate indictments accuse Spain of lives lost in the Maine explosion and additional outrages on the American navy. The broad charge remains the destruction of a U S vessel in a harbor of a nominally friendly power, and the indictments must be answered.
In 1823 all major European powers forming the Holy Alliance planned to restore Spain's colonies by force and offered mediation between the United States and Spain to avert war. England stood opposed at each step, blocking the push to pressure Washington and save Spain.
The government crop report agrees with unofficial figures on favorable agricultural prospects. Earlier fears of severe damage from late March frosts and March snowstorms proved unfounded, though the outlook remained uncertain and a close call.
London engineer Gibbins testifies his firm supplied 96 mines and 14 tons gun cotton to Spain for Havana use and suspects the Maine was blown up, claiming evidence. Charles A Crandall, ex US seaman, says he placed the mine at Buoy No 4 while with Weyler in Havana.
Senator Fairbanks of Indiana calls the destruction of the Maine the master tragedy of the age. He says Spain disavowed and must make due amends after a thorough, patient national inquiry into the massacre of sailors, which he attributes to Spanish treachery.
Congressional news notes the Cuban issue, with president's messages read and referred in both chambers, several resolutions proposed for Cuban independence or action, and heated exchanges among leaders. Senate adjourns without action. House passes Indian territory relief bill amid routine business. Personal notices include clergy and political figures, with deaths of Henry Pierce and William Barry. Wanamaker plans to raise a regiment.
On the 19th, Robert Little, an engineer on the American liner Paris, was detained in New York by Commissioner Shields with bail set at $2,000 on a charge of smuggling slaves. The alleged operations are said to total $200,000.
Two men were crushed to death at Magazine Point Alabama when a car was suddenly shunted on the Louisville and Nashville line on the 13th. Philip Kaumm of Pittsburgh Kansas was fatally injured. The victims were en route to Pensacola to enlist in the navy.
On the 14th the fruit steamer Barnstable arrived in Boston with United States Consul McGarr aboard remarking quiet at Cienfuegos. Spain presses toward conflict as Madrid predicts inevitable war while Vizcaya and Oquendo sail from Porto Rico. London and Kingston issue war readiness notes as colonial authorities brace for contraband measures. The pope appoints Rev. Alexander Christie to Vancouver bishopric amid tense global tones.
In the senate on the 16th after intense debate the resolutions for intervention in Cuba were passed with 67 yeas and 21 nays while the house did not convene. A million-dollar Charlestown fire on the 17th destroyed a high elevator and 600,000 bushels of grain. Carr P H Ray of the Eighth Infantry arrived in Portland and urged a Yukon military government. The New York banks reported varied changes and 3,557,000 bushels of coal moved down the Ohio. Dr Joan L Ingersoll died aged 75 in Wisconsin. Roosevelt likely to resign to join the army if Spain opens hostilities. Consul J L Hlanno arrived in New York with 15 passengers. Madrid bullfight drew crowds despite Senate news. Banks held $37,373,075 above the 25 percent rule.
Bloomington merchant Edwin Roush dies at 41 in Denver from consumption. Wren of McLean County schools dies at 77. Crosthwait 76, Civil War veteran and ex state legislator. Chicago clothing magnate King found dead at 70. Illinois politics discuss Gov Tanner’s war hopes, Peoria mayor John Warner ill, and militia mobilization. Beet sugar premiums offered. Shawneetown health precautions. National Guard mobilization site near state fairgrounds. Joliet King’s Daughters event. Black Hawk War end celebrated at Freeport. student protest hangs Spaniard effigy near University of Illinois Champaign.
In Washington April 17 the Senate endorsed war against Spain and recognized Cuba’s independence. The Davis resolution on Cuba passed 67 to 21, while Turpie’s amendment recognizing the Cuban republic drew 51 to 37. Leaders like Hale Gorman Allison Aldrich Jones and Hoar spoke amid a charged chamber as crowd-filled galleries watched the historic vote unfold.
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