Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1897 — WAR SHIPS FOR HAWAII. [ARTICLE]

WAR SHIPS FOR HAWAII.

United States Prepared to Checkmate Any Move by Japan. Uncle Same does not intend to be caught napping in HaAvaii. Notwithstanding the denials of Japanese officials, the administration is suspicious that the wily Japs meditate some sort of a coup. There is a feeling in Washington that the Japs deny too a igorously and protest too much. At any rate, orders Avere sent to the gunboat Wheeling, at Mare' Island, to proceed without delay to Honolulu. The YorktoAvn is already on her way to the HaAvaiian capital. It Avas originally intended that the cruiser Philadelphia should return to the United States very soon, but now the understanding is that the Philadelphia will be kept nt Honolulu till the Japanese cruiser Naniwa leaves that port for Japan, as it is reported she is about to do. The Japanese may not be meditating action, but the administration thinks it wise to be on the safe Bide. 1