Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1898 — For a Monument to Victims. [ARTICLE]

For a Monument to Victims.

Representative Cummings of New- York introduced the following resolution in the National House of Representatives: “Resolved, That the sum of SIOO,OOO be and the same is hereby appropriated but of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for the erection of a monument at Fort Lafayette, New York harbor, in honor; of the officers, sailors and marines pf -the United States war vessel Maine who Jost their lives in the harbor of Havana on the night of Tuesday, Feb. 15, 1808.