Marshall County Independent, Volume 4, Number 12, Plymouth, Marshall County, 4 March 1898 — Page 3

BLOCKADE How the War with cessful in a w WW hi case of war between the Ulited I States and Spain the island of Cuba would be freed from Spanten rule much more easily than is generally imagine !. Thit country would not need to send a large army to the island to tisht the Spaniards in the field. Neither would It need to bombard Havana nor attack It in any other way. Perhaps the war VonhJ end, as far as Cuba is concerned, without the Americana Bring s single ehoi either by land or sea. Though tbese .viatements may at first appeal natnnlnhlng, they are merely the lo.hI conclusion to he derived from knowledge of the real state ol affairs In the struggling island. Extent of Spa a fob t'wBtrol. The Spaniards, with an army of 1"". 000 ;rv n, of which not 90.066 are regular troops, all that, is let! of the 29,000 oMiert scut from Spain since 189." and decimated by battle ;uii sickness, control only the seaports and the ationgb fortified towns in the Interior. The country from east to neat is in the hands of the insurgents. The eastern pari o' the Island, including Santiago oe Cuba and Puerto Principe, is heM by flan la Loym er Island, tnces 26 the Cuban Generalis Calixto Jfsus Etabi, ami Lone There the Cubans are Etecio strongin any other section ol the They have In these two prov.ooo men at l;st. aimed and v.-it: p nty oi auniunii ion. i nere they hold the Spanish columns in constant check, and the recent defeats ol Genera! Pando in Santiago de Cuba, at the entrance of I he Canto river, and of General Fimenex Castellacos at La Esperanza. almost within sight of Puerto Principe city, show conclusively what

the power of the Cubans is in the cast sensing war appliances which will place with a most formidable revolt. MarThe centra pari of the Island, thai ,

is o say, the province of Santa Clara, is conti died by General Maximo Come, 'i he Cuban commander-in-chief has al kaal 10,000 men there under his order-, vi'h Generals Carrillo, Monteagiido. Alvarez and several others as nubordi:iat commanders. i r ii;! Ii of Ihr uImum. Then are about .004 insurgents In the provinces Of Matanzas and Havana. This i where the Cubans are weakest Ihi Spanish fortified towns being nearer to one another and the Spanish army i re numerous. But nevertheless they have strength enough to keep up a very lively guerrilla warfare, raiding almost daily the most important town- and making dashing attacks on the outskirts of Havana cay itself. The recenl , deaita of their plucky leader. Oeaeral Aranguren, has not abated their ardor. General Betaneourt, Cen-e-al Alejandro Rodriguez, General Rafael de Cardenas, and Colonels DavalOS, Collazo. and others are cutting out a great deal of work every day for the Spanish and the guerrillas iti Havana and Matanass provinces. Pinar del Rio province, the western extremity, is a Cuban stronghold. The Cubans there are as Strong as in Santa Clara and hold th long and Impregnable chain of mountains extending through the provim I . They do not allow t he Spaniards to get out of their towns. Generals Delgado and Dneasl are the principal Cuban leaders in that province. The res iit of this situation is that the Spaniards cannot exist on the products of the country in any nart of the Inland. The country near the towns was laid waste by General Weyler. and the gaunt specter of famin- stalks all oer Cuba. The extermination of the peaceable inhabitants by hunger is going on rapidly. All thr:se facts are too notorious o be denied at this time. The reooncentrados, or non-combatant,. Starve and die by thousands only bocause the country, on which they exclusively depend, is not producing food. The insurgents keep zones of cultivation of their OWS, where they raise CRUISER MINNEAPOLIS, (floated Thursday from the dry dock In League Island navy yard, near Philadelphia.) vegetables and store their cattle, but thf- no not divide their provision! with the, non-combatants, nor do they allow vegetables to be raised or cattle kept by any but themselves, because it is their policy to prevent the Spanish army fro::; obtaining any hind of resources in the country. Bpulsfe Ptpwd l poii I saporta. The Spanish army, therefore, exclusively denenda upon the provisions import d from abroad. Rice, beans, and Amur they receive from Spain. Meat for the inhabitants of the seaports they obtain from Mexico and Fhu.da. The 150. tOt Spaniards under arms exclusively depend upon steamers landed with provisions from abroad that enter the Gahna porta, Not a potato comes into the City of Havana front the country. 'Ihe milk is almost till condensed and Imported from the United States. Eggs and vegetables are from Florida. And what is still more important, on aceount of the great financial distress in Havana, the importing men bants do

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Spain Would Be Sue Short Time. not keep a large stork of provisions If the imports are stopped ihe entire supply of food in Havana will be exhausted by the 266,666 inhabitants of the city in less than a week. Suppose now that war is declared one of these days. The United states In that case has only to blockade the seaports of Cuba to starve ii! the Whole Spanish army, and that without landing a single man on the island. The Spaniard!! will .-imply be compelled to surr nder because of the lack of food. Mhj twrta i. r.-i.-i i. To prevent Ihe possibility tha; they might make a 1 s p rate effort inland to overpower the insurgents and ge; their vegetables and other provisions, sonn ; hin; might be done easily, quickly, and at once. There are mr.ny seaports of some importance In Cuba ab solutely defenseless from the sea side. Cardenas, for Instance, in the province of Matanzas, on the northern coast. Is one of them. Cardena was taken it: is4! by the insurgent Narclso Lopes with a handful of Americana on board a small merchant vessel, since then no fori capable of resisting a cannon shot ba been built there. The Araericans can hold Cardenas and from there communicate with the Insurgents in the country. In a short time the whole Cuban army may be well armed by them and secure some cannon to attack the Inland town-. if without such munitions and with the immense risk and difficulties they incur in securing -canty supplies from (he feeble fiilibustering expeditions they not only hold tln ir own against Spain but actually imprison the Spaniards la their forts and cities, it is obvious tha; pos

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them. In this respect, on the same footing as the Spaniards themselves, they will exterminate all the Spanish columns daring to leave their fortified places and eventually invest them in the principal chies. With a single dynamite gun of small caliber, and with the ::.ooo or 1.000 rifles received by him from several small expeditions sent from the United states. General Garcia has driven the Spaniards from the greater part of the province of Santiago de Cuba. I' aba's Fhttitiag Rtrewgthu it Is a fact, which even Span tab diplomacy will not dare to deny, that if. instead of hampering the Cubans the United States in their work of sending I expeditions to the brethren: if. instead of prosecuting them in so drastic a manner as was done during the administration of Mr. Cleveland; if. instead of keeping, at enormous cost to this country, the American navy ami the police watching the Cuban junta and its agents, the Cubans here had beta unmolested, the possibility which now confronts us of an international war would not exist. The Cubans, with no mote than 40,000 men in the held, and with all the oddfl agatnat them, have proved in three yars that they arc more than a match for Spain With a regular and ample supply of war materials they can free their island' Without any other help from abroad. I Cah)a Army' Alt!. In a war between Spain and the ! Cnited States it is beyond doubt that th whole Cuban army would be on the American side. There is no doubt either, that we would give them all the rifles, cartridges and cannon they need. They would then take -are of the land operations. We would only need to blockade the Spaniards by sea and lei theni starve. Of eotirse, the Spaniards would make an attempt with their navy I to break that blockade. The contest won' t then he only a naval one. But with their capital only eighty miles from Kej West, and sixty from Dry Tortugaa, which would probably be the enter of our naval operations, Is it reasonable to suppose that ihe Spaniards could relieve Havana either by stealth or by force? In a few days the proud Spanish atronahold, with its Cabana fortress ind its Mono castle. with its mined bay, ami its famous torpedoes, would be at our mercy, and not very much blood would be shed. THIRD IT RAI or mkk.m.k. iilut lt'i;:if) -r I'rfncnt KfTort for lii-leMiifii-Fel. 4, IHi5. Feb. 14 was the third anniv rsary of Cuba's straggle for independence. It found the patriot can, In spite not only of Spain's predictions but of her prodigious efforts, strong and buoyant with a well-founded confidence of spee-

1y triumph. The question to ' e put 1 the first, beraum it had hold its own today is not how Ions; the Cuban re- . against forces so enormous and so evipuhlir will last but how long Spain dentTjr representing the utmost that an continue her costly efforts to sup- j Spain could bring to bear. The situa

press it The first year of the struggle was tbc most critical. The appeal of the revolutionary party, headed by the lamented .lose Marti, was welcomed in several of the provinces, to which war DS-

terial had been successfully carried. ; i''0 patriots Instead of independence. but the Spanish authorities got wind! It is in the midst of Blanco's carnof the contemplated risings, and in Pb$n that her third anniversary now Puerto Principe seized arms and ! m- dawns upon Cuba, with prospects munition. A few days after the fa- ' brighter than ever. The failure of the mons Feb. ill Captain General Calleja 1 autonomy plan is conceded, and eerdeclared the provinces of .Matanzas and ' talnly in the field Blanco has done not

Santiago to be In a state of siege. The movenu nt spread. Maximo Gomes, by the rote of the leading officers of the former revolutionary war, was chosen commander-in-chief. Bartolome Ifasso. Kabi, and Other w.di-known citizens cast In their lots with the patriot cause, while the two Haceos ana other veteran leaders landed in Santiago, where the people (locked to their standards. Chancing 1MB r. Spain Quickly rose to the emergency, and within two months after Feb. 2t Calleja was succeeded as captain gene rai by the renowned Martinet Campos, who professed his ability to end the rebellion before the end of the autumn. The fights of Los Ncgros, El Guanabano. Jarahllca, Juragtmnas, El Cacao, and El Jobito taught him that bis task v. as no t t itling one. while in July, when commanding In person, he was defeated by Maceo and Rabi at Baynjno. Meanwhile Gomes and Marti had set out for Puerto Principe, and In their first severe conflict the heroic Marti was killed Gomel pressed on. and In the province of Puerto Principe was joined by Salvador Cisneros Betan-cou.-t. Next Gomez, marching into the provinces of Santa Clara and Matanzas, carried nut his policy of destroying the sugar top, and thereby stopping the revenue which Spain derived from it Other battles and skirmishes followed, and before, the first year was over Spain recognised thai she had to deal tinez Cnaspos was displaced by Weyter as captain general, and troops wer? poured Into Cuba In enormous numhers. Rigorous, vindictive, and in sonn j cases barbarous edicts were issued. The ( royal troops vied with the rebels in ! ravaging the Island, trade was reBtricted, plantations were stripped of tbelr laborers, and a policy of concen- ; Hating the country people in and ; around the towns was carried out with unsparing severity. with suffering and starvation in consequence, that have been simply appalling. Fighting went on in many places. .Maceo made ;i brilliant campaign in Pinar del Rio Whsed victory after victory in a fkWW ' BWat extraordinary audacity, crowned ay his death. Aranguren, also a martyr to the cause, with other BATTLESHIP KENTUCKY. (This vessel will be la urn bed March 24. at Newport New- shipyard: Mi--Christine Bradley, daughter of Gov. Bradley of Kentucky, acting as sponsor. da -bine leaders renfatw1lv r ii.nwi li m ' .. I lie environs of Havana. be wpoI the center, and the cast of the island witnessed Cuban prowess againsl an enormous disparity of force, and while the east was the most quiet it was largely in patriot hands. Mvawce r I rgi mi Caans The necond anniversary of the revo Intion found it even more hopeful than MAP SHOWING WHERE SPANISH BBMBLBD AND A88E

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tion in Cuba had its reflex influence on Spain at length In the coming of the

Sagasta ministry, tinder which Weyler. whoso successive campaigns had been palpable failures, was replaced by Blaaco, while autonomy was offered to -i whit better than his predecessors. Indeed, the leading feature of his operations. General Pandos expedition in southeastern Cuba; was an acknowledged defeat. Why. then, should not ihe third anniversary be full of hope BATTLESHIP KE A RS ARGE j (This warship, a companion vessel to the Kentucky, will be launched at flie navy yard of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company. March 24; the wife of Lieut. Winslow. I'. S. W. acting as sponsor.) for Cuba? We cannot say how many men Spain has had under arms in the island, but probably a quarter of a million would nor ho too high an estimate: and yet against this tremendous force the Cubans have made head. The burning question is not how Ions; they can endure, but how long Spain will Und it possible to stand the strain. The Umax Near. Cuba's third anniversary! too, found her neai'T that recognition by our own country which has always been one of her aims. Events have of late become urgent In that direction. And we do not now refer to the recent calamity in Havana harbor, whose grave results cannot yet be forecast, but to those events which are steadily and swiftly bringing near the time when, as President SIciKnley has said, we must Imperatively call on Spain to make peace. im i'ii .1 ii I port Tr:til-. For the better part of this century England has been the world's workshop. Indications ate not wanting that the day of her supremacy is pas:, says the Engineering News. The colonies she has planted would be false to the spirit of enterprise and independence that has brought England h rself to her present proud position if they were content to sit down and live by agriculture and mining and depend on ther countries for manufactured goods. The nations of Europe all strive so to shape their legislation as to keep the home market for themselves and at the same time capture is much as possible of the export trade. It is true that the exhaustion of her mines of Hessemer ore, the Increased depth of her coal mines and the fact that lumber and many other raw materials must all be imported have much to do in handicapping England in competing for the world's trade. It Is true. also, that the restrictions imposed by labor unions and factory legislation probably operate to some extent at least as an additional handicap. Hut. besides these Causes, there is also the ambition of oilier nations to develop their own resources and supply their own needs i ) achieve commercial as well as political independence. In the movement now under way for the development of American export trade it is well to bear these facts in mind. We need not rpeet to permanently supply European nations wit:, all xds which their own natural resources will permit them : to make. Our automatic tool.s may for a time enable us to win a trade in cer tain lines, but Kuropean manufacturers will eventually buy the tools that will enable them to make the machines or products themselves. In the countries of South America, Asia and Africa, however, the building tip of manufacturing industries will be a slower and longer task and such of their trade ;us we may secure we may reasonably expect to hold for many years. Siirfüc of the Sea. The surface of the sea is estimated at 150,000,000 square miles, taking ths whole surface of the globe at 117,000. , and its greatest depth supposedly equali the height f the highest mountain, four miles. The Pacific ocean covers 78,000,000 square miles, the Atlantic 2S.00O.O00 and the Mediterranean 1,000,000. M AMERICAN FLEETS MBUNQ, SEE KEY. VUK AS-

NEWS OF INDIANA

MINOR HAPPENINGS DURING THE PAST WEEK. Soiu Oueer Freaks CIHbf Demolish a Toll Jale A Bloody Affray at Miiticle Onlition of Wheat Crop Itrief state Items. oine Indiana Freaks Indiana has some most remarkably freakish people, especially when it comea to the freight and height proposition. Grover Allen, a 1-year-old boy, who lives near Anderson, tips the icnh i at 109 ponnds. It is said by Hi in urn's man. who came to see hint, that he was the largest 4-year-old boy in the United States. Jacob Williams, who lives near Horden in the southern part Of the state, is Undoubtedly the tallest man ID tho state. He stands 7 feet 2 inches in his stix-kings and has to have a bed eight feet long to accommodate him comfortably. Most tall men are generally weak at some point, but Williams is not. He is well-to-do. is snnple and is highly respected. Me COUM have made money as a show freak, hut has never 'eared for that kind of notoriety. Probably the next tallest man in the state died two or three weeks ago at Indianapolis. His name was Thomas Musser, and he stood ; fed S Inches in his stockings. He came from Bowling Green, Ky., and was a member of a family noted for their stature. His strength was enormous, and it is thought that his death was probably doe to a strain in exhibitlng his prowess. Probably the smallest man in the state resides near .Danville. He is IS years of age. weighs less than fifty pounds, and is but o0 Inches high. Demolished Toil Gate Muncie: Mob law has prevailed against a toll-road in this county. Recently the toll-gate on the Vorktown pike, west of this city, which leads to Anderson and Indianapolis, was attacked and demolished by masked mi 1night marauders. The owners of the road, the principal stockholders being ex-Mayor M. G. Smith, of this city, have since practically abandoned it. They say that public sentiment against toil-mads is too strong for any one to conduct sin h ;i thoroughfare iu the futnre! They have not replaced the gate and no toll is being collected. The owners are willing to dispose of the ro.id for a very low price and the county commissioners, at their regular session, in two weeks, will arrange to buy it. There is only one other tollroad in the county and the owners have prepared for any attack that may be made on the toil gates, by having arms placed iu the possession of the occupants and keepers of the bonnes. This road has two gates, is eleven miles long and extends from Mum ie to Granville. A Blootjf Affray :tt Muni ie. Muncie: Shortly before midnight Tuesday night Patrick Duffy, known as Fat Hog" Duffy, and Charles Keating became involved in a quarrel over n chew of tobacco on Sooth Walnut street, in the heart of the city. Duffy's atcry is that he simply asked Keating for the tobacco, and that the latter, without provocation, remarked. "I'll gie yon this.' and drove the two-inch blade of his pocketknife into Duffy's breast, near the heart, making a dangerous injury. Keating was arrested and has been committed to await the result of Daffy's injury, which can hardly be otherwise than fatal. Condition of Imliun 'ro. Indianapolis: Wheat Is looking very brown on account of the recent hard weather, and the present conditions are by no means favoralde to it. There Is a very little wheat now loft in farmers' hands, and this is being held for much higher prices than those now offered. The general opinion is thai wheat will command from $1.2.". to $1.." before the new crop is harvested. Millers' stocks are almost exhausted and on every hand is beard complaints of adulterated Hour. It is a settled fact that mills which do not adulterate can do no business in the south. (Soooral Stmt Ns. David Young, a farmer, found an old trunk supposed to have gone down in the wreck of the Kvansville &: Terre Haute train, near Hazelton. one year ago, containing clothing and je.v, y, and a passbook bearing the name John Abbott Hathaway. It is imposed that the owner was killed in ill. wreck. An effort is making in Allen, Whitley and De Kalb counties to secure the prdoa of Helvin Kuhns, a life prisoner at Columbus, O. After a series of desperate Crimea Kuhns committed a murder at Fostoria. O. William Hostet t er. of Martinsville. working In the stone-crusher plant. used crowbar in attempting to dislodge a stone which had dogged. The machinery caught the crowbar and his skull was fractured. The Ballis Hotel, William ,T. HulbarnVfl saloon and John Jonas' residence at Howell, were destroyed by fire, caused by a defective flue in the Hub bard saloon. Total loss. ftOOO. The ohilscn and anti-Ohltaon factions in Clay county have buried the hatchet, and A. W. Turner is the new chairman of the (May County Democratic central committee. Miss Olive Poacher of Oreencastle assistant principal of the Wabash bigb school, has resigned. Her successor is liiss Tall.ott. daughter of an If. K. minister at Bvansville. hoacoe B. Kirhman, Thomas R. Jes sup, Dr. W. W. Zimmerman and I' nil C. Qraff are candidates for the kpublican nomination for mayor of Richmond.

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FOR BARGAINS IN --' f FOR SALE OR TRADE. No 1 SO acree in ( enter townshiD. I tutiea south of Plymouth. 70 acres im proved, 5 room house, barn J;x40, wagon fhed and corn cribs, a good orchard o! all kinds of fruits; price $37.50. No 2 SO acree in West township, 6 miles west of Plymoath. 70 acres improved, baianoe in timber. House n ueerly new, with 7 rooms, ontside cellar, air barn, two good orchardf. all kinds f fruit Will trade for good residence property in Plymouth. No 3 62 acres in West township, 44 miles from Plymouth. 52 acres in cultivation, balance in timber, a good hoaee and barn, a fine orchard, black walnut and; price $2,600. No 4120 acres 5 miles west of .rgoe 1 acres improved, good house with 7 rooms, barn 22x50, other out buildmgc and good orchard; will trade for smaller farm ana give long time on difference. No 5 UGaores '6 miles from Dota'.decn. . acrsa improved, baianoe io xeadow and ti naher, fair bonee and s ood barn, with ether oat buildings; will aell for $21.50 per acre or trade foroatv property. No6 100 acree 7 miles weat f Plymouth. 85 acres in cultivation, balance in timber, 1 mile from Donaldson; will neU cheap or trade for business property No 7 80 acres 44 miles west of Plymouth. 70 acree in onltivation, balance in timber, good house and barn, good or shard and wind mill; will trade for 40 acres or town property; price $40 per acre. No 8 10C acres S milee from Plymouth with floe improvements, fruits of all kinds, heavy timber land; will sell cheap if sold soon. Anyone wantiDg a farm heap oan get it b" calling at onoe. No9 A $4,000 stock of general merchandise in a village near Plymouth, doing a good business; will trade for ac improved farm. No. 10 A fine farm of 135 acres mile from Donelsoo, Ind. 7 4 miles f rem Plymoath, with fine Urge house, two big barns and all other outbuildings needed on a farm, with a big orobard of all kindc of fraits, wind mill, stone milk bouse, ate. together with horses, cattle, bogs, poultry implements and grain. Will sell cheap $1500 cash, balance on time to suit purchaser or will trade for Chi?sgo improved property. No. 11 50 acres on Michigan road be tween Plymouth and Argos. Well im proved. Will sell cheap or trade foi town property. No. 12 - 00 acres in Vest township near Donelsoa, with good improvements. Will sell on terms to snit buyer, l.'heap. No. 1380 acrei in Polk township near tebool house, with good improvements. Good and. Will trade for 120 sms and pay oaah difference. Must be within 3 or 4miles of Plymoath. No 11 217 13 acres near Sligo in west ownaaip. A good two-story honse good barn and other out buildings W ill trsde for smaller farm or town property. No. 15 I have a new house on Weet Oarro street, new bsro, a eoroer lot; will sell oheup and on oaoathly payments. No. W h. ass and two lots on Walnut ttreet near c nrt house and school. For ale at a bargain it taken soon. No. A fine house near the new school bnilding on eoath side of river. Will trade for 40. 60 or 80 sore farm and ss eume iocnmbraaoe from Sl.OuO to fl 00 Nov is your ehaace, It you want to buy a farm, trade for a farm, sell a farm, or buy er sell town property, 1 can suit you, having property of all kinds in any part of town, or anywhere in or o it of the state. We will try to suit you if given a chance. Yours for business, S H. JOSEPH.

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