People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — END OF THE WAR AT HAND. [ARTICLE]

END OF THE WAR AT HAND.

Report That Cuban Rebels Are Ready to Quit Fighting. New York, May B.—A special from Havana to a morning paper says; “The end of the war Is at hand. The rumor Is confirmed in all well informed circles. The chiefs of the insurgents have abandoned their cause in despair. Capt. Gen. Martinez Campos has ordered that the works on the port of Santiago be begun at once. Railway and telegraph lines are to be built, rebuilt and improved through Manzanillo, Bayamo, Puerto Principe, Santa Cruz, San Luis and Soriano. President Cleveland’s cordial interview with Senor Dupuy de Lome, the Spanish minister, is reported by the newspapers here and causes great enthusiasm among the people. This is discernible, even in the wild applause with which is greeted the announcement that the Spanish government has ordained a diminution of the tax rate on all the industries and railways in Cuba.”