People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — Ordered to Watch for Filibusters. [ARTICLE]

Ordered to Watch for Filibusters.

Washington, March 3.—The treasury department has sent instructions to the commanders of revenue cutters in Florida waters directing them to use every effort to intercept alleged filibustering expeditions bound for Cuba which the Spanish authorities have reported to the state department as about to leave Alligator Key, between Key West and Tampa. The Spanish cruisers are on the look-out for the proposed place of landing on the island, and if the vigilance of the United. States authorities is eluded it is expected the expedition will be captured on the high seas.