Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1898 — WEYLER'S LETTER. [ARTICLE]

WEYLER'S LETTER.

“ Botcher " Idtimates What He Would Bo to an American Ship, The letter referred to by Consul General Lee in his testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations as show* ■< ing that Gen. Weyler was probably cog* nizant of the fact that submarine mines had been laid in the harbor of Havana, and that probably it was the explosion of one of these by Spanish officials that caused the Maine disaster, bears the date of Jan. 8, 1898, and was written to “His Excellency Don Francisco de los Santos Gusman” at Havana. The part pointed to as referring to the existence of sobmarine mines in the Havana harbor is as follows: By tbe way, I have read these day* that the Americans are pondering about sending one of their war ships to that city. During my command in Cuba they did not even dare about It. TUey knew tbe temolfc. punishment •bat awaited them. I had Havana harbor well prepared . asreteasly abandoned. If the tank Is made 1 hope that there