Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1901 — First Spanish War Claim. [ARTICLE]

First Spanish War Claim.

The first claim presented to the Spanish war claims commission has been filed at Washington. The claimant is Maria Soler E. Martinez, and the amount is $216,666, the stated value of personal and other property connected with a sugar plantation in Cuba which was destroyed during the late Insurrection in the island. Mrs. Martinez makes the claim by virtue of the naturalization of her husband as a citizen of the United States.