Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1901 — TROVBLE AT PANAMA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TROVBLE AT PANAMA.

The battleships lowa and Wisconsin were ordered from Puget Sound to San Diego last week from which the former will sail for Panama, where disturbances of a serious nature have been taking place. The invasion in Venezuela by so-called Colombian troops may bring about an international crisis. It is believed in Venezuela that the troops are not being paid by the Colombian Republic at all,

but that they are filibusters from British Guiana and Honduras who are paid by those governments. It is evident that some such belief also prevails in the State department at Washington, otherwise the two greatest fighting machines in our navy would not be ordered to be in readiness. We already have several small gunboats close to the scene of hostilities.

These could take care of American interests In an ordinary emergency. They Include the Ranger, which has a main battery of six 4-lnch rapid-fire guns and a secondary battery of four 6pounders, and a Colt gun. She has a complement of 21 officers and 127 men and is In command of Commander Wells L. Field. She Is now at Panama. The Machias has by this time arrived at Colon on the Atlantic side.

THE BATTLESHIPS IOWA AND WISCONSIN.