Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — Immense Cost to Spain. [ARTICLE]

Immense Cost to Spain.

Madrid, Feb. 29.--The papers here publish some curious statistics as to the cost of the Cuban war. Nearly 118,000 men have been sent to the island and the cost of the rebellion has already amounted to £10,000,000 ($50,000,090), and for the second year it will exceed £15,000,000 ($75,000,000.) Capt. Gen. Weyler reports that it will take at least twq years to crush the rebellion.