Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1898 — STARVATION IN CUBA. [ARTICLE]

STARVATION IN CUBA.

Thousands Dying of Hanger-Food and Clothing Needed. The most profound distress prevails among many thousands of people in Cuba. Starvation not only impends but is an actual fact. The President has been informed of the facts from sources whose credibility cannot be doubted. He has gone to the length of his constitutional power in calling the state of affairs to the attention of the American people. The StAe Department has used all of its authority to mitigate the conditions, there, and the letter to the public sent out by Secretary Sherman the day before Christmas pointed out the way to further alleviate the miserable condition of the recoucentrados. Monday the sum of $5,000 was received by Assistant Secretary Day from certain charitably disposed persons whose names nre not and this sum was immediately remitted by telegraph to Consul

General Ix>e for disbursement among the more pressing cases.