Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1898 — MUNITIONS FOR CUBA. [ARTICLE]

MUNITIONS FOR CUBA.

Big Cargo of War Material on the Way to the Rebels, One of the most colossal cargoes of war material ever sent to Cuba was stored Monday night on board of a steamer hove to off Montauk point, at the eastern end of Long Island. The number of rifles and cartridges loaded on this vdssel is said to reach into the millions. These munitions of war came from seven different tugs, which sped away from ns many different ports on the Atlantic coast just before the hour of midnight Saturday. But secretly ns the Cubnns worked the Spanish spies discovered their plana, and Sunday night Government tugs with armed men aboard started from lialf a dozen ports on Long Island sound and the Jersey coast in sen rob of the filibuster. The search was fruitless. Spanish spies were watching a tug in the Delaware river last Saturday night. The tug was rapidly loaded with war supplies and went to sea ns soon ns she had loaded. On that one tug alone there is said to have been 100,000 rounds of cartridges and more than 500 rifles. On reaching the mouth of the river she started straight out to sen, bound, it is said, for a point onitside the jurisdiction of the United States, where she would meet a stea mor.