Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1898 — Spain Bought Mines. [ARTICLE]

Spain Bought Mines.

London, April 5. —Investigation here shows that Havana harbor was mined, nnd that. Spain purchased the terrible -engines cf destruction in thiscity. The patentee says that it was one of his contrivances that wrecked the Maine; that an accidental explosion of the mine was impossible, and that the manipulation of three keys was necessary to fire the terrible destroyer.