Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1898 — Not Confirmed. [ARTICLE]

Not Confirmed.

Washington, April 16.—Chief Wilkie, of the secret service, Is In the city, and knows nothing of the reported capture of an alleged layer of Spanish mines or torpedoes in Cuban waters. The secret service never has done anything In the way of apprehending the persons connected with the affair.