Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1898 — Story Disbelleved [ARTICLE]

Story Disbelleved

Chicago, April 16. —Government official* believe that the story that Charles A. Crandall placed the mine which destroyed the Maine under orders from Capt. Gen. Weyler La the hallucination of a crar.y man. Chief Wilkie, of the government secret service, made a positive denial at Washington that his bureau had been ferreting out any suoh case. *