Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1898 — Denied by Weyler. [ARTICLE]

Denied by Weyler.

Madrid, April 16:—Lieut. Gen. Weyler authorizes the statement that reports published here as to a supposed statement by Consul-General Fitzhugh Lee respecting a letter Gen. Weyler addressed to Senor Guzman as to torpedoes and mines placed in the port of Havana during his (Weyler’s) command and respecting a subsequent dispatch from him begging Guzman to destroy the letter, after the catastrophe that befell the Maine are entirely without foundation.