Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1898 — Purchase of Mules Ordered. [ARTICLE]

Purchase of Mules Ordered.

St. Louis, April 19. —A telegram from Washington states that the war department has just ordered the purchase of 1,800 mules in addition to the 1,000 ordered last week. Tho mules are to be used as pack animals for carrying supplies over roads in Cuba where tha army wagons cannot be drawn. AU the mules purchased for the army are to be delivered in this city.