Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1898 — THREATEN POOR OLD SPAIN. [ARTICLE]

THREATEN POOR OLD SPAIN.

Followers ojf Don Carlos Preparing for Uprising. A Carlist agent in London has contributed an unsigned statement to the Pali Mall Gazette, in which he says the followers of Don Carlos in Spain are prepared for a general uprising against theGovernment which will be signaled by thesigning of a treaty of peace with the United States by the Spanish commissioners in Paris. A big loan has been raised, equal amounts having been subscribed by friends in London, Paris and throughout Spain. While the'feeling in the peninsula is at present quiescent, he says, the Carlist army lias been organized at secret meetings. The article says the Spanish army is honeycombed with Carlist agents. The London agent asserts that the Government is panic stricken, and also that Don Carlos is ready to cross the frontier when the moment for action arrives.