Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1899 — Otis’ Shrewd Scheins. [ARTICLE]

Otis’ Shrewd Scheins.

An odd game of cross purposes between the army and the navy at Manila has come to light. It was reported some time ago that the navy was trying to buy the uncaptured Spanish gunboats in the Philippines, but it was explained that Admiral Dewey failed because Sjfttin had refused to sell them to the United States, and disposed of them to a foreigner at Hong Kong. It turns out thht the Hong Kong buyer was an ngeot of Gen. Otis, who shrewdly resorted to this scheme to