Salt Lake Herald | 1897-02-21 | Page 2 | Lee Wants Warships

Lee Wants Warships I New York Feb 2LA Herald special from Jacksonville Fla says ConsulGeneral Lee has requested in urgent terms that the government send warshias to Cuba This is the information in-formation that reached here last night from a high authority in Havana The request is made i is stated because of the attitude of the Spanish authorities authori-ties in Cuba in relation to the outrage upon American citizenship in the murder mur-der of Dr RIcardo Ruiz in the prison at Guana Bacoa Details of the incident inci-dent which followed the death of Ruiz are unknown but special dispatches from Havana have already stated that ConsulGeneral Lee would proceed at once to Guana Bacoa to investigate the death of Ruiz I has been declared that the hapless American was Hone to death at the order of the commandant orer ant at Guana Bacoa General Fen duelo A possible indication that something some-thing unusual has happened in Havana is the fact that the Olivette the steamer which leaves Havana for Key West at 1 oclock on Saturday afternoons after-noons did not leave that city until 5 oclock Her delay has so far been unexplained un-explained