Salt Lake Herald | 1895-09-01 | Page 1 | Watching Filibusterers

WATCHiNG FJLIBUSTERERS Emissaries oC Sp < aii re on the Alert NEW YORK Aug IA morning paper says Emissaries of the Spanish govern ment went to Now London Cjir last I I I I night on information for which the consul con-sul general of Spain in this city paid 100 I that a Cuban filibustering expedition is on the point of sailing from Gardiners bay opposita New London The information I infor-mation implicates Captain Dillon of renown re-nown in similar undertakings during revolutionary revo-lutionary times in Hayti now command ing1 the steamer Commodore of 170 tono burthen which has hitherto been engaged eng in the fruit traffic The supplies that the Commodore is taking on at Gardiners bay are declared to be arms and ammunition i ammu-nition The news was taken to the Spanish I Span-ish consulate for which he paid no The equipment of the Commodore was represented repre-sented to the consul as being formidable I 1 I was also stated that before another day had passed she would have cleared at I New London for the North Carolina port I but with her nose pointed straight for the east end of Cuba Senor Arturo BaHasano the consul general gen-eral immediately took steps to intercept Captain Dillon He sent several men to i New London with instructions to coromu nicate Immediately on arrival with the United States marshal of the district end libel the Commodore to prevent her departure de-parture pending investigation by the federal I fed-eral authorities