| Show war with spain ackely CHICAGO sept 13 A special to a local paper from washington says information as to ako tko recent secret work in the navy department liaa leaked out and the result is sufficient to the belief that president cleveland is meditating seriously the possibility of hostilities between spain and the united states in the near future whether the dispatch is due to a desire to recognize the cubans as belligerents ge rents or nn intention to bein be in a tion to enforce the mora chaim is uncertain but it cannat be denied that the fhate and navy departments ave been unusually active in the last few weeks branches of the navy department are now devoting ther attention to the cuban matter almost exclusively acting under recent orders from secretary herbert some of the officers have been working extra time securing data whose character is such as to indicate that the president and i secretary olney the necessity of preparing for active intervention in the affairs cf cubs exhaustive reports have ben pre aired for secretary herbert and the president on naval conditions for a descent on cuba the question of transports and the facilities for landing troops on the island has been looked into thoroughly aud the results filed with the secretary of tha navy |
