Show IT SOUNDS LIKE spain will dedina to pay ady as reports cro American and spanish will not agree and spain VIM vill the spanish intervention Will Also usa lead to war madrid march 17 the following semiofficial semi official note was issued here today the report of the spanish commission on the maine is not yet known but the statements of bev eral technical officers ficera ol who have made a close examination of the scene of the dneaster di easter show it to he be indisputably due an internal accident 11 american kine rican assertions to the contrary aro are therefore deplored in official quarters as aa tending lending to mislead public opinion and render reader the idt bation still more difficult from the standpoint of maintaining friendly relations between the jao two countries it may bo be regarded as certain that should the american technical commission present a report declaring clario the disaster to be due to an external explosion the public here will refuse to accept such euch a fi rind nd ing ing aud and any demand for an aa indemnity based thereon will be in w 11 V i BAY ay LEAD LEAD TO W tn washington march 17 th the e semi official sta statement oven given out at A madrid advising the government that a demand for indemnity based on responsibility for the maine explosion would bo be indignantly repelled by spain attracted much interest in official circles there has been little doubt for some time that spain was preparing for the contingency of an adverse report by the american court of inquiry and to that end was preparing to anticipate and offset it by making clear the governments policy standing by the report of the spanish commission the report of the latter body was due in madrid yesterday and while its conclusions are not officially known it is a foregone conclusion that it will find that the maine disaster was due to accident resulting in internal explosion this was foreshadowed foreshadower fore shadowed in the advance utterances of capt petal peril head of the spanish commission who stated publicly DUbli Cly several days ago that the theory of external explosion was untenable nabe along with the statement from madrid that a demand for indemnity will be indignantly repelled is the further date talent from reliable sources that spain has made it clear to the here that intervention may lead to war tile the prospects Octis of such intervention appear to tie be seriously serio ugly entertained by spain and bavo been made to 10 avert it by showing that tile condition of the lid did not warrant the step and also that it would threaten to end all prospects of further pacific negotiations both bath governments have been L bounding each other on the actie iby alv of the other in searching for ships but there has bas been little ground for objection on either sile bide as both have been in tile the same markets markels the administration explains its buying of ships on the ground that Spain tf attitude has been so BO menacing as naturally to call for an aug mental navy while spain takes tile same view view that the the united states requires suitable preparations by the spanish navy CLOWN UP LP FROM OUTSIDE boston march 18 A special to the ho globe globa from key west by A maurice low says it is learned tonight that a thecial report of the work of the court of inquiry has been sent cerit to washington this is not the report and the findings of the court which have not yet been a agreed greed u upon pon bu but t it is in the nature of a communication for the use of the president which lie hu mayor may or may not make public as he sees fit in any event it will prepare tile the president for what the board will report and enable him to take measures accordingly as the court will find that tile the maine was blown up from the outside the full report it is ia said eaid tonight will not be formulated and in tile the hands bands of the secretary of the navy for some days yet FIRE IX IN A JAIL ouray colo march 15 A fire in the county jail at 12 I 1 last ast night caused tho the death of harry IV miller alias hawkins charged with forgery and may cause the death of a fellow prisoner adolph gunther the fire originated in the roof of the jail and is supposed to have been caused by the electric wires |