The poor unhappy woman and her five helpless children have brought this message from the dead, and hope, with its aid, to convince this government of the wrongs she has suffered, and make them demand from Spain money to take care of her helpless family.
The election of Mr. McKinley has brought the filibustering parties no better luck.
It is said that much greater care is to be taken to prevent any such parties from leaving our shores.
The Texas has been ordered to join the Montgomery off Florida, to watch for filibusters, and the President seems determined to maintain a strict neutrality.
Matters in the Philippines look just about as gloomy as they do in Cuba, from the Spanish point of view.
The same story of badly paid and starving soldiers comes from Manila that we got from Cuba, the same distress from fever and disease.
The general in command is asking Spain for money and men, just as Weyler is asking. He says he cannot conquer the rebels without a larger force.