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Cuban Filibustered Captured

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Day
6
Month
September
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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At Wilming-ton, Del., 20 men captured at Penn's Grove, N. J.. were lodged in jafl, charged by the United States authorities with the violation of the neutrality laws in having organized a hostile expedition to Cuba. It had been suspected for severai months that a Cuban filibusteringr party was at work at Wilrnington and that at least one expedition had been disnatched from there. Detectives shadowed the suspeotedmenandfound that they had chartered a tug to carry freight to Penn's Grove. They were allowed to go to that point, but before the steamer which was totakethem to Cuba arrived the party was arrested. When the detectives examined the tug the found 27 cases of arms, a large quantity of ammunition, provisions, clothing, etc, all of which was seized. Capt.-Oeu. Campos Yacht Blown üp. A dispatch from Havana says that the Spanish steamer Villaverde, used by Gen. Campos as a private yacht, was blown up at sea by the explosión of a ton of dynamite which was being carried from New York to Havana, and which Gen. Campos intended to use in his campaign against the insurgents. The steamer was blown into fragments.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News