... preserved the strictest neutrality at great cost, with much loss in our trade relations. On Feb. 15, 1898, the world was startled and horrified by the blowing up of the battle-ship Maine, of the United States navy, in the harbor of Havana, with the loss of 253 of her crew. It does not matter now how this was done; whether or not any Spanish official was concerned in the destruction of this magnificent s...