Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-08-11
THE PRESIDENT WAS HIMSELF
pEPosED.
What Measures for the Mitigation
OF Suffering Jews In
Russia?
AN EPIDEMIC OF POISONING IN
INDIA.
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Census Figures.
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PREsIDESr BABRILLAs.
He f. offered the Services OF SONS
Young Americans.


LA LIBERTAD, Aug. lO.-A cour-
rier who has arrived st the frontier
from the City II Guatemals, says
that the rumors Of revolution in that
city are true, and that the stOrt Of
President BarrillasI downfall il also
true. l have attempted TO confirm
the story Of the deposition OF the
GuAtemalan president, but am I'M
able to get any further information
At this point. II is said that the
Guatemalan cabinet sent in their
designations, which BarTillas refused
10 accept, and ordered them to re-
main at their posts. This they IT.
fused to do, so Barrillas sent them
letters Diminishing them from the
cabinet. Everything became con-
fusion after the withdrawal Of the
cabinet. President Barrillas was
deposed, and IL is said that DIR. An
tonic Lao ArTaiga, one Of the first
lawyers in Guatemala, has been
placed in temporary pOweruntil the
Griyal OF General Jose Maria Bar
hos from San Frarcisco, who is to
be placed in the presidency.
GUATENAIA's TROUBLES.
City OF GUATEMALA, August I.
-[By messenger TO Newton and
City Of Mexico, August 8. THE
Press, though nominally free, Is
handcuiIed and overawed. Most Of
the information regarding the war
with Salvador comes through the
government, and the public receives
but little more than the government
chooses 10 give. Many of the
Guatemala troops are dissatisfied
with their officers and prefer the
generals under whom they served in
other CAMPAIGNS. Because Of this
some OF them have fought lady,
two companies going TO the extent
Of throwing away their arms aud
running at the iirst fire.
a number Of young Americans
have offered their services 10 Pre-
sident Barrilia-, especially Offering
10 accompany him 10 The field as his
body guari, II he should find 1t
necessary 10 60. The President cN-
pressed his warmcst appreciation Of
this generosity Of the Americans. as
well me may, n IL j. about the only
safe body guard Ice can have in these
trBublOus times, when his most IT,
halle "fiiceTr might prove false.
-Om- o. the aTuIs taken from the
COlHId are nov ,SrTieu 10y police
men IA this lily.
lfthe war continues for a month
or two. il will gU-l the owners Uf the
coffee plantation ia this country
millions OF dollars. Tie coffee
harvest j. just here, and the crops
will be lost, as all the plantations
are completely drain, q OF pickers
to supply troops for the army, and
not only will almost the entire crop
Of this year lie lost, but a. the coffee
tree will not bear well for five or SIX
years after il has once remained
unpicked, the war will cause the
ruin Of the coffee crop for several
years TO come.
For more than two months the
republic has been suffering the pest
Of smallpox. IL has been more
than a month in the capital, and
seems to have come TO stay.
TREACHERY IL THE CABINET.
CITY OF MEXICO, Aug. IO.-The
indefinite rumors OF the past three
days regarding n revolution In the
City Of Guatemala have crystaliZed.
While there mas been no open
revolt, Barrillas discovered treach-
cry in the Cabinet, AMI IL Is gener-
ally believed here that his govern
ment will soon fall, and that he will
be forced TO take refuge in the
United States. Sobral, Secretary OF
Foreign Relations, who was accused
by Barrillas Of being a traitor, was
taken out to be shot, hut was saved
by the timely intervention Of the
Spanish Minister. Great excite
ment was caused by the discovery Of
the sO-called SObral treaGhery.