Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-20
FOREIGN INFELLIaENeE.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE nrconD-usros.
CENTRAL. AMERICA.
Salvador Does Not Fear Guatemala, and
Honduras, United.

and Nicaragua have confirmed the CON-
pact with Salvador. 1t is reported in
Chiapas that the Guatemalan troops on the
frontier of Salvador have mutinied, want.
ing their pay. Senior Diaguez; the Guate-
malan Minister. says that war is now in.
evitable, and that this will be week of
battles. The Guatemalan forces number
&c, 600, all in good condition, and they
count on the support of Honduras.
Senior Pou, Salvadorian representative.
says that this week will be an exciting
one, and that the fighting will be ferocious.
The Salvadorian army, he says, numbers
over 20, 600 men, who are elated over their
recent victory, and who will surely enter
the capital of Guatemala. Nicaragua, Costa
Rica and San Salvador do not fear
Honduras and Guatemala united, their
armies being on short paw and provis-
ions, while Salvador has an abundance for
all.
MOVEMENT OF TROOPS.
GUATEMALA, August 19th.-Senor Cottu,
the agent who arranged the $21, 900 600 loan
with the French bankers, has arrived here.
He arrived at the moment the hostilities
were declared at an end.
The movement of troops continued yes
terdsy. Twenty-Five hundred men, COM
prisiDg infantry, cavalry and artillery, left
this city for the Salvadorian frontier to
suppress the revolution in that department.
The soldiers will remain there awaiting
orders to attack the enemy. If at last the
peace agreement between the countries is
not concluded, the end of the contention
cannot be foretold, since Barrillas insists
upon Ezetas removal before he will sign
the protocol. Ezeta demands the same
condition as regards Barrillas, making the
trouble now personal one between the
Presidents of the two countries.
The Panama Canal.
BoGoTA (via Galveston), August I9th.-
The Government has passed to the Senate
the petition of Lieutenant Wyse, the
Panama Canal Company Commissioner,
who recently arrived from Paris. Lieuten-
ant Wyse asks for six years prolongation
of the canal company's concession without
recompense and that the Government con-
cede to the company 10000 hectares of
land for the lake which will be formed by
the Chagres river, the Government receiv-
ing 10000, 600 francs, which sum the COM
pany will pay in installments. Nothing
more is offered.
Shanghai Police.
New YORK, August 19th.-The head of
the Shanghai police force, in letter to the
Chief of Police of this city, says that it has
been determined that the police of that
city shall be natives instead of English
men, as at present. He says the work of
reorganization of the force may go into
effect at once and asks the local body to
forward him a description of the working
system employed in this city, as it is de-
sired to pattern the new service of Shang-
hal after that of New York. The informa-
ton was forwarded.
Arsenic Poisoning.
BELGRADE, August 19th.-A committee
of the Servian Progressionist party attended
a banquet at Topola. Subsequently the
members of the committee were taken i'll
and their symptoms showed that they were
suffering from arsenical poisoning. 1t is
suspected that arsenic was placed in the
food Intentionally, with the OBJECT of kill
ing those who partook of it, and that the
crime was committed by the political oppo-
nents of the Progres sionists.
The Jews in Russia.
LONDON, August 19th.-The hatred of the
Jews in southern Russia is unabated. On
several occasions Jewish lawyers mer-
chants and others have been expelled in
large numbers from Odessa and other
places, and within few days past there
have been wholesale expulsions of Hebrews
from bathing resorts of that vicinity.