New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-20
THE RIGHT OF ASYL UMIN CHILLI
RECOGNIZED BY THE GOVERNMENT AT SAN
TIAGO IN A LETTER TO MINISTER EGAN.
THE AMERICAN SQUADRON AND THE
CHILIAN FACTIONS.

CH1LIAN FACTIONS.
Santiago. oct 1o-It is officially stated that the
Government has given intlmatlon that 1t will sooh
issue a safe conduct 10 those persons who have taken
refuge in the American and Spanish Legations. The
Government has recognized the right. of asylum In
letter to Mr. Egan the United States Minister. The
spanish Minister is acting I'm conjunction with MI
Egan.
The sailor of the United States steamer Baltimore
who was killed by Chillan sa,r in a street braw
few days ago was buried at Valparaiso to-dy There
was no hostile demonstration OF any kind An alineu
force of Americans from the Baltimore attended the
funeral unmoesed Another of the Baltimore > san
ors who was cruelty wounded in the same hgn', WIN
probably die of his hut Captain Schley, CT inc h@'t'
more and the local authorities of Valparaiso are invesu
gazing The cause Of the trouble 1t has already beeh
ascertaned that the Chan mob made the attack on
the Americans and that the onslaught was pecuhlry
brutal ohc The Chllans all armed with Knives
and pisics while The Americans had few weapons anu
were slow in using them The Gillian sailors anu
boaimen are still showing bitter feeling toward Amer
leans ana are making all manner Of threats me Det
ter class OF the Gillian people everywhee heaTulS ool
denim the brutal attack ana express nope tat the c3u
iessness
Cincinnati oct. 10-Dr. Francis Rivers and Signor
Carlos Del Rio late of the military staff OF President
BaImaceda. of Chill. arrived here early yesterday
morning and took n Pan Handle train for New-Yorh
Neither could speak word of English. They had
with them Louis Bloch Of California, an interpreted:
through whom they said Balmaceda was not dead, ell
reports Of suicide to the contrary Notwithstanding ana
that they expected meet him either In New YORK
or in Europe. signor Pedro Montt who represented
the Congress party of Chill at Washington, has been
here for two days business the nature OF which he
has not divulged
| London Oct lo.-A dispatch TO "The Times" from
VALPARAISO SAYS evidence neutral sources confirms
the statement made that the United States squadron in
| Chilian waters both In words and deeds, displayed
ennitv toward the Congressional Navy during the
| recent civil in Chill.
Washington Oct 10.-The report from London that
the United States naval squadron in Chan waters
dsplaved enmity TO the Congressional Navy during
the recent civil war in that country is wholly dis
credited at the Navy Department. one ofhcer , M OF
high rank said he had positive information that while
compelled to pursue neutral course tg GHpmg @ tne
srugse his personal son sympaes s1d convictions were
The best answer to the malignant dispatch pub
ished by "The London Times" is the santiago cable
message stating officially that the Gillian Government
in letter to Minister Egan has recognized the right
OF asyum and that safe conducts will soon be Issued
IN the political refugees in the American and Spanish
| LEGATIONS But the animus which moved the British
organ to publish false statement concerning the
attitude of the American naval officers during the
ChiIan contest is still better understood when "The
Tines dispatch is read in conjunction with the Gin
cnnati telegram The reports the assertion
of two ex-oceTs of almaceda, that the Dictator Is
not dead. This story had already been sent broad
cast through Europe by the English press early as
October s. The papers said then that tho
burlal OF BoImaccda had been surrounded with great
mystery: that the Chilan Government watched with
extreme vigilance the approaches of Minister Eean's
house in which it supposed that the former Pres-
don't was concealed and that the report Of his suicide
had been spread about only with the view Of facilitating
his escape The story which comes from Cincinnati
Is calculated to support the hoax first launched in order
d,ft tha
etatas whose Naval officers again misrepresented
~, a,Tbe London Times as having been antagOnsuc
20 the Constitutional cause in Chill. or course, the
English would like estrange the Northern and the
southern American Republics. But their ehGrs have
beiI overdone and the generous conduct OF the snu
0o Gnvernment toward the refugees In the American
Legation shows thai the Dictator was surely h hNt
@d the United states cafnot be disturbed by any
malicious cocIand bull stories Matched In London and
repeated in Cincinnati