St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-26
EXILED HIS Enemies.
Niearagua's President Adopts
Summary Measures to
Stop a Revolution.
Forcibly Selling His Strong
est Opponents, He Ban
ishes Them Forever.
The EXiIes Are Members Of the
Most Powerful Families in
Nicaragua.
Hippolyte, Of Hayti, Shown
Up in a More Favorable
Character.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Aug. 24.-The
news telegraphed from Granada to the
United States to the effect that there
had been riots there Sunday last; that
the chief of police and six men had been
killed, and that three important person
ages were to be expelled from Mica
fagua, with the warning that they would
be shot if they returned, is correct.
Fuller details are now accessible.
Granada on Sunday was the scene OF a
coup de main by which President Rob
erto Sacasa tried to rid himself of his
most prominent opponents and at the
same time nip in the bud a possible
growing revolution. The gentlemen
arrested include two eX-presidents of
Nicaragua and the editor and
owner of the most important daily
journal in the country. Granada
is practically in state OF
siege, and the troops here at the capital
are confined to the barracks. In addl-
ton, the opposition to President Sacasa
is growing daily and affairs are assum-
Ing a critical position. For many years
vigorous rivalry has existed between
the ancient city of Leon and the more
modern Granada, and between the Pro-
greSSiStS, whose headquarters at Gran
ada, and the InglisistaS, or
Roman Catholic Church Party.
whose stronghOlds are Leon and Man
aqua. Granada for many terms past
has furnished the country with the
president, but at the last election, by
undue means, the ProgresSiStS claim,
Sacasa, Leon man, was chosen presl-
dent. SacaSa had previously been
mysterious death of President Ca
razO, two years ago last Octo-
Der, Senator SacaSa was duly
chosen to fill out the unfinished term.
This was not approved by the Progress
ist party, and President Sacasa became
more and more unpopular as it became
known that he, backed up by the Leon
or church party, had determined to
leave no stone unturned to bring abont
his election to the presidency after he
had filled out Caracas uneXpired term.
In spite of the opposition party ana the
increasing unpOpularity of his admin
istratiOn. SacaSa succeeded in his am
bilious plans. and in November last was
elected president. Naturally this only
served still further to embitter the feel
ing existing between the PrOgressistS
and tile church party, 1t was whispered
that an attempt would be made by force
of arms to OuSt SacaSa from the presi-
dency, and he apparently determined to
do his utmost to prevent the Progress
lists from bringing about his downfall.
But no trouble was anticipated until the
elections, which are to be held in No
f1rr Mt
pated that SacaSa would attempt coup
de main in Granada itself. One Of
The Great Complaints
made against the Leon party and their
representative, President Sacasa, is that
they hold the police, or troops (fOr the
police act both as police and as soldiers,
and carry a rife and bayOnet, though
they wear no shOes) in their power, and
use them to control the elections. More
over. one of the reforms promised by
Sacasa when a candidate for re-elec-
ton was a thorough reform in the
''pOlice" system; people were to be able
to walk in safety in the streets at
night. and the police were not to inter-
feTe at elections. The spies employed
bv the administration seem to have
pointed out teX-PreSident Gen. Chamorro,
eX-President Gen. Joaquin Zavala, Don
AnselmO Rivas, editor and proprietor OF
the DiariO Nicaraguense, of Granada,
the organ of the Progressist party and
the leading paper of Nicaragua: Don
ENRIQUE Guzman. a son of Gen. GuZ-
man: and Don j. d. Rodriguez, formerly
attached to the Nicaraguan legation at
Washington. as the most dangerous
leaders of the PrOgreSSiSt party in
Granada. Consequently, after taking
every precautiOn to meet revolutionary
outbreak, President Sacasa determined
suddenly to arrest these gentle
men and exile them, under
pain Of being shot should they
cuted Sunday. The men above
named were most unexpectedly arrested
on the charge of conspiring against the
government, and were taken to the
quartet. Their arrest caused great eX-
citement in Grenada, and vigorous at
tempt to rescue them was made
The Quartet Was Attacked.
the soldiers were fired upon; the latter
returned the fire and a number on each
side were killed and wounded. The
exact number of casualties is not
known, but it is reported that the chief
officer of the police and at least six SOL
dierS were killed, and that some fifty
citizens were shot. Gen. ChamOrro and
the other prisoners were subsequently
brought to Managua under q strong
guard, and Granada was placed in a
state of siege, pending the subsiding
of popular feeling. The important
prisoners yesterday were sentenced to
be escorted across the frontier and or
dered never to return, under penalty OF
death. The prisoners will be secretly
taken to the frontier, but to what point,
and whether on the Honduras or Costa
Rica line, is not generally known. Pos
sibly the prisoners Will be allowed tC
embark OH some vessel at COrintO. The
Chamborro, Zavala and GuZman fami-
lies are among the most wealthy and
important in Nicaragua, and cOnSe
ouently Il g arrest and expulsion of the
gentlemen named causes intense excite
ment. 1t is known that, in addition to
the arrests Just made, other persons are
under surveillance. People would moi
be astonished if some member of the
Cardenas and of the Lacaya familie:
were also to fall under the president!
disp!easure. Gen. Zayala was succeed
ed in the presidency by DR.. Cardenas
the latter was succeeded by Presiden
CaraZO, and he, as already explained by
Sacasa. 1t would thus appear that
Ex-Presidents OF Nicaragua
are not in favor with the present admin
istratiOn. Gen. Zayala will be remem
bered by Americans as the cause of the
abandonment of the banquet which wa
10 have been rendered to eX-Senato
Warner Miller while the latter was il
this country recently. To such an eX
tent does the general carry partisan