St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-29
A TYRANT INDEED.
If Half That's Told Is True, Chill
Is PfOstrate.

NEW YORK, July 2S.-Chilian. Peru
vian and Argentine newspapers received
in this city give interesting details of
the struggle of the Chilian factions. The
confidential agent of the insurgents at
Panama has made public the following
bulletin, received from the minis
ter of foreign affairs for the
congressional party: 1.-The ship
Maipo has foundered. having aboard
c. mplete equipments of Infantry. cav
airy and artillery for $4,000 men," In
an account of alleged cruelties on the
part of BaImaceda. Ell Tacora, of Tacna,
asserts, 1.-The officers and soldiers daily
desert the government force. Whenever
any of the men are captured, the author
tiles fog them, administering from 100
to 200 strokes, and then send them TO
the hospitals, who forward them to the
cemeteries.
The greatest terror reigns in Santiago,
Valparaiso and the southern towns.
The spies and minionS of the tyrant
not only violate homes, but also the
converts and monaSterleS. In the
homes they rob and pillage under pre-
text of looking for revOlutlOnlStS. Ihe
fields are deserted, because the un-
fortunate huasos Qarmers) have fled to
the mountains to escape enforced enlist
ment in the ranks of Balmaceda'S army.
'Don Jose Luis Nergara, eX-com-
mander of Talca, was cruelty logged III
Santiago for the alleged crime of being
at IoggerheadS with Don Carlos MOraga,
commander of the Condell. The pun
ishment was SO severe that Sonora Ell
vira IZafa de Vergara, when the bloody
clothing of her husband was brought to
her home. went to the mint building to
show the garments to Balmaceda. Not
finding him there, she confronted Don
Jose Miguel Valdez Carrera, whom she
denounced as a coward and assassin"
Charges of grosSest cruelty were
made against Balmaceda by Senior
Javer Vial y Solar, special envoy OF the
constitutional government to the gov
ernment of Peru. His interview with
the editor of Ell National.of Lima, Peru.
was published in that paper. Said he:
1.-The dungeons of Santiago, Valparaiso,
Talca, Conception, and nearly all
the cities are filled with the
most worthy and respectable
citizens. In these jails, the torture IS
daily applied to youths and old men to
force them to avowalS which would COM
promise their friends. The lash. the
galloWs, the fusilade. and other most
cruel expedients of the .eXecutiOner are
daily spectacle in those sOmber abodes.
The distinguished Senoritas Emilia Car
rara Pinto and Isabel Davila Larrain
wsre thown into vile Jail for the crime
of being seen in the street reading
small opposition journal.
''Great establishments, costing their
proprietors millions of dollars, for eX
ample, those at the coal mines at Lebu,
of Senior ErraZuriZ, have been raZed to
the ground by Balmaceda. Works of
public necessity, like the wharf of the
Pichilemuz Port, belonging to Senior
OrtrIzar, have been ruthleSsly destroyed.
But the destruction and incendiarism
are nothing compared with the means
employed to close up the banks and
credit institutions, causing the ruin, not
only of the rich and powerful, but of
the middle class and the poorer people,"
a paper of Copiapo, Chill, announces
thattwenty young men have been hogged
by order of Balmaceda, for having taken
passage aboard an English steamer
which was bound for the north.