The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-05-12
THE WAR IN VENEZUELA.

THE WAR IN VENEZUELA
The Barbarous Tactics Kesortsd to by
PalaGio.
New YORK, April ga special to
the Herald from Laguayra, Venezuela,
says that on April Is Il quantity of
arms from Trinidad, intended for Ger.
Crespo, was seized at Ciudad Bolivar
The Government also captured a son of
the revolutionists. leader, and the
young man, it declares, will be execute d
on the day his father comes within a
league of Caracas, President Palacio
also announced that he will subject
young Crespo to torture unless Mrs
Crespo divulges her husbands plans
The Governments losses at the battle
of Tompit de Colon were $50 men killed
and 500 wounded. Gen. Crespo is
marching on Caracas with $4,000 in.
fantry and g 600 cavalry. The revolu.
tlonlsts are well armed. OF the infan-
try 5000 are armed with small caliDre
repeaters and 6,OOO with rifles Of the
lastast model. Most of these guns are
| .
| been smuggled in from Hamburg
steamships. The cavalry is well
mounted, having had the pick of horses
IN the country through which Crespo
marched. The army is said to be ac.
companied by thousands Of camp fol-
lowers who have risen to Join the reyo.
lutlonlsts and are ready to fight as soon
as arms can be found for them. Crespo
IS welcomed in all the villages along
The line OF march, and money and food
are supplied to him from all sides.
Many or the troops in Caracas are sus-
pected or disloyalty. rhe garrison is
inleSteu Win lnformerS, and upon
tnelr accusations soldiers are being ar
rested daily for conspiracy against the
government.
Inc 1all or Caracas is said to be GER
tam unless Palacio's army can be III
iIea ana pushed In pursuit of the rDvo-
latlonlSts with unprecedented speed
The revolution has demoraliZed a large
part OF the population. Bands of plum
derers and highwaymen, calling them
selves revolutionists, intest all districts
Ihey make raids on the villages, burn
the houses and rob the shops. Dozens
OF wealthy men have been kidnapped
ana held for ransom. There is abso-
| iutely no trade in the region thus i'll
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Their money or burylng it and hasten.
ing to the seaport towns.
1T was reported just before the sail
ing OF the Amerique that recruiting
company from Palacl0's army was sur
| rounded and maSSacred by the peoplc
or countrytoWn in Tachira. CrespC
has captured Casanas, Palacio's minis.
ter OF the IntOriOr. He has warned
Palacio that should further cases of
cruelty toward suspected revolutionists
IN Caracas occur, Casanas will be taken
out and shot.
Panic prevails in the capital. Gov
ernormeht troops are throwing up
earthworks before the city and citizens
have been compelled to work night and
day with pick and shovel. Cattle are
being driven into the city and the garri-
son has been provisioned for six weeks.
MoSt or the shops are closed, and tho
price OF food is so eXorbitant that the
poorer people are starving to death.
The attack Of the reYOlutiOnists. Il is
expected, will be made within two or
three days.
1t Is believed that Palacio is prepar
ing TO 1lee, as the main body of his army
IS TOO far distant to succor him before
tae attack, and the garrison is too weak
10 offer prolonged resistance. The capi-
I"i 10 uil ~ IulHOTS DIS TO plOtS against
l'alacio's life, and on last Sunday night
1our men were arrested. charged with
aconspiracy to blow up the place with
dynamite. AS there has been no trial
or exam nation outside prison walls
nothing is known as to the foundation
OF the accusations. Despite the ac-
cumulating evidence of his approach
ing fall, it IS believed that Palacio will
defer his fight to the last moment.
Prohibition Convention.
COLUMBIA, $. c., April 28.-A peti
ton is being extensively circulated in
GreenVille and other places for a pro.
hlDltion convention to be held in this
city: The petition is as follows:
"WHereas, the traffic in intoxicating
beverages IS one of the most prolific
causes of degradation and ruin to the
individual, poverty and wretchedness to
the nome, disorder, pauperism and
crime to the commonwealth and an
enormous financial drain upon our nj.
ready impoverished people; and where
as, the agitation OF last winter in the
General Assembly has placed the issue
squarely before the Democratic party
in South Carolina:
Therefore, we, the undersigned, at
the urgent solicitation OF a large mum
Der OF the people, invite all Democratic
voters tavoring the prohibition of the
liquor traffic to meet in Columbia.
Thursday, May 2Gth, at II o'clock m,
there TO form and aGont tba hoot ,,l,,,