Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-11-04
HUNDREDS DROWNED.
Steamer With Troops For
Piex0t0 Sunk.
AN ATTACK UPON TURKS.
Arabs and Spanish Troops Have An
other Fierce Fight.


has the following special from Lisbon:
A private telegram from Buenos Ayres
say, that tie iusurxent waTship Repub-
lics ran in o nj snnk the transport Rio
de Janeiro wbich was IN her way from
Ro Grande DO sui 70 - de Janeiro with
troops for Presi lent Peixoto. Three hun
dred troops were drowned.
A dispatch To The Times from Rio de
Janeiro confirms the information that
the Republica had rammed the Rio
Janero. and that 600 out Of 100 troops on
board were drowned. The dispatch also
said that Admiral M-llo CouLrmed the
truth 81 this report.
forks aud Macedon ans Fight.
BEDGnADE, Nov "A band Of Msoedo.
nian ArnauJs attacked the town of Pris-
rand. in Albania. ON Wednesday last, . nd
drove the Turkish garrison into the cta-
del, When the Turks had been safely
boxed up in the fortress the Macedonians
looted stores and mansions and also
sacked the theological seminary.
The town during its occupation by the
Macedonians WAS thrown into state Of
the greatest panic and excitement. Peo.
pie barricaded themselves Ia their houses
place. Some reports have it that the
Macedonians committed the greatest az.
cesses. and Others say that they only be
hsyed roughly toward those who res sted
their pillagng and toward the Turkish
soldiers whom they imprisoned In the
citadel.
1t IL added that the sultan has received
an ultimatum, addressed TO him by the
Macedonian rebels, In which the latter de.
mand that the citadel be evacuated by the
Turkish troops no later than Wednesday
next, and that complete autonomy be
granted TO the Psshalik If PrisYand; other
wise, the rebels say, they will forcibly ex.
pei the Turks from the citadel A de-
tachmsnt Of Turkish troops has been dis
patched to the assistance of the i'm prison I'd
Turks, and a savage engagement between
the Macedonians and the sultsn's forces 10
anticipated.
Commons Taihs OF the Slaughter.
LONDON, Nov <-ln the house Of COM
mons Sydney Buxton, parliamentary sec.
retsry of the colonial Office. repl lying to a
number Of questions on the subject, said
that the government had nothing to add
to the reports of trouble with the Mata.
beles that had appeared in the newspapers,
which, he believed, were substantially ac'
eurats.
Sir James Ferguson, former pariia-
mentary secretary OF the foreign Office,
asked IL the government believed there
had been any needless bloodsbed.
Henry Labouohere, who 10 bitterly op-
posed TO the method, Of the British South
Africa co psny. wanted to know IL the
Cover ment did not consider the msssa-
Mr.. Buxton replied that lie did not re-
gard IL as his business to say whether the
kl,ling Of the Matabeles was a massacre
or needless bioodshed
Mr.. Morton asked whether the govern
ment approved the murder OF Mstabeles
for the purpose Of plundsring and selling
their landsP
The speaker called Mr.. Morton to order.
Another Battle.
MELILLA, Nov. 4-General Marcias pre-
pared detachment of troops yesterday
for sortie with the object of relieving the
outlying forts. His force, which was COM
posed Of picked soldiers, sailed forth from
the fortress amid the cheers Of the entire
populsoe. The body marched rapidly
toward the river euro. The Arabs, as
soon as the approach Of the Spanish troops
was discovered, began to gather at tho
front in large mum bers, and soon made an
attack upon the Spaniards.
A fierce engagement followed, which
ended in the defeat OF the Arabs, who re-
tired T. the Guruba mountains, after
many of their force had been killed and
wounded. The European force then moved
on the forts Postrogordo, which they fur
nished with fresh supply of provisions.