The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-19
ON TO BLUEFIELDS.
Cruiser Columbia Ordered
Today To Proceed There
At Once.
AN INsURREcTloN REPORTED.
Said to Be Conducted by the
American Colonists There,
Whom Uncle Sam Will
Protect.
IN INsURRECTl0N REPORTED.

WASHINGTON, July 10, I694.-The cruiser
Columbia is under orders to leave New
York Harbor with the least possible delay
and proceed to Bluefelds with dispatch for
the protection of American interests.
These peremptory orders from Secretary
Herbert were sent to Captain George Sum
ner, commanding the vessel this morning,
and it is expected that the departure of the'
vessel will not be delayed beyond tomorrow
although it is hoped she can go to sea to
night.
1t cannot be learned at the State and Navy
Departments this morning. exactly what ex-
traordinary emergency has suddenly arisen
to cause the dispatch of such a vessel 10 the
Mosquito coast at this time.
The Columbia carries regular crew Oh
429 men, and if shore operations are 10 pc
undertaken most of them can be landed
while the vessel is anchored
Commander O'Neill, of the Marblehead
cabled the department, July 10, by. way OF
Port Lii men. Costa Rica, that he had landed
a detachment at Bluehelds TO pro-
pending an insurrection which had broken
out, that the Nicaraguan authorizes had
been overthrown by the Mosquito chief. bet
the situation was improving and he ex-
pected to withdraw bis force of marines
and blue Jackets within the next lew Gays.
The State Department notified Minister
Baker. at Maonagua, of the matter and
called ON him to give the affair close atten-
tion. Yesterday the Minister cabled
that he was not well enough
to 90 to Bluefelds, but would keep
the department informed of reports received
by the Nicaraugan government.
THE RESURRECTION.
The United Press dispatches from Blue
field via New Orleans, last night
pave intimation of the possible cause
of hurrying the Columbia to the scene
stating that the landing Of marines by
Commander O'Neill was deemed necessary
owing to the hostility of the Nicaraguans
who attributed the insurrectlon, or lts IN
citement, to the American residents. Inc
despatch also mentions the prevailing Tumof
that the Nicaraguan authorities have threat
ened several Americans Win oeaIn uiless
they leave the place at once.
It is extremely likely that either the state
or navy department, or both OF them, nave
similar information, brought by the same
steamer to New Orleans, but official refuse
to say whether they have or not.
Dr. Guzman, the Nicaraguan Minister,
saws he has had several cabiegrams from his
government in regard to the insurrection,
but with very few details. He declares
it to be mere hlllbusterlng
affair, of which Clarence, the Mosquito
chief has been made the ostensible leader by
foreign residents who want to throw of
Nicaraguan rule, but who are unable to
state to what government they wish to be
attached. He says there. are not
altogether 200 Indians in the country
and they are miserable lot, utterly inca
pacjtated for governing themselves, and it
is absurd to think of them as fighting
or overthrowing the existing Govern
ment. If the insurrection has been temper
arilv as successful as indicated in the
dispatches it is because the insurrectionists
are Americans, Jamaicans or other foreign
ers, who do the real fighting and use Chief
Clarence and his Indians as figureheads
only.
DUE TO AMERICANS.
This aspect of the affair as explained by
the Nicaraguan Minister is borne out by
special advices from Bluefelds, stating
that Commander O'Neil had recognized
the new government with Clarence at
its head and that the entire revolution
was planned and executed by American col
onists. If this report be true it is possible
the mission of the Columbia may at least in
directly result in the recognition of the indie
pendence of the Mosquito territory from Mic
araguan rule.
Great Britain some time ago abandonned
it's efforts to bolster up Mosquito Indian
government then dominated by Jamaica
negroes