New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-04
oii uway.A. SIMOMSON.2o 10th & 2ist SITS
BOYS BAYONETT'ED AT RIO.
FEROCITY OF BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT
TROOPS AT MAGE.

GORDON OF TROOPS ALoNr me hNA '''"D
--INstRGeNr VESSELS SCATTERED AMONG
THE MERcHAN~MEN-PEIX FLEET
AT HMIA-RAvAGEs or YELLOW
FEVER ~ THE CAPITAL
,Copyrighf; lsli: Ey me Uaited Prcssl
10 Jane!ro Feb y, via Montevideo, March g.
The Government has completed the Gordon Of troops
along the bay shore 4 few sailors were en-
coune.el 81 Mage. but they led after losing three
killed and several wounded After getting possess
sion Of the position the Government soldiers bay
onotted several boys Of ten or twelve years VINO
had associated with the insurgents one boy was
hell up by the heels and split in two with sword
before his mothers eyes. The Government Gordon
VIII cut of all communication between the lnsur-
gents and the interior The upper part Of the bay
has been abandoned and all the nsurgent vessels
are scattered among the merchant ships
Ne Burt agent for Charles r. Flint CO.. Of
New-York. left Bahia February y and arrived
here yesterday He says that the Government fleet
ri Bahia consists of eight vessels. The Government
fears 10 bring this fleet to Rio Janeiro, lest the
brazilian crews go over to the insurgents. Inc
foreigners in the crews. however, are determined
10 fight. and would turn on any Brazllians who
might try to revolt Mr.. Burt expects that the fleet
VIII to Rio The day after the election. The dyna-
mite cruiser Nic;hcroy. h. says, WAS brought here
on February Is to take few experimental shots
at the insurscnt forts, Niilegaignon and CobraS'
but President Pcxoto changed his mind at the
last moment The experiments made with the
Nicthcroy a. Bahia were highly successful Mr..
Burt says nothing Of the Aquidaban or Republica
coming down. and believes that both vessels have
gone to DcstrrrO.
The insurpent garrison on Cobras Island now
numbers about leO The average crew or an IN
sIrgcut warship is hardly forty. The Government,
however. cannot rouse it's force To anything Ike
activity. although any half-determinod ciort 70
take the iusurgeEt positions by storm would surely
bc successful. There are stories that the IN
hurip! dynamite tho edges OF
Vncgal;non and Cobras islands. to protect them
against attack and scare the Government troops.
\ small increase ~ yellow fever ashore has been
reported iu n" last few days. Forty masters OF
merchantmen IN the harbor are said 10 hay" died
or the Disease Among the political prisoners. who
are said 10 number 800, the epidemic Is making
t"rrbl" progress.
Tho preparations FOR the elections include some
There have been no speeches. professions or even
honnrcs. The latest rumor Is that IN" soldiers IN
Bahia have nominated General Soudic To oppose
pr Prulcutc Moracs. President PciNoto was said
to favor this military candidate. The GoFcrnm"ni
denied this report. which undoubtedly was spread
by the insurgents
Admiral ia CANA told the United Press CORE
sJ,1ndcnt yesterday that the insurgents would ac-
crrt AOrHcs az President although the election
would Boz Illegal because martial llw would D." en-
forced until tho very end of this month. II Noraes
succeeds he Will order new election ~ Congress
men "Ih" Jornal' has published the nam" oi cN-
Minister Euy Barbosa who is supposed 10 be an
iusurg"nt as candidate for the ircsi-
deuNy
Thr Insurgents now admit that they lost all ~ the
twcnty-slN men aboard the steamer Venus by the
explosion ~ her magazine last week Inc venus
sank in shoal water m Agcrho Island. Both her
cannon We're saved and were mounted on other
vessels.