Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-02-16

TX IA, W rance.
/&nd a4ss&E severe engage
%5se forced to retreat.
<Y$/..%sx Is the extreme end of the
~ /u0o " on which Nictheroy is
: /cE. The bay about six miles
A/Sno% % a very desirable POSI-
= 4e 20 "a on the capitol and is
~ 70. Soo.Joy, which is the prin-
Ekneea # the government
A.LA.-Tbe command
VI Nebel warships Tiraderte,
fosshia, suspected of disloyslty
e=, 2 b'priYed of their commands
~ 1otaYe been appointed in their
y = fleet attacked Amaraca
4 "A y and continued the fight
s ~. The insurgents landed
"a III aHestroyel the bench and
u 4fot the COVE. pent.
siAvy guns and two magazine
~ ,Dt the streets Of Nictheroy,
- re forced to retreat before
Embers of the government
Cernmeut admits loss Of
Alrer the true loss. The
{ $ceeded beyond all hopes,
- led the government position
to the feet AID having
hen \ all.
Web. IA dispatch re-
ON Buenos Ayers today says;
~ omcl6lly announced from Rio
20 that the insurgents have been
,sea at NictlerOy, Many prisoners
Earuak Guiding several naval eff
hSgerts have captured
-, MonohOy, Cruzalta
r : ted ashore during
dSelbl tue luo VI ecu o
q eixoto received timely
Yyhe plot and caused the
II g leaders included among
&c two generals aud twenty
-. received here from the
< - Brazil is unreliable.
Fl. fine advance of the
continue. 1t is said
+ he'd the frontier of the
x j. has position is stronger
He is receiving many
bites of supplies from
4 head of the bay. On
bruary seventy men
:. 4 rgent ranks. Poixoto's
lat Bahia"
70. 1l-Dr. Mendanca, the
T. II ster at Washington, made
g. kto this city yesterday. The
Scr said that the story of a plot to
assinate President Peixoto had no
foundation IN fact.
4 The steamer Hillary, Captain Pinet,
arrived yesterday from PeruamLuco. The
new crews which were put aboard the
Nictheroy and America, Captain Pinet
states, are a motley crowd and composed
of iandsmen lougshoremen, boatmen and
others picked up along the docks by
press-gaugs. They present wretched
appearance, and are no more fitted to
man q war vessel than lot Of labOrers.
BLOODY BATTLE AT RIO.
Buenos Ayres, Feb. l2.-Dispatches
Just received here bringing some details
of the battle on Friday last between the
rebels and the government forces at Rio
de Janeiro. A general engagement was
fought close to NlctherOy, the rebels
landing at Armacao and engaging the
government troops at close quarters. The
Aght was hot and desperate while it last
ed, and is said to have resulted in the
loss of 500 killed on the government side
and of go killed on the insurgent side.
The engagement was so severe that
Armacao, adjoining Nictheroy, was almost
ruined. The rebels however, were even
tually compelled TO retire,
AN ENGLISH STORY CT THE BATrLa.
London, Feb. 12.-The Times tomorrow
+ will publish dispatch from Montevideo,
dated February II, which gives the story
= of the battle at Niotheroy as follows:
At o'clock 500 insurgents attacked
. Armacao and Pon:a da Areira, in the
vicinity of NictherOy. Launches con-
veying the landing parties left the Island
: of Conceicao at 3 80 A. NJ. aud succeeded
in reaching the mainland without dis
covery. Then in half an hour after heavy
firing on both sides, the government
troops retired, leaving five officers and
forty men prisoners and six officers and
fifty men killed.
At o'clock, reiuiOrcements of over a
Thousand men arriving, the government
troops again advanced under heavy fire
of rifles and machine guns. Admiral DE
Cana attempted TO check the advance oil
!. the troops by calling for reinfOrcements
of 100 men from the Island OF BonceicO
and by sending armed launches from the
cruiser Llberdado, close 20 the shore Of
the mainland.
These efforts stopped the advance and
caused heavy losses TO the government
forces Then the iDsDrgent ammunition
fell shert, their fire sIsekeEed and the
troops slowly gained ground. After
three hours fighting the troops were
within half mile of Armacao, and Admiral
Da Cana decided to withdraw bis sailors,
finding It impossible to remain there on
aceouut of the Overwhelming number OF
the enemy.
| Admiral De Cana May Die.
Pin Ia Taneiro FSb i3-Admiral Sal.