The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-08-26
AMERICAN CITIZENS ARRESTED.
The Nicaraugan Government
Defies America and England.
War Vessels OF Both Countries Made no
Attempt to Prevent the Outrages-Fur-
thor Indignities Expeoted-The Prison
ers May Lose Both Life and Property.
Arrested Without Reason or Justice.

Gussie, OF the Southern Pacific line,
which arrived last night, the N!caraguan
government has defied the governments
OF both the United States and Great
Britain, and has taken into Gus tody
representatives Of both nations. The
commanders Of the War vessels which
have been at the seat OF the disturbance
for the past month have stood tamely by
and permitted the soldiers OF Nicaragua
to arrest the subjects Of their respective
countries and make no protest, and the
consequence OF this apathy may be the
loss Of possibly dozen lives and the
confscation of the property of the pris-
| oners.
When the Gussie left Blueaelds last
Sunday the people OF that town were in
hourly anticipation OF the NicaraRuans
attempting further indignities and
threatening the peace of tho place by
placing tho remainder of the American
and native population under arrest.
The town and in fact the entire reser.
walton ia bereft OF the sem blance of
either American or English protectio
| and the merchants and others doing
business in the town fear that every
moment will be the last in which they
may assert any individual authority.
| The officers Of the Gussie, familiar as
they arc with the condition of affairs in
the disturbed country, consider that the
crisis is at hand and the time for action
on the part OF the United States is now
or never. The men who have been
placed under arrest and whom the
NicarRuans intend conveying to Grew
town, where they are to be accorded the
privilege OF trial, are not in any man
ner connected with the uprising of the
Mosquito chief, Clarence, and are all
men OF prominence in the reservation
and possessed of considerable means.
TO this fact is ascribad their arrest, as
the Nicaraguans are said TO become the
owners of the property OF the prisoners
If the men arc found guilty, or are SO
presumed by tho tribunal before which
they will probably appear, the property
! of the prisoners will go to help fill the
depleted Golfers of the oppressers of the
reservation and if the prisoners are not
sguans they will be ordered from the
country and will leave their property in
the hands OF their captors. This is
said TO be one Of the stakes for which
tho Nicaraguans are playing, and it is
said that If the powers do not interfere
tho destinies of the people at present in
Bluefelds are entirely in the hands OF
the soldiers OF the republic.
The names of the men who have been
prisoners by the Nicaraguans and who.
at the time tho Gussie left, were in Gus
tody are as follows: w. Ii. Brown,
the agent of the Southern Pacific Com
psny; Canadian captain; George Wilt
bank, an American planter; Capt. Brown
Rick, of the steamer President e. Car
$3.50; E. D. Hatch, English vice consul;
Sim Clapton, an American and resi-
dent of New Orleans; H. c. Ingram, a
New Orleans; John Taylor, native
planter; l. Simarkham, Taylor; John o.
Thomas, S. A. Hodgson, George Hodg.
son and Washington Glover, native NOR
chants; Charles Patterson, vice presi-
dent of the Mosquito reservations, John
Cuthbert, attorney general of tho reser.
walton.
These men were arrested without res-
son or justice, the cause of the arrest
being stated by the soldiers as aiding and
abotting the uprising of the natives.
Several other Am orleans are in hiding
and the Nicaraguans are making des.,
perate efforts to locate their where
abouts that, they may be also placed in
custody.
When the Gussie was ready to sail for
the States the commander Of the Colum.
bia sent an official OF the ship on board
OF the Southern Pacific vessel with dis
patches which he desired to convey to
the Secretary of the Navy in this coun.
try in person. He came fully prepared
TO make the voyage but the captain OF
the Gussie and tho agent Of tho line de.
cided that it would be an infringement
OF the quarantine regulations to carry
passengers, and refused TO permit the
officers to mako the trip. The des-
patches were then sent by tho captain
of the Gussie and will be in the hands
OF tho Secretary OF the Navy not later
than Sunday evening. They contain a
full account of the occurrences in the
reservation and may contain tho reasons
of the commander Of the Colu LII bia for
acting as no did in refusing to accord
protection TO the Americans in that
country.
Established 1881.
THIS is the fourteenth year the Hobbie