Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-04-14
NICARAGUA own wAR.
Notes Taken on "a Harsebseh RID
Through tho CauntFS.

Through tho CauntrS.
CoRfSTO, Nicaragua, March Is
[CUpyught 1855, ny tho Associated
rress, Following are the notes taken
on n0tsehsck ride thfOu 10 the die
trict " Nicaragua, now dAtufbui by
civil war, commenced on the morning
NJ February 2B.h, on which date your
Correspondent lett ManAgua, the capi-
Ca:
Al noon / was with President ~.
laps's army AZ Metairo and passed. his
outpost, fur miles west Of NngEfOtt,
A. . pm. arriving t NagafOle, which
was unuccupieu ny the troops Of either
side, Al q pm. / learned, however,
that the iutufgrst General 8OcA's cav.
airy hhd occupied the place during the
2jtn ana D. n evacuated u or the mora.
Ing OF tue 10Th.
GA February 9Th Nayarote was
occupied by about tniTly OF Za.AyA's
cavalry, followed by the iniantty.
When I arrived Mt LEON learned
that General Ous4 had arrived from
Guatemala city, wuere nc had been 10
exile, on February 27th, anu mad oYu.
iutred with tho CuiOiH VI tue western
division Of the Liberal political party,
who declared that they were contend.
ug or tle supremacy OF Clvii we,
against u dictatorship by ZelayA or
anyone Ulte.
On February gi.h the president and
secretary ~ congress anu an al
!, ged majority of the legal congress Ji
y icafAgus convened a. Leon Huu IT,-
claimed mat General }. Santos Is'ayH,
whom the legal CUngtess NJ Nicaragua
had appointed 10 be PRECEDENT VI MICA.
Tngun IN September. 1893, bad violated
the constitution OF Nicaragua, anu
therefore they dUctBed that tue up-
pIiulmeut Of J. Santos Huiayn 10 hu
pIeBi. cut OF Nicaragua hu revoked anu
that Vice President Francisco BJua
il. b. appIiutod lagsl PRECEDENT OF
Nicaragua for tIe uueE pred term
(aUlut Two yeafr.l
The available troops were armed anu
sent 10 NhgAIOlp, shout forty mlleB
west VI ManAguu aud fourteen miles
wet VI Muluif,, Putbla Neva and Ia
Pan.
GA February 2lst there was much
excitement anu enthusiasm nc L5Du,
ana yOIu teuting. BuCA's army was
reported about 900 strong. Toe de-
pattmunts Of ChinanIega, Malngaipu,
Jenolega, Estetlee Aud NueyA hegOvin
iIined tue insurgont government az
Leon anu forwarded sOldiyts aud vol.
unteefs, Nagarolu was then occupied
ana evacuated, AS has beeu indicated.
On March 1T division VI Is C8's
troop, about 900 strong, under Gen,
EsralOu,a SslvadOToln, attacked Maya
TUte about noon anu carried OIL the
UarTioadee, fghting until dark, losing
two generals killed anu several OllicrIb
AMI soldiers killed anu wounded. lhey
were nut OF ammunition AMI found
tnut NulHyh'B troops were being sup.
ported from Melaire, four leagupa DIS
tanL They clus,quently commenced
retreat uuuut D.. NJ, which bUcamu
a route auu panic, men throwing down
lheir guns, Al Puuulu Nurva they
killed two Of thor generals VINO eudgay.
ITcd 10 stop the rBpic, anu tnry ug.
Clnrod that Gen. E'calUn hii fuld 90
nrm ut Na.hrOte, wuen OrlrTing o. To-
trout, that they hsd buru betrayed by
the other generals IN BOtR'a army AMI
should 80 home.
GA March 2ni there WAS o panic at
Lnun, oitIgeua heeltg Tor lear OF the
tTrval OF HslayR's army, B0Cs'a Amy
wa largely dls1fggu.2si and tho gpN-
eminent officials were considering
pIaus Tor an asmlsIlc., peace, etc,