The Republican journal., 1896-10-29
Honduras.
1.Os ~ Government In q Central
lmcrlcan Republic.

|1.D> ~ Government In q Central
mcrlcan Republic.
-wldeuce of The journal. I
4, HONDURAS, Sept. 9TH.
rson feels little shivers
up and down his spinal
ssine Tegucigalpa's great
uotng the rows of bullet
is. all Just as high as a
As an object lesson they
s-rdte the uncertainties of
entral America. Since
ud the ''ins' of office have
way thereto with the
he bullet holes show how
1 i precaious hold for a
period by administering
opponents.
1 Jhe '.outs'' who hacked
in the same direction are
dig their own graves and
80 one end of them, with
inSt the church, facing the
hey take a last look at the
Tie waving palms, the blue
..c scavanger- buzzards al
near in expectation of
rt. even murmur a prayer or
putt of smoke, a rattle of
each topples over into the
made, with half a dozen bull
>t and stomach. One active
uclgalpa has a gruesome
always before him in the
-,r beside the church which
mseit during the revolution
ago. He, with two COM
l-rs. WAS captured by the OPP
and marched out next
sunrise 10 meet the usual
$500 other men. with the ter
anon them, thought it of
uee what sort of graves
Hoe they must die in the
md health, and merely
u'ow holes, in which they
upright, were shot by
Dl the earth tossed back
- warm bodies. But the
c he was not going to let
w wear the surface that the
would uncover them for
pick. The last request Of
generally granted, even by
yLe firing squad sat down
oD the church steps to
been generously supplied
e tLe man whom they We're
while lie dug leisurely
Us the depth of six feet,
sides and sharpening the
artistic manner. While
ID The bottom of the hole,
and shots, and poking his
a edge OF his grave to learn
u- on, he saw his captors
rr life and his own party in
eJal Delgado did not come
He was a tilibuster of the
well known in the United
nope, and a bosom friend of
andom compatriot, now of
r Returning to Honduras,
Yeen sentenced to perpetual
martial condemned him to
5ogran, who was then Presi-
save him. He asked Delga-
lat to take up arms again, at
his, (Bogran' s. administra-
gmo fatty refused to make
0mise. AS a last resort
l-L him to destroy the 1000
niles which he had stored in
uae in Honduras. This also
ed ; and when his wife went
anees and begged him to &C
esident's S terms, his only re-
fearful pleadings was a char
J. VI be damned if | do" Well,
90 was id if he didn' t, all
Meanwhile Bogran was receiv-
rom all parts of the Republic
That Delgado's death sentence
tut. The citizens were hearth
l,lbustering expeditions. Again
Jlst as they were about to
f crops, had Delgado and his
>ei d rumpus, on one pretext
. against the administration;
would have to call the people
-nvIr farms to defend the gov
1e crops would spoil while the
,'Uug quelled, and the people
banded that the iustigator
shot and got rid of. Gen. Del
have been brave man, though
% one. An American gentle
Witnessed this execution de-
o these words: early in the
Us the mists were lifting from
egetation which surrounds Te-
and the sun just appearing
rec tops, a small body of sol
led through the wet grass to
lplng of drum. A few peo-
I'd at a respectful distance.
I'd out in the direction of the
ia Carided Charity, whose
saunding the Angelus. A halt
n an angle of its wall where a
non Ininc tho ,,,ain nnrt;nn nf