Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-02-04
WHERE WAR RACES.
NINE FIERCE CONTESTS IN DIFFER
EMIT PARTS OF THE WORLD
Most OF the Wars Going on Now Are
Traceabls to the Love of coId-A List
of the 6eIligerents

Of the 6eIlieerents
AT least nine bloody contests are
waglng In the beginning VI the year
~. The fiercest Of these are in the
tropics. III a belt We're drawn round
the earth taking In the torrid and the
south temperate zones, 1t would nearly
embrace every war country.
The very latest sword swinging II
being done OF the Clarion Islands.
England spled these islands AMI
thought they would make good coalins
stations. True to her grab-all, annex
alton principles, England proceeded 10
take possession Of these lovely spots.
Unfortunately they belonged TO Mex
leo, and England was asked to move
OF. She Is now preparing to remain
and the Mcxicans are loading their
guns.
Spain is between two fires, for Its
subjects in the Philippine Islands are
in revolt. They will probably succeed,
for Butcher Blanco, a companion piece
to Butcher Weyler, has gone home
to Madrid to complain Of the lack OF
troops and money.
In Peru there is a double-headed cop-
dict. The gold mines are the exciting
cause of the war. The natives are de-
Tending their gold, while other nations
are rushing in TO take 1t. Brazil, the
principal owner, is settling upon u
dividing line with Bolivia. To this
the Peruvians object and declare that
they will fight TO the bitter end before
becoming Bolivian subjects. The Ia
dams and natives are killing the Bo-
livians.
Uruguay Is another unsettled portion
of the western world. Far from being
ut peace, as was supposed, ii is now dis
covered that the rebel leader, Saraiva,
has entrenched himself in San Paulo,
Brazil, and Is gaining forces every
day. His object is ID take Montevid:o,
Uruguay, and establish a new govern
ment. In this he is aided by revoll,
tionists in Rio Grande DO Sui, Brazil.
The situation is so serious that the
British warship Retribution has been
sent over for the protection of British
subjects there, and Italy has sent It's
warship Piedmonte for the same par
pose.
Brazil has still another internal heav-
ing, fanatic war led by Antonio Con
selheiro, 1.-The Good Jesus" The plan
of the fanatics is to kill the govern
mental head of each town, and place
an apostle in power. In the tiercest
conflict 200 fanatics were killed. The
government lost ten in driving the
rebels back into Matte Crosse.
The dispute over Corn Island is larg-
er in its complications than in actua,
territory. Corn Island and the Mos
quito territory belong, it is claimed, 10
Nicaragua. But Colombia wants to
own them, as they were taken from
her years ago. Colombia is slowly TAX
ing possession, but, IL she continues in
her grab-island policy, she will have 10
fight San Salvador and Honduras, who
favor Nicaragua. Relations here are
so strained that even the government;
hardly knows the friendly powers.
In the Old World horrid situations
prevail; even Russia and Germany arc
two nations not fully at peace. The
former has recently discovered n gang
OF Nihilists, the largest and most pow
errul In the reign of the present Car
and Germany is agitated with dyna
miters. These have been tracked tc
middle Germany and are being arrested
as fast as found. Dynamite works arr
being destroyed and dynamiters i'm
prisoned.
In Armenia rapid reforms are goin:
on, and the Powers have decided to le
the Sultan alone for awhile. He ma!
turn over new leaf. If he does not !
Is said on good authority that the pow
ers of Europe have decided 10 TAKE
Turkey away from him and divide i
up.
THIS rumor has driven the Sultan s,
wild with anger that recently he lrl
prisOned, fined and tortured in varlou
ways influential members Of the Hunt
schak and Proschak societies, sO-calle,
revolutionists. Meanwhile the peopl
OF Asia Minor are starving and drown
ing. and the stOppage of the Orien
express prevents their cry Of woe iron
reaching the outside world.
The situation in Africa Is such that
speedy outburst Is regarded inevitable
The Beers are still under arms, eve
suspicious that another jameson vii
arise and raid them, and to the west o
them the Matabeles are sleeping o.
tnair climbs and tho Germans are I,rps
sing from the north.
The army of the Mahdi in the SO.
dan, has its face pointed towards TN
Nile, down which the British troop
steadily move. Menelik and the Aby'
sinians are on one hand of them, an
the Ashanti on the other.
England and the Zulu tribe Of Anger
are in the throes o. war in Souther
Africa. A British mission station
South Africa has been burned an
frantic dispatches sent to England fo
help.
The troubles of the Queen of Madi
gascar have begun again. An immens
body Of her subjects uprose at ANITA n
narivo and drove the Queen from HI
castle. Ihe purpose of the uprisin
was to form a small separate govern
mert for the plumber of. travellers, VIII
in Madagascar ethics. are thieve
England has her weather eye" uDo
this island, and, 1t Is maliciously state
by a French correspondent, secret
incites the revolutionists.
Most Of the wars now going on al