The record-union., 1899-02-20
NICARAGUAN REBELLION.
Tyranny Of President zelaya Was
What Has Caused the
Rising.

:. tCf11CAGO, req. ZU.-A SpoClai 10 the
Times Herald from Mobile says: The
fruit steamer Sunniva of the Bluefields
Banana Company arrived from Blue
fields, Nicaragua, with the following
advices up to February 10Th:
General Mena has been for three days
above Rama with 700 insurgents.
1T is reported that the Liberals are
coming under Ireon Estrada Formis
Diaz, Liberal leader, was wounded
and captured with fifteen followers,
above Rama by an insurgent force un-
der the Rough Rider scout, Sansen.
A battle is expected here in few
days. General Reyes boats have re-
turned from Greytown to defend this
place. The man-of-war San Jacinto is
also here
Three hundred Americans from Cuba
are due here to join the insurgent (Con-
servative) forces. Calling, Krupp and
Hotchkiss guns are also expected here
as additions to the insurgent arms
Greytown was surrounded by the
Rough Riders when the gunboats left.
force of Liberals is due at that port
Colonel G. w. Winchester, Chief Of
Police at Puerto Barrios, has joined
Reyes. Four hundred men are await
ing Reyes arrival in Granada to flock
to his standard
The Conservatives are volunteers and
engage in their ordinary tasks during
the day, while ready at any time to re-
spond to the bugle CALL If a choice
We're given them they would prefer
Clarence, the exiled Chieftain, to Presi-
dent Zelaya
hnr 1n,.f fI1a ~,
servatives. Order is generally preva-
lent.
The Norwegian and British vessels
that were impressed by the insurgents
to carry troops have been released.
The Liberal Espinozza says the rev.
olution will last only month
Among the passengers on board the
steamer Sunniva was Adam Espinoza
of Bluefelds, nephew of General Juan
P. Reyes: the revolutionary leader.
Senior Espinoza states that his uncle,
General Reyes, had proclaimed himself
provisional President of Nicaragua. had
armed the Indians of the Mosquito
country and with the aid of Americans
in the Bluefields had probably an army
of 900 or 900 men. The Government
at Managua, Espinoza learned, has
sent 500 men to attack Reyes at Blue
fields
The troops under Reyes had gone up
the river to Rama, thirty miles from
Bluefields, to meet Zelaya's force, and
it was probable that battle had al
ready been fought
Senior Espinoza says the cause of the
discomfort against President Zelaya is
widespread and well-grounded. His
uncle had heretofore been an intimate
friend and supporter of Zelaya, but re-
Gently he had not been able to approve
nor support Zelaya's conduct as Presi-
dent
In addition to levying tariff taxes on
the eastern coast, Zelaya has caused to
be summoned the leading native CAPT
talists of the country and declaring
them to be enemies Of the Republic, had
caused. them to be mulcted in fines, in
most instances equivalent to their en-
tire available capital
If the departmental fiscal agent failed
to collect the fines the unfortunates
We're committed to the penitentiary
without trial or form of law, placed in
chain and kept incommunicado, in
many cases denied food or water, until
the fine was paid, which, in all cases,
purged the prisoners of their declared
treason.
Espinoza says these acts have
estranged the good people of the Re-
public from Zelaya and that Reyes con-
f1dently looks forward for support from
them and for the active aid of the Con-
servative church party of the Republic
Espinoza says he learned before leav-
ing Bluefelds that the Honduranean
Government has dispatched men and
arms from Tegucigalpa to Zelaya's aid
The Honduranean allies were said to be
commanded by General Surra, Gen
eral under Borilla.