Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-19
TWO AMERICANS
 SHOT IN NICARAGUA.
Executed by Order of President Ze- IayS-Were Serving in the RevoIu- tionary Army-War Vessels Ordered There.

Washington Nov. 1S.-Two Ame-i- cans, who were captured while serving in the revolutionary army in Nicarag- ua, were sentenced to death by Presi- dent Zelaya. The news, which was re- ceived by the state department today, also indicates that the sentences have already been carried out. The names of the Americans were Leonard Grace and Leroy Cannon.
 American War Vessels Sent There. Two American war vessels have been ordered to proceed with all haste to Nicaragua, and the meeting of Senor Isidoro HaZera the new Nicaraguan minister with the president at the White House has been indefinitely postponed.
 The cruiser Vicksburg has been or- dered to proceed to Corinto and the g1nboat Des Moines to Port Limon, to observe events there, and report by wireless the situation at that point.
 Cannon a Native of Harrisburg.
 Harrisburg, Pi., Nov. 1s.-Leroy Cannon, reported as having been shot in Nicaragua as d revolutionist. was native of this city, and was 29 years of age. He had been living in Central America for eight years, and in that time had been heard of half a dozen times as figuring in hazardous enter prises. Within year word waS re- ceived that he haS been condemned to die for participating in an uprising, but he was saved by the intercesslon of the United States.
 Cannon's parents MT. and Mrs. Dan- iel K Cannon. live here, and received the first news of their sons fate from an Associated Press report this after noon. Mrs. Cannon doubts the story. She said she received a letter on De- eaf I1nf he ing to his plantation to devote him. self to business. She said he had written about coming home after he was released from prison, but the let ter related a change of plans. Mir. Cannon said he had been expecting his son to come home and was greatly shocked to learn of his death,
 Cannon left the Harrisburg High school in 1898 and tried to enlist for the Spanish war. He failed and went to the Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, whence he went to Washington and se- cured a position as a rodr1an on some railroad construction work in the Unit ed States of Colombia A few years later he turned up in Nicaragua as an engineers assistant on the canal sur yey. He took a great interest in the fre1uent revolutions, and finally left the service of the canal commission and threw his lot with one of the lead- CTS. Three years ago he was accused of siding with a revolutionary party and had to leave the country. When his friends resained power he Ifas with them. and he wrote to his father that he had property worth sSo.0o0.
 An effort will be made by the par ents to haze his body brought here for burial
 Grace's Antecedents Not Known.
 Washington. Nov. ls.-The state de- partment knows nothing of the onte- cedents of Leonard Grace, who is re- port zi to have been shot by order of President Zelaya.
 Perenptory Demand for Explanation.
 Washington, Nov. 1S.-The state de- partment practically has recognized the belligerency of the Nicaruguan revolutionists and has made peremp- tory demands upon President Zelaya for explanation of the execution of the