Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-11-25
MAY. IA Y. MEAN WAR:
TWO Americans Captured and Executed
iosb h. II rr 'a.' by The Nicaraguans. ".1" .1, q
TWOWAR SHIPS ARE SENT
Taft Greatly Incensed on
Hearing the News, and Declines
"ru1 lO Ia.la7lt pttnivsd) Ndl
TO Have Amy Communication With
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the New Nicaraguan Minister, Who

the New Nicaraguan Minister, Who
40 just Reached Washington.
| "a A Washington dispatch says two
American war ships have been order
| ed to proceed to Nicaraguan waters,
and President Taft has postponed
indefinitely his meeting or Isidore
Hazera, the, new minister from Mic
atagua to this country, as the result
OF news received here to the effect
that two Americans, Leonard Grace
and Leroy Cannon. captured while
serving with the revolutiopists' ar
my in Nicaragua. have been sentenc-
ed Ito death by President Zelayas
orders and It is believed that SEN
tehce has already been carried out.
Orders have been issued for the
cruiser -Vicksburg to proceed in all
haste to Corinto, and the gunboat
DesMoines will proceed at once to
Port Linhoh to observe events there
and report the situation at that point
by wireless, The news as to the two
Americans reached the State depart
nfent Thursday night from the Amer
lean Consul at Managna. who stated
that their capture had been follow
ed almost Immediately by a death
sentence. .u1se" aar.l ,ur iur
AIdispatch received Friday at the
State department Is to the effect
that the men have undoubtedly been
executed. Upon this information the
Secretary OF State asked the Sec. of
the Navy TO order the Vfcks6urgSSto
proceed in all haste to Corinto for
the purpose OF protecting Americans
and American interests The Des-
Moines was also ordered to proceed
TO Fort Limon at top speed for the
same purpose. These vessels Will
be In constant communication by
wireless with the State department
The brutality OF the Nicaraugan
Government In ordering, the execu-
tion OF these two Americans. who
happened TO be found IN the revolu-
tionists army without trial OF any
sort. is likely TO result In this Gov.
ernment taking drastic measuresEto
prevent arrepetition of 1t, and Presi-
dent Zelaya will be held to a. strict
accountability Ger his action. sAt
the Nicaraguan legation 1t was stat
ed that no news of the eXecutionsiot
the two Americans had been receiv-
ed.
Nothing is known at the State de-
partmeRti OF the antecedents OF LEON
ard Graee, who, is reported to have
been shot by order OF President Eel
aya. but the other American. LeRoy
Cannon, seems to haze had an un-
usual career In Central America.
Some years aeo he. went TO Central
America ami since then his name has
figured prominently In revolutions
in those countries During his car
eers he has been arrested, a number
OF times and tried for heading raids
aud on severaizs occasions hae mar
-rowiy- escaped death sentence, 1t
Is alleged q! !(gf TX
A dispatch from Panama says pas
sengers arriving there from Mica
ragua Thursday report that a reign
Of terror exists throughout the por-
tion of that country controlled by
President Zelaya. Government troops
are rounding up every persons sus-
pected OF sympathy with the revolu-
tionists) and executing them without
trial. More than five hundred men
Suspected of revolutionary sympa-
thiesI have been summarily shot and
still the bloody work continues.
Residences are ransacked by Zelaya's s
soldiers in search OF discriminating
letters or EVIDENCE. and when resis-
Iytance is-offered rthe houses are de-
women relatives or Revolutionary
sympathizers have been subjected to
the most , hc4rbIe indfghaties and
outrages. Nicaraguan refugees. ar
FiTingI on the Isthmus and In Costa
Rica declare II Is time for the ciyi-
lized powers to forcibly intervene
and put an end TO such barbarities
and atrosities. il}..e ,0s ,osat,r
some or TIE claimants certain foes
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