The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 8, 1894, Page 3

. 5 z | e = ON THE BRINY DEEP. small amount. He is charged with age at sea, and she has proven her-| Mello’s White Flag. self to be an excellent addition to, attempting to destroy the Aquida- A O W e i] 7 = : O n | Ur navy- | Forecastle and saw the Insurgents Nov. 17. I was sitting on our ban under a false flag. The last part the A BUTLER BOY W 5 ITH THE U- §| of the charge has been proven, but NAVY, WRITES THE TIMES AN ia , | Noy. 5. Two more terrible explo-| Monitor Javara sink and her crew INTERESTING LETTER e first part remains yet to be | sions took place on the west part of| went down with the ship. The Jav- i FROM RIO DE JANERIO. get ‘ > | Rio Janeiro bay, in the direction of jara although previously disabled,bas | pt. tia = was very 2 nl roce e \the insurgents’ amunition store-|usen of great service to Admiral quiet. orpedo boats were steam iw} ho s island. neta eke pte dj From the Decks of the Charleston, ing around the harbor and every . ’ ee ee ent eee ish officers and 4 sailors from the| and guns. Pies ‘ H B.M.S Serious were blewn to quite willing to tight. Feed and Provisions of all Kinds. se A German settlement was. Oct. 1. We were notified that a | |reported victims of the explosions U. S. citizen was forced on the rebel! nl Boy UEENSWA *t FRO 4G He Watches the Battle and Hears She was desigued for a the Roar of Artillery. speed of 112 knots, but owing to the disabling of her machinery @ short time ago it has been necessary to tow her about the harbor with a tug. thing told that the insurgents were The following letter giviag a pen Picture of the war now going on in Brazil, was written by Earle Sims, a former Butler boy, now a sailor in in the U.S. uavy, aboard the great { ship Aquidaban, and Lieut. W. H | § These explosions destroyed the} A A SWARE slight hold Admiral Mello had on) Marshal U.S. N. was sent over to | | Governor's island. demand him and brought him ou SICA & ANE: TOCBACCO, Tn this way she has been used | . very etfectively as a floating battery, Nov 6. The government powder | of course it was difficult for her ies ahaa ne 7” B. M.S. Serious” armed a launch against the stone walls of the forts and steel ones of the ships, and rise and splash of earth and water was an imposing and © terrible scene. Hundreds of shots were fired and the most of them fell in the water, forcing a fountain around them. The marksmanship was extremely poor on both sides and little dam aze done. When darkness first be- g.a to show, the ships steamed away wih their task unaccomplished. The Trijans received one shell on her decks, killing three men. Her commanderinchief received great praise, as she was the best handled ship in the engagement and would oft-times lay right along side of the forts and send torrents of shot and shell against their walls. The forts received shell and 75 were killed. Sept. 28. At 3a. m. Twas waken ei by the noise of guns and many flashes. ‘Troops from ‘Sta Cruz” had succeeded in mounting a large gun, on the water front, east of Nichoray aud the fight was between the gun aud the “Gaanabara’ and lasted for about three hours, but the gun held her ground. Sept. 29. Asmall tug flying the B-itish flag steamed slowly threugh the bay aud toward the “Aquidaban ” The English officials knew of nosuch registered tug in the harbor, and as it was a suspicious looking tug “H many men | and overtook the tug and captured and found an infernal machine at tached to a torpedo of over 500 pounds, which would have been suf ficient to have blown the Aquidaban into fragments. The company which manued the tug, consisted of four} mt: one English, one Frenchman, | ove Canadian and one U. 5 citizen. | A: Dr. Boynton, When the tug was captured, claimed United States pro- tection and was brought aboard our} ship and retained asa prisoner. Al | though he pretends to be a pbysi- cian in Rio, yet I believe under that | profession he hides himself. My} opinion of him is that he appears to/| bea public assassin and dynamite i | expert-and I believe him to be one! soe the bombardment of Rio Janeiro ofthose shrewd Yankees, all for | but it did not occur. meney and would take a life for ajand Commanders of the foreign | city. on awaking in the morning and find ing their officers had been shot, be- came very ferocious and over one thousand soldiers went out in the streets and commenced to fight with their fists. The fight terminated in shooting The soldiers were very much embittered against the Presi- dent for his actions but they soon got over it and for the cause of their Republic returned to duty to rid the nation of the insurgents. Oct. 6. Fort Villegagnon, which nations and fleets met an} according to Iuter-national Law agree i to pro tect the city. The French Admiral, being senior admiral of the foreign naval fleet was authorized to aud re presenting France, G rmanv, Spain, Italy, Portugal and United States visited Admira! Meilo and told him that he would not allowed to bombard the defensel+ss and unfor- tified city of Rio Janeir». As Ad had here-tofore remained neutral, |miral Mello was not -trong enough turned over to Admiral Mello. Thig|to fight seven nations, the was a valuable gain for the insur-| bombardment did not oecur. gents as it is a fine fort and bas| Get. 9. Admiral Mello’s plan which many of the largest guns of Brazil | necessity now causes! him to adopt, and now gave Mello an equal to en-| wes to darw fire from the city, so he gage Fert Santa Cruz. sent the Trajana, Jupiter, Veuus and Oct.7. The combined forces of| Marti and two torpedo boats with the rebels attacked the government | several armed tugs to antagonize forts again. Ft. Villegagnon, Javara, \the water front and soldiers ef Rio Guanabara and guus from Nieheroy Janeiro. engaged Fort Santa Cruz. The | about an hour, Aquidaban fought Ft. Lage aud th Trajano entertained Ft. Jace. Gun be such one of the soldiers on hore got mad aud fired his masket jat the ships. As there were no large from the Sugar Loaf Rock also took|gzus mounted ou shore, the ships a hand in the fight and fired many | returned the wusk+t fre with musk- shells at the ships) The bombard-jets, Gatlings one pounders and ment lasted for over five hours. The | Hotchkiss revolving smoke rolled in clouds, the cannonjover an‘ hour. Many people were roared like thunder, and the atmos. | killed aud among tkem a poor old cannons for phere was filled with powder. Three \ widow lady, who had three children | times Ft Lage raised the Rebel flag | depending on her, was wounded and and each time Santa Cruz tarned | made a cripple for life. her heavy guns upon her and sent | frow Rio did net give sufficient rea torrents of lead into her, whieh she|son for the bombardment of the could not stand and three times she city with large guns and sc most had to re-raise the Brazilian dag. jever after this musket battles were Darkness approached and again the|fougkt between the ships and sol ships gave up their task and steam-| diers, and no doubt many people are ed away after having met with pocr | killed. results, but receiving no serious | Oct. 14. The iasurgents’ force damage. Admira! Mello had notified |pombarded the government forts all parties that if he did not succeed | again, for the third time. The fight in taking the forts on this engage-} was fiercer than it had been before ment, that the following day, be | and contiuued for about eight hours, would bombard and destroy Rio | but the ships gave up their task an |Janeiro. But while he was fighting | aecomplished. the forts, President Peixoto was; et. 15. The entire day forts Sta | busy in dismounting all the guns of| G47 Jace, Lase and Sugar Lost | ; , Lag g Rio Janeiro; and then asked foreign | Rock fired on fort Villeigagnon and powers to prevent the bombardment | 4). returned the fire: often shells of the defenseless and unfortified| ¥ 114 fall on the forts. | have fired on each other every day since. Also the soldiers from Ft. The MinistersiSta Cruz are continually planting guns around Nicheroy firing on the Oct. 8 arrived and we expected to After cruising around for | The firing | The forts, city. Oct. 16. Excitement occurred on jour ship. A fire broke out in the | carpenter's store room, but was ex- | tinguished with but little damage. | Oct. 19. Transports fought the | soldier on the water front of Rio; j also soldiers from Sta Cruz fired all | day into Nicheroy and the ships in front of the city, who returned the | fire. Oct. 20. The U.S. S Newark ar |rive! from the United States and ‘with it Admiral Stanton, who now ! took command of our forces on the |South Atlantic. On entering the ‘harbor the admiral first saluted the | Brazilian government, then Admiral | Mello, as a senior admiral of Brazil and im that capacity paid au official visit to the insurgent admiral. Oct. 21. Forts fought fort. Oct. 22. The commanding officer ‘of Ft. Sta Cruz was murdered by one of his own men. The murderer | Was immediately shot. | brave man took command. ‘ Get. 25. Soldiers from Sta Cruz ' capture a portion of Nicheroy. The | ships bombarded them, but did not | drive them away. Another Oct. 26. The ships again engaged | the forts, but again failed. Oct. 27. A most horrible explos | ion oecured in Nicheroy, whieh made ithe earth shake and the water} | rough for miles around. Tbe guns \ which the soldiers from Sta Cruz | had mounted to the rear of Nicheroy had beer Gring on the insurgents’ | powder magozine at last struck it | eausing the explosion. Men aud ‘houses were thrown hundreds of | | feet in the air Afterward I could | see bodies floating around the bay Oct. 28. The government forts | were again bombarded by the rebel | fleet, but was repulsed. | Oct 29 Fort rebel flag, aud told Admiral Mel’o| they would turn over their forces, as! they had no amunition nor avything | to eat. He sent them supplies, but} upon receiving it they again hoisted | the government flag and commenced | | firing upon the admiral’s ship. | Nov. 4. U. S. S. Detroit joined Lage raised the} be fleet. This was her first voy- ‘ . te War ship Cha. leston. board our ship. He ha v several manufactories east of Rio were burn | maneuver so as to escape sever pun- A Ae oe CoAL Os.) wounds ow his head and right arm , F ’ ed to the ground jishment at times from the heavy JAN. 29,1894. mK and appeared tobe suffering. My| (lw ays pays the market price for County} Nov. 7- A costly book was sent to | Krupp guns in the loyal forts. Her Eprror or rue Tres: position on the Charleston is nurse, ze a & Admiral Mello from a supposed | sinking was due toa shell tired by Borizn, Mo U.S. A. and so I dressed his woun is and he Produces East Side Square. Butler, Mo- friend ashore, entitled “The Chiliau | the Government battery in Nicheroy Si:—I can hardly realize that it related to me how he get hurt. He War” and was richly bound. Admi | which found its way througha weak has been over four years since I was was working ova Braziiun ugand o—————__ — eememmeees (ral, much pleased, was going to open | spot and bursted in the interior. in Butler, and yet, I remember it was capture] while dowg lis duty Ries it, when an officer standing near,| The Insurgents tried to save her by and its citizens in many kind] wound on his h-ad wi: he re Se ee suggested that it be put in wate! |running her ashore and when they thoughts, and in a year from now, 1 sult of being struck with ba. onets at Ess over night, and in the mort it | saw she was going to be lost, out of expect to visit the town of my boy and clubs. He asked the offic:r of = = cece 2 j was found to contain dynamite iu it- | sheer bravery the crew fired all their hood the Aquidabaa what he was going to Pet Zz leaves big v ‘SES a 5 g gans at Nicheroy, only a few Since leaving Butler, I have been do with bin and the officer told him s zs 27 Nov. 8. The rebels landed, cap | secouds before she went to the bot- in almost every state in the west, as taere was five shots in his pistol aud ae © 2 z |tured and took possession of th |tom, to rest during the Revolution, . if thi yas rt regs os sto! cing pa , oe well as Canada, Mexico, Gautamala,| = ¥ = eae pees al, 3 Pe ws custom house, and placing _gatling For THe relief and cure of a cold in United States of Columbia, Peru, rh a on 28 : : eB aban. 3 e258 gane in every window fired into Ri the head theneis more poeeey ie Ely’s A : : vrisoner demanded to be re- hos - i Pus: 3e i i. | Cream Baim than in anything else it is Chili, Argentine Republic, Uraguay, |, ee Ser trate sae aa 7 ee The custom house is one |T°TN io prescribe. This. preparation Brazil, Barbados, St. Thomas, Vir | “°° 882 © citizen, but was not 23 E 5A |! the most beautiful buildings 1 | has tor years past been making a_ brit- tte andi New York until bis wife had informed our min- a ot = |Brazil. As we entered the harbo iant success as a remedy tor cold in the 8 ew York. Tran Mani gett Garaltar to di 57 2 Fled me read, caterrh and hay fever. Used in For the past two yeara I tave|™ A e seut word for us to de- SS nes Itook it to be a great, towering | tne initial stages of these complaints ‘ i ra A i 3 pated i . [Cream Balm prevents any serious devel been on the Ocean, as an enlisted mane a x =%= — Chie Clay lossked ea Saneat of Ags systoms, while almost man in the navy, on board the United Oct. 2. President Peixoto order 255 a AEs ee ueHless cates are orrecocd ol radical 5 i y ce q ; aod cures of chronic catarth and bh ’ eee ie kare Chaciestcn! | Box (7 eT Oe See SES sm} Nov. 9. Cobras and Enchade | jie Sloe Cuan nee weal the past four monthe I have been in na small out of the way place, and 3% ss 7. \islands, which had heretofore re |ot no ayail. 6 Brazil, and every day have heard hey refused to obey A second 2 £3 E¢ | maned neutral under Admiral Sald» Horrible Grime n New Jersey. the roar of cannons and seen the Had Ge oe i ce ee ae eae ba Da Gawa, turned over to the) Ny Brunswick, N J. March 1 ‘ first to obey and they also refuse 25 i is ex th St ae sie flash of guns and can say “How cru | H el iene maar Bgeak anon — eee scree ~ : ‘| Barly this morning two negroes, el is a ay a razilian Naval academy acd als« : ie . oingitales ikecdéecd ered and a battle followed aid the 3 ah: ¢ontains anavy yard. While these Moore Dake ed ES ti f 2 Brazili Py lution fi Pl third company was defeated and the -act ak islanda reraniiedl peutr.l Da Gama son, entered the home of John Baker ion of the Brazilian Revolution from}, _. 5 SC ra Le@n 9 E 5 to Franklin Park, six miles west of Bente President recalled his order. A re- ee had b. ting heavy g i my daily journal and you may select} 430. in the army might be pos ZA ae ad been mounting heavy gupsanc’ | eis city, for the purpose of robbery. what you choose, for publication, if sible and so their pT ° be bee =e ile sa eM P CRS pou being discovered by Mre. Bek any. : Caer a : 3 £0 forts, and so situated that they are} .. the robbers killed both ber aud Sept. 25, 1893, we arrived in Rio oat . Gi ST = ° a 358 [continually firing murket sbots into|tve child with an ax. Mr. Baker ship mates ‘or en. Quarter- S2a- Rio Janei Every day battles are | ben spravg from the bed aud shot Janeiro. : =e S io Janeiro. Every day ba al pravg a master, died from an abscees on his Gas is f Ami y ‘ne negro dead and fatally wounded , > ; |fought. Next to Admiral Mel’o n 6' y Sept. 27. The Aquckaban, Trijans brain and the foliowing day h “EoeSs eae yeti: 2 he second with an ax. Baker wae oliowing day he was ko ad 5 aud Javara bombarded the forts ee Aa goa & | Brazilian politics is Admiral Da Ga reported to have « large sum of The forts returned an equal amount | ,,. eRe aere ream ene rs 55 ]ma. The twoare movers and lead | ,oney in thehouse. When the first “ Rio Janeiro. mS S 5 5 . . y 5 of fire and for four hours I sat on| ¢ a - : ors = ® | ers in all political affairs. Mello is] burglar was killed the second sprang our ship aud watched the battle ee ee nne erentaene surprise S32 Se & |strictly a defender of a Republican | +t Baker and cut his noseoff. John rage. Our ship is anchored where ite officers fof jhe! com patties eee = 382 = | form of{government, while Da Gama| Baker was a well kown and wealthy ae age an i vow lof ail had refused duty. Under bie orders 3 ee zs declares Brazil to be an empire. He| “2SE and a strong and robust man. * that goes on the in harbor. The flash an armed guard went at night and = a £ | may yet change the course of the CURES RISING f of tire, the roar of cannons, the rise took theloficers and slots net. - 2 5°25 | present revolution. Was it Mello’s { of smoke, and the lighting of shells Oct 5. The government soldiers, RERls ; . ? idea in connecting himself to Da Gama to restore the empire? or did he think Da Gama would assist to restore the republic? Is Da Gama working for an empire? Are not both rascals bleeding their ow: country? These are questions ope for the world to-day. Their develop ment is looked forward to with cou siderable interest Nov. 10. I was in Rio Janeiro and about three o'clock in the afternoo while walking out on Rua de Mare:, Isaw a little girl fall bleeding i: front of me. Iran to her at once and saw she head been shot in her ‘eg, which was almost severed frou her body. I raised her head in my) urm and with the other I placed m, uand over the oozing blood ad tried to stop its flow. gan to gather; I picked her up ip my arms and carried her into the nearest -. BREAST .. “WOTHER'S FRIEND” ftne2'2: y' each case 1 child-beariny ng. It {fs the best remedy for rising of -ast Lnown, and worth the price fur that Mars. M. M. BRUSTER, Montgomery, Ala. Ican teilall expectant mothers if they will 230 n few bottles of Mother's Friend they will Mrs. MAY BRANHAM, ‘Argasville, N. D. Used Mother's Friend before birth of my child. Will never cease its pa Mrs. J. F. Moore, Colusa, Cal. Sent by express, charges prepaid, on receipt tty 50 per bottle. BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., Sold by all druggists. ATLaxtTa, Ga BATES-COUNTY National Bank, Acioawib house. She was a beautiful litt e zit] of about twelve years, aud bad BUTLER, MO black hair. She seemed to be stun 2 é ned so that sbe did not feel the ; ain. THE OLDEST BANK THE LARGESTJAND§THE YNLY NATIONAL BANK IN BATES COUNTY. CAPITAL, - + $125,000 00 SURPLUS, - - $25,000 00- As her sweet inuocent face rested on my arm and her fine black hair fell loosely on my shoulder, I couid not help from crying. for I realized she was some mothers pride or a father’s happiness, and as I looked iw her face I seemed to think it was my own dear little sister Nellie, who at that moment was 5,000 miles away, that I carried away bitedivg ¢@.J. TYGARD, - - - President. in my arms. A doctor cane at ouce | HON. J. 8. NEWBERRY, Vice-Pres- to ber relief, but the child, the|/-C-CLARK - - Cashier daughter of a prominent citizew of Rio, died. Santa Cruz had been Lawyers. firing on Cobras Island but the shot went over the island and fell in the center of Rio, striking the girl. Nov 11. The government forts refused prince te the ra ATTORNEYS AT LAW. to an English mail steamer. The} Office over the Missour British Men of War received the|%9't® side square. news aod H. B. M.S. B-agai stu am-; ed out to the forts and laid along! side of Ft. Sauta Cruz, while the} English steamer Nile pasted the : forts. In my eyes the little gun| PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, boat was a prou linouster that ai- | Otice, front room over P.O. All cali sa the ao ee E answered atoffice day or night. lenced the power = forts. Eugland; Specialattention given to temale dis was ready to fight in this little} e@ses- vessel! Noy. 15. Enchades was made the T C. BOULWARE, Physician asd insurgents hospital e Surgeon. Office north side square, sees SPH and the Red Butler, Mo. Diseases of women and chij- Cross Flag was raised instead of|en a specialty. ‘e RAVES & CLARK, 3 DR. J. M, CHRISTY, = HOMOEOPATHIC }