Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1893 — Dunning a Man-o’-War. [ARTICLE]

Dunning a Man-o’-War.

Strange scenes marked the weighing of the anchor of a man-of-war belonging to a South American Government at Toulon the other night. It is said that the officers had contracted debts amounting to about S6OOO in the southern naval seaport. Accordingly the vessel before leaving the roadstead was surrounded by boatloads of excited and clamoring creditors, who made attempts to get on board, but were threatened by the crow of the man-of-war. Both officers and men, according to the report, said that they would prevent anybody from entering the ship at the point of the sword. The French cooks and who had been hired for the messroom of the foreign man-of-war then left the vessel, as they were afraid they might receive bad treatment during the voyage. As the creditors were unable to get on board they had themselves rowed back to shore and lodged a complaint with the Justice of the Peace. A “writter” was soon dispatched out to the foreign vessel, but the captain refused to see him. Soon afterward the man-of-war stood out to sea, and the creditors, finding that the naval prefect of the nort could do nothing for them, resolved to bring their grievances to the notice of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. —London Telegraph.