Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — AGAIN FIRE ON RIO. [ARTICLE]

AGAIN FIRE ON RIO.

Rebel Fleet Bombards the City—Details of the Event Meager. A dispatch received at Paris from Rio Janeiro by the Brazilian legation says that the insurgent fleet resumed the bombardment of the city Monday at noon. Heavy firing was continued for several hours. The bombardment lasted three hours. The forts replied with great effect. The steel cruiser Republic, the fastest of the Brazilian naval vessels, forced a passage across the bar and after a severe fight with the forts got away to the south. She is supposed to have started to Santos for the purpose of blockading the port. Immediately after the bombardment the Aqniban, with the rest of the insurgent fleet, sailed southward. The fleet Is expected to blockade shortly ail ports south of Ri'> Janeiro.