Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1899 — TO PROTECT AMERICANS. [ARTICLE]

TO PROTECT AMERICANS.

Crnioer Detroit Harried to BlMffeWa, NicaraKua. The cruiser Detroit was ordered post haste to Bluefields, Nicaragua, for the protection of American interests in that quarter. Its dispatch under hurry orders was at the urgent request of the State Department, to which American residents both at Bluefields and in Costa Rica appealed for protection of American interests. The arbitrary and extortionate policy adopted by Gen. Torres at Bluefields, who on more than one occasion has made himself persona non grata to this Govenfl ment, and whose restoration to been followed by acts which Amefl residents resent and protest the main cause of the vessrikfl The 5;;,!,.. Department •: :<r - d rii.-tious to tifl :ufl nt fl business interestsjfl - ■ tMfl isl surgents are levyfl besides «ooltecttefl dptws on imptufl M| FARESfI ■ ■: i : tfl cents, twenty-fl Single fl main at 5 cents afl fl • -