Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1909 — CASTRO’S FRIEND A REFUGEE [ARTICLE]

CASTRO’S FRIEND A REFUGEE

Editor of Former Official Organ Is on Way to Paris. New York, May 21.—His fortune having been lost by a mob’s destruction of his newspaper plant at Caracas, Venezuela. Gumersindo Rivas has sailed from heer for Paris. M. Rivas was editor and proprietor of El Constitutional, which was the official organ of former President Castro. Rivas is ill from the shock of losing a newspaper plant which he had made into One of the finest properties of its kind in South America.