Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1914 — BRAZIL IS SWEPT BY CIVIL WAR [ARTICLE]

BRAZIL IS SWEPT BY CIVIL WAR

Capital and Two Other Cities Under Martial Law. FANATICS MARCH ON CITY Censor Suppresses News of Fighting as Sequel to Election —Ambassador Told Not to Fear—President Has Had Stormy Term. Rio de Janeiro, March 6.—A state of siege has been proclaimed in this capital and there have been many arrests; It is believed the cause of the agitation in ‘'military quarters is connected with the insurrection in Ceara.

The governor of Ceara, a committee of women of Ceara and the officers of the garrison telegraphed to the military club a request that it intercede with the president to obtain protection against the rebels. The president also received many similar petitions. Edwin V. Morgan, United States ambassador, returned to this city and was welcomed by a repr* ••ntative of I)r. Lauro Muller, minister of foreign affairs. The government declared martial law also at .Nictberov and Petropolis.

Managing editors of three of the principal newspapers—A Epoca. Carrel o da Noite and O Imparcial—were arrested during the day. Generals Thaurnaturgo, Azevedo and Feliciano Mondes de Moraes, two colonels and several other officers of the army also were made prisoners. A strict censorship was established by the government on telegraphic confmunication. Al? the troops were confined to barracks in readiness for any eventualities, but there were no disorders in the federal capital. Hear of Battles Fought.

Buenos Aires, March G.—Reports have been current for some time that a revolutionary movement was in existence in be Brazilian states of Pernambuco, Ceara and Para, and that fighting was In progress between the local forces and the government authorities. The causes of the disaffection were said to have been racial differences. In the last week of February a body of fanatics was reported to be marching on Rio Janeiro. Business was Virtually suspended in several states. Ambassador Told Not to Fear, Washington, March 0. -- Sen or Da Gama, ambassador of Brazil, received from his government a dispatch directing him to assure legations and consular officers In this country “not to feel any uneaslnesg because of rumors " There were no advices to supplement it. the ambassador said! President Has Stormy Term. The administration of President Fonseca has been stormy since his inauguration. In the campaign prior to the presidential election, March 1, whose result Is not yet known, the marriage of Fonseca was widely discussed. He was sixty-throe and his bride, a daughter of Senator de Teffe of the state of Rio de Janeiro and Sister of Brazil’s minister to Germany, was only twenty-seven. The disparity in the ages and the fact that Fonseca’s first wife had been dead only a few months made him numerous enemies. Fonseca was inaugurated president November l.">. 1910 The night of November 22 the crews of- the two Brazilian warships. Minas Geraes and Sao Paulo, mutinied in the harbor of Rio de Janeiro. At two o'clock the morning of the 23d President Fonseca assembled his cabinet, and the gravity of the situation was apparent to all.

Threaten to Bombard City. ptlring the *iight the rebellious sailors had communicated their demands by wireless to the president with the threat that the city would be bombarded if these were not acceded to at once. Their ultimatum contained the following principal clauses: Abolition of corporal punishment; highest pay, full crew complements on all ships, redistribution of ofllgers. and complete amnesty, Amnesty bills were introduced in the senate: and chamber of deputies, and violent debates took place in both houses. At one time in the chamber of deputies revolvers were drawn and bloodshed barely averted. Nevertheless, the measures were passed and were reluctantly signed by the president, and the news was flashed by wireless, to the fleet. Americans May Be There.

Chicago, March G. —Several Chicagoans are believed to be in the; disaffected zone in Brazil' and word from them is awaited anxiously by John M. Glenn, secretary of the Illinois Manufacturers’ association. They were in the delegation that left New York February 7 for South America and expected to return April 10.