People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — OUR FLAG FIRED ON. [ARTICLE]

OUR FLAG FIRED ON.

The Honduraa Govern men t Inesite th* Stars and Stripes. La Libektad, Honduras, Nor. B. Honduras fired upon the Amerieau flag Monday morning. By the alleged orders 6f President Vasquez and the express command of the commissioner of the port of A mapala seven cannon shots were fired after the Pacific mail steamship Costa Rica, flying the stars and stripes, as she steamed away because she refused to surrender one of her passengers to the Honduras government. United States Minister Baker was on board the Costa Rica at the time. The passenger about whom the trouble arose is Policarpo Bonilla, who recently led the revolution in Honduras, but was defeated by Gen. Vasquez. He then fled to Nicaragua, and with 3(16 of his adherents joined the army of President Sacasa, who was engaged in an attempt to quell a rebellion. Bonilla had decided to leave Nicaragua. He therefore sailed from Corinto for Guatemala on November 4 on the Costa Rica. American Minister Baker and more than 100 other persons were his fellow passengers. They arrived Sunday morning at Amapala, a port of entry of Honduras on the Pacific coast, and at 2 o’clock in the afternoon the commander of the Port Villila demanded that Capt Dow should surrender Bonilla. Seven shots were fired after the Costa Rica, although she flew the American flag. None of the shots struck her, however, but it is feared the steamship City of Panama, of the same line,which was lying in the port, may have been injured, because the firing continued for some time after the Costa Rica was out of range.