People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1894 — BATTLE IN HONDURAS. [ARTICLE]

BATTLE IN HONDURAS.

City of Cholutectk Taken by Storm—Ore Hundred and Fifty Men Killed. Managua, Nicaragua, Jan. 6. —The town of Choluteca has been taken by storm: Gen. ViUela made a heroic defense: The loss in killed is said to have been 150 men. Gen. Williams and several other officers were taken prisoners in the engagement and many men were wounded. Villela retreated on Rancherias, where battle was begun with the vanguaad of the invaders, who hourly expected reinforcements. Gen. Ortiz, commanding the Nicaraguan forces, has-been ordered to await a Honduran attack, and if made immediately to invade their country. The government has levied a farced loan of 8350,000 on marchants.