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

HU NDRED S SLAIN.

Awful Result of Battlte Brazil and HonduraA tjl London, Jan. IL —Mail Brazil by the steamer CIFIJe 9V about Christmas an important Jw-iVjT was fought in the state of Sao PSbio, in which the government taroops, unde* Gen. Argallo, were defeated by the insurgents. There were 10,000 troops engaged in the battle. Five hundred of the government forces klUed and the rest were |aken Among thfe captured are Gen. Silva and Gen. Ellas. December 22 an unsuccessful attC cK was made Qn Grande island. The means of compiuD'ication with Rio Ja* neiro is by a naval fscort Firing between the government and the insurgent forces is going on all the time. The government intercepts all inland communications. Santos has been blockaded since the beginning of December by the republican and other insurgent warships. Paris, Jan. 11.—La Liberte publishes a dispatch under a Rio Janeiro date stating that President Peixoto has resigned. The statement contained in the dispatch is not credited here. Washington, Jan. 11. —Minister Mendonca is inclined to regard the dispatch from Paris reporting the resignation of President’Peixoto. of Brazil, as a mere echo of a similar dispatch sent some time since from Pernambuco. He says there is not a word of truth in it. San Salvador, Jan. 11., via Galveston, Tex. —Gen. Ortez attacked a force marching to the aid of the defense of Amapala and routed it. Fighting has been going on on the road leading to Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras The forces of President Vasquez suceeded in flanking the rebels, who began a retreat, but Vasquez got between the Nicaraguans and the rebels, who, taking advantage of his bad position, compelled him to seek safety, with a loss of more than 100 killed and. many others wounded. Vasquez also lost 100 men, who were captured by the rebels.