People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1895 — FIGHTING IN COLOMBIA. [ARTICLE]

FIGHTING IN COLOMBIA.

Government Troops Manage to Drive* Back the Rebel Forces. New York, Feb. 14. —A special dispatch to a morning paper from Panama says: “Fresh victories are claimed by the government. A telegram from Buenaramanga says that the rebels in Kelex and Santander have been completely dislodged after hard fighting. Gen. Mateus and Vasquez have begun an attack on the rebels in Boyaca and Gens. Villasier and Mutes with 3,00> men have routed the revolutionists who invaded Colombia by way’ of Tachira. After three hours’ fighting the rebels, retreated toward the Venezuelan border. Their loss was considerable. Their loss was considerable.' They left their dead upon the field' and carried thewounded with them Into Venezuela. On the government side Capt. Luis Aeevado and several other officers and men were killed. A dispatch to Gov. A', angq states that peace has been signed in Sesqulle with the revolutionists In tho northern part of the republic and telegraph communication has been restored with Bogota.”