Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1888 — TERRIBLE ATROCITIES. [ARTICLE]

TERRIBLE ATROCITIES.

A dispatch from San Francisco says advices from Peru received by the Panama steamer,report terrible atrocities committed in the interior country by The curate of Moyaro was shot and beaten to death with sticks and stones, and when his old mother interfered she was shot and her head cut off. Another women who tried to save her Was killed. The bodies of all three women were wrapped in hides and thrown into the river. At Lapeza street a riot occurred, owing to an attempt to head a movement for Comache, the revolutionist leader. In the indiscriminate firing by Government troops 137 men, women and .children were kill ed and sixty wounded. I