Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1890 — THE GUATEMALAN WAR. [ARTICLE]

THE GUATEMALAN WAR.

The recent Central American mail brought letters from Dr. G. W. Cool, formerly a well-known physician of San Francisco, who has been in Guatemala during the past year. He says a proclamation has been issued that all men who were not ready for military service would be shot- Nearly all the men who first went to the front have been killed ‘in battles With Salvadorians. “If Ezeta marches to the city,” the letter says, “he will probably sack the town. Americansrare safe, for they receive protection at the legation. Every servant, even those on the coffee plantations, has been drafted into the army, and there ace not enough left to supply food. Provisions bring enormous prices. Business is at a standstill, and the city is under martia law. “Twenty Americans and as many Germans and French offered their services to Barillas, but they were refused. About 25,000 soldiers have already left the city for the frontier. Men are attracted to public entertainments and are then seized by the police and drafted into the army.”