Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1891 — CENTRAL AMERICAN TROUBLES. [ARTICLE]

CENTRAL AMERICAN TROUBLES.

Honduras and Her Neighbor* in a State ol Excitement. Advices received from Mangua, Nicaragua, state that on account of coming elections in Honduras, excitement is at fever heat. President Bogran Is desirous of another term, which a majority of the people are opposed to. Antonio Ezeta, brother of the President of Salvador, has declared his intention of running for the Presidency of Honduras, and in consequence 2,000 men have been stationed on the Honduras frontier to prevent this invasion. Salvador has 3,000 troops at San Miguel, and more men are still hurrying to the frontier. Guatemala is also placing troops for the aid of Honduras. Nicaragua, according to her treaty with Salvador, is bound to help her, and this week will have 1,500 troops on her frontier and 2,500 men under arms in Mangua. In Leon recently a plot was discovered to kill President Sacasa and several of the prominent men of the opposition party in Granada were sent out of the country.’ When the men were arrested in Granada a fight took place in which the chief ofj police and several soldiers were killed. The whole country is under marshal law.