Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1892 — CONSUL HANNA SHOT AT. [ARTICLE]

CONSUL HANNA SHOT AT.

A Rapt-Manta ti t e of On* Government In Dnngnr of HU Ufa. The Hew York Heraid’a cable dispatch from Onracoe, West Indies, on the 7tb, says: News reaches here, from a thoroughly reliable source, to the effect that the Venezuelan government forces have recapture 4 Macula, tbe waterlog place, near La Gnayra. The government gun’ boats steamed over to the town, which has been occupied by the Legalists for some tUae, and opened fire with their heaviest

ordnanea. The Legalist 9 eould not *Un4 th* ihellinc and soon evacuated the town ' which was taken possession of \sf the government troops. Daring the bombardment United Slates Consul Hanna went to the scene of the fight, In his naptha launch, and shots were fired at him from the government vessels. Whether it.-was an Intentional insult to the American flag or not fenot known at present.