Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1893 — Win IN SAMOA. [ARTICLE]

Win IN SAMOA.

HostlUtiM of abort Duration —Saras* —Method*. Dispatches from Apia, July 19, via San Francisco, Aug. 4, say: War broke out between Malietoa’s and MataafaV forces, but war-ships of the three powers intervened and stopped the fighting. Mataafa and his chiefs have surrendered. Mataafa’s loss was thirty killed and twenty wounded. When the long-pre-dicted war commenced it was quickly finished,the intervention of the three powers putting a decisive end to the trouble. The first outbreak of hostilities occurred July 7. when the royal forces started their march on Malic Mataafa’s camp. They captured an outpost and disarmed-four men in it, who were afterward set at libfirst blood w'as shed. Fifteen heads were brought in triumph totheking. Mataafa’s forces were scattered. Malietoa had carefully planned his attack, and but for the accidental discharge of a gun, which precipitated the conflict, Mataafa'a forces Would have, been exterminated. ,