Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1893 — SITUATION AT RIO DE JANEIRO. [ARTICLE]

SITUATION AT RIO DE JANEIRO.

The War Continual Without Spacial Danger to Ufa. Dispatches from Rio de Janeiro, via London, give details of many engagements in the bay of Rio de Janeiro between the rebels and Peixoto’s forts. Loss of life is surprisingly small—mostly accidental and not as a result of hard fighting. ' The Aquidaban, the powerful rebel ironclad, has gone to Desterro to join the Republica. After clearing the forts the Aquidaban threw her search light upon the Military School, which she bombarded for half an hour, doing great damage to the buildings. The Secretary of the Navy, Thursday, received the following dispatch from Commodore Picking at Rio de Janeiro: “Situation unchanged sinice the departure of the Aquidaban. Firing between forts and the insurgent vessels and guns on the Nictheroy side continues dally, The insurgents have been forced to anchor further from the shore.” The Nictheroy referred to is the town on the other side of the bay from Rio, not the vessel fitted out in New York. Minister Mendonca, of Brazil, receives daily dispatches from his government, but those of Thursday did not disclose any developments of an unusual character, No mention has been made in the dispatches of the return of the insurgent Admiral Mello to the outer harbor of Rio. The opinion prevails at the legation that Mello's ship, the Aquidaban, is tn a more or leas disabled condition, owing to the terrific fire she subjected to when" she escaped from the inner harbor. Tipton ccunty has placed >150,000, o 4 court-house bonds at a premium of 9XO, the bonds drawing 5 per cent, interest.