Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1894 — PEACEFUL PEIXOTO [ARTICLE]

PEACEFUL PEIXOTO

Will Grant Amnesty to the Bebel Bank and File, Tuesday’s cable from Buenos Ayres announces the surrender of Admiral Mello’s army of 1,200 insurgents. The remnant of the rebel fleet arrived at Buenos Ayres, Monday, in a dilapidated condition. Peixoto has issued a general order of amnesty to all the insurgent rank and file, and has instructed the Brazilian minister to the Argentine to pay all expenses necessary to the quarantining of the rebel fleet. Five war ships were turned over to the minister by the rebels who arrived at Buenos Ayres. Monday. All of the leaders of the insurrection, including Da Gamma and Mello, will undoubtedly be shot, if they should fall into the hands of Peixoto’s forces, without much ceremony. Other dispatches say that Mello was captured at the time of the surrender of his army, and that, owing to the intervention of Secretary Gresham, he will not he executed. It is believed that the United States has been acting as a peacemaker for some time.