The Emporia weekly news
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boat. Two officers and four marines
got into it and the boat pulled toward
the gig. It did not hail the gig, but
simply chased it to the sloop and back,
the marines keeping their muskets
cocked and ready.
Besides this ridiculous performance
the Toussaint 1' Ouverture, .Captain
Holmes says, had the swivel gun upon
her deck trained upon tbe
Clyde's broadside all the time the
Clvde was in the hartor. On tbe 2ud
the small British schooner Aurora,
Captain Wilson, flying the Dominican
flag, and loaded with provisions, prob
ably for Haytian ports, from Monte
Christi, was overhauled in Dominican
wate.is by n crew from the Haytian
gunboat. Captain Wilson and his
crew were taken- ahoard the gunboat
and put in irons. The crew of a little
brig wrecked on the Dominican shore
was then impressed and put aboard
the Aurora as a prize crew. The next
morning the gunboat left, towing the
Aurora. They were afterward seen
lying off Cape Haytian. in the track of
vessels from New York to that port.
Tbe gunboat Dessalines was reported
wrecked off Port de Paix.
General Contrereas denies that he
has been appointed Legitime's consul
general here.
Minister Preston has received tbe
"official account" of the bombardment
of Cape Haytian. The Dessalines was
fired upon by Fort Picolet on Novem
S and returned the fi e, silencing the
fort. Advancing toward the town,
the gunboat was next fired upon by St.
Joseph's battery, and it silenced that.
Only a few chance shells touched the
town. The commander reported to his
government that there would have
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The Emporia weekly news. (1889). Emporia, Kan., 1889-01-03. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85030221/1889-01-03/ed-1/?sp=1
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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Emporia weekly news, 1889-01-03.
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