Show MOWED DOWN LIKE WEEDS Sixty Deaths From Fever at Rio Janeiro Yesterday Rio de Janiero Feb 17 Copyright 1S94 by the Associated PressThere were fortyfive deaths yesterday from yellow fever and fifteen from other fevers The United States cruiser Newark has gone to sea suddenly I is suspected she is tainted with the fever The Detroit left here a week ago to look into the state of affairs at Santos Paraqua and Desterro She had no fever on board Only seven foreign warships are here and little is doing There is absolutely no truth in the sensational reports that one of the rebel warships had recently fired on a steam launch belonging to the United States cruiser Newark The long inaction of the Nictheroy and the America is due to lack of ammunition am-munition for their powder guns and also the fact that the weakness of the government forts at Rio was such that these shiP could not depend upon them for protection in carrying out the plan of operations in the harbor The plan was therefore abandoned and the two cruisers have been lying at Per nambuco and Bahia awaiting the arrival ar-rival of ammunition from New York The Nictheroy and America have now received ammunition and are in good fighting trim |