Salt Lake Herald | 1897-11-20 | Page 2 | Montevideo in Panic

MONTEVIDEO IN PANIC Troops Held Readiness Against Outbreak in Uruguay Montevideo Nov lJThe city is in a naric over the incident at todays session qf the chamber of deputies and the re ort that Dr Miguel Herrera y Obes minister of the interior and of justice in the Borda cabinet has been shot with a revolver In the chamber Dr Herrera y Obes made a violent attack at-tack upon Senor Cuestas who assumed the residency of the republic ad interim in-terim on the assassination of President I Borda who was shot Aug 25 last and presented a > motion demanding the I resignation of the president of the republic t j re-public an interim It is said that if this motion is adopted by the deputies I I Senor Cuestas will dissolve the cham I ber berAll I I All sorts of rumors are afloat many I citizens have closed their houses and the troops are held in readiness j I against an outbreak The renort that Dr Herrera y Obes i I has been wounded with a revolver is I denied but a dissolution of the chamber I cham-ber of deputies appears inevitable i