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Show MASSACRE IN PARAGUAY- ' A Whole Village liiuehred by Unit-Savage tlnmilts. New York. Aug. 3. A niaruiug paper says: "The harrowing details of a terrible massacre of inoffensive residents resi-dents os an isolated village in Paraguay Para-guay by half-savage natives h:is reached reach-ed tnii city by mail. According to tho advices 1 50 men. womeu and children were wantonly slanght-eted slanght-eted and theu the butchers celebrated their victory iu wild orgies Tito aHir occurred o;i the uighl of March 10th agd the news were delayed iu reaching hero by lack of facilities for cuiuuiuni-catio.i'with cuiuuiuni-catio.i'with t!ie outside worhi. Accord. ng to the details which were published in . r mot-rivi? at Assump-t'on, Assump-t'on, Paraguay, a hand of the most law-less law-less nutivi1.", nugeri-d by political difference!-, with the residents of tho neigh-borinu neigh-borinu villain of (ilapan, descemled on the I tter ptai'n and began the e-iatightor by an attack on the house of .ludg tiaiinao. The attacking blind was headed by a "notorious tiahilTt,' Ho-into Ho-into Henite., and utiiubered about fifty men. On arriving at Judgn (launas' house tho desperadoes surrounded it and I opened tire from the rear. I '1 here were hut four people there at the time, Judtje (i.iunas. aged wife, his two nuns and a daughter. The judge himself and another son were absent on business. Tho lire of tha desperadoes was returned by the men in the house, the women aiding them bv londinff the cuus as fast as thev were em "tied. When tho ammunition of those in the house was exhausted the desperadoes entered ami killed the two eons and took the women prisoners. At the beginning of the attack some of the inhabitants, attracted by tho firing rushed into the streets atid lired into mob but a detachment of the desperadoes despera-does shortly rushed upon them aud their neighbors, pillaging aud burning their houj'is. Humble homes and the homes of luxury were destroyed by tire. Not even the churches were spared. At ' ho church of the Immaculate Conception mas was being celebrated at the limo. When tho raiders were denied admission to church they forced an entrance and waited patiently for the conclusion of the services before they began their bloody work. Tho priest was among the slain, aud in the looting of the edifice edi-fice not an article of the slightest value was left by the raiders. Many who sjtight to take refuge on the opposite shores of the Paraguay river that llows near tho city were devoured de-voured by Fharks. The attack on the homo of judge Sttbeldia at tha other end of the village was desperately re. sisted and several raiders were killed, The leaders, lienitez and Martinez-being Martinez-being among thorn. In all eleven raiders raid-ers and 150 inhabitants were killed. The latest news from the scene of the terrible slaughter stated, tat the government gov-ernment troops were pursuing the outlaws. |