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Show CALLED AND THANKED EOAM The Chilean Newspapers ( leaned Out ly Mobs. New York, Feb. 4 The Hcrald't Valparaiso Valpa-raiso cable says; Scnor Pereira, minister of I foreign affairs, called at the United States I legation yesterday and personally thanked I Egan for Hlaine's recent dispatch, accepting I Chile's reply to the ultimatum on the Balti-1 Balti-1 more affair as satisfactory. The meeting 3 between he diplomats was apparently of the j most friendly character. J The office! of La DetnocraZIa at Santiago J and La OppMcion at Valparaiso have been j cleaned out. Ifhese papers have been unfriendly un-friendly to tile government. The farmer was attacked hlfOb, and short work was I made o! the olficjBfct the ."is, . -Js it is claimed that some military officer's pass- I ing the office were insulted from the windows win-dows and were assaulted with iron bars aud pistol shots. They broke into the office, smashed the furniture, nicd the fWr,,. ,J smashed the furniture, pied the forms and Otherwise wrecked the office. Both papers, as well as La Itr-pabrka, whose office was also cleaned out, issued small fly-sheets protest ing against the action of the mobs as a violation vio-lation of tho liberty of the press. |