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Show RULER MAY ATTEMPT j TM TO FLEE BY NIGH1' j WASHINGTON. Nov. 20. Tlie Unit- ! cd States consul at Nicaragua has been threatened by President ilo.lnya aud he has been granted permission to occupy tbc legation premises, as being more sc- The Nicaragua n congress will asscm-ble asscm-ble Wednesdav. December . and it is rumored that President Zclaya will re-tiro re-tiro and possibly attempt to escape from tho country at uight by tho Pa-eific Pa-eific coast. Anarchy, it is said,' may 1 ensue. Persistent rumors from van- i, ous ' quarters indicate that Trias may succeed Zclaya as president of Nica-ragua. Nica-ragua. j This information, it was announced I today, is embodied in telegrams de- j layed in transmission and received at the state department from tbc consu- late rcprescutatives of tho United States in Nicaragua. j The fjr5t telegram dated Nicaragua states that Leroy Cannon was cap-tared cap-tared Uc! ober 'Jl and Leonard Groce on ' November 2. Tboy were executed No-vember No-vember 12 and no news reached the department of the execution until the i Promised Protection. Members of the Red Cross -arriving , from Castillo say Cannon and Grocci , wero captured while they were lost on, tho bunks of the San .luau river and ' that the captain of a ship called them, jH promising not to harm them. jH Thfse allegations were in part con- ' flf firmed bv the Nicaragnan press, which stated the execution was for an at- tempt to blow uj) steamers. Tbo exe- ! cation caused general indignation, J which was shared by the commander in ' chief. il Nicaragnan lawyers declared the e.ve-cut e.ve-cut ion was unlawful. The Nicaragua)! ; captain is in prison for having refused I to carry out Zelaya's sentence that the Americans be shot. Another telegram from (he consul at Managua stales that on November 24 placards appeared on the walls in Mann- J fl gua favoring the revolution and de-nouuciiig de-nouuciiig President Zelaya. One of the. other consuls had information that President Zelaya was prepared to es-cape. es-cape. Anarchy, ho states, may ensue. The-consul asked permission to occupy I the legation nreiiuses as being secure against possible vandalism, and this has been grunted lo him. Wore Regular Officer-. IH A later telegram from the cod sub at P.luclields says Cannou aud Groce re-Kpectivcly re-Kpectivcly wort lieutenant colonel and colonel of engineers in the rovolulion-a rovolulion-a rv army and both were regularly en-listed en-listed under Iho commands of Gcueral Chnmmorro- The highest revolutionary leaders de-claru de-claru Groce, acting in tho line of duty. was villi an outpost of ten men beyond thu camp of Gcueral Chnmmorro, and Cannon, with two- men. had been sent bovoud to snrvr.y a new position. Tho outpost was surprised by the forces of General Toledo and both officers were . captured. General Chammorro aftorwards learued from an olticer of the. Zelaya ( HBV army that .both Americans had been put i to death bv order of President Zclaya; Hl that. General Toledo refused to carry out the order and took them both to .Fort BV Castillo. J A dispatch from Connto states tint ) it is reported there that 1200 troops of the revolutionary army are in Chindagrat and there is a rumor of a risiug in the west iu favor of Iritis. |