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Show INSURGENT GUNBOAT BOMBARDS KBEYTOWH I Something Like a Battle Revives Re-vives Interest in Situation Down in Nicaragua. MANAGUA. Feb. 4. Tho Insurgent gunboat Ometopc appeared off Greytown Thursday and bombarded tho city for twenty mlnulep. Kino houses wero set on fire by-shells from tho gunboat. Shore batteries replied vigorously and succeeded In disabling tho Omotepc, which was forced to retire. Tho revolutionary gunboat Omotepc. In company with tho gunboats Pioneer and Blanca, sailed last Monday from Blue-field Blue-field for a point to tho north of Grey-town, Grey-town, where 700 troops of the government wore roportcd to bo Intrenched. Gen. Estrada and Gon. Matuly and 500 provisional pro-visional troops wore on board tho gunboats, gun-boats, which, prior to sailing, had taken aboard ammunition nnd tested their guns. Tho United Slates cruiser Des Moines sailed for Greytown tho following morning. morn-ing. Greytown lies on. the enst coast of Nicaragua and Is the principal seaport of the republic. Tho town has a population popula-tion of 2000. Most of the property thero is owned by British subjects, many of them negroes from Jamaica. |