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Show ATTACK ON AMERICAN SAILORS DISCOUNTED WASHINGTON', Sept. 17. The reported attack on American Bailors from tht gunboat gun-boat Ta-coma. on the HlreeU of Bluo-ftelda, Bluo-ftelda, Nicaragua, during a supposed anti-Ajnerlcan anti-Ajnerlcan demonstration Sunday, was discounted today by a dispatch to tho state department from the consul there. Ho reported that thfl aggressor was a naturalized citizen of the United States, ivho had been drinking, and that no political po-litical significance could be attached to tho Incident. The sailors upon whom he fired were uninjured and the riot that resulted after tho shooting was quickly quieted. |