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Show ON BRINK OF WAR NICARAGUA AND COSTA RICO PREPARING TO FIGHT. Troops and Supplies are Being Rushed to the Border by Both Countries, and a Crisis Is Imminent. Xew Orleans, June 9. From advices received from Bluefields via the steamship steam-ship Sunniva, which sailed from that port June 1, Nicaragua and Costa Rico are on the brink of war. The correspondent corres-pondent of a local paper, under date of the Sunniva's sailing writes: "The other day, Torres left Blue-fields Blue-fields for the interior, via San Juan del Norte, with 105 soldiers and forty-one prisoners, the Costa Rican authorities on the San Juan river, where thatriver passes through Costa Rican territory apd up which stream it was necessary to go in order to reach Managua, refusing re-fusing to allow the force to pass through. As a consequence, the soldiers sol-diers and prisoners were left in Grey-town, Grey-town, and Torres went on into the interior in-terior to report the matter to Zela3'a. As yet no action has been taken. Troops and supplies, it is said, are being be-ing rushed to the border by both Costa Rica and Nicaragua. All kinds of rumors are being circulated in Blue-fields." |