Show PARAGUAY I 1 I 1 rumors come from nhom brazil to the effect that there is a difference between the emperor of that country and hud bis bia ministers I 1 on the subject of ot the triple api ili iii ance treaty for the prosecution of the war with paraguay this thia treaty provided that on the expulsion of lopez the dhe allies were to leave men nien for dive five years in paraguay the ministers now that lopez is dead wish to withdraw every man but the emperor insists on acting according to treaty latigu it would not be strange to hear of difficulty aris arising iii ili g out of this treaty the appetite of brazil for conquest has only been whetted by the war with paraguay and now lopez is d disposed 1 9 of it would not be surprising to hear of encroachments encroach ments being begun by brazil upon the neighbors which have helped it to destroy the paraguayan leader general camara who led the forces which attacked and killed lopez is lauded for his skill and success tut but but lopez had only men with him when be he was attacked and these were half starved and poorly armed lopez and his immediate suite lived chiefly on the milk of some cows belonging to mrs lynch the amazon whose name has figured so conspicuously in the accounts which have come toome from that country and the remainder of his followers had to find their food in the woods with occasionally casio nally a if little littie t le beef whenever one of the steers 8 which chic h they used for transportation broke d down own the victors loss from ther thee first to the last of odthe the conflicts on the day that the paraguayan chief was wag killed was only seven men but were splendidly mounted and armed with spencer rifles nind and the Maugh slaughter ter among the paraguayans Paraguay ans aus from their fire was frightful they also took prisoners pilson ers ens lopez was wounded by P bullet bullit from one of these rifles and his bodyguard body guard was cut down to a man nian he fled and when he reached the bank of the he threw himself from his horse waded in but was wag so exhausted that he fell halo half faint ing log a g on the opposite bank it was in this position that he died and be he and his hl s son colonel francisco frandisco lopez lobez who was also killed ivere ere buried in ono one grave |