Show INSULT TO THE TilE FLAG BY MANAGUA SOLDIERS American Minister Driven Out by Military and Legation is Closed New Orleans March 10 lO The United States minister ha has been driven cn out omit n Of f Managua 1 by hy soldiers his cablegrams cable cable- grams gram and aid mall mail seized nn and amid lie tho United States tates Hag flae Insulted b by President Zel- Zel aya ya At last accounts account the tho minister md hind closed the Ohio legation antI and was wa in Costa Rica The advices were brought here lucre b by pa on a ship shill from Cram Central American ports port The Tho report is confirmed con- con firmed by prominent residents of New ew Orleans Just returned Minister Merry and antI President Zelaya Zel- Zel aya ya had hiatt a U stormy Interview following charges barges that Merry's PaPe papers md 11 dispatches had been tampered with and that hunt Mr fr Merry Intimated that hat Zelaya was to blame A Ii list t fl light fight ht was wn the result sult anti and guards In n the hue cla claman man mansion lon had to inter inter- tore felc When hen Mr Ir Merry n attempted to lose chose the Jt legation In response o to In- In from tom rom Washington anti and board oard his hula vessel ossel for Co Costa la Rica Zelaya Zelna 1 ent sent a file le of soldiers to the thu landing under command of the hue NIcaraguan minister of oC war var Troops Tho The troops pursued Mr 11 Merry MelT on oard tho thu ship anti and attempted to seure se- se cure Cull his papers hen When the minister of f war and l started up tho the vessels vessel's vessels vessel's yes vess el's els ladder Mr 11 Merry i with a drawn revolver warned them to tl desist or he would kill the Jut first man unan who came caine on out deck eck Mr Merry 1 err hoisted the hue Amen Amen- can an Hag flag arid anti declared the hue H vessel el a ship to be Iw under the hue protection ion tion of nr the United States Stales The Tho R vessel I proceeded to tn ii San Jose and nd that Is believed to bo lie the present s of Minister 11 n Merry ferr It was learned that Minister Merry l Is s prosecuting a claim for Cor OOOO a against the NIcaraguan Ic government in behalf o of Samuel Well Vell of or New Orleans Orleans Or- Or leans eans and auth that hint Zelaya decided to seize nil all 11 documents bearing bearing- on this matter In n order to thwart the hue payment |