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Show I THE CAPITAL Jflj Port Au Prince Protect-ill Protect-ill ed by (he Landing H ) of Marines Jy Pore au Prince, Hayti, Aug. 3. UB ; Hayti today Js without a president & '( or organized government, Tho cap- $9 ital is occupied by two rival revolu- Jjg ; tionary parties headed respectively "3 j? by General Cincinuatus Leconte, a MK former minister of the interior, and VV General Antonor Firmin, who desert- k-fftt ed his post as Haytien minister to' Wlr Great Britain to join the revolt JIIR. against President Simon. aBB" A committee f public safety, com- jgfl posed equally of Firmists, Leconte- 3 $ Ists, and neutrals, has been organ- "isS lzed through the- initiative of the dip- ' (omatic corps and is maintaining pub- lie order. BX1 German and British marines have Ml $ ieen laned to tQe provisional ji i uithoriiies. During the night there 39 A ;ere attempts at pillage and several J I mooters were shot. Energetic meas- 11 i ures prevented any serious out- ll i break. 11 Antoine Simon, the deposed presi- ' dent, who yesterday was compelled to withdraw from the city, today was H h, still on board the American schoon-WMlf schoon-WMlf er Bradford C. French, which is an-ijm an-ijm - chored in the, harbor under the pro-jjjs pro-jjjs f tection of the guns of the American j cruiser Chester. Simon awaits the H arrival of a fruit steamer for King i5" ston' Jamaica. "N Sif His boarding of the schooner yes-TiX yes-TiX tedray afternoon was due to a mis- M1 -understanding. He -wished to go aboard the American cruiser Chester, Si but was directed by the American ; i officers to the American cruiser Des i Moines the senior ship. Slmou fall-Ota fall-Ota cil to understand and went aboard A jf the schooner That craft moved off si I into the roadstead to where the Hay-i Hay-i I tien warship "Seventeen Decembre" H J was anchored. Late last night the tj q schooner moved over close to the :tlli $ Chester, and a guard was sent from rf the cruiser on board the 6chooner to JS I Following the debarkation of Simn m 5 late vesterday, there was an attempt jNj ' to pillage the business house of Mak- 1 : slluff &. Co., the proprietors of which J us. ae Syrians,, .The attempt ,wasr put wd j down by force under the direction j? j of the committee of public safety and 7P four of the rioters were shot liftl Some of the soldiers also refused fto lay down their arms when ordered' to do so, and there were occasional conflicts between the soldiery and wS civilalns. It Is estimated that forty JJ persons were killed during the oc- ! i enpation of the city by the revolu- S tlonlsts and subsequent rioting. ,fljj j Attempted Raids, ' jjg$lfi At ten o'clock last night a hand of ifXY armed men made an attack on the jg)j customs house and also attempted Wi t0 ra'd me near-by houses. The at- jSi teck was met- by a force of police fjj I and soldiers under the command of g I Tancrede Auguste, a member of the I $ Public committee. Six of the plllag- ers were shot, putting an end to this jjjjljj outbreak. 'jTjjjt An hour later a detachment of mar- jgj lues was landed from the German jggi cruiser Bremen They occupied the gjj German legation and the banking Kfc houses of Keltel & company and Her- MJt mann & company. IjJ & This morning, men from the Brit- 'rjgl Ish cruiser occupied the consulate. jjl The capital was comparatively quiet fi'f during the early hours today and the gjji 1 streets were almost deserted. The jgg electric lights had been extinguished rj i The only foreign marines in the 5g f city before this morning wore the to forty men from the Bremen. .5j At an early hour the American TS v schooner John Paul, which was ly- ing alongside the dock, was threat- t-jjjji ened by a mob, who probably believed j5j a that some political refugees were jg J aboard The committee of safety dls- persed tho mob. The Chester was 3; nearby, but no action on the part of JS S the warship was required. J The committee of public safety con- 15 i sists of twentv-one members, one of XS -r,.! 2 t .nU C! S If phen Archer. The diplomatic corps, 1 after rsanizlng the committee, ar- i ranged to notify the rebel loaders B ' outside the city and who may soon I fj come in, that order must be preserv-ffi1 preserv-ffi1 I ed in the capital. M Revolutionary troops under General Sj ' Leconte and the FIrminists leader, jyt General St. Juste, are marching irtf-l hlI-ber from Cape Haytien. The loca- w'i t!on of Q1101"11 Frmln himself is ffr D0 nown hero There is some fear w' Lliat- the two revolutionary parties i I w''1 dasb "when their lea4ers meet W I m Port' au Prince. Meantime a sort (t of armlstlce between tho two fac- nT I tlons has been arranged and this is u?J being observed by the rebel forces jI still outside. ,W The Atlas steamship, Allemanla, Wkt which arlrred here yesterday, cleared ;! direct for New York. Evans R. Dick, ,'i of New York, former owner of the i Seventeen Decembre, sailed on the M i Allemanla. m on |
