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Show I SHELLS RAIN UPON ASUNCION. . Throe Ir.iuryent Vested Bombard Capital of Paraguay. Three Insurgent vessels bombarded ! Asuncion, tho capital of Paraguay, on ; August 17, for forty minutes. Th ex-. ex-. tent of tho damage is unknown. Th government artillery roplled to tbe In- turgenlt and ono gun burst, wounding lovernl government soldlors. Th ministers of Argentine, Brazil, Italy and Eranra boarded on of th , Insurgent vessels and held a long and I or rot conference, at tho end of which A truce of twenty four hour waa declared de-clared In order to give I ho women and children an opportunity to lenv th capital uofore further bonihardmenL |