HORRIBLE STORIES. Reported Poisoning of Thousands of Indians in Brazil.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 268, 30 May 1888, Page 4

HORRIBLE STORIES. Reported Poisoning of Thousands of Indians in Brazil.

Nrcw Yojiic, April 18, — A Rio de Janeiro letter says : The now Ministry have alloady made public through a semi-oilicial organ that bho principal and movo immediate objects in their programme will be the abolition of slavery this year and measures for the improvement of the ii nances and currency ot the country. The wholesale* emancipatory movement, which was initiated last December in the province of Wan Paulo, has already produced the freedom of 70,000 of its 208,000 slaves. Accounts have been rccched from the south-western frontier of >San i'aulo ot the poisoning of the Indians an masse. According to statement-, forwarded thence to a Han Paulo paper a certain Joaquin Bueno, who has .seventy aimed men undet his command, recently assaulted a large Indian village, and while tho frightened Indians were absent poisoned with strychnine not only all tho food and drink abandoned by the fugitives, but also tho wells and spring.s. According to Buenos own decollation he found when he returned a few days lalei 3,000 cotpscs of Indians in tho village, lie also boasted that in another Tillage he had poisoned 800 Indians and that lie was about to treat similarly another in which 5,000 Indians resided.