Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress, December 4, 1893

Mr. Hicks to Mr. Gresham.

[Telegram.]

Legation of the United States,
Lima, April 5, 1893. (Received April 5.)

Mr. Hicks reports that the consulate of the United States at Mollendo was incidentally invaded in the course of a riot during which the masonic lodge was attacked and sacked and the furniture burned on the street by a mob. The archives of the consulate were saved from injury but the furnishing was destroyed and the consular agent shot in the foot. He says that there was a squad of Peruvian police present but that it looked on without interfering with the acts of the mob. He announces the mailing of particulars.