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.