FILIBUSTERING EXPEDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11141, 3 December 1907, Page 5

FILIBUSTERING EXPEDITION.

BACKED BY ENGLISH AND AMERICAN MONEY.

AN ATTEM1 J T» THAT FAILED.

(Press Assn.— By Telegraph.— Copyright) LONDON, December 2. The Daily Mail's Rio Janiero correspondent says that an attempt to overthrow fche Government of Minas Geraes ■under the leadership of a Magali native' of Rio Grande, named Edosul, aided by British, Ganadian, and American filibW terers, failed, after a premature skirmish m the State of Bahia, wherein , Phih*p . Davies, a retired British major, was kill-' ed, and Lieutenant Gorge Gordon was S?BSS i^i W^° ca P tTxre , d - A sum of £100,000 had; been raised . in London and, New York for the expedition, and the fihbustereirs landed separately as traders, i . ■ ■ *

Minas Geraes is arState of Brazil' lyinff "^J -? { Rw> de' Janeiro, Avith aa area of 221,945 square miles. Th^ population a few years aigo was 3,500,000. The capital since 1894 has been Minas, : or Bello Horizcnte. It is a country of mountains and plateaus i, well and m mineral wealth takes first ra«k among the States of Brazil. It has; gold mines, well-known, diamond onines, and iron exists over a large area. Wool-weaving and the making of cigarettes and leather^articles are among the important industries. : Coffee tobacco, cotton, sugar, rjcei aoid maize are grown, and. the butter and cheese have a good^reputatic-n.