Rush Gunboat To Nicaragua.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 3, 1912:
Conditions Are Serious and the Tacoma Will Go to Bluefields.
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.— Evidence of the growing anxiety of the Administration in regard to the revolutionary movement in Nicaragua was shown to-day when orders were Issued to the Tacoma at Guantanamo, to proceed to Bluefields. She is due to arrive there Monday, and will try to communicate with Managua so that Minister Weltzel may keep the State Department informed of developments.
    The Annapolis, on the West Coast, has been getting only fragmentary advices from Managua, but these have been sufficiently alarming to warrant sending another warship.
    Poor crops and a paralysis of business, which Administration officials ascribe to the failure of the American Senate to approve the pending treaty to rehabilitate the finances of Nicaragua, are declared to be powerful factors in strengthening the revolt against President Diaz.
    Another threatening element is the hasty departure from Costa Rica and other near-by republics for Nicaragua of the partisans of the old Zelaya Government, who see in the Liberal uprising an opportunity to regain power.