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Fonseca Resigns

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Day
26
Month
November
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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LoN'DON", Xov. 24. - Dispatohes from Rio de Janeiro bring the ictelligence that the opposition to Dictator Fonseca lias gathered sufficient foree to break throupfli the barriera erected by the government to hold it in check and to make itself master of the situation. No details have yet been received as to the precise inethods adopted. All that is known is that the uprising was so formidable that Fonseca eonsidered it impossible longer to maintain his ascendancy and has surrendered his authority. In retiring, or "resigning," as he called it, he declared that he did so in favor oí Floriano Peixotto, the vice president, or vice chief of the provisional government, of which Fonseca was the head.

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Ann Arbor Register