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W A S H IN G T O N liiiiiiiS From All Parts /of the New World and the Old. OF INTEREST T O OU R READERS •M B p ra leD d ln ant R eview H a ppen in gs of o f th e I m p o r t the Past W eek C a l l e d Fr uui t h e T e l e g r a p h C o l u m n s . i Constantinople dispatch says a > u u o r e baa occurred at Evoclc, in 'w h i c h 100 Armeuiaus are reported to have been killed. A t Murray, Idaho, a cave-in of the Sm all Hopes mine, killed (Jus Holmes. Holmes was working in a slope and fired a blast which probably caused the nave. Several members of the Miners' Union of Leadville, Colo., have been arrested under indictments by the spec ia l grand jury, for their alleged con nection with the attack on the Coro nado and Emmett mines a few mouths ago. The Hew York Herald has a dispatch from Havana which states that Antonio Maoeo has crossed the trooba with a large force. It is reported according to tbia dispatch, that Captain-General W eyler haa been wounded at the front. ▲U news from the scene of the engage ment ia suppressed by the officials at the palace. Robert Fitzsimmons and Tom Shar key fonght for a purse of f 10.000 in San Francisco before the National Club. The contest was to be ten rounds, bnt Sharkey was knocked ont in the eighth round. The referee, however, gave the fight to Sharkey, claim ing that Fitzsimmons deliberately fooled Sharkey by striking him below the belt. United States Minister Denby, at Peking, has informed the department of state that the Japanese government, hns officially and formally renounced that part of the treaty between China amd Japan, made at the close of the re oent war, wbicb provides that all ar ticles manufactured by Japanese sub jects in China shall stand apon the same footing as those imported by Jap anese subjects into China. The fighting oruiser Brooklyn, the newest addition to the United States navy, has been tested and accepted by the government. John Abel, a workman at the Nelson Morris dressed beef works, St. Louis, M a , was horribly burned w hile at work. The flesh on the right leg was parboiled. Abel tripped on the greasy floor in the rendering-room, and fell into a vat of boiling grease. CO NG R E SS IN SESSION. S en a t e. A dispatch from Lim a. Peru, aays that observers there see a probability of aaother clash of arms between Peru and Bolivia, over tbe new trouble w bicb is brew in g owing to Bolivia having pro ceeded to fix the limits of her frontiers in the Am atonian districts without having an arrangement with Pern for the delimitation. In Dieppe. France, an enormons mass o f cliffs oollap'ad and damaged property to the eiteut of 1*0.000 franca. There is ranch excitement, as tbs cliffs threaten further slips WASHED N in e C » r i L o a d e d ing from a third-story window of a ho tel. T u g Fd itli Burned. The tug Edith, of Seattle, burned near Dofflemeyer'a point, and is prac tically a total loss. The tug was act in g as a tender to a dregder and was bn her w ay to Seattle. I n ju r e d W h i l e H avin g III* W ife . San Francisco, Deo. 9.— Herr Langs- low, a tightwire performer and marks man, was severely injured during a performance at the Orpheum yesterday afternoon. His wife, whose stage name is Ellen Vetter, entered a large iron ball and rolled it up a spiral track to a height of twelve feet, but in de- sceodiug lost oontrol of the hall, which started down rapidly, and when about ten feet from the stage jumped the track. Langslow, who from the wings was watchiug his wife, saw her dan ger, and endeavored to break her fall. He suooeeded, but the heavy globe struok him on the right shoulder, caus ing a dislocation. He w ill not be able to perform again for some time. LaugFlow has been injured before in the same rnanuer, once iu Berlin, When tbe globe fell ten or twelve feet and truck him. Struck b y a F a l l i n g Fence. Oakland, Cal., Deo. 9.— Mrs. W. Beilina is lying at tbe point of death as the result of injuries received in a peculiar manner last Friday. W h ile some lads were playing football the ball was kicked over a high fence. As they climbed over it to recover the ball the fence collapsed. It was seven feet high and thirty feet long, and the whole structure fell upon Mrs. Beilina, who was walking past at the time. She is about 60 years of age. For sev eral hours after the accident she was unconscious, and the doctors give out very little hopeXif her ultimate recov* ery. Broke m ih I Three W ere D row ned. H aw ley, Pa., Deo. 9.— The skating season opened here with a triple trag edy. Blanche Bishop, It years of age, daughter of David Bishop, and Ella Alpha, 15 years of age, broke through and were drowned Tlie brothers of E lla sprang after them and attempted to rescue the girls. One of tlie boys was drowned, aud the life of the other was saved through the efforts of bis father. Tbe accident occurred on a m ill pond. The children had been warned not to go on tbo ice, as it waa unsafe. ( 'a nnd M W i l l It e c i p r n c n t * . Ottawa, Dec. 8. — Hon A. 8. Fisher, minister of agriculture, w ill be in Washington on the I5tb inst. He goes to discuss with the Amei i -an au thorities the qusrautine agsiiiFt cattle. A It rut *1 M u r d e r . If the American government w ill agree Intense excitement prevails in East to abolish quarantine against Canadian 6 t Louis over the brutal murder of cattle, it is understood Mr. Fisher w ill Christopher Ludw ig, aged 59, by Harry agree, on behalf of the Canadian gov Bohmeltaer, ged 38 Schmeltser struck ernment, to abolish the quarantine L u d w ig on the head with an at, kill against American cattle. The miuis- ing him instantly. Tbe murderer es ter w ill remain in Washington two caped, but is being pursued by a posse. weeks. On H I* W a y to M ex ico . Peroival Low ell, of Boston, whose astronomical researches with reference to the inbabitability of tbeplauet mars bave commanded wide atteuiion, is now on his way to the City of Mexico, near where be haa erected an observa tory. He w ill bave with him in M eti- oo a distinguished party of scientiflo men. and it ia the purpose to continue the investigations in that onnntry for at laast two yean, if the climatic eon- ditiona prove favorable. VE NEZUELA A Plu cky Agent. Cedar Rapids, Ia., Dee. 9.— Tw o highwaymen attempted to hold up the ageut of the Milwaukee road at Fair fax tonight, when the agent opened fire, killing one and wounding the other Tbe injured robber baa nut been captured * Cairo, Deo. 8. — The Egyptian gov ernment has refunded to the cat me of the Egyptian debt, tbe *500,000 ad vanced for tbe the expenses of the N ile expedition. ACCEPTS IT. WEEKLY T b * A t b ltn.tlon A g r e s m s n t Satisfactory to the R epublic. W ith Coal F e l l In to T h e J u r y D i d n ’ t S ee H i m S h o o t . Ic* H A T C H E T O UT. The United States senate began tbe the W ater. second session of the fifty-fourth con Taooma, Deo. 9.— The Northern Pa- gress with crowded galleries and with ciHe railway officials received word tbia that accompaniment of activity and of afternoon that tbe bridge across Crocker greeting that usually attends the reas and Carbonado, had been washed ont sembling of congress. But the upper and that nine loaded ooal oars had branch of congress never pats aside its fallen through into the water. Tbe dignity, and tbe meeting developed no bridge was used almost exclusively to demonstrations of dramatic iuterest. haul out tbe coal from the Carbon H ill The reading of the president's message mines. The accident was caused by was the feature of the proceedings, and the washing away of the abutment at beyond this no attempt was made to the west end of tbe bridge. A wreck enter upon the business of the session. ing crew and piledriver were sent to To many of the foreign represen'atives the s-ene of wreck this afternoon, and occupying the diplomatic gallery, the the superintendent hopes to have tbe message had special interest and sig bridge again ready for traffio in twenty- nificance, owing to the part they had fonr hours. taken in the oonspicnons foreign event; It is not thought that the acoident to whioh the president referred. On w ill seriously delay the coal company, the floor of the senate printed copies of as one of their steamers left port last tbe message were distributed, and these night and before the other arrives the gave tbe senators opportunity of read bridge w ill be repaired. ing. There was a small attendance Tbe water in W hite river is still up after tbe reading had proceeded beyond to a height that renders work ou the tbe first half hour. A fter tbe usual now impassable Northern Paoiflo bridge formality of laying the message on the impossible. A tel-gram was received table, tbe senate, on motion of Ijale, this morning from there asking for an adjonnred. additional force of twenty men, bnt House. Superintendent McCabe, apon learning W h ile the scenes attending the open that the water had subsided only a foot ing of the house were both brilliant during the uight, decided not to attempt and interesting in the crowds that any repairs until tomorrow, or such thronged tbe galleries, and the con- time as the water recedes sufficiently spiouons personages present, tbe pro to allow the men to work to advantage. ceedings themselves were dnll and TH E ENGINEER T O BLAME. spiritless, being distinctively routine. The bonse met, the chaplain invoked tbe divine blessing on tbe work of tbe P a a A e n g e r T r n i n * C o l l i d e on an OhI-« H o a d W i t h F a t a l Ken ult s. session, the roll was called, and a com Cincinnati, Dec. 9.— A collision oc mittee was appointed to wait upon the president, and tbe latter's annual com curred at 8 oclock this moruin - near munication was read. The reading Storrs station, on the Baltimore & Ohio consumed about two hours. The holi Sonthwestern railroad, between an ac day nature of tbe day was saddened by commodation train from Cochran, Ind., tbe announcement of the death of ex- aud a special made up of passenger Speaker Crisp, which Turner of Georgia coach and two private cars. The spe- formally made to his associates. Out oial was carrying all the general offi of respect to tbe memory of the distin cers of the Baltimore & Ohio South guished Georgian, the honse, after western, who were ont to make a thor adopting appropriate resolutions, im ough inspection of the road. The en gineer and conductor of the speoial had mediately adjourned. orders to follow fifteep minutes behind the preceding regular train and keep D e a t h In t h e P y r e n e e s . A Paris disptach says that a terrible out of tbe way of accommodation train disaster has occurred in the Pyrenees. No. 33, wbicn had the right of way. The special stopped at Storrs, where A score of Spaniards, crossing on foot, had reached Gavarnie, in France, where it should have waited for No. 23, but they related with apparent remorse the engineer and conductor both forgot that they bad left a woman, unable to orders concerning that train and palled procceed, with her husband and bro ont. Three-fourths of a mile wea1 of ther, two hoars distant. Guides hur Storrs the trains came together. There seeing ried back to tbe rescue and beard calls was a fog which prevented for help, when a sndden avalanche clearly, so neither engineer suspected a blocked the mountain pass so that tbe collision until the shock came. Engineer John Price aud Fireman guides were obliged to retorn to G a v arnie and w ait there for two days. Homer Dixon, of tbe special, were in When they finally reaohed the ill-fated stantly killed. L. Zepernioh, a clerk in the tffice of trio, two of them were dead and the the engineer for maintenance of way, third was dying. died from his injuries. John Thiel, who waa supposed to have fired the shot that entered the head of a young girl at a wedding party Jane Shelly, the 14-year-old daugh in Ritzville, Wash., has been acquitted It was proved that be bor ter of Joseph Shelly, a farmer living by a jury. nine miles sonth of Olympia, W ash., rowed the gun, and that tbe shot was w as reaching for some object on the tired from tbe gun, bnt no one saw him mantlqpieoe, when her olothes caught ire it, and so the jury discharged him. fire frk p the fire in the fire-place. She F a t a l Fueling o f a F u ed . wee terribly burned and died after a A fight between old man Harrison fe w days of suffering. and his two sons and Morgan and his Delbert Crawford, a young man 19 two sons, Tom and Caleb, occurred in years old, was found twelve miles one of the mountain counties of Ken from Pendleton, dead beneath an over tucky. The elder Morgan is dead. tnrned loaded wagon. He was hauling Both sona are dying. Both the Har- grain to the oity, and the wagon ran riaou boys are also dead. off the grade into a canyon. Hia four- S t r u c k b y an E l e c t r i c Car.' horse team stood all night hitched to In Denver an electric car struck a the wagon, and were fonnd the next carriage containing Mrs. John C. Mont morning oovered with snow. gomery. w ife of a prominent Denver T. J. Henry, living on the Apple- capitalist, and two other ladies. The gate. near Jacksonville, Or., on Novem carriage waa wrecked and Mrs. Mont ber 98 last went over to one of the min- gomery was so badly injured that she in * oamps to look for a job cooking for sanuot recover. the miners. He started home over the K ille d by Poacher*. W atkins trail. A storm started np Count Fiuickenstein, an 'intimate and he wandered about in the moun tains and froze to death. The whole friend of Emperor W illia m , of G e r community tnrned ont to search for many, has been mortally wounded on It is supposed he was shot him, and aooeeded in finding hia body. bis estate. He was one of the H e had orawled into a brush pile and by poaobers. w as frozen to death He leaves a wealthiest landowners in Germany. w idow and six ohildren practically dei- M a a a a c re d b y K u r d * . titnte. A Constantinople dispatch says that Jennie W ard, a well-dressed young under the pretext of revenging an old woman, created a sensation by w alk grievance, 10,000 Knrds raided the ing along Wahaah avenue, thioago, province of Mamoutel ul Aziz, where smoking. People tnrned aud stared at they burned and pillaged the villages the woman, bat she paid uo atteutiou and massacred tbe inhabitants. to them, and continued to seud blue Fren ch W ou ld E xclu de O u r Pork. clouds of smoke heavenward. She A t a mass meeting held in Paris, waa placed under arrest by Detectives W oolridge and Schubert aud locked np France, of the organized Farmers' at the Harrison-street station, charged Union, tbe dealers in salt meats adopt with dlaorderly conduct, and when her ed a resolution in favor of tbe exclusion of American pork products, iu view of oaae waa called for trial lu Justice Richardson's oourt she failed to spear. tbe fall iu tbe prices of swine. 'This ia something terrible," said the Jum ped From m H otel W in dow . oourt, "a u d as a w arning I w ill fine Mrs. Eliza Cummings, aged 65, a this woman f 1 for smoking. It is ter wealthy woman of Hillsboro, O., com r ib le ." mitted suicide in New York by jum p A freight trsin of thirty oars losded w ith lumber and shingles from the W est got beyond control on a heavy grade east of Mullen tunnel, on the Northern Pacific road, and ran away Twenty-alx cars were scattered along a distance of eight miles, when the en gine left the track. Ed Jarbeau. head hrakeman. was killed. Fireman Young had hia oollar bone broken, and E n gineer John Pim m 's leg was broken, besides internal injuries. Conductor John MoUean's thigh waa broken, and hia back wrenched. It ia the worst wreck the Northern Paoiflo bat ever had from the point of damage to track and rolling stock. BRIDGE C O U N T Y German Vessels Will Be No Longer Exempt, INTEREST IN SH IPPIN G CIRCLES A R etaliatory Measure of President C leveland — Proclam ation W ill In January. Kltect A fter Next Be Washington, Dec. 7.— The president has issued a proclamation suspending, after January next, the operation of the act which relieves German vessels entering United States ports from pay ment of tonnage dues aud other ship ping obarges. This action was taken on proof that American vessels are de nied corresponding privileges in Ger man ports. The shipping charges un der our laws are baBed on a sliding scale. The presiient’s action doubtless w ill arouse widespread interest iu ship ping circles. Tbe president's proclamation w ill go into effect on the morning of January 8, after which the vessels of Germany entering oar ports mast pay shipping charges ranging on a sliding scale of from six to thirty cents a ton per an num. The president mentions the fact that his proclamation of January 311, 1888, suspended the collection of tbe whole of tbe duty of six cents per ton, or not to exceed thirty cents per ton, upon German vessels entering the ports of tbe United Stats, according to section 11, act of congress, approved June 18, 1886. This suspension was proclaimed upon the proof appearing satisfactory that no tonnage or lighthonse dues or any equivalent tax or taxes whatever were imposed upon American vessels entering German ports, and that Ger man vessels aud their cargoes were not required in German ports to pay any fee or imp rt duty higher or other than was payable by German vessels or their cargoes iu the United States, as an nounced in the aforesaid proclamation of 1888. The suspension was to con tinue only so long as the reciprocal ex emption of American vessels continued in German ports. Continuing, the president Bays it now appears upon satisfactory proof, that such dues or an equivalent thereto are imposed upon American vessels and their cargoes and other than those im posed upon German vessels or their cargoes entering in ports of the United States. Therefore, ihe president re vokes his former suspension of the co'- leotion of the whole duty of six cents per ton and not to exceed thirty cents per ton per annum, on German vessels entering the ports of the United States. The effect of the president's procla mation is to reimpose upon the vessels entering from Germany the same ton nage dues that are imposed on vessels entering the United States from Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain and other maritime nations in Europe and Asia. AN F iv e OLD QUARREL. Persona M o rta lly W ou n ded K e n t u c k y F Ig Itt . in a Middlesboro, Ky., Deo. 7.— News has reached here of a fatal encounter in Letoher connty yesterday, iu wnioh W illia m Harrison, along with his sens Henry and James, all of whom were very strong partisans of Johu D. White, the independent Republican candidate for congress in the Eleventh district, against the regular nominee, D C. Colson, engaged in a deadly fight with W illia m Morgan aud his sons, Caleb and Thomas, all supporters of Colson. Tbe Morgans were going to the mill, aud met the Harrisons in the road. They begau their old quarrel over the merits of White and Colsun, and soon began shooting at each other. The battle lasted several minutes, and over • score of shots were fired. Old man Morgan fell mortally wonnded at the first fire. When all was over, the two Morgan boys lay dead and the two Harrison boys proba bly wounded fatally. Harrison, the father, escaped without a wouud, though there were several bullet holes in hts clothes. The elder Harrison surrendered to the authorities, and stated that the Morgans brought ou the difficulty, and that he aud bis sous fired in self-defense. There was no connection whatever between this affair aud Colson being mistaken on the railway traiu by an angry father, supposing him to be the m as who eloped with bis daughter. C h i c a g o '« M u n ic ip a l P a w n s h o p . Chicago, Dec. 7.— Steps have been taken toward the establishmeut of the first muncipal pawnshop in America. A t a meeting of the oommittee from tbe civic federation legislative commit tee tbe organization of a corporation with a capitalization of *200,000 was resolved upon, the plans and purposes of which will be modeled after the Mout de Piete of Belgium and Paris snd the publio loan banks of England and Germany. Special legislation will be required before the establishment of such an enterprise, and this is to be asked for at the coming session of the legislature. It is proposed to mske the institution a quasi publio affair, the mayor and governor each having the power to appoint one director. I’nftt f o r ft e r r i r o N ew York, Dec 7 — The World says: The battleship Texas, which has been undergoing repairs for t w o weeks, waa floated out of the timber dryd. ok early yesterday morning. The ship it unfit for service, and will, in all prob ability, be put out, of commission in the near future and urn ergo extensive alterations. The industrial aid 8 <oity of Boston f and work daring tbe year just passed lor nearly 8.7(H) people. Washington, Deo. 9. — Secretary Olney has just received a cablegram from Senor Andrade, Venezuelan min ister to Washington, now in Csiaoaa, stating that the Venezuelan govern ment has accepted the agreement reaheed by tbe Uuited States aud Great Britain for the arbitration of the buuudary dispute, and an extra session of the Venezuelan congress has been called to consider it. Thus the last ob stacle to the amicable settlement of the dispute w ill be removed. The following statement given ont at the state department embraces all the information in the possession of the department respecting treatment by Venezuela of the proposed treaty: "Secretary Olney received inis morn ing a telegram from Minister Andrade, at Caracas, in effect that the memo randum agreed on between Great Britain and the Uuited States for set tlement of the Venezuela bound iry question is acoepted by the Venezuela government; that the memorandum w ill be published at Caraoas this after noon, and that an extra session of the Venezuela congress w ill be called as soon as possible that the memorandum may be carried into effect by necessary treaty between Great Britain aud Vene zuela. The department also made publio the text of the heads of the treaty, as agreed upon between Great Britain and tbe Uuited States, showing that the ad vance publication through the Associat ed Press was perfectly accurate. TOSS ED Three Men IN THE AIR. W ere b low n D y UMinite. Up W ith Prairie, Wash., Dec. 9.— An attempt was made here last uight to blow up with dynamite three men who were sleeping in the same building. The men were J. C. and C. L. LaPlant, owners of a shingle mill, and L. D. Walters, their engineer. About 2 o’clock in the morning they awoke, to find themselves being lifted into tbe air. A moment later they came down and went through the floor with the beds in whioh they had been sleeping, and tbe debris of the building fell on top of them. The men were partially stunned, but they pulled themselves ont, and made their wav to a neigh bor's honse, a quarter of a mile dis tant. The honse was completely wrecked, with its contents, the tim bers being smashed to kindling wood, and the bedding torn to shreds. Under the floor was a large hole in the ground, caused by the explosion, and the sup position is that the dynamite was placed in a bag, poked under the honse and then fired. It was a miracle that the men escaped, everything else being utterly destroyed. HEAD Train END Crew W e n t to S leep M atters M ixed. and Cr ea te d OREGON Gat WOMAN. a S en sa ti on in a K a n s a s C i t y P u lp its Kansas City, Deo. 8.— Mrs. Helen Dickerson Hartford, of Dragon, na tional organizer of the W . O. T. U., created a sensation today while filling the pnlpit of the Dundee M. E church iu this city, by denouncing, in unmeas ured terms, the acceptance by the oity of a memorial to be erected in the cen ter of the city to the memory of Fred Heim, the brewer, lately deceased. The Heim brothers, who succeded their father in business, had drawu plans for an imposing structure, to be ereoted to the deceased's memory, and subse quently tendered it to the city officials. Today, in the course of her sermon, Mrs. Harford arraigned the city fathers for their action, alluded to the mem- otial as a "monument of infam y" and appealed to the congregation to prevent its erection. T its X r ir a w K illed , Little Rock, Ark., Dec. 9. — A spe cial to the Democrat from Malvern. Ark., says: "W h a t may be regarded as reliable information has just been receievd here that last Tnesday after noon at a point midway between Cam den and Beardon. on the Cotton Belt railroad a section gang, composed principally of negroes, with a white foreman, were engaged in improving the madbed when a gang 0f nukn„ wn persons begau firing into the crowd killing five of them. The foreman c aims he did not recognize any of the assassins. London Club R a ided . London, Dec. 8.— A hundred consta ble. raided the Battenberg Club, on Hot well road, Ht an early honr Sunday morning, aud trre*ted 150 persons including many women. G r o m I t - lt n ln 's W h e a t C r o p . London. Deo. 8.— The Times, in an ilS *he return., finds that the eetimat-d wheat crop nf Greet Britain is 80,000,000 buanela above that o£ 18a«. r ,„ Trade. " ** Portland, Or., Deo. 8.-Thom who liave never seen an old-fa.hioned boll market are skeptioal about buvin„ May around 85 cents, aud it requires, great deal of nerve for the avers» operator to play the bull side without taking moderate profits. There are no shorts iu the market, and it require, constant injections of bullish new, »„s buying to keep prices moving upward Whenever the latter lags prioos yield aud fluctuations of one to two oenuin an hour are to be expected all the wsy up to *1. This has been the course of all bull markets as they become easily congested and are made healthier b» good setbacks. Commission house, in close touch with the outside publio *y that their customers are afraid to bo; wheat in the eighties, as they havesl. ways been unloaded upon, ahd log money, and show no disposition to come iu as investors. If wheat goei do to *1, aud that prioe is maintained speculation may broaden, but for the present it is a professional market,with a few of the big traders getting th, bulk of the profits. They Hud It new,, sary to sell enough to force down ,t times when they again take hold md an advance occurs. Were they to do otherwise the market might get aw,; from them and there would be uo stop- ping the decline. A feature of the market is the timidity shown by small holders, who put stop orders ou their purchases, and are constantly raising them as prices go np, their desire being to catch all the profits possible. Foreigu buying, both speculative and cash, has been light fur several week, and although prices have advanced j abroad in sympathy with America, and while they agree that we ocoop; the position of price-makers, they ban bought sufficient to carry them until after the first of the year, and ate let ting the speculators on this side do tbe baying Most of tbe wheat cleared i and the large quantities that are to ( clear within the next thirty dayi waa bought at lower prices, some of tbe wheat that went out last week having been taken on below sixty cents, and there is a great deal more of the same priced stuff to go. The oorn market has been heavy and inactive during the past week Fricei are so low that there is little in selling short, aud on the other hand there is so much corn that the average trader hatei ' to buy it. In oats there was bota j professional scalping market, tbe range for the week being about one cent Provsions were heavy on heavier re ceipts of begs. As a result of the week’s trading pork Bhuws a Ion of about fifty oents per barrel for the ! January delivery. WEYLER Now II* * SURROUNDED. tk i« S p a n ia rd Where ; H e W itnt* Him . San Antonio, Tex., Dec. 8.— A head- end collision between two through freights on the Southern Paciflo read near Waelder this morning, resulted in tbe death of two engineers, two fire men and brakeman. The crew of the east-bound freight went to sleep, while waiting on a blind siding, and on w ak ing, thinking the second section of the through west-bound freight was the third section of the train, took to the main track. The weather was foggy, aud the east-bound freight and the third section of the west-bound train came together a few miles from the sid- ing. A relief train was sent from this city with a corps of physicians, and the dead and injured were brough i to SaD Antonio. AN LETTER ~ Downing, Ifopklna A Co.'i M aceo C O L L IS IO N . MARKET Jacksonville, Fla., Deo. 8.— A Citi zen special from Key West Says: The steamer Whitney brought Hi- vana news this morning in relation to Maoeo aud Weyler. Passengers slate that W eyler himself is now encamp«) ten miles from ArteinDa, and bis army is scattered along the troeba, and through the Puiar del Rio distnet When Maceo retreated from Weyler in hie first onmpaig'n, bis plan was toiur- prise Weyler at the first opportunity, aud now Maceo has his army on either side of W eyler, aud they are having daily skirmishes. W eyler is completely surrounded, and if he should a ttem p t to move he w ill be compelled to go to Ariemiaa. Sm all bands have crossed the troche into Havana distriot, and are sttaokiog the outposts and villages of that prov ince. Insurgents numbering 7,000 are en camped in Havana province, twenty miles from Havana, and will go <o Maoeo’s assistance when needed. Spies in Havana are keeping the in surgents posted us to the movement« the Spanish troops A movement je on foot to capture Weyler if he shall attempt to go to Havana by nil Firemen and volunteers in Havana are being ecut to W eyler’a relief. Hereto fore, these troops were used in the de fense of the oity. Since Tuesday’s raid on Guansbaooti the oity has been attacked almost every night, and Thursday night 250 Cohan cavalry rode for two hours through* the oity. The damage done amount» to thirty-seven houses burned and * large quantity of suppliea aud ammu nition seized. A large number o mules loaded snd ready to leave the city were also taken. F i g h t i n g In H a v a n n ' s Subarhfc Jacksonville, Fla., Deo. 8.— 3b**j firing has been heard again today i Havana from the neighborhood Guauabaooa and other suburbs of t * section, and all Havana is excite' "* the occurrence. Over 600 refug passed into the city during the ,'*8' five days from that section, '"sri their lives darin g the fights betw the soldiers and insurgents. Nearly all the Havana rolnntw" have gone to the front, but si i»' they remove the guerillas in one P they encounter them in another, I a succession of running fights 8* j in five to ten miles of the city. ^ , 100 soldiers have been killed or wo ed so far in these engagements. W a r P r e p a r a t i o n s In O . * * * » - Athens, Deo 8 — The king of has issued a manifesto demanding maneuvers on a large scale. ,D _^ moiling 10,000 men from the ^ for the formation of a permanent ^ i The selection of a new rid" __^ elteusic army and MLUV MIMI other Giuri military *XJ .. • * - -. jijy hmg advocated by public ad ì m* opinion*, baa oauaed a sensation- H e j* travels faster than cold- > body can catch cold.