Show HELD AS HOSTAGES The Latest Dod e of Vasauez to Save Tegucigalpa New York Feb ISThe Heralds dispatch from La Libertad says I Is said that President Vasquez of the Honduran republic who is being be edged by the allied armies of Nicaragua Nicar-agua and the Honduran insurgents in his capital city Tegucigalpa is holding hold-ing several families of prominent revolutionists revo-lutionists as hostages He hopes to thus prevent an actual assault upon and the sack of Tegucigalpa The seige of the city continues stubbornly stub-bornly though most of the provinces of the country have declared in favor of the provisional government established estab-lished by the insurgents whose leader is General Policarpo Bonllla Both sides are now almost without ammunition and the Nicaraguans are becoming anxious to have the war brought to a close as soon as possible Wunt the Treaty Ahrogated Madrid Feb ISThe text of the petition pe-tition to the Agricultural association of Puerto Rico that the treaty with America affecting Puerto Rico be abrogated ab-rogated is made public I declares that if the colony Is forced to continue buying the low class of > American goods serious disturbances disturb-ances will result Puerto Rico it says j is losing by the treaty 100000 monthly and is being ruined There is a growling grow-ling feeling in Madrid that Spain will obtain important modifications of the trif on the advent of the new AmerIcan Amer-ican regime Has Been Arranged Berlin Feb 18The wedding of the Grand Duke of Hesse and the Princess Victoria of Saxe CoburgGotha has been finally arranged for April 22 at Coburg t The Xictheroy Gets There London Feb 18A dispatch from Rio Janeiro states that the Brazilian cruiser Nicthcroy has arrived outside that harbor I The Indian Deficit Calcutta Feb ISThe coming Indian i In-dian budget estimates the deficit at 350000 lakhs of rupees |