Show SPANISH VICTORIES Accounts of Skirmslies Give No Comfort Com-fort to Hobels Havana Dec 12 Marshal Blanco has cabled to Senor de Lome Spanish minister at Washington a request I that he tender his condolences to President McKinley on the death of Mrs McKinley the presidents mother j General Pando and his staff are still I with the gunboats Diego and Velas quez that are engaged in removing the wreck of the gunboat ReamcnEo i i which was dynamited some months I ago near the mouth of the river I Cauto and are clearing away other I obstacles interfering with navigation while also protecting the work of constructing forts at that point I There are persistent rumors here that the insurgent general Rabi will I I accept autonomy I General Velasco Lomes destroyed an insurgent camp at Madam killing 10 > I insurgents The Spanish column lost four killed and nine wounded I Near the city of Pinar del Rio the insurgents in-surgents attacked the plantation of an American wounding the chief of the detachment in charge and five I soldiers |