Show AffAIRS Of CENTRAL AMERICA AUSTRIAN CONFINED A CAGE AT NICARAGUA Cattle Confiscated For an Experiment StationNo Laborers to Gather Coffee CropWar Feared Correspondence of the Associated Press Managua Nic Dec 1L Captain Bassett an Austrian subject commanding one of the Pellas Navigation companys steamers on Lake Nicaragua and San Juan del Norte river has been arrested and is confined in an iron cage at San Carlos by the government of Nicaragua on the charge made by some person ignorant of machinery of having disabled the boners bon-ers of the steamboat so as to prevent the government of Nicaragua from transporting transport-ing troops by his boat A Nicaraguan army officer in charge of a guard of soldiers kept on the steamer Victoria one of the Pellas Navigation companys steamers on Lake Nicaragua was killed a few days ago by his soldiers while attempting with a whip or a stock to whip them All of the employees were therefore imprisoned being held for witnesses wit-nesses The government of Nicaragua recently bought a large tract of grazing land for 50000 Nicaraguan money fronting on Lake Managua and distant about five leagues from Managua to which is being sent large numbers of cattle horses and mules which have been confiscated or collected col-lected as fines or forced loans The bulls oxen horses and mules are probably for use in the artillery and cavalry The tract is now designated as Nicaraguas national experimental station I Senor Jacinto Castellanos president of the diet of the Greater Republic ol Central Cen-tral America appointed from Salvador I it is reported has tendered his resignation resigna-tion His retirement it is said endangers the ability of the independent organization organiza-tion to unite the people and will probably soon result in its disruption The financial condition is unimproved There is much difficulty in getting laborers labor-ers to gather the ripening coffee crop A revolution against Zelayas government is apprehended and a war between Nicaragua Nic-aragua and Costa Rica is lImlnent I |