Show CLOSE CALL commander has a horse horce shot under him WORK OF SHARP sharpshooters sharpshooter RS the captain general much worried over his narrow escape spanish dorco of ambushed by cubans havana money brokers told that they thay must not let tho the currency depreciate three friends libeled labeled on a charge chares of piracy A newspaper correspondent arr arrested ested new york feb 7 aa A key west special to this mornings world says As G gen on weller was marching with his colu columns J just us t before entering santa clara his horse was shot from under him by a cuban sharpshooter it la Is OU supposed the shot came from a 0 distant hillside throughout the iho march from rodas tile the captain general was assailed by missiles of this kind and several times barely escaped being wounded he Is greatly worried over it and large scouting parties preceded the advance ot of the hie spanish columns to capture the daring niata A spanish force of was ambushed wednesday night near nazarene just west of santa clara where gen gem weyler was then and narrowly escaped ion correspondent CAPTURED an american who was with tho the cuban army washington feb 6 consul general lee today telegraphed tile the sati sate dopart department part ment from havana that Sl silvester lvester scoval the world correspondent was arrested at tunis santa clara province new york feb 6 sylvester scovel Is the lie only new york newspaper correspondent who aho has been tor for any ion length th of time with the cuban army in no the held field he has had considerable success 1 in I the vigilance of 0 the spanish I 1 troops and getti petting nir his dim dl patches out or of cuba he Is the a eon 0 n of 0 rev dr scovel president of wooster university he li iq well educated and an allaround all around athlete scovel was manager of the cleveland athletic club ahn n the cuban rebellion biake out in a spirit of adventure tire lie determined to join the patriots paid 0 ta and tit in october 1835 1895 he left clevela cleveland nd fur cuba cleveland feb 6 sylvester scovel who it in stilted stated has been arrested ll 11 by the spanish authorities was a former resident ot of this city and went to cubel cuba bout about a year and a halt ago lie ile was waa on maceol stair staff and was In trusted by the latter to carry important dispatches to gomez jio ile has also acted as EL a ani respondent correspondent of several newspapers in the united states two or three times he boldly left the cuban army and entered haven havana a and finally caused suspicion to be dirc dir directed c I 1 ea against him ly hy the spaniards some months axe ago it Is alleged gen con weyler offered reward revard tor for the capture of 0 scovel THREE LIBELED seized on a chang of piracy and ro RB leased on bond jacksonville ria fla rob feb 6 the steamer steamers 1 three friends w was as a seized el e d and libeled labeled upon her return today from it a towing WEI trip down the coast the libel charges piracy in that thai a hotch klass run pun was mounted upon the bow of the steamer and was evas fired at a spanish gunboat at the mouth of the san juan river while endeavoring to land in an expedition the persons named in the libel tire are john obrien len W T eftis I john dunn august arnau michael walsh and ralph D payne judge locke fixed the bond at amoo aich was immediately and the boat was released upon tho the special provision that a deputy marshal should be placed on board and have autho authority lity to take charge of the boat in cate case that an attempt should be made at any time to violate the law larr CUBAN FINANCIER tolls tells money brokers they must not let currency depreciate havana feb G the havana money brokers today waited oft on the colonial treasurer for or the put pui pose pone of 0 informally discussing the question of paper our currency the treasurer recently called to his office all the money brokers of this ahl city anil and mado made them owing to their speculations tor for tho the depreciation 0 of the paper currency which was at 26 per cent discount on gold cold they were warned wv bcd that it within lorty forty tight hours the paper currency was not quoted at the stiver sliver rate or at a small email discount the matter would bo be placed before the gendral at a meeting subsequently beld the brokers decided to petition the government to allow them to cairy on an a legitimate business they claimed that they tot ot responsible for or tile hie depreciation and that hat it if they were compelled compell rd to adopt lower rat hatm it would cloae their offices th the 3 treasurer as aa tawn at toraye conference loaft entirely changed ills his opinion in I recard C gard to 10 the alleged liui but alful practices of the money brokers he stated that he now in no way blamed them for the depreciation ot of the blik ball and agreed to grant them hotter tb tor for their operations he also said bald that a change would be made in III the monetary situation in accordance cor dance with the demands demanda of the pub ile |