Show HAD DESPERATE FIGHT COLOMBIAN TROOPS AND REBELS REB-ELS MEET AT CABTHAGEJTA As Many ns Tivo Hxtndred Rebels Arc Said to Enve Been Slain iu the Engagement Kingston Jamaica May 20 Adlccs from Colombia by the Royal Mall steamer Trent say time rebels arc operating around Panama which Is I full of troops some of whom arc duar I IciCd In the churches An engagement look place May IGlh north of Panama ho rebels being driven off Carthagena is still tin possession of the Government The Trent was to have conveyed a body of troops to Carthagena but the rebels destroyed the bridges on the night of May lath thus preventing the troops arriving for embarkation On the same night a desperate engagement en-gagement look place outside of Car I ibagena in which the Government troops were victorious As many us 500 rebels are said to have been killed In time lighting The country is in aJ frightful state financially paper dollars being only 5 cents each |