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Show PANAMA iti STATE OF PANIC. General Cobas About to Seize the Reins of Government. A special from Pnnama, Colombia, undor dato of July 2C, says: Not slnco tho days of tho last revo-lutlbn, revo-lutlbn, when nn attack upon tho city by tho liberals was feared, has thoro beon such a panic In Panama as occurred oc-curred Inst night. Shortly after 9 0 clock tho offlco of El Laplz, tho organ or-gan of the liberal party on tho Isthmus, Isth-mus, was visited by officers of tho general staff of tho army, who destroyed de-stroyed yesterday's edition of the nowspaper. Ono of the directors was slightly wounded, but managed to escape. es-cape. Tho news spread rapidly. In the Santa Ana neighborhood, whoro most 01 tho liberals reside, sontlmcnt rose to a high pitch and a fow of tho prominent peoplo counsolcd retaliation. retalia-tion. They took no action, however. The next ovont camo like a bombshell. bomb-shell. A company of soldiers, apparently ap-parently undor tho orders of Gonoral Vasquoz Cobos, commander of tho national na-tional forces, surrounded tho rcsldonco rcsl-donco of Governor Mutls, but tho governor gov-ernor and his wlfo, who Is an American Amer-ican woman, having been warned a fow minutes beforo tho arrival of tho troops, succeeded In escaping. Gonoral Hucrtas, commander of tho battalion of Colombia, whon he loarnod of the El Lapis incident, retired re-tired to headquarters, whero ho found General Cobos. According to current roports, tho lattor ordered Gonoral Huertas to remain In quarters. Exactly Ex-actly what has taken place is unknown, un-known, but it is said that Dr. Aria-tidos Aria-tidos Arjona, secretary of the government, gov-ernment, Fornando Arango, chief of police, and Etram Navla, a member of the departmental superior tribunal of Justice are under arrest, the last named for' trying to argue with General Gen-eral Cobos the illegality of his ao-Uon. ao-Uon. An attempt also la said to have boon made to arrest Senor Guorra, secretary of flnanco, but he refused to accompany the officer who went to arrest him. When tho officer returned with soldiers to effect his capture oucrra had departed. The only civil official on the street this morning was Mayor Ossa. Governor Mutls spent last night at tho British consulate, but It is rumored that he will take rofugo in tho American consulato. It la rumored that General Cobos offered the governorship to different conservatives, who rcfusoa to accept, and that ho himself will assume civil command. It is said that Consul Gudjer attempted to send a cablegram cable-gram to Arthur M. Reaupro, tho United Unit-ed States minister at Bogota, but that tho agent refused to accept tbo message |