Show HAS so says byor who baaki th home speaker lor president detroit ilich jan 8 thomas B reed ii mayor Pm grees presidential candidate and his honor announces it in lanes of exultation ive looked the field over ho declared and reed is the only man in the list of candidates who has a backbone the kind of a man we want for president weve had enough of these spineless fellows in the presidential chair we want a man that ha brains and then has enough backbone to carry out the that he boli evet to be right suai havana jan 7 the insurgent band commanded by zayas waa reported at different times yesterday at caimito Oai mito guayabal Guay abal hoyo colorado ami bravo schowine that he followed pretty closely the line between the provinces of pinar del kio and havana up to ahn extreme northeastern portion of pinar rio this brought liim into the region into which large numbers of troops have been sent to guard the western approach to havana it does not appear that the insurgents were in any great force and no engagements enga are reported the influx of refugees from the whole of the territory surrounding havana continues and apparently it is not poi eible to obtain sufficient means of transportation to accommodate tha fleeing families and their household gooda the country seems to be entirely abandoned to the insurgent army and no movement apparently avails to check them the eastern portion of the island seems not to have been entirely stripped of any effective force of insurgents sur gents A report from santa clara says that the troops encountered the insurgent band led by in the battle aich ensued sustained a loss of fifty OF GUANAJAY word has just been received that the sounds of cannon and musketry have bean heard in the neighborhood cf guanajay Gua najay an important town of inhabitants in pinar del rio miles southward of havana it is cup posed that an engagement is taking place there between the forces of gen suarez valdez and the insurgents but the numbers encased or the course which the fortune of tho fight is taking is not known the insurgents are burning and destroying ying property up to within eight miles of havana permanent court london jan 8 A movement is on foot among prominent americana and britons in this city to bring about tho formation of a permanent court of arbitration to settle disputes between tho two nations as proposed by justice harlan in 1893 |