Show LEADER OF CUBAN LIBERALS KILLED IN POLICE CLASH chief of police and meet i death in raid on hotel use d As armory havana sept 22 official dispatches from announce tho billing of congressman leader oc the liberal party and the most able orator in the lower house and the chief ot of cientuegos during a between ohp tavo political parties the liberals and the moderates the government advises advices say the police received that within the hotel where bearded a ot amis and they ant to the hotel to gate ta dinauer As i ed uio stairs they of liberals v u fired on them killing chief of polaire aln the re turned the alre and wounding several others reat excitement cit ement prevails at cienfuegos Clen fuegos and havana the government authorities fear jhc result which the affray may have on the election of members of uio election board which will be held to morrow As the news spread throughout hav ana the liberals and moderates are gathering in their respective cluba and it as feared that until he leaders give wise counsel a clash may result tonight A dispatch to the associated press from says that six persons were killed and twenty five wounded during the conflict dispatches to the government say that congressman and chief ot police po mere killed and a number of policemen and civilians vonnied vonn ded rural guards are around the entire block in which the hotel dulzo the cew of the affair Is situated one telegram says that fired the shot which killed the chief of pouce while according to another telegram the hot was fired by jose fernandez a liberal who haa been arrested A search of the hotel revealed two dynamite bombs in the room occupied by the police in searching the hotel were carrying oat the order of a judge who was informed that explosives were hidden there the government has received a telegram from sanor frias asking to send reinforcements nt once the telegram says while in at present the forces are keeping order every precaution Is needed as there is danger of assaults I 1 recommend that the authorities ties prevent the entrance into cienfuegos Clen fuegos of probably pro bablo trouble makers aho vho are liable to invade the city there are fears of dynamite bomb throwing acting on the advice of senator arlas the government this evening sent a train of five cars loaded with rural guards the largest number of whom are destined for cienfuegos Clen fuegos while the others will be distributed in matanzas and santa clara where ad vices received by the government in any time tho train also carried artillery and the troops are supplied with rounds of ammunition the feeling in havana tonight is most intense the liberals are bitterly denouncing the government sayles they have received no advises advices from cienfuegos because the government will not permit the use of either telegraph ams or atlue cable lines an extra session ol 01 the house of representatives was fawl tonight at which the disturbances at cienfuegos Clen fuegos were discussed extra editions of the liberal papers issued here tonight place the entire blame for the disturbances upon the government the mayor of havana has issued a proclamation forbidding the carrying of jaoes or weapons of any kandi with or without licenses in the vicinity of tha polling places during the elections an official dispatch says that the mayor of cientuegos has issued a proclamation prohibiting the sale of liquors gen jose magud gomez governor of santa clara province a liberal candidate for the presidency arrived here today according to a report in circulation cu lation the governor declares that an attempt was made to assassinate him in his official residence governor gomez said to the associated press that he came to havana for the purpose of informing president palma that he feared the elections in his province would not be fairly conducted but after the occurrences at cientuegos he would not visit the president regarding the rumor that an attempt had been made to assassinate him the governor declined to say anything he aard this attempt was made almost at the hour that was hot he ans reading a telegram from him n which the congressman stated that his life had been threatened by a policeman yesterday aad that at the hour in which be was writing the telegram the policeman had just entered the hotel and he feared uie consequences added that the quen ces the governor congressman was one of his dearest friends and confidants washington sept 22 senor quesada the cuban minister tonight received the following dispatch from secretary of ofarrell giving an official version of too trouble at cienfuegos today valle the chief of police was carrying out an order of tho court to examine the premises of the hotel la sulsa in cienfuegos Clen fuegos where enrique a member of congress was stopping fired on the chief of police who died shortly afterward immediately and in the same place the police arrested the aggressors being attacked nt the same time by those accompanying compa nying the latter and another individual died two wounded persons were arrested three policemen were the rural guard proceeded to make an examination of the premises and to help the police finding ammunition and dy bombs in the house where vil leondas lived the rural guards aro doing service in the town and order is fully restored the government has taken measures so tho elections to be held tomorrow will take place with legality in all the republic speaking of the trouble at gos minister quesada pointed out that it was entirely local in character and hal no national significance whatever it was an incident common to popular elections cientuegos Is debatable ground he said and party strife runs high there the government he added is determined that the elections to take place tomorrow throughout the republic shall be conducted strictly according to law Ville the member of congress who was killed was a boung man of great promise he was less than 30 years old and had been a colonel in the cuban army a attorney under the military government and a member of tho constitutional convention ven tion |