The morning call., 1891-11-19
CENTRAL AMERICA.
Happenings of All Sorts in the
Coast Republics.

Dates of the Panama Star and Herald to
November 9th have been received by mall
from which the following items of news
have been taken. The details of the wreck
of the steamer Moselle, which occurred off
Colon October Doth. during the terrible
norther which prevailed that day, will be
found elsewhere.
Senior Juan V. Perez, o well-known cap
italist in Colombia. is arranging to establish
line OF steamers between New York,
Cartagena, Puerto Colombia and Santa
Marta. The first steamer was to have
sailed last month, and its tariff for freights
was to be 10 per cent less than those
charged by the Atlas Line and % per cent
less for all material for churches. theaters
and public buildings. The mails were to be
carried free.
new machine is being introduced for
hulling coffee and preparing 1t for market,
,, which will separate and clean 100 pounds OF
coffee per hour.
The Peruvian Legislature has invited the
Senate to hold an ordinary session in order
to discuss the boundary question with
Ecuador.
Night schools for men are being estab-
lished in Costa Rica.
Work on the Jimenez and Lake Nicara-
qua Railroad will commence in January.
Mr.. Jose MOntalvin, D. L., Magistrate of
the Supreme Court OF Managua, Nicaragua,
was assassinated on the 10Th ult., as he was
entering his house on his return from the
court office. The murderer escaped.
Continent small pox has found its way
across the frontier into Nicaragua from
Honduras, and is rapidly spreading in the
valley of Los Jobitos, where several deaths
have already Oc curred. 1t is reported that
the project Of that department has ordered
the establishment of sanitary boards in
Somotillo, VIllaneuva, Santo Tomas, San
Pedro and San Francisco. and has taken
other sanitary precautions to prevent as far
as possible The development of that horrld
disease.
Mr.. Xxi chard Coots Shannon, the Amer
lean Minister to Nicaragua, Costa RIGA and
San Salvador, was expected at C0rinto, and
preparations were made for grand public
reception.
Diego Silva, well-known resident of
Managua, was recently found by the road
side, near Las Lomas, with three pistol shots
in his body and several ugly cuts upon his
person.
An American capitalist, Colonel F. T.
Hilder, who has made his residence in
Honduras, has proposed to the State De-
partment that subscription be raised at
Chicago during the exposition that is to be
held there in 1898, in order to raise funds
for the erection OF Christopher Columbus
statue on the very spot he trod the first time
that he landed on the American Continent
That spot Is said TO be what is named to-day
Punta de Castillo, near Trujillo, Honduras;
q place which is as deserted now as IL was
four hundred years ago, but that is easily
recognized las they say by the marks that
still exist there, Notwithstanding there be-
ing not the slightest stone or inscription to
iDdi ate place of SO much historical i'm
portance as the first landing place of Chris
tobal Columbus on this continent.
Smallpox still fingers in Tegucigalpa and
vicinity.
Mr.. James Peterson, United States Con-
sui at Tegucigalpa, has gone home upon
leave of absence.
Notices from Runtan and the north coast
are that the steamers engaged there in the
expectation OF bananas TO the United States
are now paying but so cents a bunch.
Don Victoriano Castellanos, a son of ex-
President Castelanos and long Secretary of
the C0pan COLLEGE, died recently in Santa
Rosa. He had served several terms in the
National Congress and was highly estimated
throughout the republic of Honduras.
Pablo Mendieta, concesslOnaire has been
granted six months extension of time in
which to complete the preliminary survey
of the proposed Salvador Railway from La
Union to the capital, via San Miguel, San
Vicente and Cojutepeque.
Colonel Juse Anjel Jolon. Commander-ln-
Chief OF the GuatemalHn Artillery, was
assassinated October 9th by ROmolo San
chez, a brother of the deceased General San
chez, who was shot by Jolon. The assassin
was arrested.
In Quezaltenanga. Guatemala. recently,
says the NaciOn Of Tegucigalp-, several stu
dents stole the bustOt General Barillas from
the masters desk and left it suspended by
a rome to one of the electric-light posts
fronting the sch0ol-house.