The morning call., 1892-01-09
FROM PANAMA.
A Batch Of News From Late South
American Exchanges.

From Panama papers as late as December
oath, received yesterday, the following SUM-
mary is made:
COSTA RIoA.-A San Jose dispatch Of De-
cember 10th says: President Rodriguez
has granted amnesty to those Costa Ricans
that under executive decree of May 3lst
last, were banished from the republic for
political reasons. The names Of ex- Vice
President General A. de Jesus Soto, and
ex-MiDister of War Colonel Ronolfo Soto,
who have since been living in Paris, are
upon the list.
Don Francisco Valiente, photographer,
is preparing a thousand views of the most
picturesque spots in the republic, including
pictures of the leading volcanic peaks.
Craters, scenes during the earthquake Of
December, 1889, and the late inundatiOn,
for exhibition at Chicago.
Railway run-offs and accidents continue to
occur every few days.
Cecil Charles is reported to have resigned
from the directory of the Central America
Land, Colonization and Mining Company,
recently chartered with the object to open
up the territory of Talamanca.
HONDURAS.-The Government. has or
dered an appropriate monument to be erected
in the pantheon to the memory of the late
Don Enrique Gutierrez, who was Minister
OF State at the time of his death.
elbow fever is reported
tO be raging yet in YzabeI aud the epidemic
has spread to Santa ROmas and other towns
Of COban. Under date of December 10Th
an immense tiger was reported to be prOwl-
Ing around the suburbs of San CristObal
and, as several small children were missing,
great excitement prevailed
a Guatemala City dispatch of December
10th says: Colonel AuguStin PoZ, who was
Aid-de-C Camp to General Barrios during
the latter's Presidency Of the republic. is
dead.
Don Roqqe Souza is en- route to the City
of Mexico, it is reported. upon a special
confidential mission from President BariIlaS
to the Mexican Government Executive.
ECUADOR.-The first execution Of a GRIM
inal that the people OF Guayaquil have wit
messed in many years took place on Deem
Der 18th.
report from Guayaquil of December
18th says: There will be very probably an
increased activity in import business from
the present date up to the first of June next
year, so as to avoid the payment. OF the
extra 10 per cent import dues imposed for
the service of the foreign debt.
BOLIVIA.-fhe solicitations of the banks
Constructor and Pacefo, of La Paz, for
a renewal of their charters recently ex-
pired, have been denied by the Financial
Minister. FL BaneO de Bolivia is the only
bank at the capital which has been author
lied to continue business.
1t is anticipated that the national banking
law Will be materially changed when
Congress meets.
BRAZIL.-A Rio JaneirO report of Decem-
Der 10Th says: The Government appears TO
have put off its apathy and is taking meas
ures to prevent an emeute in the city. Large
bodies of heavily armed policemen are pa
trolling the streets, and though there are
signs Of disquiet on every side there has
been no overt act on the part of the NAL
contents in the city
Advices from CampOs, city of 40, 900 IN
habitantS, in the province of Rio Janelre,
and l56 miles northeast of this city, show
that at that place there has been an open
revolt against the PeiXOttO Government A
conf ct occurred there on Tuesday last be-
tween the Government troops and a body
of insurgents. The advices are not clear as
to which side won the victory but it is re-
ported that ten men were killed and thirty
wounded.
VENEZUELA. Some Dominican monks
are endeavOring to introduce the cultivation
of the grape INTO the republic, and have sew
cral vineyards already started but a few
miles out from the city Of La Guayra, which
give every promise of success
In PenOn recently a boy of II, while bath
ing In the bay, was seized by an immense
devilfish. Tie father Of the victim, hearing
the latter'S cries, came and plungng into
the water succeeded in tearing his son away
and saving him from a most terrible DEATH
A peculiar disease has appeared among
the cattle of the country, from which great
numbers Of them are dying daily.