San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-29
BY Special Wire to the Sunday LIGHT.
A DARING INsURGENT RAID.

B y Special Wire to the Sunday LIGHT
A DARING INsURGENT RAID.
KEY WEST, Fla, Dec. 2S.-Ha-
vana was thrown in state OF
panic Friday by a daring act OF
the insurgents. About 3 O'clock in
the'afternoon a band of mounted
revolutionists, numbering proba-
bly, one hundred and fifty, dashed
at full speed into Falmira, a popu-
lous suburb of Havana. AS the
raiders galloped through the
streets they fired revolvers, terri
flying the people, many of whom
fled into Havana and announced
that the insurgents were advanc-
ing on the city. The news spread
rapidly and caused the widest ex-
element. Acting Governor Gen.
eral Ardorius got all the Spanish
troops under arms to repel an at
tack, and ordered a regiment to
Falmira to reconnoiter. When the
troops reached the suburb they
found the insurgents had raided
three drug stores and retreated.
The raiders told the druggists that
medicines were needed for the in
surgents' sick.
Havana has not recovered from
the alarm, and the Spanish guards
are doduelb.
REV. JOSEPH COOK VERY ILL.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, Dec. 2S.-
The Rev. DIR. Joseph Cook, of Bos-
ton, one OF Americas foremost d.
vines and lecturers, is very sick
man. DIR. Cook embarked for Aus
tralia about a year ago on lectur-
ing tour. His itinerary was sud-
denly interrupted in September
last at Melbourne, where he was
stricken with an attack Of vertigo
which almost completely shatter-
ed his former magnificent consti-
tuition.
Mrs. Cook was advised by cable
OF her husbands condition and she
joined him in Japan, from whence
they sailed on the steamer China
for San Francisco, arriving here
last Wednesday night.
RUSHING TROOPS INTO ABYssINIA.
ROME, Dec. ga dispatch from
Massowah says that two battalions
for italian troops have arrived
there. All the endorsements will
be in the field by January A, An
expedition compromising ten thou
land men will then be ready to
start. The Abyssinian forces are
advancing slowly. They seem TO
have given up the selge OF Makalle.
Some of Ras Mangascia's troops
have been seen near Adqua. Gen
eral Baratieri, the Italian COM
mander, is still at Adigrat.
WAS HE MURDERED?
RALEIGH, N. c., Dec. 2S.-SiX
months ago Foy Green, of Cald-
well county, died suddenly after
having taken glass Of cider car
ried to him by his wife. Within a
few weeks she married Albert
Franklin, with whom it is said she
had been too intimate. Suspicion
was aroused, and the body OF Green
was examined and the stomach re-
moved and sent to the state chem
ist for analysis. This resulted in
the discovery of arsenic in the
stomach. The sheriff received in
structions to arrest the persons
thought to have been implicated
in the crime. Albert Franklin has
lust served six months in Jail, and
was arrested, the charge being
murder, as he stepped out of the
Jail door Mrs. Franklin was also
placed in jail, both to await trial
at the March term OF the court.
MINISTER RANSOM HOME AGAIN.
RALEIGH, N. c., Dec. 2S.-M. w.
Ransom, minister to Mexico, spent
Christmas at his home in North
ampton county. He says he is not
as well as he would like to be, but
much better than ne had been
earlier in the year. His son, Rob-
ert Ransom, returned from Mexico
with him. Minister Ransom has
thirty days to leave Of absence.
NEW ORLEANS MARKETS.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 2S.-Cotton
-Middling, "a; low middling, ~
sales, 1900 bales; market steady.
Sugar-Open kettle, very strong