Insurgents Suffer Loss

INSURGENTS SUFFER LOSS.

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Get the Worst of It in Two Engagements with the Spaniards.

HAVANA, Jan. 9.—The sound of cannonading and rifle firing was heard Tuesday in the neighborhood of Guanaja, a town of 4,00 inhabitants, in the province of Pinar Del Rio, about forty-five miles south of this city. Details of the engagement just received show that General Navarro, between Guanajay and Ceiba De Agua, overtook a numerous insurgent force under Zayas and other leaders. During the three hours' fighting which followed the Spanish artillery was called into play and the insurgents were routed with a loss of twenty-three killed and forty-five wounded left on the field. The insurgents are said to have carried away many more of their wounded, and the left seventeen Remington rifles behind them.

General Navarro pursued the insurgents and overtook their rear guard at Ceiba De Agua, and in the skirmish which followed four insurgents were killed and three were taken prisoners. On the government side it is announced only four officers and thirty soldiers were wounded in both engagements. Three of the soldiers sustained serious wounds. 

MADRID, Jan. 9.—Persistent rumors are in circulation here that Captain General Campos will be succeeded by General Polavieja, or by General Weyley in command of the Spanish forces in Cuba.