BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1899-05-11
CABLE NEWS

The Washington papers are occupied
extensively 40 u, the interview celebra-
ted between the Po,to Rican delegate:
and President Mac Kinney.
The later. according to said papers,
shew himie extremely courteous to the
commission ct this island, who lett very
satisfied with the reception accorded
them.
Mac KiAley sill that he would pu'
upon his table the petition delivered by
the Porto Ri-An Representatives to stu
| dy it corsc enciously.
| The New York Press, a few hours
after the Washrngton'S, translated to its
columns tn: favourable results obtained
| by the Porto K cans who visited Presi :
dent Mac kinl.y.
The Rep escntativcs of England ap
| pointed for the disarmament conference
stopped for some hours at Nice with the
object of saluting Queen Victoria
The latter declared that with in
three days she Would leave for Cimies,
continuing. thence her voyage direct to
London.
The Dake OF ARGOS, Spanish am
bassador, at the United States, has held
an inter view with the Minister of the Co.
loaics, Mr.. Chamberlain.
The latter denied that England $
intention was to possess herself Of the
Canaries, as few of the other powers
had declared.
In order to demostrate his assertion
Mr. Chamberlain said that a prominent
Spanish leader made proposition to En-
gland abou: those is ands, provided that
she would support in its propositions
the party which he heads.
Mr.. Chamberlain finished by stat
in to the Duke OF Arcos that the rela-
lions betw-e Spain and England could
not be more cordial.
The French press is occupied with
tn: recent vcto les which the coloni.
ing expedition, commanded by Captain
Merchand is making to the Sonth OF
sAbyssiIia.
The latter stopped at Oblk where
a French ship will go to look for him
should his sickness be protracted
The second chief of the expedition
whose Wound was re ;eived in the last
combat, and On account of its not being
serious has assumed the command of the
expedition.
Great Britain, in answer to the ener-
getic note, senther lately by Russia, in
forms her that she has resolved to him
der under al circumstances the opera
tons of the Transcaspian railway.
This resolution cf the Saint James
C.tinet has graf sensation in Muscovi-
re circlts
The Novoie Urenia of Saint Peters
burg in an article EMIT ed the Tsar asks
him, in the name Of the Empire to end
now the visible humiliation which Rus =
sia is under going before the hostile po-
sition of En- gland
MI Krantz French minister of war
has visited the wife OF ex-Captain Drey-
fus.
- The American tow-boat Rescue
which goes with the intention of towing
the cruiser Reina Mercedes arrived yes
terday at Ssntiag go de Cuba.
The latter will go to the Norfolk
Navy yard where she will be repaired
conveniently for the purpose of joining
the United States Navy.
In an interview celebrated between
the editor of the lie Matin and the ex-
Minister of War Mr.. Freycinent, the lat
ter has expressed himself intent on retir.
ing from politics.
dispatches from Havana state that
great agitation circulates in this city bet
wten the annextiorsts and the paritizans
OF the independence.
--Maximo Gomez mediatcs, although
uselessly, to pacify the minds OF the
people.
The Lucha says, referring to this
particular, that the deep dissensions raj
sed up between the two parties will pro-
duce greater scandals than those which
the antocratic action of the extinguished
Reprcse entative Assembly originated.
-Telegrams from Hong Kong report
that the American troops have had new
skirmishes yesterday With the Filipinos
| Colonel Hale in one OF there skir