BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1899-08-18
CABLE NEWS

The American transport Tartar, whicl
was bound for the Philippine had to cal
at Tchio [Japan] to attend to some Sigh
repairs. =
-Ssid transport will remain two day,
In port, after which she viii continue he
voyage.
Berlin papers declare tina. the Kai
ser will wait for the Gar in Kiel, inten
On accompanying him to London.
The Muscovite emperor will leave
Sainst Petersburgh to morrow.
lit is reported with some degree o.
certainty that the plague which is exten.
ding, itself in Oporto Portugal is the
terrible bubonic pest.
Said disease. it is believed, was in
troduced by an English steamer procee
ling from India, which enteled the Dur.
70 on the 18th current.
In Alicante there has been q COLI
sion between Catholics and Replican ele.
ments.
The Police had to resort to iorce to
establish order.
The British Government has resol
we'd to send on numerous medical com
mission to Calcutta to study how to stay
the frightful pest which is disseminating
itself there.
Mr. Romero Robledo in speech
delivered at the Press Association, said
that regionism had lifted up its head in
the Baleares, and it was necessary to
crush it,
Great heat is being felt in Berlin.
Tie thermometer indicates, the same
gradation as in London.
"A new expedition is being organi
sed for the Philippines.
It will consist Of one thousand fve
hundred men
In the transport Hancock whose
bottom is being overhsuIed, section Of
military telegrsphists destined for the ar
my will go on.
The London Tines says that Great
Britain is prepared to battle with entire
Europe, should the powers foster the idea
Of intermeddling with her in her approa
ching war campsing in the Transvaal.
President Mac Kinley has given or
ders that help remittances for the island
must be proceeded with with the greatest
activity.
The Evelyn has collected all, the
provisions which were upon the wharves
Of New York. destined for Porto Rico.
= The Cleveland railway strikers ha-
We taken up a hostile position and in
consequence Of which energetic measu
res have been ordered to be adopted
against the dissatisfied.
-On the North Of Santo Domingo q
few expeditions proceeding from Jamai
ca have landed.
The actual government is exerting
much energy to suAocate the revolutio-
nary movement which is acquiring great
vigslr throughout the Republic.
Other cities have taken up arms.
The New Yo k press says that the
gunboat MacEias, tho only United Sta
tes vessel at anchor in the Bay of Santo
Domingo, is not enough to protect the
great interests which the Americans pos.
sess in the island.
They claim, as consequence OF the
foregoing exposition. that the craiser
OF ship Of her class be sent on.
MIR. Root. the Secretary Of War, in
accord with p esident Mac Kinlay, has
resolved to use a vigorous campaign in
the Magallsnic Archipelago.
The War Court which has been
holding its session In Rennes has been
couvoked for the purpose Of resolving
about the conc ession or non-concession
Of the forty eight hours prorogue which
Messrs Dreyfus and Demange have sup
plicated.
1T IS considered as certain that the
Court will aequiesee to the proposed So
licitation.
--Mr. Zola, the novelist visited yes
terday Mr.. Labofy, who was prostrated
in bed inconsequenee Of the criminal ag
gression.