El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-11
Mexico.


Mexico.
Nearly 1900 Cubans have left Merida
and neighbOring points recently for
Cuba and good many are still wait
ing for steamers to carry them back to
the land of their birth. They are evil
IDENTIFY satisfied with the way things are
going under American supervision.-
Monterey Globe.
Sir Henry Nevill Dering, Bart, G.
B., British minister, has been confined
to his bed for the last ten days with a
severe attack of catarrhal append icitis.
1t is hoped that in few days, should
there be no relapse. the esteemed
diplomat will be able to resume his &C.
customed duties Mexico Herald.
According to the federal treasury
statement, the balance on hand at the
end OF January last was e174, 644. As.
This result, however, is not an liz dex
to the resources available to the gov
eminent, as it's substantial reserve is
on deposit at the national bank..-Mon-
terey Globe.
Wells. Fargo & Co. handled q large
shipment of gold Wednesday, this
week. It consisted of five thousand
twenty-dollar gold pieces, and weighed
with the iron box in which it was con-
tanned nearly 600 pounds. The ship
ment was made by the Bauco Miuero
to the order of a bank recently estab-
lished In Mexico City -Chihushus En-
terprise.
Some rocks discovered at Irolo in
the state of HldaleO recently, appear
ed TO containlfossilized human remains,
and biologists, including DR.. Antonio
Pina6el AND Civil Engineer Ordones,
of the geological institute, are making
minute examination of the rocks
with view to finding out the exact
value of the fossils and their probable
age. Sr. Ordoues will make full re-
port of his Observation-Disclosures
Globe.
A sad case is that of the death by
smallpox at the American hospital, on
Friday evening, at IL O'Clock, of w. W.
Hess, of Clinton, Michigan. Mr.. Hess
came to Mexico in the month of Nov.
ember last, in the interest of the Page
Woven Wire Fence company, of Ad-
rian, Michigan. Mr.. Hess was a man
OF about sixty years of age, q member
OF the 6. A. r., having served four
years in the war of the rebellion. He
made many friends in this city by his
He leaves wife and daughter in Gin
ton, Mich.-Two Republics.
Mr.. Geo. 81. Cross, q veteran ex-
cursion manager, who has charge of
the California business of the Ray
mond- Whitcomb company, accompani-
ed the first party here from New Or
leans, and at Ell Paso will take charge
OF the contingent that goes to the Pa
ci6c coast. 81 wonder how many peo-
pie now in Mexico" said Mr.. Cross
reminiscently last night, remember
John Bolton. He was the father of the
Mexican excursion business. Some
thing like dozen or fifteen years ago
he conducted the first excursion that
Raymond & Whitcomb ever sent here.
He knew everything about Mexico
that there was to know. He caught
the emsllpox on one trip, poor fellow,
and died and was buried here. Mex
leo Herald.
George D. Cook, of the Cook Invest
meDt compapy of Chicago, and w. A.
Mason, OF Nilsson, Lewis and company,
Chicago and Boston bankers, are the
capitalists that bought the issue of
81 800, 600 gold bonds OF the state of ia
lisco and in disposing of them in the
United States they did the republic of
Mexico an incalculable amount of good.
They were the first foreign bonds that
were ever placed on the general mark
ct in the United States. Heretofore
Europe has absorbed all the Issues of
bonds made by the Mexican people.
The promptness with which the Jalisco
bonds were taken and the fact that
they were the first foreign ones to be
placed on the American market makes
the event one of more than ordinary
significance in the financial world OF
both countries.-Two Republics.
The Banco Central Mexicano has
been definitely organized with q CAPT.
tai of $4,000, 600. Enrique G. Creel,
the wealthy banker of Chihuahua, is in
this city completing arrangements for
the Inauguration of this important new
enterprise. Applications were made
for shares in the Banco Central Mex
icsno to the amount of over $40, GOO, 900,
despite the fact that no pub
lie subscription was opened
and no circulars collecting
subscriptions were issued. One half Of
the capital, or 5000, 900. has been
subscribed by an international sypdi-
cate, composed of the Deutsche Bank,
of Berlin; S. Bleichroeder of Berlin;
J. p. Morgan and Co., OF New York,
and Enrique G. Creel of Chihushua.
Mr.. Creel represents the Mexican
subscriptions in the syndicate. The
other three millions have been subs
cribed by the fourteen local banks of
Mexico and by some of the most
prominent business men of the city
of Mexico.-Mexico Herald.