BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1899-04-18
CABLE NEWS

The Sc rotary Of State, Mr.. Alser
has had frequent Interviews wi h ths
Pre- sident.
MIR. Alger s.i to tn, President
that he considers tn result Of his sit.
to Cuba and Porto Rico very tcnifcia
TO the natio'.
1T has astonishei many IN the Uni
ted States that the most ard Mt anti Al
ger SITS have supp-es cd their attacks sin
ce Secretary Algel eXcur ion to tn:
Antilles.
1t is as ured tn, city Of Paris vii
leave again the United States with ar
9th -r exped ton Of excursionists.
-M.. Aige has slid to few Of the
Press rep esentatives that he has mt a
strong party in favor Of annex ltioa in
Porto Rico
-Lowton's, KING Ha'e's and Mac
An,hur's brlgades are advancing with
great enthusi4m tUward, the north in
persecution OF the strong rebel nu :leus
which Aguinalio and Artico Luna COM
mand.
General Otis said that after having
disbanded the forces which these two
chiefs command he is convinced that
there temlis. few obstacles to overcome.
In the United States the enthusiasm
to know the result Of the campaing in
Philippines is great.
His Holiners the Pope experienced
yesterday a great improvement in his
sickness.
Lord Salisbury has manifested that
in the new Budget he will give great
commercial privileges to J maica, Tri
nidad. Blrbados. and in sh ,rt, to all the
English Antilles.
Said concessions seem intended as
some papers have it, to checl the spirit
favourable to annexation to the United
States. which are observed in the colo
nieS
The Void says that there are hopes
founded on sound basis that the COM
mission which MI. Shurman presi-
des will in a short while establish peace.
General Bro ks has given orders
that the volunteer regiments which are
now garrisoning the Great Antilles
should embark for the United States OF
America.
1t is probable that some of them
will be sent On to the Philippines.
The Secretary of the Navy Mr..
Long has given secret orders to admiral
kantz to act, pursuant to them, in the
Samoan coIhilt.
The American SO ,adrcn which ad-
miral Sampson commands, is expecte ]
momently at Fort &c France.
- On account of the declarations
Which the defunct Secretary of the de
funct Colonel Henry has left Written,
the same reprisals which formerly was
taken by the populace in the French ca
pital has begun to show it self again.
- General Zurlinden takes serions
measures to suppress any disorder that
may occur.
General Cerero who is accompa-
MED by commi. sion appointed tc
organise the defences on the south
coast of Spain has left Madrid for Cadiz
Said general is ordered to Convert
Algeciras in to military station of the
first order.
The correspondent OF the Times in
the Philippines says that incendiarism
causes in thes country more sad devas
tation and ruin than in Cuba.
Said news paper says that the Ame
ricans ought to concentrate in the Phi
lippines their great implements of wal
so that such great scenes of death anc
desolation may disappear.
The b itish Colony in Marseilles are
making great preparations to receive
with dignity the channel squadron.
Dispatches from the associated pres.
say that Columbia is advised by %
wer not to pay Italy the 8
which said nation claims tc
Italian subject
Herr Rose, ex-Germ
Samoa, is reported to be 81