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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-01-26

tion will be made directly from the
Dauish Foreign Office in this matter
until an enabling act for the purcha,
Sc has been passed by Congress.
The President, all the members
of the Cabinet and many of the most
influential Senators are in favor of
the purchase.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-01-26

handsomely bound books presented
oy MIR. Hanna of Hanna's Select
School. We extend our cordial
thanks to the genial professor.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-01-26
BY COMMAND OF BR[GA
DIER GENERAL DAVIS:
News OF The Island.

General Andrade, the ex-Presi-
dent of Venezuela, arrived yesterday
with his family on the "Caracas."
Mr.. Andrade will probably make
Puerto Rico his permanent home.
Weacknoaledge receiptoftwo very
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-01-26
Circular Order.
No. 5.

San Juan, January 23rd, 1900.
Circular No. AZ, series of 1899,
from these headquarters, is so amen
ded as to read as follows:
/" In view of the fact that the Sc
cretary Ct War has been advised by
the Honorable Secretary of State,
that provisional and temporary re-
cognition of the official capacity Of
SignOr SGli0a, appointed Consular
Agent of Italy al Mayaguez, p. r.,
Signor Bregaro at Ponce, P. r.,
and Signor BoSso at San Juan,
P. r., has been granted by the Pre-
sident's directions, cognizance of the
gentlemen named is taken, and they
will be permitted to exercise their
proper Consular functions"
BY COMMAND OF BRIGA.
DER GENERAL DAVIS:
w. P. HALL,
AdjutGnt General.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-01-26

of the people with whom he was in
communication at the time of the
Jameson raid. England deserves to
lose the fight because of its mani
fest unjustness."
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-01-26

~ Ni' hailna OF Hanna'S Select
School. We extend our cordial
THANKS to the genial professor.
Lieut.. s. G. OhiIes, 11th Infantry
left yesterday for Aguada aohere he
Will install the elected candidates in
office.
ne ball announced for tomorrow
In the Casino of Ponce has been
posponed until next sunday.
The "PhiladeIphia" that sailed
rom New York January 20, arrived
this morning.
A reception was held in the Hotel
Marina, in Ponce, last Monday eve.
Mug.
The latest arrivals at the Hotel
Marina, in Ponce are: Messrs r.
w. Dickerman, Henry r. Broad and
'cite, q. s. Campbell, VIM. Barker
and wife, Geo. G. Kent, j. Ell. Ha-
naford, G. D. Stanton, Chas E. Ad.
ANS, Mrs. G. w. Simpson, Capt.
Judson, A. Stuile, William Hard.
castle, Claude King, Geo. W. and
W. Il. Simpson, M. and Fl. Robert
son, August Podesta and r. L.
Peers.
Mr.. VIM. Townes, representing
the American and Puerto Rico To-
Oacco Co. left yesterday tor New
York on the Caracas
line office of clerk of the Ayun-
tamlento of Aguas Buenas is at
present vacant. Its annual compen-
sation is $50 dollars.
The steamship Ponce will said for
New YORK with the mail on Tuesday
next.
Mr.. Sergio Poventud has left
Ponce for Santo Domingo.
The Supreme Court of Justice has
requested the. Civil Secretary to
order the return of deposit of I2O
dollars made to the Treasury by Mr..
Jose Palacios.
Lieut.. WoodsOn Hooker, 11th
Infantry, has been appointed to take
charge of the coming election at Toa
Alta.
The office of Municipal phisicion in
Aguas Buenas is at present vacant.
1t pays 800 dollars.
The following are the trials to be
brought up for trial tomorrow before
the District Court of this City: aga
inst Martin Rivera, Carmelo Cruz
Raposo, Anastasio Campos and Ce-
clio Garay for robbery.
The Municipality of Qua, anna has
forwarded certified copy Of resoIu-
ton passed by the Municipal Coun-
Gil requesting the reorganization of
the local Sanitary Board.
MIR. Antonio Esteva, of Guayama,
tbe manager of the firm "Amoros
HermanOs" asked the permission to
establish rural guards in the sugar
platatlons "Esperanza" and ssReu-
nion.n
We are told that the reception
held in the 23rd. instant by the Gen.
tro Espaiol of Mayaguez, was very
brilliant. The Misses Tavarez, Es-
cot and Sancho were much applaud
ed.
Mr.. Jose Ramon Diaz valdepares
has informed the Civil Secretary
chat from tomorroao new paper
THE Spanish Herald" will be pu-
blisEed.
Major Mansfield, Capt. Wilder
and Iie8t Besel have been appoin-
ted to Investigate the case of j. HoI-
mes telegraph operator of Ponce
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-01-26
Visit OF Archbishop Of Paris To
ASSumptiOniSt Fathers Causes
Great Comment In Political Circles
New York, January 26th, 1900

Cardinal Mgr. Richard Archbishop of Paris, has visi
ted the Assumpons Fathers tried yesterday for taking
active part in politics
He expressed them his sympathethc for the
sentence returned against them which will the dsso
luton of the order.
The visit Of Cardinal Richard has been greatly
mented in political circles in Paris.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-10

none whatever he murmured, after a
pause.
Good" said Weems, rising. Il shall
then engage a second-cabin passage for
you to-day, and you can take your lug
gage on board this evening"
He nodded and passed out of the room,
still humming tune. Sims waited, with
bated breath, until he heard the lower
door open and shut, and then leaped from
his pallet with a bound.
ooh, the villain. the deep, designing,
remorseess villain!' he exclaimed, hur-
riedly beginning to dress himself. He'd
doom me with the rest on the Scarbor-
ough, would he? Not if / can balk him,
and I fancy I can. He can't have the
slightest suspicion of how watched and
overheard his talkings to himself last
night, or he wouldn't have ventured on
that cold-blooded proposition to me. But
I'll euchre him, and know how it's to
be done. That bale, which he stuffed so
nicely last night, shall never go on board
the Scarborough, nor will he be the wiser
till we're a week at sea. Then, when
he reaches London, it will cost him some
thing to keep me quiet concerning the
internal plat / shall have foiled. He
shall pay for every blow and kick he
ever gave me. or | don't know a horse
from a zebra.'
He finished dressing, with knowing,
cunning look on his small, pinched face,
and then, after listening attentively, stole
noiselessly into the adjoining room.
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CROPS HURT BY RAIN.
wet weather Does Considerable Dam
ace in Many States.

W.T. weather Does Considerable Dam
ase in Many States.
rho most unrayorable features OF last
wool, as given by the crop division OF the
weather bureau, were the excessive falns
in the Southern States and the unseason-
ohio low temperatures over the centraI
and southern plateau and Pacific coast re-
oions A large part Of Texas, includlnS
the region of the great flood OF June
July, 1885, has received from two 10
moro than seven inches Of rain, washing
ont and inundating crops to great eX-
tent over the central and southern por-
tions of the State Too much rain has
generally retarded farm work in the
States of the Missouri valley and middle
Rocky Mountain slope.
Eastward of the Mississippi river corn
planting and preparations therefor nave
progressed rapidly. planting being in pro-
gress as far north as the central portions
of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio and In west
Virginia and Maryland. Some corn has
been planted in southern low&, and plant
ing will be general the coming week. On
account of wet weather little corn was
planted in Nebraska, and planting has
been retarded in Missouri and Kansas.
In Kansas and Texas and portions Of
Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama much
replanting will be necessary as result of
overfiows.
Further improvement is generally re-
ported in the condition of winter wheat,
although in Michigan and Wisconsin
farmers are continuing to pillow up wheat
fields for other crops. The crop is now
heading as far north as Tennessee Ar
kansas and Oklahoma. In central and
northern California high winds have been
unfavorable, but the crop has been i'm
proved by rains in the southern part of
the State All reports indicate that spring
wheat is coming up finely and making
excellent growth. Seeding is now prac-
tically completed except in North Da-
kOta
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pocket Of the young officer. could you
find it convenient to send boat for it
now?"
Certainly. Anything to oblige friend.
Where is the bale?"
I'm my ramshackle room on st. James
street, where you once honored me with
visit concerning those hunters l sold
to your father"
I'll send a boat at once, and you can
remain here. and chat with me til! it
comes back"
The purser quilted the office. He pres
emily returned, saying that the boat had
been sent Then he and Weems remain
ed chatting for upwards of an hour, at
the end of which man came to announce
the return of the boat with heavy pack
age.
Then Weems, accompanied by the pur-
ser, went to the gangway, and had the
pleasure of viewing what he supposed
was the bale of wool destined to be so
fatal to the Scarborough. He bor-
rowed a marking pot and brush, with
which he marked the bale with icti-
tious London address, and then had the
satisfaction of seeing it lowered into the
hold and slowed away well forward.
''No bill of lading is required, or any
thing of that sore" he whispered to the
purser, as he was preparing to quit the
ship. ''You will personally attend to it's
delivery to an express Office when you
reach Southampton"
st will be all right, Weems," said the
purser, nodding. Anything to oblige a
friend"
(To be continued)
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CHAPTER TX.

Breakfast over, Dunmore and Mac
kenzie accompanied Weems to the office
of the express company to look after their
yaluables, chiefly in diamonds. It took
number of hours for them to complete
this business, especially on Weems' ac-
count. He was the only one who was
going to ship his diamonds on the Scar
borough and had received a promise from
his companions that they would accom-
pany him to the insurance agencies, and
lend their countenance to the heavy poll
cies that he was DESTROYS of taking out
upon his property. The total insurance
demanded-one hundred thousand pounds
was so great that the officers Of more
than one agency demurred at issuing the
policies without first viewing and having
an assay made of the diamonds. Weems
| always represented this as an impossi-
biity, in view of the shortness OF time
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News of Minor Nose.

Newport is expecting crush of noble
lords of high degree this summer
Gertrude Despaines, %, of Chicago,
died from ptomaine poisoning, in New
York.
Homicides in South Carolina have aver
aged over 200 year for the last five
years.
Republicans at Boston Endorsed Secre-
tary of the Navy Long for the Vice Pres
idency.
The plague has appeared in the Java
rood district of Persia, 1875 deaths being
reported.
Fifty thousand dollars worth of auto.
mobiles have been shipped to Havana
recently.
The torpedo-boat destroyer Farragut
will make its first real sea cruise from
San Francisco to San Diego.
Because girls devote TOO much time to
gossip, men will replace them as operators
in Paris telephone stations.
Atlantic liners leaving New York are
by no means crowded, despite predictions
of a rush to the Paris exposition.
NJ. Coquelin and Nine. Bernhard will
tour America, after the Paris ezSOsi-
ton, with "Cyrano de Bergerac."
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! you sold the bay team, told me yesterday
that they were working we'll enough
with his own groom now, and that ne
wouldn't want me any more"
Good! then you will remain within
sight of the house here throughout the
day."
Certainly, sir, if such are your or
| ders"
Yes. There'll be some one from the
Scarborough call during the day for a
bale of wool that I've packed ready for
him in the next room. There's lot Of
mineral quartz in the center of it, which
| the ships captain is to know nothing
about, but which makes it very heavy.
You're to give the messenger the heavy
bale, and not the lighter one"
Eyes, sir"
| Weems hummed an air, seating him
self on the Jockeys trunk as though
meditating on additional orders for the
day; but he was, nevertheless, carefully
studying the rough board partition sep
arating the two rooms, for some indi-
cations Of the treacherous watch and
eavesdroppings that he was sure he must
often have been subjected to, on the part
of Sims. At length he discerned, high
up above the bed, slight chink between
two boards, by which he became satisfied
that the suspected mode of espionage had
been facilitated.
"By the way, SIMS" said he, in the
same CHEEKY voice, after a pause, Il
won't have any particular need of you
after to-day. How would you like to
precede my departure by a fortnight
that is, go home in the Scarborough, you
know"
| ''Mr. Weems! but you can't mean it
not in that ship?" exclaimed the jockey
turning white as a sheet, and fairly
bounding on his pallet in excitement.
'Why, of course, I do" said Weems,
in the same easy tone. ''That ship, Ell?
What's the matter with herr"
/ 81 didn't say l knew of anything the
matter with her, Mr.. Weems," said the
jockey, quickly recovering his composure.
| "Only I've been looking all along to going
home with you, sir, in the Caledonia"
you can have no objection to change
that will land you in Southampton fort
night earlier, of course?'
| Sims felt that his face was being stud
led narrowly, and he kept it as impene-
trable as mask.
ooh, no, sir, I can have no objection
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CANAL BILL is PASSED.
House Adopts Measure by a Vote o
225 to b.

20 to 80.
After a stormy debate which developed
much bad blood and nearly provoked sew
eral physical encounters the Nicaraguan
canal bill passed the House late Wednes-
day afternoon by the remarkable vote of
225 to 80. Democrats and Republicans
wed with each other in an effort to get
on record in favor of the waterway that
is to connect the Atlantic with the Pa
cifc. The only party division during the
two days debate was over the committee
amendments substituting the word de
Tense" for Notifications" The Demo
Gratis voted almost solidly for fortifca-
tons, claiming that the Clayton-Bu
treaty was dead. The Republicans stood
by the committee on interstate and for
eign commerce. A motion to recommit
the bin with instructions to report back
another bill leaving the selection of the
route to the President was buried under
an adverse majority of 30 to III.
The passage of the Nicaragua canal bill
by the House does not mean that the bill
will become law. A Washington CORE
spondent declares that the Senate will not
pass it at this session, and may not con-
slider it.
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AHOOK .
60 COLLEGES

The severe strain Of university duties
has compelled President Hadley of Yale
to take rest Of month in the South.
leans has given $4,000 to Tulane Uni
yersity of Louisiana for library build
ing.
The School of Political Science at Co
lumbia has opened course to fit young
men for the Government service particu-
larly in the new colonies.
At the University of Nebraska a tabu-
lation of the churches represented among
z,OU0 students was made recently. There
were found 155 Baptists, 60 Catholics,
40 Congregationalists, 1O2 Episcopa-
lians, 20 Lutherans, 458 Methodists, 3O2
Presbyterlans, and smaller numbers rep
resenting other denominations. Two
hundred and fifty gave no information
regarding their church relationship and
seventy were not adherents to any
church.
DIR. John Guiteras has been appointed
20 the chair of Intercepted pathology,
which has just been created in the Uni
versity of Havana, Cuba.
Prof. Edward Everett Hale. Jr., OF
Union College is to take the place OF
Prof. Frank H. Stoddard in the historical
department of the New York University
summer school this year.
President Sierra of Honduras has con-
coded to Harvard University the charge
OF the ruins Of Copan and its islands for
penod OF ten years, with the right to
make excavations and remove any inter
ssting tnlngs discovered to Cambridge.
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allotted for such a task; Dunmore and
Mackenzie supported his case with con-
siderable heartiness; and there were,
moreover, numerous rich horse dealers
in Cape Town who were ready to testify
to their appreciation Of his character,
which was much higher than he deserved.
He at last succeeded in effecting his in
surance in the desired amount, after di-
yiding the total among eight different
agencies, representing first-class London,
Liverpool and Glasgow companies.
Dunmore paid for a first-cabin passage,
while Mackenzie bought a ticket and a
half in the second cabin for himself and
his little boy-Robbie, by the way, hay-
ing been taken possession Of at the inn by
Miss Muir, to keep her company on the
carriage drive that had been proposed by
Eastwood. Then Weems also bought
| a second-cabin passage for his groom,
saying that he would leave the ticket at
the Office to be called for.
This completed the business of the day
for Dunmore and Mackenzie, while
Weems, hoping, he said, to meet them
again at the inn during the evening, sep
arated from them to go on board ship
for some business with the purser, with
whom he had had some previous &C
quaintance.
The Scarborough large and hand
some Clyde-built steamship-was lying at
her usual anchorage in Table Mountain
bay, about a mile from the mole, and
Weems was not long in procuring the
services of a boatman to put him on
board of her.
He was so fortunate as to find the pur-
ser, Mr.. Lambton, alone in his office, and
comparatively unoccupied. Now, it
CHANGED that Weems had once sold to the
purser's father-a wealthy resident of
Cape Town-a span of imported hunters,
which had given very great satisfaction,
and this circumstance had served to i'm
press the young officer a good deal in his
favor.
"a fine day to you, Mr.. Lambton.
said he, entering the Office in his brusque,
of-hand way. You got my shipment of
diamonds, which the express company
had orders to send on board?"
eyes, Mr.. Weems, the casket is yon-
der in my safe, and here is the shipping
receipt for it," replied the purser, hand
ing him document, which he took from
the desk at which he was sitting.
NO, NIT. lLdulDLOu, Sdlu w eeuS, low
ering his voice and imparting a sidelong
squint to one of his eyes that had often
done excellent duty at horse bargaining,
II must request your private attention
to another little matter. l want to ship
on the Scarborough bale of wool that
isn't bale of WOOL"
"How?"
Il desire to work it through on the
sly, you know" continued Weems. Its
bale Of wool, and, at the same time, it
isn't altogether bale of wool, because
concealed in the center of it is some
quartz which, think, contains gold, but
which, at any rate, renders the bale six
times as heavy as it would otherwise be"
ooh, hov'
Exactly! I'm going to ship it privately
to London firm Of experts, and, in spite
Of it's weight / want it to go in the hold
as simple wool and nothing else"
II understand, Weems. 1t can be ar
ranged"
81 was sure I would find you consid-
crate" said Weems, who thereupon, with
an additional wink, produced fve-pound
note, which he slipped into the waistcoat
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-10
TWO HUNDRED REBELS KILLED.
Filipinos' Twenty Victims at Catubi&
Avenged by Comrades.

Fi1ipinOs' Twenty Victims at CatuD1%
Avenged by Comrades.
Further details of the fighting at Catu-
bug, Island of Samar, in which twenty
Americans were killed and two wounded,
have been received The American gar
rison of Catubig, Island Of Samar, con-
sisting of thirty men belonging to the
Forty-third regiment, was attacked by
rebels. Twenty of the Americans were
killed The remainder were. rescued.
The Americans were quartered in the
Catubig Church, which the enemy, num-
bering several hundred men, surrounded
and fercely attacked. The Americans
fought for two days and then the rebels
managed to ignite the roof of the church
and it burned away and finally fell upon
those inside the edifce. The walls re-
manned intact, however, and were used as
a shelter by the besieged Americans for
three days longer, the enemy attacking
the building on all sides at once. The
Americans continued firing from the win
dows and doors Of the church, and did
great execution among the Filipinos. 1t
is estimated that over 200 of the latter
were killed, many dead bodies being re-
moved from the scene Of the fighting.
After FIVE days resistance by the Amer
leans lieutenant and eight men arrived
from Laoan and engaged the besiegers,
who thereupon retired. The fortunate ar
rival of these re-enforcements prevented
the humiliation of the American force in
trenched in the church, who had repeated
1y declined to surrender when ordered to
do so by the Filipinos. The ten surviy
ors were without food, had little ammuni-
ton and were physically exhausted when
relieved
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his Man Is a Record Breaker.

The life of Hubbard Reinagel, OF
Greece, n. Y, has been remarkable.
For fifty years he has lived on the
homestead of which he has at last be-
come the owner In that half century
he has left it but once, and then to visit
a relative who lives three miles away.
He has never seen railroad train, or
a canal boat or a trolley car. He would
never have seen bicycle but for the
fact that bicycles came to him. He
has never voted for a President and has
never listened to the arguments of po-
litical speakers.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-10

chairman of thsl
Democratic nation
al committee. NIL
Jones is regarded
by his colleagues ss|
a man of sound
ideas and great pol
litical sagacity. Hell
is one of the Yeti
Grams of Congress-
having gone to|
w ashington as al
member of tbp|
House of Repra.I
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-10

One Of the most prominent figures IL
the political life of the national capital
Is Senator James X. Jones of Arkans0'
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-10

The traveller from Naples to New
York makes voyage Of 4,14O knotA
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-10

Don't get .tight'' because iD0D
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-05-10

The labor bureau has colhples mon the
important investigation bearins ~ If the
subject of trusts and the enes' 1,ages.
consolidation of industries upon tho July
The results will be published III ; ,r
bulletin. Detailed and accurate . ii in
ton has been obtained of the yalla from
wages paid to the different ' 1o00 The
resort rseu e win mt Be "a very and NOV nov
able contribution to the diS'D
going on. ,s.
Don't get .tight'' because lnO
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-08-17

speech on which was written, "the
death knell Of the Filipino people. :"
This may show how the natives re-
gard the attitude of the republican
party toward them, and also why
they resist SO desperately. Re-
publican papers are keeping very
quiet about this phase of the prop
osition, however. And yet, amid
the crack of the mauser rifle in the
Philippines comes the front porch
assurance of William Mckinley
that "the instruction is complete
ly suppressed" Willie said it
cause Marcus told him to. His
tory has taught THE UNION that it
is difficult matter to crush the
spirit of liberty and independence
out of even an inferior race, and
this phase of the matter offers an
intelligent solution of why s'our
unruly subjects" continue to resist
our troops so desperately.