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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-18
British Boundary
Commission At
tackled By
Chinese.
Chinese lose thirty killed
British loss slight.

AdviceG from Victoria, British
Columbia State that on the day
before the steamship BrecksnShire
left Japan news was received there
from Wei-Hai. Wei that serious dis
turbances had occurred on May B on
the British station, Gul Of Pc Chi
Lii.
Captain Watson and sixty me1
were escOrting the boundary comm
issiOn, which had been engaged in
delimitating the borders of the leased
territory at Wei -Hai-Wei, when they
were attacked by a hostile mob.
Thirty of the attacking party Were
killed. The losses in the Chinese
battalion under Captain Watson
a0ere two officers wounded, Major
Penrose and Captain Periar.
The Chinese who attacked the Bri.
tish troops had long been holding
meetings to complain of the proposed
taxes.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-18

Presidents annual message at the
opening Of Congress.
In the meantime the American
Minister to Nicaragua and Costa
Rica, or . special snvoy, will be
instructed to make provisional trea-
ties with those two republics, def
ming the terms upon which the Uni
ted States can procure the necessary
concessions if they are needed for the
prosecution Of tho Nicaragua Canal
preject. Arrangements Of q ceres
ponding tentative sort will Be made
with the French company which is
at work on the Panama Canal, de-
fining the terms upon which, II it ID
decided to take that route, the Go
vernment can obtain full ownership
or control.
These treaties and this provisional
compact viii be sent to the Senate
st the same time with the submission
Of the Commissions report Then
according 70 what Congress decides
to as ia choosing 4 route, new ani
psAi|'ve treaties vim b he tiaIei
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-18
A Clock with History
Worth a million and a
quarter francs.

Advices from Paris state that d
sensation has been caused there in ar
tiStic circles by the offer of one and
. quarter million francs made to
Count Isaac de CamondO for a white
marble clock, with figures OF the
three Grances, by FalcOnnet.
The offer was made by Seligman,
the well known Paris expert, acting
for client whose name is not dis
closed. This clock has curious
history. In 1866 Charles Mannheim,
the famous Paris expert, living at
Frankfort on the Main, bought it
from dealer for 1,50Of.
On returning to Paris with it his
father was displsassd at his giving
so much for it, considering the clock
too fragile and the figures too nude.
Some time afterward Mannheim
senior sold tine clock to Baron Dou.
BILE for 7,OOOf., of which he gave his
son 1,OOOf,
At the sale of the Double cOllec-
ton in 1881 the clock was sold for
1O1, ,OOOf., to Count Abraham de
Cammondo, father of the present
swner.
At that time ant circles considered
it madness TO pay such price.
Count de CamondO has confirmed
the report, and the amount offered.
NJ. Sehgmann first offered him .
million francs, and on his refusal
increased the offer to ESQ, 900 $3.50
OOOl sI shall also probably refuse
this offer,n said the Count Camondo.
.sThe clock forms part of a cOllec-
tion which l have bequeathed BY
will to the Louvrs Museum, so | no
longer consider it my property.
elf / decide to accept M. Selig-
mans oifer the sum received would
be used to purchase other objects for
the Louvre"
The cleck is composed o. statuet-
tes Of the Three Grances, holding
festsOns Of flowers, surrounding
broken hutsd pillar, phich serves as
a base for two landed vase, dec-
GRATED with wreaths and oak leaves.
TIE vase containa the works Of
the clock and the dial, to which one
Of the nymphs pointing.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-18
Notes from Paris
Exposition.
Cold weather affects
attendance.

Dispatches from Paris to New
York papers state that the cold wave
which struck Paris recently had q
dismal effect upon the Exposition.
People kept away and the paid en-
tries fell an average Of $4,000 daily.
Albert Spalding, whose apPoit-
ment as Director of Sports vas hailed
with greatjoy by French sPOrtsmen,
has decided to return to America to
stir up interest there. He selected
Spalding de Garmendia, who j. no
relative, despite the name, to take
charge on this side. Garmendia,
who was the former American tennis
champion, has now settled here per
manently. No better man could be
chosen, on accouns Of his experience
and popularity among spertsmen on
both sides Of the Atlantic.
The American machinery section
at the Vincennes annex has been
idle since it Was inaaguratsd. Other
sections there have not been finished.
Visitors don't 60 there.
The American Corn Kitchen has
been formally opened. This part Of
our exhibit is intended to educate
Europe to th, maoY uses Of corn as
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-18
American Forestry
Exhibit at the Paris
Exposition.


The exhibit Of the Division Of
Forestry, which has been sent to the
Paris Exposition will be one of the
most novel Of the government exhi-
bits and will be wholly distinct from
the commercial features oflumbering
to be shown in another department.
The display will be in the from Of
hall or pagOda, the tsalls Of which
consist Of large transparencies illus
trating American forest conditions.
These walls will be double and illu.
minated by interior electric lights.
The pictures range in size from 8 by
5 feet to 4 by 6 feet. There will be
two transpsrencies 6 by 10 feet, por-
traying groves Of red fir and Cali
fornia big. trees, two Of the most i'm
pressiv0 American trees.
A point will be made of the relation
of forestry to agriculture, and such
subjects as protective forests, the use
of trees in preserving water supply,
the management Of woodlands, etc.,
are fully illustrated. The exent Of
the timber resources Of the United
States will be shOtsn by pictures
from all important lumber regions.
The distribution Of forests will be
slswn BY maps. Twenty of the
most important American woods will
be represented by sections of trees.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-18
The Nicaraguan
Canal.
Administration Programme
for recess Of Congress.

Advices from Washington state
that the announcement BY Senator
Hanna Rep, OIL, as the Adminis-
tration leader in the Senate, that the
Nicaragua Canal Bill would surely
be called up on December 10 is only,
as it we're, a single chaptsr-heading
in . rather long and interesting
story. The plan Of the Administra
ton, briefly outlined, is to hold the
Interoceanic Canal Commission
STRICTLY up to its work, and have it
make ogmfleto report by Dseem'
bss ii tie very latest. An abstract
Il tk|s rtrofI wIl| accompany thl
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-18

three companies of tho Twenty ninth
Regiment and bluejackets from the
gunboat Helena, landed at Palonog,
Masbate Island, under the ezsmys
FIRE: rc:-..sou the insurgents, aud af.
ter an engagement lasting half an
heur occupied the town without cas-.
ualtiss.
The insurgent commander with
twenty skcsrS, and $50 men, surr.
sndered on May 20, giving up .
hundred rlfles. The prisoners were
disarmed on the Plaza and liberated.
The islanders were fOnnd suffering
for lack of food, owing to the block.
ade, and the American authorities
are sndeavOring to relieve them.
No trouble is expected in Manila,
although the city il crowded with
people from the provinces, who are
leaving the unprotected hamlsts to
avoid the CONSUMPTION which the in
surgent leaders are enforcing, as well
as robbery and outrages at the hands
of rowing insurgents and bandits.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-18

with Nicaragus and Costa Rica on
terms made with the Panama Com
pany. The American Panama CEN
Germ, it can be said with much assu-
rance, will be absolutely ignored as
factor in the enterprise, and treated
as if it we're only a speculative
venture.
This is the Administration pre-
gramms
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-18

despatch from Pekn states that large force Of Rus
sian Cossacks have marched towards PaoTng Fu within
which than 300 Europeans have been shut
since Friday, besieged by the fanatical Boxers
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-18

The latter completely routed leaving ITO dead
the field OF battle
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-18
THE TRANSVAAL WAR.
Col. Spragge, Defeated At Lindley
To Be Reduced.
Permitted Beers To Capture 500 men.
Generab Roberts, After A Days Rest, Actively
Pushing East.
GencrabRoberts, After A Days Rest, Actively
Pushing East.
New York, June 18th, 1900

despatch from London announces that the War Of
fee intends to reduce Colonel Sagge recently defeated by
the Beers the latter capturing 800 prisoners of war; in the
vicinity of Lindley, Orange Free State.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-18
Captured Filipino Generals
Brought To Manila.
DistressfuI Conditions In The Interior
Aguinaldo Much Annoyed At Surrender
Of General MacabuloS
Denies, However That War Is Over
AguinaIdo Much Annoyed At Surrender
Of General Macabulos.
Denies, However, That War Is Over.
New York, June 18th 1900.

Other dispatches that the Taga Generals Hizon
and Cavesany who were recently made prisoners Of
by the American troops have been brought to the Phpp
ne Capital also that the most terrible misery prevails in
the towns of the interior
Prisoners captured Tarac by Elaor March, of the
United States Army have declared that commander in
chief Aguado has been able conceal his disgust be-
cause Of General Macabuos of his valiant leaders,
having yielded to the Americans
Genera Agunado has declared that neither the
der of Macabuo the fact that the Americans have
eeeded in defeating him imply that the war is ended
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-18

despatch just received states that Field Marshal Ro-
ber after having given his army day of yesterday
is energetcaly pushing forward towards the
East Of the Transvaal
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-18
Important Battle With Boxers
Near Yung Ching.
Boxers Defeated With Great Loss.
Cossacks March To Relieve Europeans Besieged
AT Pao-T Tmg-Fu.
New York, June 18th 1900.

Dispatches from Shanghai give account of battle
having been fought the outskirts of Yung Ching between
the deachmens from the foreign ships and than
1000 Boxers.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-18
Five British Transports Loading
At Hong Kong.
Will Provision Garrison Of Wei-Hai Wei.
New York, June 18th, 1900.

Five British transports being loaded in the Port OF
Hong Kong with provisions intended for the OF the town
of Wei Hal Wei important English possession on the
coast Of China
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-18
Rebels Set Fire To The Town
OF San ISidrO.
In Revenge For Inhabitants Fidelity
To The United States.
General Wheaton After Them With A Large Force.
New York, June 18th, 1900,

Dispatches from Manila that the rebels have set
FIRE TO the CITY San Isdro Island of Luzon under the
preext that its inhabitants have promised to be faithful to
the American Government
General Wheaton has gone out with strong force to
the vicinity of this for the purpose of restraining the
crimes and ounages of the rebels.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-01-18

TID-BiTS FOR MA HONEY!
and tender little juicelets for the chill
dren, are all right. but papa and ''the
boys" want good, big, juicy steak,
roast or chop when business or school
duties are over, and we can cater to
them all. Our stock of prime meats is
unexcelled for quality, and we send
them home in fine shape.
J.E. KEIFER.
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DR.. Humphreys

Specifies act directly upon the disease,
without exciting disorder in other parts
of the system. They Cure the Sick.
NO. CURES. PRICES.
1-Fevers. Congestions Infammations. 10
2-Worms. Worm Fever. Worm Collc... .25
3-Tecthing, Collie, Crying, ,wakefulness %
d-Diarrhca. OF Children or Adults. .25
7-Coughs. Colds, Bronchitis. s........".. rs
S-Neurnlgia, Toothache, Faceache..... %
9-Heada che. Sick Headache, Vertigo. .25
1O-Dyspcpsio. indigestion, Weak Stomach.25
1t-supprcsscd or Painful Periods. rs
12-Whites. Too Profuse Periods. .25
13-Croup, Laryngitis, Hoarseness..... .25
1f-salt Rheum, Erysipelas Eruptlons.. .25
15-Rlicumatism. Rheumatic Palms.. rs
16-NIaloria. Chlils, Fever and Ague zee. rs
19-Catarrh. Influenza, Cold in the Head rs
2O-WhoOping-COugh .................... %
27-kidney Diseases s.................... ID
2S-Ncrvous Debility. ..............,".1.OO
3O-Urinary Weakness. wetting Bed. %
77-Grip, Hay Fever r........................ %
DR.. Humphreys Manual of all Diseases at your
Druggists or Mailed Free.
Sold by druggists, or sent on receipt OF price.
Humphreys Med. Co., Cor. william & John Sts-
New York
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Last Week In Business.

The record by r. G.. Dun & Co. of
failures for forty.three years, com
pleted nov, has never been ap-
preached For eighteen years, 1857
1874 inclusive, 1t shows onl, number
and amount of liabilities yearly and
banking included With commercial
failures as in other records they are
now; Tor twenty-five years ending with
1899 failures are given by quarters,
and for the last six and quarter years
in single sheet with this issue by
separate branches of business for each
OF the seventy-hve months. The
monthly returns ranging from over
$4,000 daily in one month down
to $I53,ooo IN another, and from
$8,244,ooo during one month in a
single branch of manufacture down to
nothing in tour months of last year,
exhibit effects of the worst panic in
fifty years, and the highest prosperity
ever known
The business of the new year begins
well, though there is still much Of the
usual hesitation. In branches where
last years business was extraordinary
and prices have risen greatly some
pause is natural, though nothing indl.
Gates decrease of consuming disposi-
tion or purchasing power, but there is
continuing rise in wages to promote
increase. Monetary conditions have
grown easier with the return of 50, ,ooo,.
900 from the interior during the week,
and further deposits by the Treasury,
and more liquidation in some specula-
tive stocks has also helped. Banks
report an increase in their percentage
of commercial loans, and rates were
generally more easy after the decline
announced by European banks.
Stocks have grown weaker in spite
Ct the progress of combinations which
promise great things for trunk lines
The speculative tone has been largely
influenced by London selling, having
for belief thai foreign unloading
must lower prices here as long a.
British reverses in South Africa con
tinue. The thought that foreign sup
plies of American stocks are no longe
inexhaustble is not considered, thougl
at the settlement this month Londol
was found short 100000 shares in The
American department. Industria
stocks have been weakened by con
tinued liquidation, and by declara
tion that the sugar fight has not ende,
and will affect dividends. They closec
$I.o3 per share lower for the week
E and railroad stocks $I.37 per shar
lower.
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Volunteers in the Spanish War.

There will be issued from the
National Guard headquarters during
the spring complete history of the
Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Span
ish- American war. This history is
being carefully compiled from the Off
cial records, and while it will be an
official document it will contain much
of interest outside of purely statistical
matter.
Adjutant- General Stewart has per
sonal direction of this work and it will
be very complete record of every
officer and man who served from Penn
sylvania. The last Legislature pro-
vided for the publication of this record.
Only four thousand copies will be
printed.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-01-18

There is an almost complete failure
of the olive crop in Southern Italy and
In Sicily this season, owing to the
ravages of the oil fly. which appeared
in unusual numbers on account of the
prolonged drouth of last summer and
fall. The loss to the provinces OF
Bari and Lecce alone is estimated at
6o,ooo,ooo lire, or $I2, 100000.
There will be corresponding scarcity
of oil, ofcourse. The country people
are having their eyes opened to the
consequences of their wholesale de-
struction of insect-devouring song
birds.
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scrIption price.

Secretary Cages answer TO the res
o'utons adopted by Congress asking
explanations ot the fdvorlusn towards
two New Yofk Banks, IN the matter
OF deposltlng internal revenue collect.
ions and of juggling with the title of
Old Custom House, which was sold to
one of those banks, is one of those
explanations that do not explain. More
is likely to be heard of these matters
Ex-senator Faulkner, chief counsel
for Senator Clark, has been making
things very unpleasant for some of the
Montana witnesses IN the hearings
before the Senate Committee on
Elections.
Republican Senators are preparing
to grab the Senate patronage which
is not already in their hands. They
held a caucus last week and appointed
committee to arrange a programme
for the grab.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-01-18
MEXICO AND CALIFORNIA.
Forty. six Days Tour via Pennsylvania
Railroad.

The Pennsylvania Railroad person
ally conducted tour to Mexico and
California which leaves New York
and Philadelphia on February IL
(PittsDurg February I3) by special
Pullman train, covers large and
Intensely interesting portion of North
America. Mexico. California, and
Colorado are mighty trio in all that
appeals to and fascinates the tourist.
Stops will be made at San Antonio,
Tampico. Guanajuata Guadalajara,
Queret 70, City of Mexico five days),
Cuernavaca, Aguascalientes, Los
Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, Pasa
dena, Santa Barbara, San Jose (Mt.
Hamilto J, Del Monte, San francisco
Give days, Salt Lake City, Colorado
Springs, Denver, Chicago. and otler
points ofinterest. Fourteen days will
be spent In Mexico, and nineteen ir
California.
The "Mexico and California Spec
ial," an exclusively Pullman train o.
Parlor Smoking, Dining, Drawing
room Sleeping, and Observation cars
will be used over the entire route.
Round trip rate. inclnding all neceS
satp expenses during entire TRIP, $sse
from all points on the Pennsy lvani:
Railroad System east of Pittsburg
S545 from Pittsburg. For itinerar.
and full information apply to ticke
agents: Tourist Agent, II96 Broad
way, New York; Z Court Street
Brooklyn; 789 Broad Street, Newark
N. J.; B. Courlaender, Jr., Passenge
Agent Baltimore District, Baltimore
Md. ; Colin Studds, Passenger Agen
Southeastern District, Washington
d. c.; Thos. E. Watt, passenge
Agent, Western District, Plttsburg
Pa; or address Geo. w. Boyd, Assis
tant General Passenger Agent, Broac
Stree. Station, Philadelphia. IIS At
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A bill has been introduced in the
Maryland Legislature tor the re-estab-
lishment of the boundary line between
Maryland and Pennsylvania, common.
ly called Mason and Dixon's Line.
The bill, which appropriates $4,000,
requests the superintendent of the
United States Coast and Geodetic
Survey to provide for the accurate re-
establishment of the line and to re-
mark the same with monuments.
When the line was originally run in
1867 by two English astronomers,
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon,
it cost more than $I7o,ooo. After
years of bad feeling and bloodshed
over the boundary and frultless effort
to settle it in London, Penn and Lord
Baltimore employed the men named
to run the line. At every fifth mile of
the line of about two hundred miles a
stone was planted, bearing upon one
face the arms of Thomas and William
Penn and on the side toward Maryland
the arms of Lord Baltimore. The
intermediate miles were marked with
stones bearing M. and P. on the sides
facing each State. Some few of these
old milestones are standing, but many
are gone. In Washington County,
Md, farmer has two of them in use
as doorsteps. Near Highfelds, on
the Western Maryland Railroad
stands another.
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Philadelphia &
Reading Railway
ENGINES Burn Hard Coal-No Smoke

TRAINS LEAVE BLOOMSBURG


TRAINS LEAVE BLOOMSBURG
For New York, Philadelphis, HEADING Potts
willie, Tamaqua, weekdays IL 30 a. m.
For Williamsport, weekdays, 1850 q. m.' S'ao y
For Danville and Milton, weekdays ,7.so a. m
$40. NO -
l2 20. 34O, 800 6 80, p. m. oo
For Rupert weekdays7.3O s'3o il'5oa' in'' iz'So'
For Baltimore, Washington and the west via
B. & Q. R. RI through trains Leave ss Reaaing asT
7.27, D. m. SUNDAYS $50. 100 ll.26 a. m;
S.4G Ter, D. m. Additional trains from 20 ahu
Chestnut street station, weekdays, l.So, o'si
s 23 D. M. sundays las S.2S p. M
TRAINS FOR BLuuMsBURG, am
Leave New York via Philadelphia 500
M, and via Easton sl0a. m.
Leave Philadelphia lo.2l n. m.
Leave Reading ~. 10 p. m.
Leave Pottsville IL 0p. m.
Leave Tamaqua .49 p, M,
Leave Williamsport weekdays 1000 M, 4.SO p
Leave Catawissa weekdays, 7oo,s.2Os'lo"' m
Leave rupert, weekdays, 7Os, s.2s, els il.S
a. m'' i'Ss aTtaSTfo "a SiFT CITY DIVISION.
In effect Nov. ], 1899
Leave Philadelphia, Chestnut street wharf
and South street wharf for Atlantic Cny. n oo
400, AGO, 500, 7.lb p. M Accommodation, 90 S'oo
a. M, $50 D. m. Sunday s--Express, 300, lOOO a.
M. Accommodation, 500 a. M, 4;45p. m.
pressT IS, 100 10. so a. M 8 50, BOD m. Accommo-
dation, SIS a. M, 4,05 p m. sundaysoexpresSs., \.
4.sO, 730 p m. Accommodation, 7'l5 a m'' a'oo
p For FOR Cane May, ocean city and Sea Isle City
| Weekdays 90 a. M, 4.l0p. m. sundays-Chest'
nut ST., 9.l5, South st. 900 a; m
Additional for Cape May-Weekdays-o'aop PIN
| Ia. sWEIGARD, EDsoN j. WEEKS.
| Genl Supt. Genn Pass. Agt
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RAILROAD TIME TABLE
LACKAWANNA RAILROAD.

BLooMSBURG DIVISION.
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A large and enthusiastic mass meet
ing of anti-imperiaists was held in
Washington on Thursday night.
Speeches were made by ex-governor
Boutwell,, of Mass; Senator Mason of
Ill; and Representative Lentz, of
Ohio
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HOW'S THIS ?-We offer one
hundred dollars reward for any case of
catanh that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure.
F. ]. CHENEY & Co., Proprs.,
Toledo, O..
We, the undersigned, have known
F. ]. Cheney for the last IS years,
and believe him perfectly honorable
in all business transactions and finan-
cially able to carry out any obligation
made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Drug
gists, Toledo.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
wholesale druggists, Toledo, O.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter
nally, acting directly apon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Price 75c. per bottle. Sold b al !
druggists. Testimonials free.
Halls family pills are the best.