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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-23
iAHOGADOSl

Muchos de los extranjeros residen-
ties en- Tien-Tsin que trataron de
elnbarcarse con el prop6sito de bus
car refugio en- las escuadras hicie-
ronlo tan precipitadamente y con
tan lnala fortuna que perecieron
ahogados.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-23
ODIo A lNGLATERRa

Los lebeldes chinos enfilaron con
particular interes las pleas de su
artillerfa sobre los terrenos conce
didos por ell gobisrno de Pekin al
de la Gran Bretafia en- la plaza de
Ten Tsin
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-23
DEsTROzos EN- TOWN HALL
BUENa PUNTERIA

Los destrozos causados por los
provectiles en- ell edifcio denomina-
do TosOn Hall demuestran 10 admi-
rabIe de la punterfa empleada por
lbs chinos y la. buena calidad de
sus caTlones.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-23
Information DDrGa0G
NueVa York. 3 h JuniO
Ell BoMBARBEo De TIEN-TSlN
HORROSOS OETALLES

Despachos de Shanghai comuni
can detalles horrorosos del cafloneo
llevado a cabo contra la plaza dc
Tien-Tsin por los chinos rebeldes.
Estos disparaban sobre la pobla-
ci6n con admirable punterfa hacien-
do grandes estragos.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-23
.uIns EsTApOS IlNIDOS
ESCITACION ENOR NE

Il destruction del Consulado
americana de Ten Tsin ha causa'
ao indeseriptible efergescencia en-
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-23
GACETA DE HOY

Publica una disposition nombrando
4 don Benito For6s Secretario del Til
bunal de Dintrito dc Afecibo.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1900-06-23
DESDB la RXPOSICION
CARTA W

Sr. Director del BoLETIN MERoANTIL.
Paris, Mayo de 1900.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-05
FORTUNES IN HARD WOODS.
Big Advance in Theif Values During
 the Pasf Year

-fs ~N'Net.SS HIGH taiueB DGI1nG
 the Past Year.
 The hardwood business mas increased 10 such mammoth proportions in the last decade that Chicago is unqxestion- ably the largest consuming market in the world. The receipts so far this year indicate that by January there will have been placed in the forty diff ferent yards fully 100000, ,00O feet. valued at upward of s30,O00, ,000. The largest consumers Of this vast amount of hardwood are the BIO furniture fac tories, the many piano and organ makers, the agricultural machine man ufacturers, the palace car works and the building interests. An inventory completed week ago showed 30,0O0.- 900 feet in stock at the Pullman yards. European demand for black walnut takes nearly all of the limited supply of that wood, leaving only enough to meet the piano and organ require ments. Indiana and Ohio, the best forest states in the country, wasted more of this valuable wood in rail fences and in fires than the value of the remainder of their trees, and those states are now being secured for the rails, which can be made into table legs and similar pieces. One tree near Goshen, Ind, recently sold for s5,000, and eighty trees brought $20.0o0 Four trees shipped to Europe sold for $10,- 900. The Indiana sycamore is valuable finishing in bright red with bird 's-eye dot. It is used mostly for small fancy boxes. White walnut is used mostly for carvings for churches and finishing for expensive residences. Butternut and chestnut form most of the collins Chicago Chronicle.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-05
New Use for Aluminium.

With a pencil of aluminium indelible characters can be written or drawn on glass or porcelain, and when treated with hydrochloric acid, the surface covered by the characters becomes etched. When the characters are not etched, but simply furnished, they ex- actly resemble inlaid silver. This property of aluminium was recently discovered by Mr Charles Margot of Geneva, Switzerland. It is indispensa- ble first to remove every trace of grease from the surface to be orna- mented by polishing with chalk, else the aluminium will not take hold
 Since the effect is only produced on substances containing silicic acid, it has been suggested that an aluminium pencil would be an unerring detector of false diamonds. Magnesium, cad mium and zinc act in a similar man. her, but their traces readily oxidize.
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RHEUMATISM CATARRH ARE BLOOD
 DfsEASES-.FREEf

IS the deep-seated, obstinate cases of Catarrh and Rheumatism that E, E. 5. tbotanic blood halm) cures. It mat ters not what other treatments, doc tors, sprays, liniments, medicated air, blood purifiers, have failed to do. B. B. 5. always promptly reaches the real cause and roots out and drives from the bones, joints, mucous membrane, and entire system the specific poison in the blood that causes rheumatism and catarrh. B. B. B. is the only rem. edy strong to do this and cure so there can never be return Of the symptoms. Don't give up hope but ask your drug gist for B. B. B.-botanic blood balm or 5 bs.-Large bottles one dollar, six bottles (full treatment) five dollars. E. 5. $. is an honest remedy that makes real cures of all blood diseases after everything else fails. We have abso- lute confidence in Botanic blood balm: hence, so you may test 1t, we will send & trial bottle free on request. Personal medical advice free. Address,
 BLOOD BALM co,
 222 Miethell St, Atlanta, Ca.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-05
Mightiest of strea ms

the latest estimate of the quantity of warm water flowing northward through the Atlantic in the form of the Cult Stream makes it many times as great as all the water discharged into the oceans by all the streams and riv- CTS of the earth,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-05
In the s,un,s

Mrs Dothetown-"poor, dear ehildl Are your parents dead?p Tenement Tommy t'ink pap is. Him an mar wuz a fightin' when I left, an gee. she wuzn't doin' ting t him. ."-ohio State Journal.
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Properly Treated.

You didn't even pay the minister who married us!" cried Mrs. Peck. "Hs deserved to be hung upi" shouted Hen ", savagely. - Philadelphia North American.
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NATURAL TRAP.
Death Gulch Captures or Aaphyxiates
 Many Wild Animals.

Many Wild Animals.
 Death gulch is small and gloomy ravine in the northeast corner of the Yellowstone national park, says App pleton's Monthly. Tn this res .on the lavas which fill the ancient basin of the park rest upon the Hanks of moun- tains formed of fragmentary volcanic ejecta, while the hydrothermal forces of the central portion of the park show but feeble manifestation of their energy in the almost extinct hot spring areas of Soda Butte, Lamar river, Cache creek and Miller creek" Although hot water no longer flows from these vents, gaseous emanations are now given off in considerable vol ume." "On Cache creek, about two miles above it's confluence with Lamar river. are deposits of altered and crys- talline travertine, with pools in the creek violently effervescing locally. This is due to the eopious emission of gas. Above these deposits the creek cuts into bank of sulphur and gravel cemented by this material, and few yards beyond Is the debouchure of s9saLi lateral gully coming down from the mountain side. In its bot iii Is small stream of clear and cold water. sour with sulphuric acid, and flowing down narrow and steep channel cut in beds of dark gray volcanic tuf. As- cending this gulch the sides, closing together, become very steep slopes of white, decomposing rock. The only springs now flowing are small oozes of water issuing from the base of these slopes CT from the channel bed, forming a thick, creamy, white deposit about the vents and covering the stream bed. This deposit consists largely of sulphate of arumina. :. About 150 feet above the main stream these oozing springs of acid water cease, but the channel of the guleh remains the same. The odor of sul- phur now becomes stronger, though producing no other effect than a slight irritation of the lungs. Climbing through this trough, frightfully weird and dismal place, and occupied by only a tiny streamlet and an ap- palling odor, we at length discovered some brown furry masses lying scat tered about the floor of the ravina about a quarter of a mile from the point where we left Cache creek. Ap- preaching cautiously, it became quick ly evident that we had before us large group of huge, recumbent bears. The one nearest to us was lying with his nose between his paws. facing us, and so exactly like huge dog asleep that it did not seem possible that it was the sleep of death. To make sure. I threw a pebble at the animal, strik- ing him on the flank. The distended skin sresounded like a drum head, and the only response was a belch of poi- sonous gas that almost overwhelmed us. Closer examination showed that the animal was a young silver tip grizzly (Ursus horribilis). A few drops of dark red blood stained his nostrils and the ground beneath. There proved to be five other earcasses, all hears, ill various stages of decay; careful search revealed oval areas of hair and bones that represented two other bears, mak- ing a total of eight carcasses in all.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-05
HOW GLOVES ARE GATHERED.
More Used In America Than Any Other
 GOunfrY.

Country.
 More cloves are said to be used in America than in any other country, England and France following in the order named. In this country and in Great Britain they are used almost wholly as condiment, but In France they are used largely in the manufae ture of certain Hqueurs. To some de gree they are employed in medicine for their tonic properties. The name cloye is from the French clou, meaning a nail. The tree is an evergreen, grow ing from forty to fifty feet nigh. with large, oblong leaves and crimson flow CTS at the end of small branches in clusters of from ten to twenty. The tree belongs to the same family as the guava, the pomegranate and the rose apple. The cloves are at first white, then light green, and at the time of gathering bright red. Pieces of white cloth are spread under the trees at the harvesting time, and the branches are beaten gently with bamboo sticks until the cloves drop. They are dried in the sun, being tossed about daily until they attain the rich dark color which proclaims them ready for ship ment. A clove tree bears at the age of about ten years, and continues un- til it reaches the age of 75 years There are two crops a year, one in June and the other in December. Hot weather is favorable to the crop, although little fog is said to improve the flavor. New York Press.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-05
capital Punish ment in Japan.

Japan is considering the adoption of a new method of capital punishment by the process of extracting air from the death cell, creating a vacuum and thus causing death. The death or vacuum" chamber. as it is to be known, is to be an air-tight cell built in or adjoining the prison. It is to be eight feet in height. ten feet wide and ten feet long. The four sides are to have each an air-tight window of three-quarters inch plate glass, so that the operators, prison and other off, cials may have an opportunity to wit ness the execution. The cell will be connected with an air pump, which will have a power of causing the ex- pulsion of the air in the cell in one minute and forty seconds, thus acting so quickly as not to allow the victim to become suffocated Or distressed iE even the slightest degree, but, instead causing alr0 ost instant death. Tn fact 1t was shown when the experiment was tried upon a large St Bernard dog that the animal was dead in minute and half after the vacuum WAS con- pleted
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-05
Negro Colony to Be Established.

A negro colony is to be established on the farm of former Sheriff W. How ard Lake at Oak Grove, near Flem- ington. II. J. Everything has been planned On a big scale. The town has been laid out by a competent engineer, and the maps provide for every need of a modern town. Historic and be- loved names have been selected for some of the streets, while other thor oughfares wili beai the names of states in the union. Lincoln avenue prom ises to 3e the principal one in the town. The industrious and religious interests contemplate big shoe factory to be run on the cooperative plan. A large grove has been set aside for camp meeting grounds. Many of the lead ing celored people of the state are per suading their brethren to purchase lots. A great many of those who indorse the plan are preachers. The nane of the 5own will be Rome
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DIPLOMATS CONFER.
Condition of Affairs in China Becoming
Alarming.

Condition of Affairs in China Becoming
Alarming.
PEK1N, May 29.-The diplomatic
corps is now in session considering the
situation caused by the "Boxers. The
foreign guards will certainly be brought
here. The position of affairs is alarm.
ing. Railway communication with
Tien Tsin is interrupted.
TEN Ts1N, May 3o.-A detachment
Of 200 Chinese soldiers has cleared the
railway between here and Pekin, and
the ordinary service was resumed at
noon. No news has been received from
the Belgian engineers engaged III the
construction Of the Luhan line. In
other respects the situation is more
quiet. Thirty japanese have arrived
from the gunboat Atagokan. Tho
French flagship Entriescasteaux and
the gunboat Surprise have left Taku.
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AT JOHANNESBURG.
Where Lord Roberts, Next Dispatch Is
L t.1-xt II - IA,.t.

Where Lord Roberts, Next Dispatch Is
Liac.y to BE Dated.
LONDON, May 30.-Ihe tenor of Lord
Roberts latest dispatch and tho news
from Pretoria leads the authorities here
to expect further important news from
the British cOmmanler-ln-chi dated,
they hope, from Johannesburg. The
remarkable rapidity of Lord Roberts
movements and the unwonted mobility
Of the whole British army under him
have upset the calculations of the home
observers as much as they appear to
have disconnected and demoralized Lord
Roberts federal OPT onents. Possibly,
even now, he is at the gates of Johan-
nesburg and, it is believed, 10 days
hence or less he ought to be demand
ing admittance to the Trausvaal capital
itself. If the federals ever really in-
tended to "stagger humanity" by blow
ing up the gold reef city and mines,
which is doubtful. Lord Roberts
May Vet Ee Two Quick for Them,
and arrive before they have time to do
any wrecking. The majority of the
burghers will undoubtedly be glad OF
All excuse for saving the mines aud they
may tiud the excuse III Lord Roberts
skill i'll hustling them out of one posi-
ton after another.
! he effectiveness of the British inva
sion OF the Transvaal is further EN-.
phasiZed by the news from Pretoria Of
occupation of Zccrust and the advance
OH Lichtenburg. Apparently the Brit
ish Cragnet Will be drawn through the
Transyaal, as it was III similar man
ner hauled through the Free State.
The fighting OF the Kip river Sunday,
reported from Pretoria, was presumably
done by Generals French and Hamilton
jn forcing their way round to the north
yyaiI Of Johannesburg
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FEAR AT VICTORIA.


Gang of Dynamitcrs Sends Threatening
Letters
VICTORIA, B. c., May 3o.-A gang of
dynamiters, believed to be confederates
of those who attempted to blow up the
Welland canal, has been in this city for
several weeks, hitherto directing their
attention chiefly to the Notifications at
Esquimault. Failing in this, they wrote
warning letter before the celebration
threatening to cause trouble. Some
ladies taking part i'll a patriotic concert
received these communications, but a
special posse of police, after searching
the building from attic to basement,
surrounded the building and prevented
Interference. The vigilance of the
authorities alone is believed to have
avoided an outrage
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COMPANY REFUSES.
St. Louis Street Car Strikers Proposet
Arbitration.

st. Louis Street Car Strikers Proposed
Arbitration.
ST. LOUIS, May 3O.-In response tc
the request of State Labor Commits
sioner Rixey that the strikers appoint
two persons to act as arbitrators the
street car men named E, P. Woodward
president of the Woodward & Tierual
Printing company, and Daniel H
Faires, union conductor on the Su.
burban line, to act in that capacity
The Transit company has declined tc
accede to the request to appoint two
arbitrators, and it is said Commissioner
Rixey will make the selection himself
and make the board according to law.
He will constitute the fifth member and
act as president Of the board.
Shots were fired from moving car
into a crowd on South Broadway
wounding Herman Tesslhke, George
Lancashire and Albert Wackwitz The
first named is probably fatally injured
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MATTEHg COMPLICATED.
Plague Situation at San Francisco Very
Much Mixed.

fIagUe SITUATION at San francisco Very
Much Mixed.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 3O.-Legal COM
plications have arisen in the plague sit
uation and things are very much mixed.
The United States circuit court issued
an order restraining the local board of
health and United States Surgeon Kin
youn from moe ..lating Chinese and re-
straining them from leaving the city.
The ssate board of health then passed
an order asking the city board of health
to quarantine the Chinese district. At
a meeting of the city board, called for
the purpose of declaring an effective
quarantine, the question was raised
whether or not the order Of the United
States court would not prevent the
board from declaring q quarantine. A
reading Of the order convinced the
board chat it was very sweeping in its
effect and it was feared that to declare
a quarantine would bring the board
into contempt.
At meeting of the board Of super
visors Of the city held Later, rcsola-
t,on empowering the board Of health Of
5he city and county Of San Francisco to
quarantine any section, place, house,
district or person was passed by vote
OF Is to |. This means that Chinatown
will be quarantined and that 10 person
will be allowed to pass in or out With
out proper certificate from the board
Of health
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ROBERTS At kip RIVER.


Dei!ish tsairi Army E,gIlt~en 'liie3 From
JoilMrntaburg.
LONDON, May 30,--IAe war office iust
before midnight published the follow
ing dispatch from Lord Roberts:
"klip River, Transyaal, May 28.-We
marched 20 miles today and are now l8
miles from Johannesburg. The enemy
had prepared several positions where
they intended to oppose US, but they
abandoned one after the other as we
neared them.
"We pressed them so hard that they
had only just time to get their five guns
into train and leave as soon as some
cavalry dashed into it.
French S and Hamilton forces are
apparently engaged with the enemy
about 10 miles to our left as firing has
been heard since noon. The farmers
along our line of advance are surrender.
ing with their arms and horses.
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PRICE: $500 A YEAR.

General Lemner had a severe light at
Kip river. Five of the uurgher5 were
wounded and two Were captured. The
British We're 5000 strong.
BY all order recently issued, the pres.
ident decreed that May n and the two
following days be observed by the whole
country as days of prayer, humiliation
and the confession Of sins, and that PEI
tltions Should be offered for relief from
olrre ression.
Glgu,ing took place at Vauwytrust,
10 mics south of johannesburg, with a
lnrgo force of British, which broke
through from Kip river.
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NEEDS WARSHIPS
Russian Minister at Pekin Asks
ALI Available Gunboats Be :.
Sent to Taku.
Believed Troops From Port Ar
thur Will Also Be Landed
at That Point.
"Boxers" Assert They Are Conf
dent Of the Dowager En-
press Support,

SHANGHAI, May 30.-The Russian
minister at Pekin has telegraphed, ask.
ing that all the available gunboats be
sent to Taku.
TIEN TslN, May 30.--One hundred
American ,narines from the American
cruiser Newark are expected here at
II o'clock.
An armed rescue party of Frenchmen
and Germans started during tho after
noon to try to relieve the besieged Bel
gians The viceroy, under the pressure
of the French consul, has permitted the
rescuers to travel by railroad to Feng
Tai, where Chinese protection ends.
The Belgians are besieged at Chang
Tsin Tien, near Feng Tai.
LONDON, May 3O.-A special dispatch
from Shanghai says:
cit is believed that Russia is about to
land troops at Taku from Port Arthur,
where 10000 are in readiness. The Chi
nese are reported to be sending large
masses of troops overland from Ru Nan
and Kiang, but the generalissimo re-
fuses to assume command on the plea
of sickness.
''The Boxers assert that they are
confident of receiving support from
the dowager empress, Princes Kang vi
and Ching Tuan, and the entire Man
chu army. Throughout the north the
Boxers are enlisting hordes of des-
peradoes. They are intent upon expell-
ing everything foreign"
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Sm III Defeats Maynard.

New YoEE, May 3O,-Solly Smith of
Los Angeles defeated Billy Maynard of
Brooklyn i'll the l0lh round Of what was
to have been 2O-round bout at the
Sampson Athletic club in Brooklyn.
Both men fought evenly up to the end
OF thc 9th roand, bat in the 10th Smith
foored Maynard with a left on the jaw.
Maynard's S seconds seeing their man was
groggy threw up the sponge.
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PART OF EMPIRE
Lord Roberts Announces the An
neXatiOn Of the Orange
Free State.
New Territory Will Hereafter Be
Known as the Orange
River State.
Next Message From the Comman-
der May BE Dated Jo-
hannesburg.

CAPE Town. May 3o.-Lord Roberts
has announced to his troops the annex
alton Of the Free Stlte, which here
after will be called the Orange River
State.
1t is rumored here that General
French has cut the Boer communica-
tons between Heidelberg and Boks-
burg, within few miles Of Johannes
I,,rr
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WARSHIPS GATHERING.

Formidable Fleet of European Vessels
Already at TalSu.
WASHINGTON, May 30.-A cablegram
received at the navy department states
that the Newark has been assigned to
act as flagship Of the senior squadron
commander, and that the vessel sailed
from Nagasaki last Saturday and ar.
rived at the Taku forts Sunday. Rear
Admiral Kempff is the senior squadron
officer described in the dispatch and his
visit to Taku, the nearest port to Pekin
attainable for large vessels, has attract
ed much attention. It is understood
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DISASTROUS MINE FIRE.
1t Throws Over Three Thousand Men Ou
of Work.

1t Throws Over Three Thousand Men Out
of Work.
CALUMET, Mich, May 30.-Over 5000
men are idle owing to the fire i'll No.
Hecla shaft of the Calumet and Hecla
mine. The management decided tc
close down all except the South Hecla
and the Amidalod shafts on account OF
the gas from the fire which has gone tc
all parts of the Calumet branch and
part of the Hecla. 1t cannot be told
how long the fire will last or how long
the men will be laid off, as a mine fire
is an uncertainty. The fire may spread
to other parts of the mine, but it is
thought to be under control.
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Section Hands on Strike.

SCRANTON, May 30.-All the section
hands on the L9high Valley railroad
between Sayre, Pa, and Jersey City
are out on strike. They want their
wages increased from &l.20 to $1.50
day. The strikers number 800 The
company served notice that if the men
do not return to work before June
new men will be hired.