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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1900-06-24

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- ,'.,t, 49, Nos hacen grandes elogios del
CRU po eseolar que dirige 81 professor
se1pr Becerra Sayas, de IA .discipl.i7
nd 6fdeh y grandes progresses de
sus ialumnos con sujeci6n al grado
!que[ [ensena. Asf nos 10 comunican
tres eaballeros que Sc han acercado
esta tf1ahana a esta redaccion. .,..
t Sesle ha remitido al Secretario
de PueTto Rico un asunto referente
, ALA reclamation que hace Francisco
Lopez sAcosta, de- Yauco, contra ell
rAlcalde de aquel pueblo por la mul-
tta. de q dollars que la impnso por
,+habe erse negado q certar sstable
fcimiento un dommH las 70 del
zdia, .,lq4si ~.>s d r,-. -. J.
Sc dice Que en- Ia plataforma
del partido Republicano de la Me
tr6poli existe una clasula que prohi-
be ,extendert la constitution a las Co.
,Tonias:ai ,h Ef'' ',' ~" '*'.' .'''
Continuan los ciclistas transi;,
tando .por, rmitad de las GALES sin
tinbre' ni 'farol, exponiendo al pr6gi
mo transeYnte. a toparselas a Ia. pri-.
nera dc .cambio con un senior que 10
arrolle ST Sc descuida. En- ;cuantos Ia
policia meta dos 8 tres al <caeharro,,
Sc term1iilhla nina el abuse. ,.,s;,aa -. ,
Sc ALQUILA, un mirador
con tres habitaciones, Independent
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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1900-06-24

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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1900-06-24

'"' El que aver era nifo Sc hace al
fnomento muchacho; Ell muchacho~ Sc
Fhaee deErepente Inanceb boii y hastal lia
'yejez se va 'fnndando pSta plag6s' inl'
dertos; y antes Sc siente tfioa viei6,f
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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1900-06-24

HdH CUHtTdIuO matrlmOnlO Or
vii en- Caguas ell dia q del corriente
Ia virtuosa y distinguida sef1orita
Rosario Aguirre Diaz y el professor
de instruction don Alfonso Monde
Diaz. F'ueron tsstigos del acto, don
ignacio Boscana Vergne y don Juan.
Mendez Santiago. Que sean felices
por muchos amos.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1900-06-24

Ell 'individuo Eduardo Perez
tuvo anoche una question con Ia me.
retriz Ana Rosa Gonzalez, y8ndose
alas manos ambos y dandose de Cal
che etes La policfa los condujo' a la
prevenci6n ri ',i,. rtt: I, : - Hf'
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1900-06-24

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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1900-06-24

.., Sc han constatado 8 nuevos
casps de peste en- Rio Janeiro. I'm
Boletfn Ofcial dice que .desde Ia
aparici6n de esta ,epidemia han sido
atacadas SO perso1as de las cuales
han fallecido 90.
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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1900-06-24

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The evening times., 1900-04-16

Codr-sl Correspond suce Of the London STANDARD ,
The cOnstruStiou OF the Chinese Eastern
Railway (the i-usso- Manchurian Hnep
would appear tc be proceed ing under many
and seriously reyarding difficulties The
Car himself is said to be much diSpIeased
by its laggard progress The chief en-
gineer. NJ. GUgovitCh. has been summa-
rily dismissed by imperial order aud re-
placed BY the welI-knOwn railway engineer
expert. NJ. Ig~~tius. The constructive ad-
ministratiou has. for the sake Of short
sighted cconomy-and not improbably with
less worthy purpose-elected to employ
Chinese in pre- ference 10 Russian labor.
The daily pay demanded by the Cinnamon
is from 30 70 40 kOpecks. or from seven
pence-halfpenny to tsnpence while the
Russian workman declines TO accept any
thing less thGu a ruble and 50 kopecks. or
three shillings and threepenee per diem.
secretaryher(Oli shrdlu cmfwyp Djpj
The Cinnamon make I'D for their scapt
remuneration by a wholesale and we'll
organized system Of petty larceny. and.
what is more serious by q diSgracefui
seamping Of their work Long stretches
of embanllments have been so imperfectly
built that. QUnite unnecessarily. they will
occupy more than six months extra Ia
Dor before the sleeDers and rails can be
permanently laid The Russian official su-
pervisOrs are Of course, equally cuiDable
in this matter. On the Charbin- -Oronsk
section the rc5,s are not yet laid and be-
tween the former place and the frontier
station it is only as yet possible, and that
with Difficulty. to run light ballast trains
carrying workmen and material The sup
ply of wagons. locomotives. and other me-
ehanical appliances is alike belated and
dislocated. The telegraphists at twenty
consecutive stations recently abandoned
their posts and struck for higher salaries;
they were previously receiving only 40 ru-
bles per mensem.
BY special imperial command all these
drawbacks are to be remedied forthwith.
and il is hoped that the new line viii be
completed by the end OF 1901, but the re-
naming bridges 10 be erected will con-
sumo at least another twelve months. The
Russo Chinese Eastern Railway will not,
therefore, be opened for through traffic be-
fore 1902. or about fifteen months later
than the time originally reekOned upon for
the completion OF the Manchurian system,
to which Russia attaches so much politi-
cal. strategical and commercial impor-
The evening times., 1900-04-16
The Death of e. W. Stevens.

3D.
W. T. Maud the special correspondent Of
The Graphic who was with c. W. Stee-
yens through the two campaigns in the
Soudan. and who shared with him house
in Ladysmith, has sent to Mrs. Stevens
an account or her husbands last ho.-re
from which We are permitted to make an
extract The letter is dated Laaysmiib
January IS. three days after Mr.. Stevens
death After explaining that they ALI
tzOught the danger was past his temuara
ture having again become normal. Mr.
Maud says, ,'On Friday January y his
temperature suddenly rose. and hemor-
rhage set in Three days later a consul
tstion was held
They told me there was no hope. though
they did everything that was possible to
save him. When they had gone I returned
70 the siekUoom. sent out the two nurses
and together We passed through the ey-sat
ordeal / said: The doctors think vor, are
very i'll. I Will cable home; do you Win to
send a MESSAGE Yes write il out and
read il to me for my approval. he replied
l wrote: Stevens dangerously i'll Do Won
mean that I am dyingg' he asked. They
think it very serious | answered. for /
was afraid -IAgain. Am ] dying?' Yes
'SOOn~ Soon He was looking straight
into my, eyes. He never ginched. There
Death had no terriers for him. He dictated
the message which | sent 10 you. =
After that he turned toward me. saving.
Well. this is asideways ending to il aII-Iet
US have drink 'Righ<. old boy: I viii
open a fresh bottle Of champagne and /
did so. But You are not drinking he
said. ! made some excuse. All the morn
ing we had been giving teaspoonfuls of it
every ten minutes also brandy and milk.
About Z o'clock he commenced to rally. and
took nouris hment so freely that my hopes
bounded up again I left him in the charge
OF both nurses. and lay down to sleep. They
called me an hour later, and | saw at a
glance that the end was near He
imagined himself back at Merton Abbey.
DR.. Davies was present all the time. but
there was nothing more to be done. He was
asleep. breathing quite quietly and regu-
larry At 4:30 in the afternoon he passed
away peacefully-sO peacefully. There is
nothing more to tell-ssve this. that all
through his illness he was so patient End
he fought splendidly against IL 10 the very
end
The evening times., 1900-04-16

Eddy, are not often read. and many VITO
call themselves disciples are really te-
| levers in animal magnetism and mind
cure. with an alloy CT New Testsmeut doc
trines To such half informed readers Mr..
Purrington's letter should be interesting
and profitable, though not perhaps, very
agreeable.
He points out. in the first place. that
Mrs. Eddy violently denounces all branches
of medical learning. even anatomy physiol-
ogy, and hygiene. According TO her theory.
it does not matter whether a man thinks
his liver is on the right side or on the
left or whether he knows that he has
liver; he can cure his biliousness without
any acquaintance with the cause Of IL. II
he has indigestion, be can cure it
through Christian Science. even If
he eats green apples. lobster salad
cherries. ard clam chowGer at the
same meal DO the prose ytes all
understand that they are expected TO be-
lieye such doctrines as this?
Again, Mrs. Eddy and Judge Ewing, one
Of her lecturers. say that il believers ia
Christian Science drink any deadly thiag il
will not hurt them. and the mother OF the
faith says that she tried il by taking some
/ large doses of morphine and found that
the drug had no effect on her She does
not say. however what the precise size Of
the dose was. ami some irrevereut. cynical,
and wicked medical man may be tempted
to suggest that the lady may have had ex-
perience with that particular drug before,
and that her remarkable books are the re-
suit Of it. At any rate, no Christian Scientist
has ever made open and public experiments
proving the truth Of this article OF their
taith. There is just one way in which they
can do it. to the satisfaction OF the doubt
ing ThOmases who constitute the larger
part Of the American public. n Mrs Eddy.
Judge Ewing. and two OF three other pill
lars Of the church really want to convert
people. let them hire New York theatre
for one evening. and IL they can convince
'hc propriCtors that the rental has BEEN
paid. by mental therapeutics" so much
the better Let them then ask an equal
number Of veli-known physicians opposed
to Christian Science. 60 assist i'm the ex-
periments. They viii have no trouble i'm
securing such help. Let the doctors then
prepare dose OF poison FOR each
Scicn-St-sGy arsenic. stgyohu.re pres
sic acid. carbolic acid. and lauianum.
Let them each give a short lecture stating
the natural effects OF these substances on
the human frame. and let the Scientists
state distinctly what they think Will hap
pen after they have taken the doses. Then.
N the presence Of the audience that such
York. let the Scientists swallow the pol
son. and let the audience observe the ef-
fects
The evening times., 1900-04-16
A FATAL ACCIDENT.
The shaft of Buggy PenefrateS a
Young Philadelphia Lad.

ouhE ihiAadeiphia Lud-
PHILADELPHIA. April 16-Harry
Whestiey. aged fourteen. a Gira-d College
pupil. vas transGxed by the shaft Of bug
gy on Girard Avenue Bridge yesterday af-
ternOon. and died from the injury az =
O'Clock last night in the German Hospital
The vehicle was driven by George R
Scott OF Bala. He and a companion were
arrested. but discharged by Magistrate
O'BHen pending the result Of the coroner 8
inquest.
Young Wheajley was walking on the
sidewalk at the east end OF the Cirard
Avenue Bridge when the accident occur
red. Scott was driving his horse along
quietly until be was close 10 the boy. when
the animal suddenly became frightened.
reared up. and plunged toward the lad.
The shaft Of the vehicle struck Wheatley
on the left side. passed through his liver.
broke the eighth rib. tore open his dia-
phragm. and ran clear through his body
Park Guard ShOaker telephoned for the
German Hospital ambulance When il
reached the scene of the tragedy the boy
was nearly dead. He was quickly hurried
into the ambulance and taken TO the hos
PiysL II MAS but twenty minutes from the
time the ambulance left the hospital until
the stricken youth was placed in bed. He
was IN semi-cOnsciOus condition. and
while the doctors worked over him he
spoke twice before ne died, once 20 mur-
muir Thank YOU and again to tell has
name and address. This piece of informa-
tiOn was only obtained between the boy
dying gaSps-
The evening times., 1900-04-16
Mr. Rockefeller and ChicaEo UnIyrr-

To the Editor of Tho Times:
The article which appears on zur. o-i.gf.si
page iu tHu evening edition of the lS,h Instant.
unjCr the caption -.To',joy I'm Chicago might
sell pass iar thc u-ulI chatting of .,c Uuivcrsi,y
ot CLicsgu upon J1e Standard OIL foundation were
It not that some rssders mgh, Zoe Ted into th,
bclicf that The faculty i- I'm some way Iampe7cd in
i5s instruction 10y Jhe dict5tiou ct MI Rookie
iolor Indeed one could imagine that worthy
gentleman passing from one lecture room to gr-
other olch morning directing Doe method ct tc5cA-
inS and prohibiting anything being said dcletar-
ious q, trusts or trust methods IN .ruih Mr.
Rockefeller ha~ visited ,hc University of Chi
o12o but once. ard was probably Lat in class
roCIo al that Time To imagine him spending.
many hours in visiting any Institution Il, nor
consistent with mis- devotion to bu~iucs-.
In the eight years Of itS existence snd among
a faculty Of smost three hundred gathered from
an parts OF The world the question cl the sd-
Visibility Of 0uy particular presentation of the
subject IN teaching has arisen but oucc-in the
case OF Nr. Bcnis. during the great railway
sT.kc-and back of that lay the personal quc,-
tion whether M. Bemis uas entitled O., promo
,ieu.
The fact that the University Of Chicago team in
the rccent C0lumbjJ a hiCJgo debate chose the
affirmative eide and argued for the u,.ionaI reeu.
lation OF trusts speaks IN for be si,trc-s oI the
censorship which Mr. Rockefeller exercise, at the
University. Certainty ono member OF the fac
uity can say that in five yesr-' experience in
that position be has yet 20 Gee ,hc Grsi evidence
Of Mr. Rockcfciler's blue pencil Very truly
yours, EDVIS T. SPARKS.
mil
The evening times., 1900-04-16
BOY MESSENGER TO KRUGER.
Interesting sRd Expensive Trip of a
Philadelphia Lad.


Philadelphia Lad.
PHILADELPHIA. April l6.-The trim Of
A. d. 7. messenger boy No. 1884 James
Francis Smith. with message OF sympa-
thy from the schoolboys Of Philadelphia TO
Dom Paul at Pretoria will cost nearly
81 500.
The American District Telegraph Com
Tany receives 30 cents an hour for deliver
ing messages said Supt. y. W. Raynes.
yesterday.
No. 1884 went out at $50 o'clock last
Monday morning. He went FIRST to New
York, and sailed on the ST. Louis We'd
nesday morning The person who rang I'D
the boy must pay for his time until he
comes back TO the desk to report He Is
expected back August L.
Figuring shows that il is 2136 hours
from $3.50 a. m. on April 9 20 $3.50 a. m. on
August l. At 30 cents an hour the A. D.
T. Company Will have a bill against The
Philadelphia schoolboys OF SS20.SO.
OF this sum No. 1884 himself should re-
ceIye $S145. leaving the company S739.31.
His employers viii come out better than
this. though. for No 1894 must pay in so
cents a week 20 the company on account
OF uniform and 10 cents a week on account
Of a clean collar. This means $3.50 out Of
SSl43, or S7I78 for James and S74g.02 for
the corporation.
In case No. 1884 should present himself
70 Dom Paul at Pretoria with one Of the
brass buttons of his messenger boys uni
form missing. James would be fined p
cents.
II he travels with his jacket unbutton-
ed, or travels too fast oF too slow. or reals
novels on the way or jumps upon a true 1
or letters 10 look a a circus procession. ur
Deglects TO put on his rubber boots cogt
and hood On 4 rainy day or wears tan
shoes instead OF black, it viii cost the boy
a pretty penny
II is in round numbers 1850 miles 10
Pretoria ano return by way of Southamp-
ton, and besides Smiths board and extras
his fare both ways will amount 10 S65S-
The total expense Of sending the mes
sage 10 President Kruger. exclusive Of the
boys meals. will therefore amount 10 ST.
1850 His meals and extras will add
largely 10 this amount.
The evening times., 1900-04-16
VICTIM OF MIND CURE.
Christian Scientists Charged With "A
MnnnR'. Denfb.

AMSTERDAM n. y, April 16--Mrs
Eta s. Philes. wealthy widow OF tn 5
city. died Saturday night Of pneumonia.
She had been in for a week, and had been
attended by a Christian Sentence healer.
Late Saturday night a relative OF NJ: s.
Philes heard OF her illness, and at once
summoned two physicians. who stated that
the patient was in a dying condition. She
died tWo hours later. Neighbo-s Of Mrs.
Philes knew Of her Illness, but they al
lege that The Christian Scientists re-
fused admittanee to all but members Of
their faith The death Of Mrs Philes has
caused much comment. and George G.
stewart lawyer. and cousin Of the dead
woman. will eudeavor 10 have the -di-
vine healer" indicted by the grand jury
The healer who attended Mrs. Philes
is Ncttie DegraG aged about f9rty-five
years. She states that Mrs Philes MAS a
liberty 10 have Whomever she wished 10
attend her, that she did not have pEcg-
monia but the grip that after the arrival
OF the doctor ard ucighbOTs the excitement
made Mr. Philes worse. resulting in her
death. The healer also states that Mrs.
Phles refused 10 have a physician called.
The Christian Scientists viii not b al
lowed 20 attend the funeral
The evening times., 1900-04-16
Christian science.

A correspondent of the New York SUM-
has some lively remarks to make concern
ing the ever-irrepressible Christian scien-
tist. 1t seems that this correspondent. W.
A PurringtOn by name. recently delivered
an address In which he endeavored to show
his audience what Christian Science really
is. that they might understand what they
were asked TO believe. and his stlteme nts
aroused protests from representatives Of
the cult He now reiterates his argument,
giving chapter and verse. and the letter
viii no doubt be instructive to very many
people.
The fact is that large proportion o. the
intelligent persons who dabble in this new
faith do not really know what ii is. The
books o. the founder Of the system, Mrs.
The evening times., 1900-04-16
KILLED BY AN ACCIDENT.
Death Caused by the Discharge of n
shotgun.

shotgun
HAGERSTOWN. Nd. April l6-John
Grove. jr.. aged fifteen years. son Of John
Grove. a blacksmith at Indian Springs.
Washington county. was shot in the head
By Reln Kline. aged sixteen years. son Of
John Kline, a laborer. Of Indian Springs.
Saturday evening. Death ensued ten r-in-
utes after the shooting occurred. Kline
claims that il was accidental Saturday
evening a Dumber OF boys and young men.
including Grove and Kline. We're On front
OF the blacksmith shoD. Leonard For
sythe. aged twenty years. stopped on his
wey home from a hunting expedition in
the mountains. He had with him a double
barreled mUzzle-loading shotgun. The
weapon Was picked I'D and one load Ered
on BY Charles ReHner. who lives near the
blacksmith shop. He attempted TO TIRE OF
the other load. but the cap was defective
and the gun was not discharged The gun
was then placed against the shop
Ia the meantime Grove passed around
the shop and appeared inside q paling
fence. Ia is alleged Kline picked up the
gun. and. pointing IL toward where Grove
was standing. pulled the trigger. and dis
charged the piece. Grove fell 10 the
ground with a moan. Kline walked 10 the
fence and seeing Grove lying helpless
called TO the Benner family that he had
shot John Grove Charles and Edward
Renner found Grove had struggled 20 his
feet and was leaning on the fence They
carried him 10 his home. not far away. He
weakened rapidly and expired on the
porch. Young Grove did not speak 9frer
the shot was fired. The load took effect
in the left side of his face and head. A
few No. 4 shot penetrated his brain. 4
jury of inquest was held before Justice
HCuck az Clear Spring and upon tha ver-
dict Of the jury Kline was arrested Ee
Uas brought 20 the Hagerstowu !au later
Further testimony VIII be taken by tie
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