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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-03-27


cis ell lado i2quierdo, conServandO intactOS
bigote, perilla, melena y todOS los rasgos
iSOn6micOs.
FL pante6n Sc quiere inaugurar para la
fiesta de Todos los Santos.
Espl6ndida reSult6, pesar del NAL item.
po, la function organizada por ell Centro ga
lego en- Ell teatrG espanol,. ell cual estuvo
muy cOncurrido; ell p1blIcU Sc mostr6 muy
enthusiastic deferente con los aficionados
que representation pedir de- boca las come.
dias ''Mof0s en- la costa" y'"El bigote ru-
bio. FL graciOsO mOn6!Ogo. original titula-
do 'ETipoS cOnOcidos" fu6 miy bien recltado
pOr don Manuel TolOsa. Las seh0ritas do
la Pillar Lacambra dona Josefa Saiz Sc
distinguieron mucho en- la. parte musical.
Don Castor Mendez Brada tosech6 tambien
muchos aplausOs.
El herOe de la fieste, con todo, fu6 el
nino Pepito Arriola, que tan prematuramen.
te revela IN tsento de primer orden, pueS
en- su corta edad interpreta como un consul
madO maestro, produciendo delirante entu-
siasmo en- ell p1blicO que 10 eScucha, las pie.
zas musicales mas dificiles. Balo la ejecu
ci6n musical de este niIo, cree uno transpOr
y
sabolear sus costumbres regionales.
Pepito Arriola es sin duda alguna, un
astro que Sc levanta en- ell cielo musical es
pafol
No obstante haber sido ell perfOdo de los
seis meses d!timos de preparation para Ell
Banco de Cartagena y de girar el Banco
con nm capital de 100000 peSetaS, los
rendimientos han ascendido 52 1896,
segdn resulta del Gltimo balance pTesentado
en- reciente Junta general extraOrdnaria de
su nuevo direetoriO.
Ell comandante del puesto de la guardia
civil de Conil proyincia de Cadiz ha cOmu.
nicado al gobernador que ha dado aviso al
juzgado de que en- la playa dc Oastillejo el
mar ha arrojado el cadayer de un hoInbre
que no ha sldo identi6cado, por Ia desfgu-
racion del .rostro.j
Supone dicho comandante, es creencia
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-03-27

OPERAmoNEs DE BUoUEs FIN PUHRTs
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-03-27
la question fIpiina
Conferencia con los rebeldes
MAS PRESENTACIONES

(Servicio cablegrafico especial del Boletil
MercantiD
New-York tribune., 1901-03-24

found IL out now that he is dead. His body is
lying in state in there Go in and see; he looks
such an angel, bless his dear face"
At the far end OF the cathedral | saw a tall.
stately catafalque of black and gold and under
meath IT, on black draped bier an open coffin
~ which lay the body Of ecclesastic.
There before me, clad in purple silk cassock and
gray fur amlce, the buckles on his shoes shining
brightly in the hickering candellght. a Divinity
DOCTORS biretta on his head. and a silver cruel
TX pressed in the thin hands clasped across his
breast-there befo e me lay in the sweetest
sleep or death the old priest with whom had
travelled in third class carriage little more
than fortnight before.
A great procession followed him to the grave
made up largely OF the poor, the manned. the
halt, the blind. Blessed indeed" saws Mr. Car
michael, Is the holy land OF Tuscany, where the
love OF poverty and its transformations practice
is still a claim 10 public distinction and where
q simple love Of the poor and an unfailing char
fiy toward them is title sufficient TO all the
pomp and glory Of a hero's funeral" True
and fitting words are these and we re-
gret that We have left ourselves no space in
which to cite many others like them. We
would like also to quote from the luminous
chapter the Tuscan tonc7,e as annusing
as Il is instructive; and there is much in
teresting matter in the SIX etches Of Leghorn
Lucca, Pisa, Nolterra, the island Of Elba Ca
Ha4coh' ana the Tuscan sanctuary saturated in
memories Of ST. Francis Mount La Verna. Rut
our purpose is simply TO indicate the unusual
TRUTH and fresh, inspiring SAVIOR OF book which
must be read from cover 10 cover if it is 10 be
fully enjoyed. There is appreciation of art in
these pages. Mr. Carmichael pays an especially
JUST ana sympathetic tribute 10 the sculpture
OF Matteo ClFltali at Lucca But what he has
cared for most and is most eloquent in passing
on TO his reader, is the familiar life of Tuscany
the life in which there is some knayery much
passion, but also-in more than generous meas
ure-true piety and loving kindness, honesty
hdelity fortitude. and noble manners No one
Who cares for Italy can afford to leave the vol
ume unread.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-24

pany was Great Britain's instrumentality for
securing Oregon. Sir George Simpson, the hard
headed director of the company, found the doc
tor entertaining first the American missionaries
and then hobnobbing with the American Off
GERS on their gunboats. and went home to press
the Oregon question to an issue. AS the Ameri-
can immigrants came, relations grew more and
more strained. McLoughlin's influence over his
Indians weakened the publication of IrvinS's
Astoria increased the hostility in the States
The Americans set up a provisional govern
ment; British fleet came to the mouth of the
Columbia and landed troops. In the Presden-
tial election of 1914 the Oregon question had
become a national issue to the cry of Fifty
four-forty or fight" and ''AlI of Oregon up to
Alaska war; But neither alternative came
about. Congress adopted conciliatory resolu-
tions, and then. for the first time. the author
phrases it. the United states began to look
out of her western window to the sea-
But it was disastrous to DIR. Mclaughlin. The
report of the cOmpany's spies irritated the Lon
don board Across the sea a call to halt,
and an account demanded of him for his
friendship with the American immigrants
Shall / leave these Americans to starve or
drive them from the country" is the question
he asked in answer. IF such be your orders,
can serve you no longer" And so DR.. McLough-
lin resigned. and sacrificed his place and power
to principle. He went to oregon City, and
brought the spirit of enterprise that had
made Fort Vancouver the metropolis of the fur
posts a strange and patriarchal figure in the
modern world that was pushing in:
To the end he never lost his love of dress and OF
dancing. DeCked in white kids and white vest.
like a gentleman of the old school, he adorned
the parlor of many gay assembly. one
Of the most beautiful characteristics of the now
famous doctor his lifelong devotion to
Margaret. his wife Of the old fur hunting days
He treated her like princess. said a mis-
sionary of that day.
His last days were rot happy. Congress was
prejudiced against him as a ''monopolist." by
unfair means. ana the old philanthropist. who
had been the father of Oregon. was deprived OF
his land In the mean time all the old charges
of assisting Americans were brought up against
him in Parliamentary inquiry:
Distrustcd by England because h. had he
friended Americans. distrustod hy Americans
because he had been EngliShWan. h. cN-
claimed bitterly. IN my Old age hnd myself
a man without country
IL died in 1N57. and the oregon pioneers have
dedicated in the oregon State House a portrait
Of the old Hudsop's Bay governor who be
friended them on their first arrival across the
plains. II was an interesting career. fun of
dramatic and moving episodes. Mrs Dye has
filled her account full Of details. including tho
trials and experiences and loves OF the mis-
sionaries Of various Of the friends and de-
pendents OF Mclaughlin and the company. and
Of the settlers. It IS somewhat tangled sken
but the history has not little Of charm and
movement and dramatic power.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-24
An INTERESTING LINK.
From "Wellington's Men"

From "Wellington's Men
one curious incident in the siege Of BaIajos
may be related. The day after the assault two
Spanish ladies' the younger beautiful girl OF
fourteen. appealed for help 10 two officers Of
the Rifles who were passing through one of the
streets of the town. Their dress torn. their
ears. from which rings had been roughly
snatched. were bleeding. and to escape outrage
death they cast themselves on the protection
New-York tribune., 1901-03-24
HAND RULING IN OLD BOOKS.
IN Notes and queries.

From Notes and Queries.
Has attention ever been drawn 10 the fact
that the rL-ng Of lines in old books is done by
hand2 That this was the case is proved by the
FREQUENT unegenness OF the work Here ana
there one can see that the ink gave out before
the line was ended. Almost all the tltle pages
~ set-en,centh century sermons are hand ruled,
the page being set, il were. IN a frame. IN
some cases the ruling is carried through the
volume in this fashion. i may cite as examples
fbe lf;o3 and 1922 Shakespeare Folios. Syden-
hams Sermons 1637), and Vases dictionary
QG,i2) in the last instance the page is ruled
into three columns This work must have been
done after the printing, while the book was in
sheets, and il must have employed many work
men.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-24
An EICELLENT EXAMPLE.
From The London Athenaum.

From The London Atheneum.
At the general meeting Of the Iteraturarchiv
Geseschaft in Berlin. it announced that
during the nine years of it's existence il has
secured and rendered accessible to literary men
seventeen thousand letters and seven hundred
manuscripts Of German poets and scholars,
among whom are the two Humbodts. Niebuhr.
Schleiermacher. and other eminent authors of
the end of the eighteenth century and the be-
ginning Of the nineteenth.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-24

of the first British officers they met. one Of
the officers Captain Harry Smith. of the
Rifles. TWO years later he married the girl he
had saved in a scene so wild. Captain Harry
Smith in after years served at the Cape as Sir
Harry, and this Spanish girl, Lady Smith.
gave her name to- the historic town which Sir
George White defended with such stubborn
Nalor-
New-York tribune., 1901-03-24
EARLY DAYS IN OREGON.
a CHAPTER IN THE PIONEERING HIS
TORY OF THE WEST

M'LoUGHLIN AND OLD OREGON: A CHRON-
lCLE BY Eva Emery Dye Octave, PIP viii,
Ssl Chicago: \. &. McClurg * Co.
DR.. John Mclaughlin. governor of the Hud-
sons Bay Company west OF the Rocky Noun
tains, was commanding figure in the will
derness in the first part of the nineteenth CEN
fury. He held sway at Fort Vancouver. on the
Columbia River. and governed the Indians.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-24
FICTION.
A MODERN HEROINE WITH THE Soul. OF
y GREEK PAGAN

THE COLUMN. \ Novel BY Charles Marriott
l2mO, Pr. viii, i63 John Lane
New-York tribune., 1901-03-24

The scene of Miss Beatrice Harraden's new
novel is laid in Norway country in which,
last year, she broke her leg while mountain
excursion. She rode home afterward and the
leg was badly set and she had. therefore, 20 go
To Christiania and have the healing fracture re-
broken in order to get her foot straight Later
she paid a visit to Denmark, and was given
public dinner there and presented with a medal
New-York tribune., 1901-03-24

] STREET DUST AND OTHER STORIES. by
Ouda. l2mO, PIP. 2iS The Macmillan Company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-04
SUNK BY REBELS.
Further Particulars of the Loss
of the Gunboat LapOpa.

London. Sept. .4-The brief cable men
ton of the recent sinking of the Colom-
bian gunboat Lapopa has been supple
mented by further particulars regarding
the accident, by mail, says the Tribune.
General Joaquin Velez. governor Of Boil
war. charges that Lapopa was sunk by
rebels, and has caused the imprison-
ment of the four survivors charging
them with completely in the plot.
The government has used every en-
deavor to suppress the details Of the
wreck On this account it is not defin-
iteIy known how many lives were lost
Lapopa was carrying troops from Car
tagena to Barranquilla, and none Of
them was saved. The warship, which
went down about so miles from the port
Of SavanilIa also carried a cargo Of a
half million cartridges and 1000 rifles.
the loss of which will be seriously felt
by the government.
The sinking of Lapopa will also Grip
pie the naval fighting force, as Colombia
recently sold the Cordova which was
her largest ship, and is now left with
only one gunboat Of account. This is the
General Pinson. formerly the American
steam yacht Namouna One hundred
thousand dollars has been sent to Gen.
Velez from Bogema with which to pur
chase another vessel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-04
after DUDLEY.
State House Officials Want More
Competent Custodian.
Formal Charges Against Dudley
Are Filed.

Besides wrestling with the bids for
the statue Ceres. it is on the programme
of the executive council, at its meeting
tomorrow, to have Custodian John
Dudley on the carpet again. Charges
have been made against the custodian
of neglect and incompetency, and un-
less they are pulled down an investiga-
ton is to follow that is expected to re-
suit in his dismissal
Dudley has heard the rumblings for
several days and had Dave Mulvane on
hand today to pull his chestnuts out of
the fire again
This time they threaten to be scorch-
ed entirely.
It is understood that when Dudley
was on the anxious bench month ago.
AIulvane succeeded in saving his Off
cial scalp by laying down on Attorney
General Godard 1t was hinted to Mr..
GODDARD that ne wanted the First dis
trict behind him for nomination for
the supreme bench. Accordingly the ex-
ecutive council was divided on the vote
Cole. Clark and Stanley for the dis
missal and E1r- GODDARD with the remain
ing two as Dudley's saviors.
One day this week Mr.. GODDARD per
mitted an interview to the effect that
he would not touch a supreme court
nomination with a ten-foot pole.
1t is understood that Mr.. Godard's s
vote can now be secured for the fourth
and that viii end Mr.. Dudley's official
career.
Col. George veale is selected to be the
custodian in Dudley's place
Dudley has great reliance on his
friends at court, but of late he has
taken on a worried look. He took some
now courage when one of his friends
made the discovery of the state house
stone quarry and offered it in explain
alton Of the lawn grass dying.
But the executive council has not
adopted that theory as a whole. They
say one can go out and scratch under
the blue grass on any hillside, and even
we'll maintained lawns and dig up
stones. The state house lawn was not
irrigated a t it should have been through
the drought, it Is claimed, and the
flower beds not tended with competent
gardening. Mr. Dudley may have been
too busy with his livery stable.
Different members of the council fire.
quently assert that the janitors are
bigger than the state officers and that
rubbish accumulates around the building
when it should not. just now the state
house is a litter of building rubbish.
because Workmen are at the jobs of
finishing. but the complaints antedate
the present work.
Dudley runs a livery stable and has
mail carrying contract from the post
Office to the depots, besides and outside
mercantile and political work is taken
into consideration of the case
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-04
Conference Is Being Held at the
Headquarters
Of the United States Steel Cor
poration in New York.
SCHWAB AND HIS MEN
Meet the Leaders of the Great
Labor Organizations.
A Supreme Effort to Bring
Strike to Close.

New York, Sept. A conference at
which conditions Of peace in the great
steel strike are being discussed is in
progress at the Office Of the United
States Steel corporation. The partiei-
pants in the discussion include Presl-
dent Charles NJ Schwab of the United
States Steel corporation. Samuel Com
pers. president of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor John Mitchell. president
Of the United Mine Workers association,
Prof. Jenlxs of the industrial commits
sion, Secretary R. NJ Easley Of the
Civic Federation and Harry White, sec
retary Of the Garment Workers associa-
ton. The conference was arranged this
morning and was asked for by Samuel
Gompers and John Mitchell, who are
believed to be acting in behalf of Presi-
dent Theodore J. Shaffer and the Anal
gamated association They reached here
early this morning and were joined by
MesSrs- jerks, Easley and White. The
entire party came down town at II
o'clock and at 12:15 O'Clock entered the
Offices of the United States Steel cor
pOration- They We're received by Mr..
Schwab and shown to the consulting
room.
Shortly after their arrivel. very1
Preston and some of the officials of the
subsidy companies entered Mr.. .Schwab's S
Office and Joined the conferees. None
of the participants in the conference
could be seen and the basis of the dis
cussion could not be learned.
The conference was still in session at
2:40 O'Clock up to which time there had
been no announcement for lunch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-04

if he had bought a new coffin. And they
wondered if Powell had thrown away
his life on such a cruel deception.
But the facts as found by the State
Journal reporter all indicate that there
is no more doubt of the reality of Clara
KeIly's death than there is Of Powells.
Merchant Ashton has the death certif-
icates in due form and says it was sure
~ Clara Kelly, her body and no wax
figure. A dozen other people in the town
say the same and DIR. Brockett says
The body of Clara Kelly was in the
coffin sure enough. / saw her once or
twice when she came up from Kansas
City on a visit. One or two of my pat
tents out in the country told me they
believed it was a wax figure, but new
er saw a more human corpse
In his farewell note to the world Pow
ell made q last request that he be laid
beside Clara Kelly in the burying
ground at Aayetta. BIT as they were
parted in life. SO it remains. His body
was taken from Topeka and inferred
yesterday at Raymond. No. his boy
hood home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-04
LEAVES FOR BUFFALO.
The President and Mrs. McKin-
ley viii See the Show.

Canton, O.. Sept 4-The president
and Mrs. Mckinley and party are on
their way to Buffalo They left at 10 a.
IN today in a special train over the
Pennsylvania road They go to Cleve-
land via Alliance and reach Buffalo
over the Lake shore. The train con-
sists Of a combination car and two
Pullmans. the Omena and the Colum-
bia, the latter occupied by the president
and Mrs. Mckinley Besides the mem
bers of the household and the executive
force. the party included Misses Mary
and Ida Barber, Mrs. AIcKinIeys nieces.
They will be Joined at Cleveland bv
Miss Sarah Duncan, the president :
niece. The train is scheduled to reach
Buffalo at 4:55 this evening.
Cleveland, o., Sept. 4-The presiden-
tial train reached here at 1920 p. an. and
was transferred to the Lake shore over
which road il left at l O'Clock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-04
BURTON LEAVES.
Senator Tells His Friends to
Await His Return.
Kept Busy AppOrtfoning the
Places at His Disposal.

Leaving the politicians TO amuse
themselves as best they might about
Copeland county and the state house,
today Senator Burton ran down to
Kansas City in the early train. Word
was left with the boys to all stay
around. The senator will be back at
6:40 o'clock this evening. He is billed
to speak at Ottawa this afternoon.
1t was a matter of discussion in the
groups that We're left behind that not
everything was being carried out as
advertised in the small bills. The SEN
ator was to have been here today, and
call came that could not be ignored and
Topeka Will be given tomorrow instead.
1t is also apparent that shaping is be-
ing done for the placing Of Burton
favorites on the next state ticket at
these gatherings. There are leak1ngs
enough. 1t is given out cold to Jim
Simpson and to others in the crowd
that Simpson is to be revenue collector
and that something to satisfy George
Fin6lay will be forthcoming. Senator
Burton went to the Blossom House to-
day, so it is said, to look over his scrap
pile and see what he can find for Geo.
Findlay and for State Senator H. 2.
Miller.
Senator Millers son, Clyde, came up
from Usage today looking for nothing
for himself He said hes was after q
couple of jobs in Washington for Usage
men. He may be made proxy to carry
terms to his father to get out of Harry
Richter's way, after Burton looks over
the goods and finds something to Of
fer
The movement to clear Richter's path
is well defined, and it begins by clear
Ing up his home district-the Fourth.
This goes ahead Of the preparations to
capture the Craftsmanship of the Repub-
lican state central committee For
among the announcements made is that
S. G. Pottle. of Ell Dorado. has consent
ed to be content as a field deputy under
Jim Simpson, revenue collector. PottIe
has had the bee in his bonnet to be aud
itor of state all along and he is now the
. first fellow made to get down out of the
road Of the Richter chariot
George w. Jones of Linn county. has
the promise of being made either = field
deputy also. or pork inspector in
Jerusalem.
Alfred Pratt of Syracuse vas assured
that he will succeed A. H. ~Burtis, of
Finney, as special inspector of the in
terror department.
Otis L. Atherton came in today to
be told that the receivership at Wa
Keeney is awarded to him in the parcel
ling out. Charles Hall. postmaster 1T
Russell, came along. He wants another
term if William Reeder can be induced
to see it that way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-04
CALLED DOWN.
Secretary Long Writes Letter
to Capt. Forsyth.

Philadelphia, Pa, Sept 4.-Captain
J. NJ. Forsyth, u. S. N. today resolved
a letter from Secretary Long request
ing an explanation of his alleged in
terview upon the Sampson -schley con-
troversy which was accredited to him
by a Kansas City newspaper. The in
terview quotes Captain Forsyth as say
ing the trouble in naval circles is due
to the fact that Admiral Sampson was
prom oted over the heads of seventeen
capable officers who We're his senior in
rank
ceived a letter from the navy depart
partment, but declined to speak fur
ther for publication.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-04
SHOT AND BURNED.
One More Negro Pays the Custo-
mary Penalty.

Troy, Ala. Sept 4.-Bil Tourney, alias
Bill HilIiard, a negro charged with as
saulting Miss Wilson. at Chestnut Grove
was shot and his body burned by a mob
near the scene of his crime today.
Miss Wilson, who is Is or II years of
age, and the 12-year-old daughter of DIR.
Carroll. were on their way to school at
Chestnut Grove, just across the line, in
Coffee county, when they were overtaken
by the negro. He seized Miss Wilson,
and the little girl ran on. As she did 50
the negro fired his pistol at her, but
missed. The little girl raised the alarm.
and soon posse was in pursuit OF the
negro. When they reached the scene of
the crime they found Miss Wilson un-
conscious and terribly lguised in the face
and about the head
The. posse tracked the negro to his
home where he was found in bed The
little girl identified him, and he was
then taken out and shot and his body
burned Miss Wilson is in a precarious
condition. The sheriff and three deputies
left last night for the scene of the crime.