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The Story of Victoriano Lorenzo.

DROGAS PURAS

COMPLETO SURTIDO DE MEDI-
CINAS de PATENTE PEDIDAS
DIRECTAMENTE á las FA-
BRICAS. DESPACHOS

DE RECETAS ESME

RADAMENTE

ATENDIDOS.
PRECIOS
Módi-

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AVENIDA CENTRAL, No. 81.

BOTICA INGLESA.

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ENGLISH PHARMACY.

No. 81, CENTRAL AVENUE.

Abraham Martínez, Proprietor.

PURE
DRUGS.
COMPLETE
ASSORTMENT OF

PATENT MEDICINES
RECEIVED DIRECT

from the MANUFACTURERS
PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY
AND PROMPTLY COMPOUNDED

PRICES MODERATE.

either leave the country, or return to their homes unmolested. Lorenzo believing himself secure under this proclamation made no effort to hide, or flee the country. By the authorities however, he was regarded as an unsafe man, and later through the efforts of Gen. Benjamin Herrera he was apprehended and turned over to the Colombian officials.

He was held a prisoner for some months during which time on one occasion he made his escape only to be recaptured the same day. It is believed by some that the escape was "arranged" in order that an additional charge might be secured against him. In 1903, after the country had become tranquil again, a commission was despatched from Bogota with orders to execute Lorenzo. On May 14, 1903 he was condemned to be shot for committing robberies and assassinations, and performing acts contrary to civilized warfare. Moved probably by a spirit of

fair play, the Governor, foreign consuls and prominent citizens endeavored to secure a mitigation of the sentence, but the Bogota commission declared they were acting der specific orders to have him executed, and he was accordingly shot in the Plaza de Armas on May 15, 1903.

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Sign Treaty of Peace on "Wisconsin”.

In April, 1902, the Archbishop of Bogota issued an encyclical under the authority of the Catholic Church of

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Colombia, in which it was stated that in order to show a christian spirit, avoid further bloodshed, and to end the bitter struggle that was ruining the country, the Liberals would

Sign Treaty of Peace on "Wisconsin".

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be granted immunity and forgiveness, provided they would lay down their arms and agree to peace. They were also promised equal rights, representation and personal freedom without prejudice to their opinions. This letter did not have immediate effect in bringing hostilities to a close, but later in the year after an exchange of numerous communications between the Liberal and Government leaders, a satisfactory understanding was arrived at, and on the 21st of November, 1902, a treaty of peace was signed on board of the United States battleship "Wisconsin", Capt. Casey Commander, in Panama harbor. In bringing these negotiations to a conclusion, Gen. B. Herrera represented the Liberals, while Gen. Victor M. Salazar, then Governor of Panama, Gen. Alfredo Vasquez Cobo, and Gen. Nicolas Perdomo, the latter being the special envoy from Bogota, represented the side of the Government.

Applied for Annexation.

Under date of November 28th, 1899, before the revolution had broken out on the Isthmus, the Star & Herald printed the following Washington dispatch:

"Panama has applied for annexation, but in view of the fact that Panama is not an independent republic, the authorities deem it advisable not to jeopardize the friendly relations of the Bogota Government with this country, and the application has been filed."

POLYGLOT

PANAMA.

From the day of discovery until now the Isthmus has only been a landing place and porterage for those that came and went, and who wished most heartily it had been an open sea instead. Captains of ships all the way from the dinky old galleons to the floating palaces of the present day have found it an interposition of Divine Providence, in their opinion uncalled for. Panama hav

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Story of the Youngest Republic.

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STORY OF THE YOUNGEST REPUBLIC

With Some Side Lights on the Historic Drama of 1903, in which the Interests of three

Countries Were Involved.

Although four years have clapsed since the Republic of Panama took its place in the ranks of the world's free and independent nations the dramatic events that led up to and surrounded the secessionary movement have never been clearly understood. Links have been missing, and some perhaps are still missing, in the chain of circumstances, the forging of which began with the negotiations for a canal treaty between the United States and Colombia; reached the white-heat stage in the revolutionary incidents of 1903, culminating in the tempered and finished period of the

ing a cosmopolitan population peculiar to itself is not strictly
speaking a sea-faring community. The linguistic accom-
plishments of its people has often been remarked. It is
rare to find among the educated classes a
person whose
means of expression is confined to one tongue or language.
It is not unusual to hear half a dozen languages used at
once in any chance crowd. Gibraltar with its "rock scor-
pions has a world-wide reputation for a Babel of tongues,
while large cities like London, New York and Paris
brace widely different races, but we venture to say for its
size there is no successful rival in this small world of ours
equal to the polyglot city of Panama.-From the Panama
"Star and Herald", January 26, 1877, at that time edited
in three languages.

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