p. 557 | NEWS AND NOTES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 28, 1900

NEWS AND NOTES

—Complete returns give the population of the entire city of New York as 3,437,202.

—An oil well at Medaryville, Ind., seventy-five miles from Chicago, produces 240 barrels of oil a day.

—The London Daily Express reports that Lord Roberts has already been appointed to succeed Lord Wolseley, as commander-in-chief of the British army.

—The Hon. William Lidderdale, ex-governor of the Bank of England, will come to the United States for the purpose of studying the American banking system.

—During the last year 2,400 duels have been fought in Italy, resulting in 480 deaths. Most of these combats were between army officers, and based on the most trivial pretexts.

—August 17, a white man having been killed by negroes in Liberty City, Ga., a race riot occurred, in which two whites and three negroes were killed, and a number wounded; troops now patrol the district.

—Fifteen Italian detectives are coming to the United States to shadow Italian anarchists in this country. Fourteen Italians were detained at New York, August 18, on suspicion of being in a plot to kill President McKinley.

—Lord Roberts has issued a proclamation warning all Boers that those who break their oaths in the future will be punished with death, imprisonment, or fine, and that buildings where the enemy is harbored will be liable to destruction.

—General Randall, Seattle, Wash., has received authority to send back the indigent sick and destitute from the Cape Nome district, at the expense of the United States government. He has already received over 3,000 applications for passage.

—It is said that, on August 18, “a Roman Catholic priest in Louisville, Ky., refused to celebrate mass for the late King Humbert, saying that Humbert had been excommunicated.” The Italians of the city appealed to Papal Delegate Martinelli, at Washington.

—It is reported that “diamonds, regarded by London dealers superior to those from South Africa, and valued at from twenty-five to fifty per cent higher than those found in that region, have been discovered at the diggings up the Mazaruni River, in British Guiana.”

—The bubonic plague has appeared in Manila, Philippine Islands.

—The czar will visit the Paris Exposition, as guest of the Russian embassy.

—Window-glass manufacturers have decided upon a ten-per-cent advance in prices.

—The Johannesburg mines will suspend operations, owing to lack of food supplies.

—With the present uncertainty existing in China, the Powers will take turns watching China’s fleet.

—Korea, according to a Seoul dispatch, consents to Japan’s sending troops there to provide for emergencies.

—The Japanese government has given permission to the United States to establish a hospital on Japanese territory.

—France is negotiating for one million tons of coal from the United States, to be delivered in the next fifteen months.

—The Adams Express Company was robbed of a $25,000 express package, between Chicago and Burlington, Iowa, August 20.

—The cost of the Philippine war since February, 1899, aggregates, to date, $186,678,000, besides the lives of 2,400 American soldiers.

—Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the noted African poet, was drugged and robbed, in New York City, the 21st inst., by one of his own race.

—Kansas farmers met in Topeka, last week, to form a trust and keep up the price of agricultural products. At the meeting $15,000 was subscribed.

—The present population of Omaha, Neb., is almost 40,000 less than it was ten years ago. In 1880 the population was 140,452, while this year it is only 102,555.

—Caleb Powers, secretary of State under Governor Taylor, has been convicted of aiding in the murder of William Goebel. The Kentucky jury returned the verdict in fifty-three minutes.

—And now it seems that “Russia’s occupation of New-Chwang, without adequate reason, caused the decision to land troops at Shanghai, in which Great Britain is supported by Japan.”

—It is said that “Germany is preparing for an autumn and winter campaign in China. One evidence of this is that a slow steamer has been chartered for December, to carry to China material for a sixty-mile field railroad.”

—President McKinley, members of the cabinet, ministers and ambassadors of foreign countries, and a great concourse of people, attended a memorial mass for King Humbert, in St. Matthews Catholic church, Washington, D. C., Sunday, August 19.

—Maitre Labori, the famous French lawyer who defended Dreyfus, will lecture throughout the United States next winter, his object being “to recuperate his fortunes, destroyed beyond repair in France, by his connection with the Dreyfus case.”

—A contract has been awarded to the Royal City sawmills at Vancouver, British Columbia, by the military authorities at Esquimalt, for the construction of 15,000 army huts. They are for use in China, especially during the wet season, and are to be made of wood.

—At the recent annual conferences of the Yorkshire Evangelical Union, it was stated that, of the 18,432 clergy of the Church of England, 9,731 are active upholders of ritualistic, or Catholic, principles. From 1888–98 the number of ritualistic parishes rose from 3,776 to 8,183.

—Andrew Carnegie has had constructed the largest locomotive in the world. The total weight is 391,400 pounds; its boiler capacity is 7,500 gallons; its steam pressure is 220 pounds; its heating surface is 3,564 square feet. The engine is not built for speed, but for power to haul coal, iron, and steel between Conneaut and Albion.

—A race riot occurred in New York City, on the west side, caused by the killing of a policeman by a negro, August 12. Three days after, on the 15th, “a mob took possession of Eighth avenue from Twenty-Eighth street to Forty-Third street, and spread to Ninth and Seventh avenues, through the various side streets, and beat and assaulted every negro man or woman they met. Negroes were pulled off from street-cars, rolled over in the street, kicked and beaten, and were almost murdered, before they could be rescued by the police. Long after midnight the streets were filled with rioters.” The number of persons injured, so far as known, is seventy-two.

—The employees of the Milwaukee Electric Railway Company are forbidden to wear celluloid collars, because of “a peculiar and serious accident that happened August 5. A motorman attempting to repair the motor of his car, which had burned out, the controller became charged with electricity. One end happened to come in contact with his celluloid collar. There was a flash, a ring of fire shot around his neck, and he fell unconscious. It is thought that he probably inhaled some of the flame. He was so seriously injured that he can not recover. The rule of the street railway is that its employees shall wear white collars, and nearly all the men wear celluloid collars, as they are the only kind they can keep white during the day.”

—August 18 a steamer arrived at Port Townsend, Wash., with $3,000,000 in gold from the Klondike.

—The ameer of Afghanistan is said to be mobilizing forces, and contemplating an advance on the Russian frontier.

—The six-masted schooner “George W. Wells,” the largest in the world, was recently launched at Camden, Me.

—Former United States Senator John J. Ingalls, of Kansas, died August 16, in Las Vegas, N. M. He was born Dec. 29, 1833.

—August 15 a telegraph operator’s neglect caused the loss of seven lives in a head-on collision, on the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, near Grand Rapids, Mich.

—President Loubet of France has decorated Ferdinand W. Peck, United States commissioner to the Paris Exposition, with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor.

—Lord Kitchener, after a forced march, has relieved Colonel Hoare and the British garrison at Eland’s River; the garrison had lost twelve men killed and fifty-eight wounded.

—August 17, during the burial of Collis P. Huntington, in New York, “every wheel and stroke of work throughout the Southern Pacific system of railroads and steamboats was stopped for seven minutes, as a mark of respect.”

—The police of New York City have discovered some small children who had been cruelly treated, starved, and beaten by their parents; and “in the case of all three of these children, their lives had been insured, for the benefit of the parents.” This is but one of the evils of life insurance.

—News from the Philippines says that “increased activity has been manifested by insurgents in the Visayan Islands during the last six weeks. The amnesty proclamation has had practically no effect. In Luzon the rebels are using smokeless powder, which they must have obtained by filibustering.”

—By a deal just closed, the Carnegie Company “will control the iron production of the Lake Superior region for the next fifty years. It has made a contract with the ore companies, calling for a total of 10,000 tons of ore a year. It is stated that all the rivals of the Carnegie Company, the American Steel and Wire, the Federal and Midvale, and other companies, will be compelled to depend upon the Carnegie Company for much of their ore.”

—Three young Filipinos have arrived at Ann Arbor, Mich., and will enter the University of Michigan. Two of them — Santiago Artiaga, of Manila, and Juan Tecson, of Bulacan — passed competitive examinations for scholarships, and are sent to the United States by the International Club of Manila. The third is a young lad named Lorenzo Orriabia, aged eleven. He comes of a fine family, and his father was killed while fighting against Spanish rule. Artiaga and Tecson will enter the civil engineering department.