NEWS AND NOTES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 7, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 32.

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—Berlin, Germany, has a special department of theater censorship.

—President Castro has officially declared the re-establishment of peace throughout Venezuela.

—The Portuguese government has sent two regiments of soldiers to China, to guard her interests there.

—A Chinese tael is about two thirds of one dollar. In 1891 it was worth about $1.05 in American gold.

—Russia has declared martial law in the military districts of Siberia, Turkestan, and Semirechinsk.

—During the week ending July 29, 180 Filipinos were killed, and 60 captured; American losses, 10 killed and 14 wounded.

—Joseph Mayer, for many years the Christus of the Oberammergau Passion play, has been elected mayor of Oberammergau.

—In northern Mindanao, the killing of one American soldier was the cause of the death of eighty-nine rebels and the shelling of the town of Oroquieta.

—It has been stated by a Chinese general at Peking that the foreign ministers are held by the Chinese government as hostages, and that their death will follow a foreign advance on Peking.

—Strict precautions have been taken to prevent further outbreaks of rioting in New Orleans, by the ordering of troops to the armories, and the swearing in of five hundred special policemen.

—The war in South Africa is degenerating into guerrilla warfare, the Boers refusing to accept battle with superior forces, orders having been given to the commanders to fight only small bodies of the British.

—The British House of Lords has passed the bill empowering Queen Victoria to prohibit the exportation of arms and ammunition to any country, when “there is reason to believe that they may be used against the British forces or foreign forces co-operating with them.”

—Thursday, August 2, an attempt was made upon the life of the shah of Persia, Muzaffer-Ed-Din, who has been visiting the Paris Exposition. The attempt was made by an Italian, and “strengthens the belief in the boast of anarchists that they have marked four crowned heads of Europe for death. German officials believe the anarchist threats, and will take drastic measures to suppress the ‘reds’ in their jurisdiction.” The shah was unhurt; and having assisted in turning over the anarchist to the police, said, “I’d like to have a photograph of that man.”

—King Humbert, of Italy, was shot and instantly killed, at Monza, Sunday evening, July 29, by an Italian named Angelo Bressi. The king had been attending a distribution of prizes in connection with a gymnastic competition at Monza, one of his summer palaces. He had just entered his carriage with his aide-de-camp, amid the cheers of the crowd, when he was struck by three revolver shots fired in quick succession. He fell back, and expired in a few minutes. The assassin was with difficulty saved from the fury of the populace. King Humbert was born at Turin, March 14, 1844. Though he was really Humbert IV, by his own wish he was styled Humbert I. His father was King Victor Emmanuel, who died in 1878. April 22, 1868, Humbert married the Princess Margherita, of Savoy, daughter of the late Duke of Genoa. Her influence upon him for good can not easily be estimated.

—Chinese laundries in Chicago have failed, because of lack of patronage, due to race prejudice and the reported atrocities in China.

—Planters from Hawaii will endeavor to induce negro laborers to emigrate to that country, offering them traveling expenses and thirty dollars a month.

—Australia has sent $2,500,000 in gold to the San Francisco mint. Four more similar shipments are to be made, and will be paid for in Eastern exchange.

—The total strength of the United States army in the Philippines, June 30, was 63,426 officers and men. Of that number, 31,821 are regulars, and 31,605 volunteers.

—It is said that the governors of the Chinese provinces of Hunan, Hupi, and Honan have openly joined Prince Tuan, of the Boxers, and that they are marching overland with their armies, to Peking.

—The Chinese minister at Washington has received a dispatch stating, on the authority of two Chinese viceroys, that the foreigners in Peking were alive July 9, and under the protection of the government.

—It is reported that “an unfavorable impression is caused at Berlin by attempts of the Russian press to create distrust of Germany, in connection with the Chinese question. The inspired German organs insist that Berlin does not oppose the plans of St. Petersburg in the Chinese Empire, and that the future will demonstrate Germany’s perfect accord with Russia in Asia.”

—According to statistics, Spain has this year appropriated “for the support of the monks and secular clergy eleven million dollars of the public money, while for school purposes only three million dollars has been allowed. The monks are well nourished, and the school-teachers are well-nigh starved.” This is what Catholicism has done for Spain. July 11, 1892, there was published in this country, in the New York Sun, a letter from the Vatican, announcing the plans of Leo XIII respecting the United States, and through this, the world. In this letter are these words: “What the church has done in the past for others, she will now do for the United States.”

—About 50,000 German settlers inhabit a district in southern Brazil named Blumenau. It is said that “all these work hard, and are well to do and virtuous. There is only one prison; the jailer is well paid, but in the last five years there has been only one prisoner. The people have absolute faith in one another. Few visitors go there, and all the news comes through foreign papers. There is neither gas, electricity, nor telephones. There are no locks on the doors of the hotels. In the restaurants food is spread out on the counters; each helps himself to what he wishes, and deposits what he owes as he goes out.” This information comes from New York’s most reliable Christian weekly.

—A most curious proposition is that suggested from Switzerland, to unite Switzerland with the United States. A United States consul in that country has sent a publication to the government at Washington, in which an article says: “Though there are dark sides in the United States, it is full of the air of freedom. Switzerland would lose nothing if she should become a State of the United States of America. It is a well-known fact that the several States of the American Union are much more independent than the several cantons of Switzerland. . . . All she would have to do would be to send her representatives to Washington. . . . It remains to be seen what the Americans will say about this alliance with Switzerland. For a long time they have tried to gain a foothold in Europe!” Commenting upon this, the Christian Advocate says: “When it is considered that Switzerland exists only by the neutrality and consent of the surrounding Powers, and when the Monroe doctrine is taken into the account, nothing can be more fantastic. A State of the United States in the center of Europe, inaccessible by sea! Switzerland would lose something; but it will never have the opportunity. No one is jealous of it now. If it has to suffer from the protective tariffs of certain European countries, it must bear it.”