NEWS AND NOTES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 27, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 9.

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FOR WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 24, 1900.

—Dr. Leslie E. Keeley, of “gold-cure” fame, died at his home in Los Angeles, Cal., February 21.

—There are said to be 250,000,000 eggs held in cold storage in Chicago, awaiting a rise in the market.

—After much difficulty, the express companies have consented to transport liquid air in small quantities.

—The Paris paper Eclair has been excluded from circulation in Alsace-Lorraine, the territory captured from France by the Germans in 1870.

—English agents are reported to be enlisting men in Lamsha, in Russian Poland. One party, it is said, has already gone to England. Each man receives ten shillings ($2.50) daily.

—A Boer force of 8,000, under General Cronje, is surrounded by 40,000 British, under Lord Kitchener, at Paardeberg, Orange Free State. Reports of Cronje’s surrender are unconfirmed by the British war office.

—Paul Neubaus, the globe trotter, in addressing a naval meeting lately, declared that Germany in fifty years had presented other nations with emigrants whose education had cost the empire 900,000,000 marks.

—The United States patent office issued 25,527 patents in the year 1899, including designs and reissues. The number of patents expiring in the year was 18,135. Connecticut took the lead in the number of patents issued—one to every 945 inhabitants.

—Henry Clay Frick, former partner of Andrew Carnegie, has sued the latter for $10,000,000 damages. It is said that in forcing Mr. Frick out of the company, Mr. Carnegie offers him but $6,000,000 for his share in the business, whereas it is really worth $16,238,000.

—Hotel rates in Paris are increasing at a rapid rate. Hotels where room and board formerly cost but three dollars a day, now announce that the price will be nine dollars a day after April 1. Prices of all kinds are likely to be higher during the Exposition than ever known before in that city.

—Two weeks ago Lynn, England, was saved a serious fire, by snowballs. Two officers discovering a blaze in the business district of the city, summoned a dozen others. The pipes were all frozen, and no water was obtainable. The officers bombarded the flames with snowballs, and, after two hours’ hard work, extinguished them.

—Practically all the members of the senior class at Yale have signed a petition to the university council asking that the sophomore secret societies be abolished. The petitioners assert that “Yale democracy is at stake by reason of the pernicious influence of the three sophomore societies which run all the way through the course.” The petition has caused tremendous commotion.

—Dr. Leyds, European agent for the Transvaal, has protested to the commander of Fiume, Austria, against the transport to South Africa of horses bought in the Austrian monarchy for the British forces. This protest has been successful in that the departure of the steamer “Mount Lebanon,” with a quantity of horses on board, from Fiume to Durban, has been “temporarily prohibited.”

—The Tripler Liquid Air Company has been organized in New York City, with a capital stock of 1,000,000 shares at ten dollars each. The new company has a factory in operation where liquid air is being manufactured in commercial quantities. The liquid air is being used daily in leading hospitals and for motive power. It is said that the cost of refrigeration in the United States is estimated at over $150,000,000 annually, and that by the use of liquid air, instead of ice, a saving of over one half is assured. For instance, “in the shipment of fruit from California, fifty-five gallons (500 lbs.) of liquid air per car will do the work of five tons of ice, with dry air instead of moist air, and will save more than $130 per car in ice and its freight.” And further, it is said that “for motive power on land and sea, liquid air will produce as great a percentage of saving for refrigeration, and relatively greater profits.” Of course these statements remain yet to be proved.

—The revolutionists in Venezuela have won another battle.

—The pottery interests of this country have now combined.

—Canadian railroads are urging American lines to adopt the twenty-four-hour-clock system.

—The woolen mills of Canada have combined, with a capital of $5,000,000, and have six-months’ orders ahead.

—The Mormons have selected 200,000 acres of land in Wyoming for a colony of 30,000, to leave Utah in March.

—Montreal’s minister of public works is opposed to the sending of more men to South Africa to assist the British.

—The glass-fruit-jar men have combined, and the product will hereafter be handled by but one agency, in Muncie, Ind.

—The German direct cable to this country, from Emden, via the Azores, to New York City, will be laid by a London company.

—The Western Union Telegraph Company has purchased all the lines of the Deseret Telegraph Company in Utah, Idaho, and Nevada.

—A steamer from Glasgow, Scotland, recently brought thirty-five Mormon converts, mostly young women, in charge of two elders of that church.

—Michigan owns the islands in Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, and some in Lake Huron, and has the largest number of copper mines in the world.

—Dr. A. S. Ashmead asserts that there are one hundred lepers in New York City, and also that it is useless to report leprosy cases to the board of health.

—It is reported that “France is seriously considering joining Russia, to oust England from Egypt, now that English officers are withdrawing from the Sudan.”

—One year ago $100,000 was stolen from Parr’s bank, London, England. Recently that institution has in some mysterious way received back the stolen money.

—President McKinley has appointed Judge William H. Taft, of Cincinnati, Ohio, president of the commission to organize a government for the Philippine Islands.

—There was an increase of 500 farms in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan last year. Evidently there is something to the country besides mining and lumbering.

—Dr. Gatling, inventor of the famous Gatling gun, is in Chicago, arranging for the manufacture of one of his latest inventions, an automobile plow that will do the work of eight men and twelve horses.

—General De Gallifet, French minister of war, speaking in the chamber of deputies in regard to recent improvements in the French army rifle, said that “France in six months will possess the finest rifle in the world.”

—The Detroit Christian Herald reports that “Battle Creek is becoming noted as the headquarters in the United States for the manufacture of peanut butter. Thirty car-loads of peanuts were contracted for in Virginia, which will be made into butter.”

—Electric fire engines are being built in Des Moines, Iowa, thus substituting electricity for steam, stationary boilers, etc. A connection can be made at any street corner with a street-car trolley wire, or an electric-light main wire, and power be secured immediately.

—All the hills on the right of Colenso, on the south side of the Tugela River, including Hlangwane, are said to be occupied by the British troops. Colenso has also been retaken from the Boers, and the British are endeavoring to surround General Cronje’s army.

—There are but one or two larger book-and-bond paper machines in the country than the one of the Bryant Paper Company of Kalamazoo, Mich., which was put into operation last month. The mills now turn out 225 tons of paper a week, and employ from 300 to 400 hands.

—The coal crisis in Russia is so serious that “the minister of finance was obliged to ask the permission of the czar to allow all railways to import foreign coal free of duty over all frontiers of the empire up to September 1 next, provided the coal be used exclusively in working the lines.” The imperial order to this effect appeared February 9. The deficit in the supply of native Russian coal this year is about 1,000,000 tons.

—Dr. D. V. Lucas, in a recent lecture in the First Methodist Church of Chicago, asserted that “the Transvaal was a republic in name only, and that if it had been modeled after the Constitution of the American Republic, there would have been no war.” He also said that “all Britons are indebted to the Fathers of the American Republic for that large measure of liberty they have to-day under the British flag.”

—The Northwestern Christian Advocate says that “over half of Europe to-day is without sufficient bituminous fuel to supply manufacturers and consumers. No city has suffered more than London, where prices have reached eleven dollars a ton. The poor of London are suffering the most. While the consumers are suffering, the coal-mine owners and large dealers are enjoying prosperity such as has not been known for over twenty years, but many small dealers have had to close their yards through inability to obtain supplies. Good household coal is practically unobtainable.”

—Prince Henry, of Prussia, was robbed by bandits while on his way to visit the king of Siam.

—It is said that at present the French press is doing its utmost to instigate England against Germany.

—General Otis will be relieved from duty in the Philippines as soon as the new commission arrives.

—Six Marconi wireless telegraph instruments, intended for the Boers, have been captured at Cape Town.

—Abdullah Hamid, the sultan of Turkey, intends to visit Emperor William, of Germany, on his way to the Paris Exposition.

—The Senate ratified the Hague Peace Treaty and the extradition treaty with the Argentine Republic, without objection or division.

—President Steyn, of the Orange Free State, has ordered that none of the English army medical staff or Red Cross bearers are to be taken prisoners.

—It appears that “the construction of the Trans-Persian railway is absolutely decided upon by Russia.” The railway is to be 1,300 miles long, and will cost 150,000,000 rubles.

—The cable-sounding-ship “Nero” found, between Guam Island and Manila, the greatest ocean depths yet recorded. She found a large area over which the soundings showed 5,260 fathoms (26,300 feet), about 260 fathoms more than had ever been found before. This area was named Nero’s Hole.

—It is said that “the pope told Right Rev. Arthur G. Riddell, bishop of Northampton, England, who was received in audience, February 7, that he (the pope) had no opinion to offer as to the rights and wrongs of the Boer war, but that certainly all British Catholics should be loyal to their country.” The papacy always votes with and for the winning side.

—The steamer “Empress of China” brings the news that the bubonic plague is gaining much headway at Manila, Philippine Islands. The outbreak is said to be causing great excitement there. The victims are Chinese who came by steamer from Hong-Kong, where the plague is still raging. During 1899 there were 1,486 cases there, and 1,428 deaths.

—The Havana correspondent of the Chicago Times-Herald writes that “the man who comes here expecting to find the people demanding the annexation of Cuba to the United States will be very much disappointed. He will be astounded at the strenuous demand for independence, and the strong feeling of resentment, unmistakably manifest, at the continued presence of Americans in control of the island.”