— Ohio River pilots strike for an increase of fifty per cent in wages.
— An American syndicate is negotiating for the famous Clyde shipyards.
— The Democrats are moving their headquarters from Chicago to Washington, D. C.
— In an address at Havana, General Gomez indorses Palma as presidential candidate.
— A $50,000,000 zinc smelter trust is being formed, to include mines in southwestern Missouri.
— Japan decides not to ask for a loan of money, preferring to economize and get along without it.
— Indians at Watonga, O. T., got drunk the 24th ult., and drove out the entire white population.
— The United States battle-ship “Kearsarge” leaves New York, to join the North Atlantic squadron.
— The striking miners re-establish their camp near Nortonville, Ky., and defy State troops to dislodge them.
— Thursday, November 28, was celebrated as Thanksgiving day throughout the United States, her colonies, and by Americans abroad.
— Reports of the 26th ult. state that Captain Lawson’s company of the Nineteenth Infantry, U. S. A., “has captured an insurgent fort on Bohol Island.”
— The United States government purchases for $15,000 the site of the San Juan battlefield, Santiago, Cuba, for a reservation. Later on it will be converted into a beautiful park.
— The mine operators of Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania, met at the Auditorium, Chicago, the 26th ult., and agreed to increase the price of soft coal 25 cents a ton.
— As the result of a boiler explosion in the Penberthy Injector Company’s plant, Detroit, Mich., the 26th ult., twenty-six persons were killed, twenty-six injured, and fifteen missing. The three-story structure was demolished.
— On the 29th ult. the Liberals surrendered the city of Colon to Captain Perry of the United States battle-ship “Iowa,” who held the place until the arrival of General Alban, with a Colombian force. The Americans then returned to Panama.
— A Boer “rescue meeting” is appointed for Sunday, the 8th inst., in the Auditorium, Chicago, “to protest against the British reconcentrado camps.” Bourke Cochran, of New York, will speak upon the subject, “What President Roosevelt Can Do.”
— A Paris dispatch of the 29th ult. states that Maître Labori and Colonel Picquart are no more the friends of Dreyfus, the former being now “on the high road to become a popular hero with the anti-Dreyfusards.” It will be remembered that Labori was the chief lawyer for Dreyfus, and was shot by the anti-Dreyfusards during the famous trial at Rennes.
— The Greek Cabinet resigns “as a result of the demonstrations against the proposed translation of the Gospels into modern Greek,” rioters having stoned the residences of the Ministers. In her visits among the wounded Greek soldiers during the Greco-Turkish war, Queen Olga found that they could not read the Bible in the classical Greek. She therefore ordered it translated into modern Greek.
— A Philadelphia, Pa., dispatch of the 25th ult. states that Mrs. Mary Clarke De Vore, a returned missionary from Utah, “startled the Presbyterian ministers’ weekly meeting in Witherspoon Hall to-day.” She said: “I come to you as a woman with a price set on my head by agents of the Mormon Church; whose footsteps are dogged by them even in your city, and who dares not go out after dark, even in Philadelphia, for fear of being attacked by these men.” For fifteen years Mrs. De Vore has been associated with the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, going to Hiram, Utah, in August, 1900. According to her statements she has been assaulted, shot at, and persecuted in numerous other ways by the Mormons.
— The German Reichstag reassembled at Berlin the 26th ult.
— A severe gale swept the Long Island and New Jersey coasts the 24th ult., causing much damage.
— The President Roosevelt signs the order placing the rural free delivery system under civil service regulations.
— Great enthusiasm for President Roosevelt was shown at a dinner to Sir Thomas Lipton, given in London, the 25th ult.
— An unknown person paid $8,669 into the United States treasury the 25th ult., stating that he owed the government that amount.
— Father Crowley, of Chicago, apologizes to Cardinal Martinelli, and will be reinstated as priest, after doing penance at a monastery.
— Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese ambassador at Washington, scores the American newspapers for their stand on the Chinese exclusion law.
— The Berrien Springs Oil and Gas Co. struck oil on George Dean’s farm, two miles east of Berrien Springs, Mich., the afternoon of the 30th ult.
— Colonel A. D. Anderson, originator of the World’s Fair idea at Chicago, committed suicide by drowning himself in the Potomac River at Washington, the 25th ult.
— A Washington dispatch of the 30th ult. states that David B. Henderson, of Iowa, was on that day elected Speaker of the House of Representatives by the Republican caucus.
— Mr. Patterson, an Englishman, secretary of Sixto Lopez, the well-known Filipino, was deported from Manila the 26th ult. by the authority of the United States, “for refusing to take the colonial oath of allegiance.”
— Lockjaw resulting from vaccination, causes three more deaths in Camden, N. J., making “ten in all from the same cause in that city during the past three weeks.” It really begins to look as if it would be safer not to be vaccinated.
— Battle Creek, Mich., now boasts of having within its limits, or near by, eighteen health food factories. This boom in the manufacture of health foods is due primarily to the original effort of the Sanitarium managers to furnish proper foods to their patients and helpers. “Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!”
— A San Francisco midnight dispatch of the 30th ult. says: “At least fifty lives were lost here late to-night by a collision of the ferry steamers ‘San Rafael’ and ‘Sausalito,’ in a dense fog. The ‘San Rafael’ was sunk, but the ‘Sausalito’ is now being towed up the bay. Tugs have gone to the scene of the collision, which is off Alcatraz Island.”
— On the 29th ult. the German Reichstag defeated a proposal to prohibit the transatlantic steamers from beginning voyages on Sunday. The Secretary of the Interior argued that “in the face of the great efforts now being made by foreign countries to secure the world’s carrying trade, Germany must not go to this extreme for the sake of Sunday rest.”
— The newspapers state that the majority of the Republican members of Congress oppose any tariff concessions to the Cubans, hoping thereby to compel the annexation of Cuba to this republic. A Washington dispatch of the 29th ult. states that “one of the oldest and wisest members of Congress” states that the pledge to grant Cuba her independence was a mistake, and that “Cuba ought to be annexed to the United States. It controls the Gulf of Mexico, and it is the key to the Nicaragua Canal. If the Cubans want trade advantages, if they want to secure the United States as a permanent market, . . . there is just one way to do it, and that is by coming into the United States.”
— The night of the 27th ult. emigrant train No. 13, west-bound, on the Wabash Railway, and passenger train No. 4, east-bound, collided, near Seneca, Mich., seventy miles south of Detroit. Both trains were going at full speed. It is estimated that eighty persons were killed or burned to death in the wreck. One of the engineers evidently made a mistake in reading his orders to sidetrack at Seneca. The railway officials do not admit the loss of life so great as that reported. Passengers on the two rear coaches escaped all injury. The lawlessness and carelessness prevalent in these last days makes any voyage a truly dangerous undertaking.
— A Washington dispatch of the 30th ult. states that Germany may be compelled to force an indemnity from Venezuela, but that the Monroe Doctrine will be strictly enforced by the United States. In the words of the dispatch, “the policy of this government, in case of a war between Germany and Venezuela, is clearly defined. It will be demanded that there be no unnecessary occupation of Venezuelan territory, and least of all will there be permitted any pledges of territory to redeem the German debt. In other words, Germany may knock at the doors of Venezuela for its pay, and, failing to get it, may enter, but the United States would put Germany out if she stayed beyond a reasonable limit for the settlement of the debt.” Since this country claims the right to force an indemnity from Turkey, Bulgaria, or any other European Power, should it be deemed necessary (see dispatch quoted in News and Notes, REVIEW of November 12, page 741), it cannot well hinder Germany or any other nation from collecting bills on this side of the water.
