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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 19, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 47.

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NEWS AND NOTES

By A. J. B.

Leading Events of Week Nov. 10-16.

— The usual number of crimes this week.

— A new cable is being laid from Waterville, Ireland, to America.

— Municipal ownership of street railways is being agitated in Chicago.

— An earthquake was felt on the 15th inst. at Buena Vista, Colo.

— Miss Stone, the kidnapped American Missionary, is still a captive.

— Several houses at Erzeroom, Turkey, are wrecked by an earthquake.

— It is likely that General Weyler will be made temporary Premier of Spain.

— The town of Tower, Minn., is the first to erect and unveil a monument to Wm. McKinley.

— Episcopal preachers of Chicago denounced Sunday golf playing, in their sermons the 10th inst.

— The Cudahy packing plant at Kansas City, Mo., was destroyed by fire the 15th inst. Loss, $150,000.

— The headquarters of the National Civic Federation are removed from Chicago to New York City.

— The twelve buildings to compose the St. Louis fair will cost $6,750,000, and will cover 126 acres.

— A shower of leonid meteors was observed in several parts of the country the evening of the 14th inst.

— The Attorney-General of the United States is said to have “ordered suits brought against several trusts.”

— Count von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg, German Ambassador to England, is replaced by Count von Metternich.

— Diplomatic relations are restored between France and Turkey, the French fleet having left Mitylene.

— Bulgaria is notified by the United States that it will be held responsible if Miss Stone is killed by the bandits.

— The independent biscuit manufacturers met at Cincinnati, Ohio, the 11th inst., “to consider the formation of a combine.”

— President Roosevelt is urged to include in his message to Congress, a recommendation to abrogate the present treaty preventing the ship-yards on the Great Lakes from taking contracts to build war-ships.

— Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland, is very ill, and all her subjects are praying for her recovery. Should she die, the throne would probably be taken by the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, her second cousin, who is heir to the regal title.

— The usual number of safe-blowings and bank robberies this week.

— The usual number of fires, wrecks, and other accidents, this week.

— The Russian and German ambassadors return to Washington, D. C.

— American cavalrymen disperse 200 Filipinos in Batangas, killing sixteen.

— The employees of sixty paper mills in Fox and Wisconsin River Valleys plan to strike.

— The Glasgow Exposition closed the 12th inst. Total attendance, 11,496,622. Net profit, $400,000.

— The English coast was swept by a fierce gale the 12th inst., causing much loss of life and damage to harbors and shipping.

— General Kitchener reported on the 12th inst. 63 Boers killed, 105 wounded, and 104 taken prisoners, since the 4th inst.

— Chicago complains bitterly of its poor telephone service. The only remedy seems to be the starting of a rival company.

— It is proposed that two burial corps be established in the Philippines, “to ship the remains of soldiers to the United States.”

— Two of the Leavenworth, Kan., escaped convicts captured the officers pursuing them, took their guns, and made good their escape.

— A car-load of California “honey” made of glucose, and labeled as “pure clover honey,” is barred from the Chicago market by the pure food law.

— Governor Beckham, of Kentucky, scores Governor Durbin, of Indiana, for refusing to honor his requisition for the person of W. S. Taylor, ex-governor of Kentucky.

— Detroit’s federation of Christian churches considers the advisability of taking “a religious census of the city, the expense to be shared by the churches belonging to the federation.”

— Supreme Finance-keeper Thompson, of the Knights of the Maccabees, Port Huron, Mich., proves to be “a defaulter in the sum of $57,000.” His bondsmen will make the sum good to the order.

— A dispatch from Escanaba, Mich., dated the 16th inst., states that five asphalt beds have been discovered in the northern part of Delta County, which are said to be “equal in quality to the famous Trinidad product.”

— A Camden, N. J., dispatch of the 16th inst. states that “the eighth death from lockjaw, due to vaccination, has been reported. Citizens are up in arms, and are openly defying the school authorities, who are trying to compel vaccination of all school children.”

— The work of making the new 16-inch gun at the Watervliet, N. Y., arsenal is still in progress. When completed, it will be capable of hurling its projectile twenty-one miles. This “largest gun in the world” will be mounted at Fort Hamilton, in New York harbor.

— According to a London dispatch of the 16th inst., Great Britain will conduct no further negotiations with either Kruger or Stein. Lord Kitchener’s “system of blockhouses shutting away from Boer attack 14,800 square miles of the Transvaal and 17,000 miles of the Orange River Colony,” is said to be proving effective. It is believed that the funds of the burghers are running low.

— Disguised as Indians, robbers entered the house of Michael Johnson, a farmer living near Hammond, Ind., on the 14th inst., and secured $178. They then burned his lips with a candle to have him reveal where the rest of his money was. Had not a servant girl in an adjoining room escaped, the robbers would probably have remained to torture the old man and his wife to death, so sure were they that he had $10,000 hidden on his premises. In these lawless times it is safer for one to be poor than to be reputed wealthy.

— In its issue of the 14th inst., the Detroit Christian Herald quotes the following words recently uttered by the Rev. John M. Schick, President Roosevelt’s pastor: “Anarchy is the product of disbelieving discontent, and it may point its pistol at the breast of one prominent Christian in politics, but God will always have another Christian in politics, ready to take his place; and when this happens at the topmost pinnacle of American politics, the country, in the midst of its deepest sorrow, finds confidence in her institutions, and is comforted because God has there a Christian man in politics.” But, look where we may in the Word, it is impossible to find any record of Christ’s being in politics.

— American canned foods purchased for the French army are found to be spoiled.

— Some Chicago boys admitted in court the 14th inst. that they had “formed a conspiracy to kill a truant officer.”

— General Uribe-Uribe declares that the Colombian revolutionists are fighting “to insure United control of the Panama Canal.”

— It is once more reported that negotiations for the sale of the Danish West Indian Islands to the United States are “nearly completed.”

— On the 14th inst. the chief of police of Duluth, Minn., was indicted “for malfeasance in office in permitting saloons to run on Sunday.”

— In a lecture at the University of Chicago the 14th inst., Professor Laughlin “declared his doubts of the value of the classics in modern education.”

— Utah experienced some twenty earthquake shocks the 13th and 14th inst. Damage, $500,000; the damage in the town of Richfield alone being estimated at $100,000.

— Many vessels on the Great Lakes were compelled to remain in port on the 15th inst. because of a gale which had been raging three days. A number of wrecks are reported.

— The Secretary of the United States Navy, in his annual report, recommends “appropriations for twenty-two new war-ships, including three first-class battle-ships and two armored cruisers.”

— Dispatches of the 15th inst. state that the British Cabinet is “split over the Boer question;” that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is “harshly criticised by his associates,” and may resign.

— The American schooners “Nettie” and “Lottie” are seized by a Portuguese gunboat at Horta, Fayal, “for clandestinely conveying twenty-six immigrants who were trying to avoid military service.”

— During the afternoon of the 16th inst. Henri Fournier, the famous French chauffeur, “made a mile in his 2,000-pound gasoline automobile on Coney Island boulevard in the record-smashing time of 51 4-5 seconds.”

— Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts called on the President last week “to exercise his influence to secure the passage of the bill known as the ‘New Hebrides bill,’” the object of which is “the protection of the natives of the Hebrides and other islands against firearms and intoxicants.” President Roosevelt received Dr. Crafts with consideration, and promised to give the matter his careful thought.

— According to a Washington dispatch of the 16th inst., “the Isthmian Canal Commission, of which Rear-Admiral Walker is chairman, has completed its report. The signatures of the members were attached last night, and the commission is now ready to go out of existence. The report will be presented to President Roosevelt Monday for transmission by him to Congress. The commission is unanimous in its conclusions. It favors the adoption of the Nicaraguan route as the most feasible and most practicable for an isthmian canal to be ‘under the control, management, and ownership of the United States.’”

— A special dispatch from Atlantic City, N. J., dated the 13th inst., states that “a suicide club” has been formed in that city by a man from Newark, and that “the local society has thirty-four members, and over one hundred applications for membership have been received. . . . The by-laws state that once each year the members shall assemble at the place of meeting, and each member draw one bean from a jar. He who receives the black bean must, between the time of drawing and the next yearly meeting, commit suicide. A sum of money will be set aside to defray the funeral and other expenses of each and every departed member.” It would seem that there are already enough suicides each year, without any clubs to foster this form of crazy, gone-to-seed pessimism.

— In a test at Sandy Hook, N. Y., the 15th inst., the Gathmann dynamite gun proved a failure, while the twelve-inch army gun “produced results that may revolutionize naval warfare.” The test shot “drove a hole thirteen inches in diameter through a hardened steel plate eleven and one-half inches thick, and immediately thereafter, before the shell had got out of the steel cofferdam behind the plate, exploded, making a hole in the interior steel construction through which a man could run an automobile.” Imagine the effect of such a shot with its after-explosion upon even the best war-ship! The secret of making the high explosive used in this gun belongs exclusively to the United States. Since armor plate is now made as hard as possible, and as thick as the ships will stand, it will be of interest to note the inventions that will be made to counteract the effect of this new explosive. A. J. B.