p. 478 | News Notes

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Jul 23, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 30.

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— A $100,000 fire occurred at Enid, O. T., the 14th inst.

— In New York City the number of deaths from heat alone, from June 29 to July 6, was 989.

— Heat and drought in the southwestern part of the United States are destroying fruit and other crops.

— The democrats of Ohio have nominated Col. James Kilbourne for governor. Their platform repudiates Bryanism.

— The steamer “Erik” left North Sydney, Nova Scotia, the 17th inst., to search for Perry, the American polar explorer.

— From St. John’s, Newfoundland, comes the news of the “sinking” of the Gloucester fishing vessel “Winona,” off the Grand Banks, and the loss of eighteen of her crew.

— The Chinese government has filed a claim for $500,000 indemnity against the United States, “on account of alleged outrageous treatment of Chinese at Butte, Montana, in 1886.”

— As the result of the collision of an Alton passenger train from Chicago, and a live-stock train, near Norton, Mo., the 10th inst., seventeen persons were killed, and over forty injured.

— It is reported from Washington that the War Department recently received an official copy of the constitution of “the republic of Cuba.” It might be asked, in this connection, What is a republic, anyway?

— Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, informs London, by telegram, that “the rainfall in Bombay, the Deccan, the Central Provinces, Eastern Bengal, Burma, and Assam, has been generally sufficient for agricultural purposes.”

— Chinese dispatches state that “Pu Chun, the heir apparent, and other members of Prince Yuan’s family have gone to join the prince on the borders of Mongolia, where reports indicate that he is preparing a new movement against the foreigners.”

— On the 12th inst., M. Santos-Dumont, the Brazilian aëronaut, “successfully sailed his steering balloon, operated by a motor, from Saint Cloud across Paris, around the Eiffel Tower, and back to Saint Cloud, at an average speed of forty kilometers an hour.”

— In a recent speech in the Spanish Senate, the Duke of Tetuan, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs, declared that “the Liberals were responsible for the war with the United States and the recall of Weyler at a critical time, and that the present government could not be considered a guarantee for the integrity of the country.”

— Railroad statistics for the year ending June 30, 1900, show that there were at that time, in the United States, 193,345.78 miles of single-track railway, and “that 1,017,653 persons were employed by the railways, that 576,865,230 passengers were carried by them during the year, that the aggregate number of persons killed in consequence of railroad accidents was 7,865, and the number injured 50,320; 2,550 of those killed and 39,643 of the injured were employees of the roads.”

— Governor Allen, of Porto Rico, sailed from San Juan, for New York, the 13th inst. He has no intention of returning, so he says.

— Great damage has been done to crops in the Western States, by the hot wave. It is said that “the Kansas corn crop is virtually destroyed.”

— The farmers of northwestern Ohio report that they have harvested “the heaviest crops of hay and wheat ever raised in that section of the State.”

— Prince Chun, younger brother of Emperor Kwang-Su, is on his way to Berlin to “formally apologize for the murder of Baron von Ketteler.”

— The American Anti-Cigarette League, with a membership of nearly 300,000, began its first international convention in Buffalo, N. Y., the 11th inst.

— Of the German soldiers returning home from China, it is said that scores are being returned “as military prisoners, either for crime or for cowardice.”

— Dispatches state that “the drought in Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa has damaged crops to the extent of hundreds of millions of dollars.”

— C. D. Graham made a successful trip through the Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara Falls, the 14th inst., “in a barrel of his own construction.” This is said to be his fifth trip.

— Dispatches state that the Russian civil administration at Niu Chuang, China, has just “issued a proclamation declaring that the port had been annexed by Russia.”

— South African dispatches state that the British have captured, near Lindley, Piet Steyn, brother of ex-president Steyn, and twenty-eight other Boers. The ex-president himself barely escaped.

— Statistics show that “there are in Great Britain, connected with Wesleyan Methodism, 19,956 lay preachers, as against 2,152 ministers,” many of whom are said to be “very poor, so far as this world’s goods are concerned.”

— The servant girls of Chicago organized, the 11th inst., a union to be called the Working Women’s Protective Association of America. It is the first union of its kind in the country, and is “backed by the organized labor of the city.”

— July 14 was celebrated throughout France, it being the anniversary of the capture of the Bastille. Personal observation leads us to believe that the average Frenchman, in his celebration of the 14th of July, is more patriotic and enthusiastic than is the American in his celebration of the Fourth.

— “The extent to which gambling is indulged in England,” says the Northwestern Christian Advocate, “is shown by the statement that $100,000,000 a year is spent on this vice, of which $50,000,000 comes from the pockets of the working classes. This fascinating vice seems to be spreading everywhere. In the United States it is growing rapidly, and numbers among its victims many women.”

— An exchange states that on the night of July 10 “more than a hundred followers of John Alexander Dowie went to Evanston [Ill.] to extol Dowieism and ‘Zion’ through street-preaching. All attempts on the part of Evanston city officials to dissuade them from their purpose were unavailing, and all requests that they should leave town were disregarded, even after mob tendencies developed in the street. Disorder became so rampant that, as a last resort, in order to clear the streets and maintain order, the fire company was ordered out, and the hose turned on Dowieites and mob alike. The crowd scattered, and many of the drenched elders and deaconesses of the Dowie party were arrested, and taken to the police station for safe-keeping. Dr. Dowie, before promulgating his Zion propaganda in Chicago in the early nineties, was a resident of Evanston.”

— One of our exchanges, the Northwestern Christian Advocate, says that “the enormous consolidation of capital in the United States Steel corporation, known familiarly as the ‘billion-dollar steel trust,’ seems about to be paralleled by an equally significant labor move, President Shaffer, of the Amalgamated Association, having ordered a strike in all the United States Steel Corporation mills, the strike to go into effect this week. This order was issued after a week spent by representatives of the union workmen and of the corporation, in attempts to arbitrate differences. The final break in amicable relationships came, not on refusal on the part of the corporation to pay the union wage-scale, but on the corporation’s refusal to employ only union men. If the strike becomes effective throughout the steel corporation’s factories and industrial concerns, it will doubtless be the greatest strike known in American history.”

— The Chicago post-office receipts for the past year were nearly $8,000,000.

— The American Cereal Company will increase its capital stock from $3,400,000 to $10,000,000.

— By the first of September a trust will doubtless have been formed, to control the output of bituminous coal.

— The United States revenue war tax collections from June 13, 1898, to May 31, 1901, amounted to $310,053,363.

— The Italian government has informed the State Department of the United States that it pays no export bounty on sugar.

— According to the British Blue Book on India, 18,390,000 pounds sterling were expended in relief of famine in that land during the years 1899, 1900.

— An exchange says that “the Seventh-day Adventists have decided to take their children out of the public schools and establish parochial schools.”

— Andrew Carnegie is now Doctor of Laws, by virtue of a degree recently received from Glasgow University, Scotland, in connection with the celebration of its 450th anniversary.

— The white union salmon fishermen on the Fraser River, British Columbia, recently captured sixteen Japanese fishermen, and “marooned” them on “an island whose location they will not reveal.”

— The present population of Scotland is 4,471,957, an increase of 446,310 inhabitants since the census taken ten years ago. This is the first time that Scotland’s population has exceeded that of Ireland.

— Recently a notice was posted in a church in West Kensington, London, advertising the sale of five pews, which possessed certain “advantages,” one of which was that “the contribution box is not passed to them.”

— Berlin dispatches state that the German government has adopted “the single tariff system in respect to all commercial treaties,” its decision to that effect having been communicated to Great Britain and this country.

— Mr. Wilson, United States Secretary of Agriculture, predicts that within ten years the United States will produce all of its own sugar, and that “any one of the States of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, or Nebraska could produce from beets all the sugar needed in the United States.”

— The New York Observer observes that “four hundred human lives, $75,000,000, and 200 ships have been lost in fruitless efforts to find the north pole. And yet there are people who criticise the spending by the Christian churches of a few millions in missionary exploration or world-wide evangelization.”

— According to reports from London, many English publishers will open branch houses in the United States. Some will even transfer their headquarters to this country, leaving but a branch office in England. All this simply because many English books published in London find in the United States their best market.

— The report of the United States Bureau of Navigation shows that “during the eleven months preceding June 1, 1,024 steam and sail vessels of 359,789 gross tons, were built in the United States. Of this number, 640 were constructed on the Atlantic and the Gulf, 135 on the Pacific, 93 on the Great Lakes, and 156 on the Western rivers. The gross tonnage of the period mentioned is thirty per cent more than for the same period of last year.”

— There has been organized, at Lewiston, Me., what is called the Co-operative Association of America, or “a trust for the people.” This organization “proposes to furnish employment to members of the association, who are termed ‘co-workers.’ A deposit of $300 constitutes co-workership.” Among the things provided for are a market, grocery and general wholesale business, etc. Of course, we do not vouch for the association, not knowing anything further about it.

— Allowing a period of forty-three years for the payment of the Chinese indemnity, the total sum to be paid by China (interest included) would thus amount to 890,000,000 taels, or $639,020,000. The payment of the principal is to begin the fourth year. It is the desire of the Chinese, however, to complete the payment of the indemnity in a shorter time than the forty-three years decided upon by the foreign ministers at Peking. Through an error on the part of those making up the claims, China, in her hasty acceptance of the figures, has agreed to pay 35,000,000 taels, or $24,500,000, more than the total indemnity demanded by the Powers.

— A petition has been sent to the French Chamber of Deputies, “calling attention to the American Steel Trust, which threatens disorganization of the French metal industry, and calling for reprisals.”

— It is proposed to take a census of the Philippine Islands “as soon as quiet is restored.” The new census will doubtless reveal a much smaller population than that which existed under Spanish rule, as this country has been more successful in exterminating the natives.

— According to the Maryland Bureau of Statistics, there were packed in that State, in the year 1900, 33,600,000 cans of tomatoes, of an average of three pounds each; 11,400,000 cans of corn, of two pounds each; 11,200,000 cans of peas, of two pounds each; and 19,200,000 cans of peaches, of three pounds each. The value of total pack of fruit and vegetables for the year amounted to about $15,000,000.