p. 447 | NEWS AND NOTES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 9, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 28.

Read the full edition

NEWS AND NOTES

— The Dutch Cabinet has resigned, because of the recent elections.

— Owing to another rebellion, martial law is again proclaimed in Panama.

— M. de Geers, Russian Minister to China, has been transferred to Munich, Bavaria.

— Japan's demand upon China for indemnity now amounts to 57,942,247 yen, or $28,855,239.

— The British coal tax was recently adopted by the House of Commons, by a majority of eighty-six.

— The Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, lecturer and writer, died at Ticonderoga, N. Y., the 25th ult. He was born Jan. 26, 1838.

— It is said that Great Britain is at present supporting about 80,000 Boers, “including prisoners and those in detention camps.”

— Shanghai dispatches state that “bandits have seized four walled towns near Mukden, Manchuria.” If this be so, Russia will take care of those towns.

— The steamer “Lusitania,” of the Orient Line, was wrecked off Cape Ballard, Newfoundland, the 26th ult. Its 300 passengers and entire crew were rescued.

— Owing to the refusal of the American Sheet Steel Company to sign the wage scale, a strike of 20,000 sheet-steel workers has been ordered by the Amalgamated Association.

— Count von Gerlachstein has been appointed as Austro-Hungarian Minister to Mexico. Thus are re-established diplomatic relations which had been severed since 1867, when Maximilian was shot.

— The Chicago newspapers report the recent arrest, and the sending to jail by a local justice in that city, of a little girl, for stealing a dozen old eggs from a nest near the tracks. She was too young to be even locked up.

— The empress dowager of China has declined to return to Peking, and given notice that “the future capital will be Kai-Fung-Fu, province of Ho-Nan.” The alleged reason for this is her fear of a plot to capture her should she return to Peking.

— Vaccination is now compulsory in Cuba.

— German Riesco has been elected president of Chili.

— Germany has secured an option on the Spanish island of Fernando Po.

— Korea has requested Japan to withdraw her officials from the country.

— On commencement day, 1,055 degrees were conferred at Harvard University.

— Judge Estee, of Honolulu, recently refused to naturalize a native of Guam Island.

— It is reported that Tientsin is “crowded with troops of all nations en route out of China.”

— The tariff treaty with Cuba is said to be “the next serious problem for Congress to consider.”

— The total amount of June gifts to the American universities and colleges is reckoned at $12,817,082.

— Lightning killed eleven men and boys the 3d inst., in a shanty on a Chicago pier, where they had gone to escape a storm.

— A train fell through a trestle near Peru, Ind., the 26th ult., resulting in the death of thirteen persons and the injury of forty-five.

— The steamer “Mohawk,” with 900 passengers on board, struck a rock off New Rochelle, the 1st inst., and sank. All passengers escaped.

— Buenos Ayres, Argentina, is under martial law because of “riots by those who objected to the government's plan of refunding the public debt.”

— During the great heat of last week as many as 219 persons died in one day in New York City. The number of persons prostrated by the heat each day was still greater.

— A New York City police magistrate released all drunkards brought to him the 3d inst., “on the ground that the unusual heat was a good defense against a charge of intoxication.”

— The steamship “Armenia,” of the Anchor line (bound for St. John, New Brunswick, from New York) was completely wrecked in a fog, near St. John, the 2d inst. No lives were lost.

— Earl Russell, grandson of a former premier of England, will soon be tried in the House of Lords, for bigamy. He secured his second wife in the United States, his first wife still being alive.

— Friday evening, July 5, followers of Dowie attempted to hold another meeting in Evanston, Ill. An angry crowd broke up the effort, and it took the entire police force to protect the Dowieites from the mob.

— The Sunday-closing law was so strictly enforced in Atlantic City, N. J., the 30th ult., that “for the first time since 1875 visitors were unable to obtain liquors at bars or in hotel cafés.” But it is just as bad to drink liquor on Monday, Friday, or any other day of the week as on Sunday.

— At a recent London banquet, Lord Salisbury characterized the present war in South Africa as England's “great crisis,” and said that “the failure of England to crush the Boers would expose the empire to the contempt of the world,” and that “the nation must remain inflexible in the mission it had undertaken of subduing South Africa.”

— M. Fournier won the automobile race from Paris to Berlin the 29th ult., making the distance from Hanover to Berlin in 11 hours, 46 minutes, and 19 seconds. He and the other five French automobilists were welcomed by 10,000 people of the German capital. Curious to say, the German bands played the “Marseillaise,” French flags fluttered everywhere, and cheers for France sounded from German throats “for the first time in half a century.” Many French people and papers, however, are already denouncing, in severest terms, these tokens of friendship between the two nations.

— It is asserted by members of the International Vegetarian Congress (opened in London, June 25) that “experiments made during the last three months at the Woman's Inebriate Home, at Tarquay, have demonstrated that a vegetable diet is an absolute destroyer of the liquor habit. Forty inmates of the institution, who entered confirmed drunkards, became total abstainers as a result of their daily fare, wherein flesh and fowl had no place. Further testimony was presented to the congress by Bramwell Booth, commander of the social branch of the Salvation Army. Mr. Booth says that inebriety among the London slum population has declined steadily and permanently wherever the people have been weaned from meat. The Salvationists will henceforth adopt vegetarianism as a fixed feature of their temperance work.”

— The 15,000 union employees of the hoop trust have received orders to strike.

— Fifty United States school-teachers have reached Manila, Philippine Islands.

— Andrew Allan, head of the Allan Steamship Line, died in Montreal the 29th ult.

— This year the British government will build three battle-ships, six cruisers, and ten torpedo-boat destroyers.

— There occurred, in Hongkong, China, during the week ending June 22, 152 deaths from the bubonic plague.

— Rochester, N. Y., strikers attacked a squad of fifty policemen the 26th ult., three strikers and thirteen policemen being injured.

— A street fight recently occurred in Lyons, France, between socialists and members of the League of Patriots. Many were injured.

— In maneuvering off the island of Tsusima, three Japanese torpedo boats collided the 25th ult., one of them sinking. Several lives were lost.

— The Leipziger Bank, Leipsic, Germany, has suspended payment. Liabilities, $12,000,000. This has caused a heavy drop in German bank stocks.

— The Porto Rican Legislature has passed a resolution asking President McKinley to “proclaim free trade for the island, as provided by the Foraker law.”

— The Baldwin-Ziegler north-pole expedition left Dundee, Scotland, the 2d inst., for Tromso, Norway, from which place it will start for the pole the 12th inst.

— Major-general W. R. Shafter, of the United States army, has retired from active service. General S. M. B. Young succeeds him in the command of the Department of California.

— The United States government will soon issue a book on the methods of warfare used by the great Powers, material for the same having been collected with difficulty by its agents abroad.

— The Mormons have secured a land grant of 100,000 acres in the Sierra Madre country, Mexico. It is also said that a Mormon temple in New York City is “under serious consideration for the near future.” Their leaders are discouraging Mormon centralization in any one place, encouraging their disciples to carry on a universal propaganda.

— The new University of Michigan calendar (printed at this Office) shows that next year seventeen languages, besides the English, will be taught in that institution. These languages are: Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Sanskrit, Hellenistic, Hebrew, Assyrian, Arabic, Gothic, Scandinavian, Old English, Aramaic, Syriac, and Ethiopic.

— Archbishop Keane, just returned from a visit to Ireland, says he is “optimistic as to the final outcome of the Irish struggle for self-government,” and believes that “Englishmen will continue to liberalize their policy until not only Ireland, but Scotland and Wales, will have their own parliament.” It is also, in his opinion, “a mistake to suppose that the people who are shaping the life of Ireland want absolute independence for that country. They are willing to belong to an associated British Empire, but they want home rule.” Should this come to pass, Ireland would enjoy about as much religious liberty and real progress as all other self-governing (?) Catholic countries.

— In an address before the Missouri State Baptist Young People's Union (Mexico, Mo., June 21), Rev. Johnston Myers, pastor of the Immanuel Baptist Church, of Chicago, made the following startling statements: “The Presbyterian Church shows a falling off, the Methodist Church is barely holding its own, and I believe, if the Baptists would tell the truth, our Church would show no better state. There is something wrong with the Church of to-day. This is why we have Christian Science, faith cures, and other strange doctrines. The people are looking for something the Church is not affording them—heartfelt religion. A variety of fads has swept the churches, and preachers have, in some cases, gone after them instead of souls. We have got the thing wrong. We hold two-weeks' special meetings during the year, in the winter time, for sinners, and fifty weeks of special meetings for Christians. It ought to be reversed. We are after sinners when we are doing our work as God would have us, instead of being after Christians. It is not the part of the Church to educate men, for thousands of university graduates go down to perdition. If I had a million dollars, I would give $100 to education, and the rest to salvation. The Church is to save men, not to educate them.”

— The Philippine Commission has decided, after long debate, that Spanish will be the official language in the Philippine courts during the next five years, after which time English will be adopted.

— The Netherlands government is planning to close and drain the Zuyder Zee. This work of reclaiming about 500,000 acres of land, worth $160,000,000, will consume between thirty and thirty-five years.

— The London Spectator is calling upon the Conservatives to “agitate for the reduction of Ireland's representation in Parliament by one third, so as to equalize it with that of England, in accordance with the latest census.”

— Forty-seven persons were killed and 1,813 injured in the celebration of the Fourth this year, in the United States, as compared with a total of 1,325 killed and injured in 1900. This does not include the deaths from lockjaw, which occur a week or ten days after the injury caused by the toy pistol or firecracker. The greater part of the casualties resulting from the celebration are due to this cause.

— Secretary of the Navy Long said, in a Fourth-of-July speech, that he did not know the author of the message to Rear-Admiral Dewey directing him to find and destroy the Spanish fleet in the Philippines, and as no signature appears on the original order sheet, and no official has come forward to claim the honor, the name of the writer of the famous dispatch is a mystery, and seems likely to remain unknown.