NEWS AND NOTES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 21, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 21.

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—There is a new insurrection in Santo Domingo.

—Wilmington, N. C., had a $150,000 fire the 11th inst.

—Smallpox is raging among the Indians of South Dakota.

—The Epworth League celebrated its twelfth anniversary last week.

—The Presbyterian General Assembly is in session at Philadelphia, Pa.

—The German army on the Russian frontier is to be “heavily increased.”

—There are in Japan 2,364 banks, with a total capitalization of $253,000,000.

—Grand Duke Michael, of Russia, is desirous of visiting the United States at an early date.

—A strike for more wages has been proclaimed by the Seamen’s Union, of Amsterdam, Holland.

—Villages in western Pennsylvania and West Virginia were recently injured by cloud-bursts.

—About 1,600 employees of the Reading Iron Company’s tube mill, Reading, Pa., are on a strike.

—It is reported that J. Pierpont Morgan is negotiating for the purchase of the Beaver Line of Steamships.

—A conspiracy is on foot in China to depose the present emperor, and replace him by the son of Prince Tuan.

—M. Henri de Verninac, vice-president of the French Senate, died the 12th inst. He was born May 18, 1841.

—The Filipino insurgents recently attacked Pagtibao, in Tayabas, “a province which was thought to be clear of rebels.”

—Barcelona, Spain, is the scene of serious anarchist and socialist riots, several persons having been killed and many injured.

—The German Reichstag has just granted 220 million marks “for the construction of a railway in German East Africa.”

—All of the large locomotive factories (except the Baldwin Works, of Philadelphia) have combined. Capitalization, $50,000,000.

—Dispatches from South Africa state that General De Wet has resumed operations, and crossed into the Transvaal with 2,000 men.

—A consolidation of several leather companies of Pittsburg and Allegheny, Pa., has been effected. Capitalization of the new company, $11,000,000.

—The first Federal Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia was formally opened at Melbourne, the 9th inst., by the Duke of Cornwall and York.

—The Hamburg-American steamship company has obtained control of the Atlas Steamship Line, whose ships ply between New York and Jamaica, Hayti, and Central America.

—The Independence Belge, of Brussels, Belgium, recently published “affidavits signed by Count Ferdinand Esterhazy admitting the authorship of the Dreyfus bordereau.”

—While recently addressing the Iron and Steel Institute in London, England, Andrew Carnegie declared that “unless American methods are adopted, Great Britain will lose all its trade in the steel industry.”

—President O’Connell, of the International Association of Machinists, has issued an order for a strike which will “involve over 500,000 men.” The demand of the machinists is “a nine-hour day with ten-hours’ pay.”

—Detroit, Mich., had an $800,000 fire the 12th inst.

—The German Reichstag has adjourned until November 26.

—The British Liberal party is hopelessly divided by factional quarrels.

—The British House of Commons has fixed King Edward’s civil list at $2,350,000.

—The cost-value of the various buildings now being constructed in Chicago, is $6,000,000.

—The attorney-general of the United States has ordered the closing of all gambling houses in Montana.

—The Waltham company has refused to go into the proposed watch trust, and the trust scheme has been abandoned.

—Rumors of the sale of the Red Star line, and the Atlantic Transport line, to J. P. Morgan, are as yet unconfirmed.

—A detachment of the Twenty-first U. S. Infantry defeated 150 Filipinos on the 10th inst., near Lubang, capturing many supplies.

—Because of its many reflections upon King Edward, the Irish People, a weekly published in Dublin, was recently seized by the police.

—The sessions of the Joint High Commission appointed by this country and Canada, to consider the Alaska boundary dispute, will be resumed in July.

—The French Chamber of Deputies has “voted to post the French revolutionary declaration of the rights of man, in army barracks and other official places.”

—Mrs. Lyman J. Gage, wife of the Secretary of the United States treasury, died at Washington, D. C., the 17th inst. She was ill about six weeks, with la grippe.

—Mrs. McKinley is in San Francisco, seriously ill. As soon as she recovers sufficiently to be able to travel, the President will return at once with her to Washington.

—The legislature of Hawaii has sent a memorial to President McKinley “requesting the removal of Governor Dole, on the ground that he has obstructed legislation.”

—Dispatches from China state that “the American troops have evacuated the districts in Peking under their control, with the exception of the Forbidden City, Germans and British taking their place.”

—On the 11th inst. Lord Kitchener reported “the killing, since May 5, of 28 Boers, the capture of 130, and the surrender of 183; 230 wagons, 1,500 horses, and large quantities of grain and stock.”

—The United States board of naval officers appointed to investigate the subject of wireless telegraphy has recommended the use of the same in the navy, instead of the use of carrier pigeons as at present.

—Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland, refuses to pay the many large bills run up by her recently acquired spendthrift husband. Because of this, the holders of his notes have offered them for sale in the Amsterdam market.

—The Italian parliament is considering the advisability of printing a new issue of postage stamps bearing the inscription: “Not to be delivered on Sunday,” similar to those issued by Belgium some time ago.

—Foreign dispatches state that two thousand merchants in Peking, China, have “petitioned for the retention of American troops in that city,” since the American methods of preserving order are “highly praised.”

—The Porto Rican exhibit sent to the Pan-American Exposition has been “seized by the Buffalo customs authorities on the exposition grounds, pending an investigation, the goods having entered the country without inspection at any customhouse.”

—Owing to the fierce struggle for control of Northern Pacific railway stock, the Wall Street stock market suffered, the 9th inst., “one of the worst short panics known in its history.” Many small investors were financially wrecked; but none of the great capitalists will acknowledge the loss of a single cent.

—Dr. Thomas Fillebrown, of Harvard University, after exploring the “interesting field” of “hypnotic suggestion in dentistry,” recently advised the Central Dental Association of New Jersey to make use of the same in their practice. Commenting upon this, the Springfield Republican well says, “To be actually hypnotized is good for no human mind.”

—Last year Egypt exported 65,000 tons of sugar, 55,300 tons coming to America.

—China desires thirty years’ time in which to pay the large indemnity demanded by the Powers.

—C. M. Schwab, president of the great steel trust, will give Pittsburg, Pa., a manual training school.

—The policy of government ownership of telephone lines in Porto Rico will be continued by the United States.

—The cadets at West Point are in rebellion against the commandant, Colonel Mills. They demand his removal.

—S. R. Callaway has resigned the presidency of the New York Central railway, and will become head of the locomotive trust.

—The thirty-fifth annual encampment of the Illinois G. A. R. opened at Peoria the 15th inst., 4,000 veterans being in attendance.

—Professor Coe, of the Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) hypnotized several members of his class in psychology, the 18th inst.

—There is money and profit in even an ordinary apple orchard, if it is well taken care of. Trim the trees, and plow the soil, to let the air in.

—The United States battle-ship “Ohio” was launched at San Francisco, Cal., the 18th inst., President McKinley being present at the ceremony.

—The street railway strikers of Albany, N. Y., are causing much trouble to the local authorities, having resorted to violence and the use of firearms.

—Two additional battle-ships and four cruisers have been sent to re-enforce the Russian fleet in Chinese waters, “in anticipation of serious trouble.”