NEWS AND NOTES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Feb 19, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 8.

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— Great Britain is to send 30,000 more soldiers to South Africa.

— Former king, Milan, of Servia, died the afternoon of the 11th inst.

— The leading dressmakers of Paris are on a strike for shorter hours and higher wages.

— In Baku, Russia, 500 lives were recently lost in a conflagration of large tanks of petroleum.

— The proposal to increase King Edward’s income is meeting with bitter opposition in England.

— Reports state that Olive Schreiner, the author, and her husband, are prisoners in their Cape Town home.

— The public debt of the United States government, less cash in the Treasury, amounts to $1,094,595,878.

— In a battle at Tabaksberg Mountain, South Africa, the 11th inst., the Boers forced the British to retreat.

— Mormon missionaries have succeeded in getting Mormon books admitted to the public library at Reading, Pa.

— February 13 the plant of the National Glass Company, Rochester, Pa., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $1,500,000.

— Last year California shipped 22,000 car-loads of oranges and lemons, and produced 75,000,000 pounds of raisins.

— February 7 the Delaware House of Representatives passed “a bill to punish kidnappers of children by hanging.”

— Robert Arthington, of Leeds, known as a miser, recently left over $1,000,000 (250,000 pounds) to the London Missionary Society.

— The governor of Tennessee has signed a bill passed by the legislature, prohibiting in that State the manufacture or sale of cigarettes.

— In New York City there are 100,000 persons sick with la grippe; 100,000 in Chicago; 70,000 in Philadelphia; and 20,000 in Washington.

— In the opinion of General MacArthur, the election of President McKinley has not discouraged the Filipinos in their struggle for liberty.

— Anne Longfellow Pierce, sister of the poet Longfellow, died in the old Longfellow house in Portland, Me., the 25th ult., in her ninety-first year.

— The Swedish Congregational church of Brockton, Mass., recently voted to exclude from its membership those who would not withdraw from the various secret organizations.

— Maurice Thompson, the well-known author and poet, died at his home, in Crawfordsville, Ind., Friday morning at three o’clock, the 15th inst. He was born in Fairfield, Ind., Sept. 9, 1844.

— Judge Clarkson, of Omaha, Neb., a prominent Christian scientist, has “cast off allegiance to Mrs. Eddy,” and is “planning to establish a new sect with similar principles, but different applications.”

— Stirred by Mrs. Nation’s work, the citizens of Topeka, Kan., recently adopted an ultimatum, by a rising vote, that Topeka saloons must be closed at once, and all saloon goods and fixtures should be removed by noon, Friday, the 15th inst.

— A bill was recently introduced into the Tennessee Legislature “requiring that the teachers in all the educational institutions of the State shall be of the same race as the pupils.” The bill aims at the exclusion of white teachers from colored schools.

— Mr. Charles Langelier, of Ottawa, Ontario, has been offered a commission to proceed to St. Petersburg, Russia, “to examine papers bearing on the Alaskan boundary question, to strengthen Canada’s contention to a large strip of territory now occupied by the United States.”

— Count Seigey Smolianoff, inventor of smokeless powder, is a confirmed drunkard, and has just been condemned to the workhouse for three months. He was convicted in a Washington, D. C., police court, but showed no wish to mend his ways. He was at one time worth his millions, having received large sums of money from various governments for his invention, but at the time of his conviction, he could not furnish security for $500 for bail.

— Anti-Jesuit demonstrations occurred recently in Valencia, Spain, the Jesuit college being stoned by a mob.

— Europe is beginning to see that the business supremacy and prosperity of the United States is due to the fact that this country is not so burdened with militarism.

— The religious question in the Philippines will be brought to a crisis if the friars are restored; for in that case many natives will leave the Roman Catholic Church. In fact, many are already doing so.

— Now that Russia has taken Manchuria, American dealers will be obliged to find another market for the cotton goods heretofore shipped there; for “Russia, like the United States, has a protective tariff, and does not allow the ‘open door’ in her possessions.”

— While other companies have made bids for raising the United States battle-ship “Maine,” in Havana harbor, asking from nothing to $867,000 for the job, Chamberlain and Company, of Chicago, offer to remove the wreck for nothing, and, besides, will give the government three per cent of the selling price of the material, in the form of souvenirs.

— Dixie Thomson, the “bean king” of Ventura County, Cal., raised 1,300 car-loads of beans last year. He says that “the bean ought to supersede corn as an American staple crop,” since it brings larger returns, is “surer, more hardy, more nutritious, and less perishable, … will feed man and beast, and is not easily destroyed by drought or insects.”

— Mr. Herbert Welsh, of Philadelphia, a well-known philanthropist, “wishes that the religious papers could be brought up to the moral level of the Springfield Republican.” Commenting upon this statement, the Western Recorder says that the course of some of the religious papers “has done more harm to the cause of religion than a dozen infidels could do.”

— A depression of trade is sweeping over Germany. According to the Berlin correspondent of the London Daily Mail, “the mortgage banks are in a bad way, as is also the electrical industry. The iron trade is very slack; the wool-spinning trade is almost ruined, the cities are full of men out of work; and the calamity is so great that the magistrates have arranged for public works to employ the men.”

— Missionaries in Peking, China, have presented to the British Minister and the Minister of the United States “resolutions requesting them to see that former treaties protecting missionaries are reaffirmed, that the [Chinese] government should be forced to allow Chinese of any rank to accept Christianity without injury to their prospects, and that relief should be provided for Christian Chinese who have suffered loss.”

— Mrs. Isobel Strong, stepdaughter of Robert Louis Stevenson, is protesting against the establishment of an American saloon at Tutuila, an American island in the Samoan Archipelago. “Nine years spent in Samoa and eight in the Hawaiian Islands, have given her opportunities to see what liquor does when it is brought to the natives.” However, “the United States navy officials discredit the statements of Mrs. Strong.”

— At Beaumont, Tex., is a gusher oil-well, which, January 20, began spouting crude oil 200 feet into the air, at the rate of 25,000 barrels a day. It is supposed that this indicates that there is “a pond, or a lake, or a river, or something, full of oil, about a quarter of a mile below the surface.” Analysis of the oil shows that “it can not be refined into illuminating oil, but will make good fuel—the one thing which Texas needs to make it a manufacturing State.” This great gusher was partially controlled on January 16, and on the 19th the flow was stopped. Prospectors and capitalists are now rushing to Texas.

— It is stated upon reliable authority that the world is governed to-day by seventy-six rulers, and that “seventy-five of these are men, and only one a woman.” Of these seventy-six rulers “twenty-two govern as presidents; sixteen as kings; eleven as dukes; six as emperors; five as princes; and five as sultans. There are two khans, one of Baluchistan, the other of Khiva; two ameers, one of Afghanistan, the other of Bokhara; one queen, Wilhelmina, of Holland; one khedive, of Egypt; one shah, of Persia; one bey, of Tunis; one mikado, of Japan; one maharajah, of Nepal; and one rajah, of Sarawak. Edward VII, and his nephew, the grandson of the late Queen Victoria, William II, of Germany, are the only ones who have two titles—the one king and emperor, the other emperor and king.”