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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 4, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 49.

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—November corn reached fifty cents a bushel in Chicago markets.

—It is reported that Li Hung Chang is seriously ill at Shanghai, China.

—The United States monitor “Nevada” was recently launched, at Bath, Me.

—A large sugar refinery, costing $1,000,000, has started operations at Sugar City, Colo.

—The National Good Roads Association has been organized, with headquarters in Chicago.

—Bulgaria has asked France for a loan of 25,000,000 francs for the purpose of re-organizing the Bulgarian army.

—Agents of the British army are about to purchase 50,000 more horses in the United States, for use in South Africa.

—Senator Clark, of Montana, is at the head of a company building a railroad from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Los Angeles, Cal.

—Samuel L. Clemens, better known as “Mark Twain,” recently secured the suspension of a New York cabman’s license because the latter had outrageously overcharged a lady friend.

—The year 1901 will doubtless witness several polar expeditions. William Ziegler, of New York, will equip one, while Dr. Nansen and the Duke of Abruzzi will conduct a joint expedition. Still others are planning expeditions to the north pole.

—After being thoroughly tested by mechanical and military expert engineers, Count Von Zeppelin’s famous air ship has been purchased by the German government. It is a long, cigar-shaped affair, composed of seventeen separate balloon compartments, and is 407 feet long and 39 feet in diameter; it carries five persons, weighs 22,000 pounds, and cost over $200,000. The fastest time made with it was five miles in seventeen and one-half minutes.

—Civil engineers are in great demand in Porto Rico.

—The Philadelphia Evening Call has made an assignment, and ceased publication.

—The woolen mills at Tiffin, Ohio, were recently destroyed by fire. Loss, $100,000.

—A landslide recently destroyed five large soft-coal mines north of Clarksburg, W. Va.

—Emperor William, of Germany, will shortly visit Queen Victoria, at Aberdeen, Scotland.

—Damage to the extent of $200,000 was done to Colorado Springs, Colo., by a recent cyclone.

—Many Indians in southern California are starving because of the failure of the crops by drought.

—Because of a strike, 900 men are out of work at the Plano Harvesting Company’s plant, West Pullman, Ill.

—The government of Venezuela has recently received 10,000 Mauser rifles and 3,000 cartridges from Germany.

—By getting a corner on eggs, dealers are getting thirty-five cents a dozen for them in Salt Lake City, Utah.

—George Scott, of the dry goods firm Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company, died of typhoid fever, November 27, aged 71 years.

—It is reported that “Chile will reduce her navy, selling one vessel to Ecuador, another to Peru, and two others to Japan.”

—Aguinaldo is again reported dead, General Trias signing his name as “commander-in-chief of the insurgent forces.”

—The Ohio Valley is suffering from a flood caused by continuous rains. At Cincinnati the river rose eight feet in twenty-four hours.

—Winston Churchill, who accompanied the British army in the Transvaal, will deliver 100 lectures in America, beginning at New York, November 12.

—The Standard Oil Company has obtained, for the sum of $2,000,000, concessions for the sinking of oil wells and the carrying on of business in Rumania.

—Letters have been received from Lieutenant Peary, the arctic explorer, which were written in March, 1900, from the “Windward’s” winter quarters in northeast Greenland. He reports that all is well.

—After carefully studying the condition of Minnesota forests, timber dealers say that the present stand of timber in that State will last about fifty years; but the black walnut and white pine are nearly exhausted.

—It is said that “the largest single order for paint brushes ever placed in this country, was given by the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, to a Baltimore, Md., firm—385,000 brushes, which will fill seven ordinary freight cars.”

—The United States Treasury Department has decided to admit the lace makers sent to this country from England by Dowie, on the ground that they will be starting a new industry in the country, and also because it is claimed that the lace makers manufacture their own thread.

—Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst, D. D., who has been much exercised over “irresponsible newspaper writers,” who do not sign their names to reports of interviews, and over newspapers and their methods in general, has announced that a New York syndicate will shortly begin the publication of an “ideal newspaper,” which will be absolutely fearless and truthful.

—According to General MacArthur “the strife [in the Philippines] is likely to continue for several years to come, the Tagalos especially being irreconcilable.” It is also said that “the War Department is urging General MacArthur to adopt more drastic measures.” It is estimated by the United States Treasury Department that the war in the Philippines is costing about $112,000,000 annually.

—A London dispatch dated November 29, says: “The De Wets Dorp garrison of two guns of the Sixty-eighth Field Battery, with detachments of the Gloucestershire and Irish Rifles, 400 in all, surrendered at 5:30 P. M., November 23. Our losses were fifteen men killed and forty-two wounded, including Major Hansen and Captain Digby. The enemy [the Boers] is said to be 2,500 strong. Four hundred men were dispatched from Edenburg to relieve De Wets Dorp, but they did not succeed in reaching there in time.” This disaster has “sent a thrill of alarm through Great Britain.”

—Commenting upon the fact that in Belgium, and other nations of the European continent, penalties are imposed on those who, having the right to vote, do not avail themselves of it, the Union Signal says: “A similar law in the United States would probably have two effects: a large revenue would be raised; and the man who neglects his duty in this line, and then complains that municipal government is rotten to the core, would find himself silenced.” And the Union Signal is, doubtless, not the only paper that thinks it would be an excellent idea to copy after Belgium and other European nations in this respect. With such ideas prevailing, how long will it be until the United States will be as devoid of true personal liberty as are the continental nations whose example she is seeking to imitate so much of late years?