p. 12 | NEWS AND NOTES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 9, 1900

NEWS AND NOTES

—One hundred thousand tons of apples are raised each year on British soil.

—Between 250,000 and 300,000 pounds of garlic are annually consumed by Italian, French, and other foreign residents of the United States.

—The authorities at the Paris Exposition have averted a strike among the side-show concessionaries by agreeing to arbitrate existing differences.

—General Viljoen has succeeded Louis Botha in supreme command of the Boer forces, and was recently reported to be moving toward Hectorspruit, with 3,000 men and thirty guns.

—It appears that considerable liquor is being sold in the large department stores of the country. In one New York store alone "over 17,000 bottles of beer and liquor were sold in one day, and drunk in rooms on the premises."

—During the South African war the Boers had, up to September 1, captured 281 British officers and 7,288 men, of whom 235 officers and 6,196 men have escaped or been released. One officer and eighty-five men died in captivity.

—September 25 the United States War Department ordered General Chaffee to reduce the American forces in China to a legation guard consisting of a regiment of infantry, four troops of cavalry, with rapid-fire guns and a light battery; the rest of the American troops are to be sent to Manila.

—It is suggested that the United States Federal government "take measures toward raising Commodore Perry's ship ‘Niagara,’ which lies on the bottom of Lake Erie, just north of the harbor of Erie, Pa. The hulk of the ‘Niagara’ is plainly visible when the water is clear, and it would not be a very expensive operation to raise it."

—Dr. Joseph Parker, the famous London pastor of England’s leading Congregational Church, is about to retire from the ministry. Dr. Parker established the City Temple in 1859, and received his degree from the University of Chicago. He inherited great strength and a fine physique, and does not know the meaning of the word “ill.” He will be seventy-one years of age next April.

—One thousand members of the Amalgamated Wood Workers’ Union, of Chicago, have refused to go to work because of the expressed determination of the manufacturers to return to the nine-hour working day. As a result, thirty-seven shops, out of a total of forty-nine, are idle, the other eleven having signed the eight-hour agreement. Any attempt to employ non-union men will, according to the wood workers’ officials, be followed by sympathetic strikes by the engineers of the various factories.

—September 18 we stated in these columns that “railroad trains were stopped nearly two hours, September 11, between Grand Junction and Glenwood Springs, Colo., by herds of deer on their way south.” That is what the newspapers said; but one of our brethren, C. H. Dailey, living at De Beque, Colo., writes: “As I am employed as telegraph operator on this line, [the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad] between Grand Junction and Glenwood Springs, I am in a position to know that this is not correct. My train register shows that nearly all trains were on time the 11th. The deer have not yet started south; they are still up in the hills, and will remain there until snow drives them down. I write this, as I know you do not wish to publish anything that is not the truth.” We are grateful for the correction.

—“The Powers are divided in policy as to how China is to be dealt with,” says the Christian Herald (Detroit), “but they are agreed that she must pay for the destruction and trouble she has caused. Estimates are being made. Italy, it is said, has figured it out that she must be reimbursed for expenses in the amount of $7,500,000. The pope wants $12,000,000 for Roman Catholic missions destroyed. England, it is thought, will demand about $12,000,000 on war and missions account. France, it is said, will be content with less than $5,000,000, and probably the United States will not ask more. Germany’s bill is not to be guessed at, for no one can surmise what amount of money will be demanded on account of her minister’s death; however, $12,000,000 can not be far astray if the figures of other nations are anywhere near the mark. The whole amount is $65,000,000. It looks as if China will be bled to death.”

—The Western Union Telegraph Company has 21,000 offices in America.

—October 18 is to be celebrated as Thanksgiving day throughout Canada.

—Owing to lack of salary, the Turkish minister to Spain has resigned.

—Prince George, of Greece, has resigned as governor of the Island of Crete.

—Lord Roberts has succeeded Lord Wolseley as commander-in-chief of the British army.

—Sixto Lopez, Aguinaldo’s agent, arrived in New York, September 30, on his way to Boston, Mass.

—The sultan of Turkey recently received the shah of Persia at Constantinople, with elaborate ceremonies.

—The Japanese cabinet has resigned, and it is quite likely that Marquis Ito has succeeded to the premiership.

—The stockholders of the Illinois Central Railroad have decided to buy the St. Louis, Peoria, and Northern Railroad.

—Hon. S. N. Parent has accepted the premiership of the Province of Quebec, succeeding the late Premier Marchand.

—James Howard, declared to be guilty of the murder of Wm. Goebel, of Kentucky, is sentenced to be hanged December 7.

—Over $10,000,000 in gold bars is said to have been shipped by Kruger and his officials, to European banks, within the last few weeks.

—Governor Roosevelt and his campaigning party were attacked by a mob at Victor, Colo., September 26, but no one was seriously hurt.

—Lady Randolph Churchill’s son, Winston Churchill, of South African fame, has been elected Conservative Member of Parliament, from Oldham, England.

—Chas. T. Yerkes, of Chicago, recently bought the underground railway in London, England, paying $200,000 for the charter and $300,000 to the old company.

—Dr. David P. Barrows, of the San Diego, Cal., State Normal School, has been appointed assistant superintendent of public instruction for the Philippines.

—The first American coal ever purchased by the British Admiralty for war-ships, was unloaded at Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 3, and consisted of 2,500 tons.

—President Charles Kendall Adams, of the University of Wisconsin, has a year’s leave of absence, for his health’s sake, during which time he will receive half-pay.

—The secretary of the State of Texas has decided that “no corporation organized under the laws of another State can build, construct, or operate a railroad in Texas.”

—It is said that the Catholic church at Shamokin, Pa., has decided to mortgage all its property, if necessary, to relieve suffering among the striking anthracite coal miners.

—Great Britain has warned the Dutch government that if Mr. Kruger is allowed to carry bullion or state archives on board the Dutch war-ship, it will be regarded as a breach of neutrality.

—The steamer “Tacoma,” just from Cape Nome, with 525 passengers and $300,000 in gold dust, reports that the property loss from the recent storm will reach $1,000,000 in the Cape Nome district.

—September 27 the county treasurer at Merced, Cal., was forced to give $1,500 to robbers, who immediately locked him up in the vault. It is expected that he will live, though he was unconscious when found.

—Nearly 20,000 men are engaged in clearing the streets of Galveston, Tex. State troops will remain in the city until the work of rebuilding begins. Governor Sayers says that “the loss of life occasioned by the storm in Galveston and elsewhere on the Southern coast can not be less than 12,000, while the loss of property will probably aggregate $20,000,000.”

—It appears that “the emperor of China, which probably means the empress dowager, has sent a message to the German emperor, expressing regret for the murder of Von Ketteler, asserting that the deed was done by those whom the government could not control, saying that orders have been given for special sacrifices and libations in behalf of the deceased, and hoping that the German emperor will not cherish resentment. Emperor William has replied, demanding, as an evidence of good faith and as a necessary preliminary to further negotiations, that the perpetrators of the murder and the leaders of the uprising be punished.”

—Italy and Austria are the only Powers that have replied favorably and unconditionally to Germany’s note regarding the method of settling the Chinese trouble. The replies of France and Russia advocate the punishment of the originators of the anti-foreign assaults, but do not make their surrender to the Powers of Europe an absolute condition of the peace preliminaries, as Germany would have it. Japan takes a middle course, leaning toward Germany, while Great Britain declines to agree with Germany. Because of the attitude of the other great Powers, Germany has now modified her first demand; and this gives some prospect of a general agreement being reached.