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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Sep 11, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 37.

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NEWS AND NOTES

— Sweden is negotiating for a $10,000,000 loan in this country.

— Continued wet weather threatens the potato crop of Ireland.

— It is thought that 20,000 Chinese were killed at the siege of Tientsin.

— On the Island of St. Helena 4,000 Boer prisoners are being cared for.

— The United States battle-ship “Oregon” has been ordered to Woosung, China.

— A strike on the Taff Vale Railway, in Wales, has caused a coal famine in England.

— A new elevator now being constructed at Duluth, will hold 3,750,000 bushels of grain.

— The Chinese admit a loss of 3,000 men during the siege of the foreign legations at Peking.

— Steamers from Glasgow will be quarantined twelve days at New York, because of bubonic plague.

— The price of coal has advanced thirty per cent in Newfoundland, the demand exceeding the supply.

— New York firemen will be furnished megaphones, to use in talking from tall buildings to the chiefs in the street.

— Leo Rassieur, of St. Louis, was recently elected commander-in-chief of the G. A. R., at the reunion in Chicago.

— The Union Pacific Railroad offers $1,000 reward for each of the four men who robbed a train near Tipton, Wyo.

— Soldiers of the Connecticut militia are suffering from skin troubles, caused by the poison from the dye of the khaki uniforms.

— War between rival companies in Chicago has reduced gas to sixty cents a thousand feet, and the rate may drop to forty cents.

— Negroes have filed damage claims amounting to $185,000, for being assaulted and maltreated in the late race riots of New York City.

— A United States war-ship has arrived at Tangier, Morocco, to enforce a claim arising out of the murder of a naturalized American citizen.

— The viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, telegraphs that good rain continues to fall, but that cholera still rages in many districts of that country.

— Four electric automobiles, carrying twelve passengers each, are now making hourly trips through Central Park, New York, and up Riverside Drive to Claremont.

— The coal famine in Germany is serious. The Prussian cabinet has modified the tariff on foreign coal, in order to facilitate importation from England and the United States.

— Sahehib Bey, head of the Cipher Bureau of the Turkish Foreign Office, has been appointed Turkish minister to the United States, in place of Ali Ferrouh Bey, recalled.

— The United States transport “Lawton” has returned from Cape Nome, with 220 passengers, two thirds of whom are destitute miners returned at the expense of the government.

— Arthur Sewell, Democratic nominee for vice-president in 1896, and famous ship owner, died at his summer home, Small Point, about twelve miles from Bath, Me., September 5, of apoplexy.

— All the telephone companies in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Idaho, and Arizona, which are associated with the parent Bell Company, have been consolidated in one corporation, with a capital of $15,000,000.

— The United States Department of Agriculture is procuring a good supply of the best varieties of foreign wheat used in the manufacture of macaroni, with the expectation that the use of them in this country will stimulate the home manufacturing industry.

— Elevated railways in Chicago and New York are using a device whereby their passengers are carried from the street to the elevated stations, without walking. Twenty-seven persons can be carried up simultaneously, making a total passenger-carrying capacity of 3,000 an hour.

— The submarine boat “Holland,” built by private parties, has been sold to the United States government. Orders have since been given to build five similar boats. Of course, armor-plate manufacturers object to the submarine boats; for, in their own words, “If they succeed, Congress won’t appropriate for so many ships.” Without a doubt, the submarine boat has come to stay.

— The population of St. Louis is reported to be 575,238.

— Six hundred ore handlers on Cleveland, Ohio, docks are on a strike.

— The Lehigh Valley Railroad will not hereafter allow newsboys on its trains.

— The number of men participating in the recent G. A. R. parade in Chicago was 35,000.

— The forest fires, which were raging in the Yellowstone National Park, have been extinguished.

— It is rumored that Russia will “seize Manchuria, Germany Shantung, and Japan Korea or Amoy.”

— The first maker of vaccine quills, Wm. Lawrence, died at Coscob, Conn., August 25, aged ninety-two years.

— The present population of Boston, Mass., is 560,892, against 448,477 in 1890, an increase of 112,415, or 25.07 per cent.

— India is suffering from “one of the worst outbreaks of cholera ever recorded,” the people dying at the rate of 7,000 a week.

— The Brooklyn bridge has dropped two and one-half feet, the heat having expanded the cables; but it is perfectly safe.

— F. H. Cooper, of the Siegel-Cooper Company, New York, will found an American Department store in London, England.

— Farmers in Cass County, Ind., have blown the toll-house to pieces, and opened the Burlington turnpike road to the public.

— It is reported that “enlistments in the United States army have been phenomenal since the beginning of trouble in China.”

— Because of President McKinley’s inability to attend the G. A. R. reunion, in Chicago, W. J. Bryan declined to be a visitor.

— With the exception of four towns, every town in Cuba was represented by the teachers attending the Harvard Summer School.

— All railroad crossings in New Jersey now have a flagman, and a sign over the roadway tells the hours during which he is on duty.

— The Cuban flag floated over Santiago de Cuba, August 25, for the first time since General Shafter ordered it hauled down in 1898.

— Since Spain has shifted the Philippine load onto Uncle Sam’s shoulders, receiving her $20,000,000 therefor, she is making rapid strides toward prosperity.

— A combine has been formed to control all the zinc business of the country. The New Jersey Zinc Company are the chief promoters of this new trust; capitalization, $60,000,000.

— During the years 1890–94 Chicago’s mortality record was 126,804, or a yearly average of 25,361, during the years 1895–99 there were but 117,531 deaths, or an average of 23,516 each year.

— Russian troops in the far East are on the way to China, to the number of 375,000, and mobilization is in progress all over European Russia. At Odessa fourteen steamers are chartered to take troops.

— In certain parts of South Africa, the bitterness between the Boers and those speaking the English language is so great that the Americans have adopted badges, showing the public that the wearers are Americans.

— A Lorenzo Marques dispatch, dated August 28, reports heavy fighting between the Boers and British, at Machadoorp, in which the former were “defeated with great loss, leaving their guns and ammunition in the hands of the British.”

— The Westinghouse Electric Company has secured the contract to equip, with American motors, an electric railway that is to skirt Lake Geneva, in Switzerland, and run through the Alps. The line is being built by an American syndicate.

— A London dispatch says that Great Britain is “alarmed by the prospect of an epidemic of bubonic plague.” Two persons have died of the dread disease at Glasgow, Scotland, and ten families have been quarantined by the medical authorities.

— News from Washington, D. C., says that the officials of the State Department “are now convinced that the territorial integrity of China is seriously menaced by the secret plans of some of the Powers whose armies are operating in the yellow empire.”

— Armour and Company have received an order from the Russian government for 6,000,000 pounds of “beef on the hoof,” the largest order in the history of Chicago’s meat trade. The cattle will be shipped to China from San Francisco, via Hawaii and Japan.

— The new United States battle-ship “Alabama” made an average speed of seventeen knots an hour, during four hours’ continuous steaming, running each hour a full knot above the contract requirement. She was built by the Cramps, of Philadelphia, and made her test trip August 28.

— President McKinley has invited former Presidents Harrison and Cleveland to accept appointments on the international board of arbitration resulting from the Hague Peace Conference. At that conference each of the signatory Powers was authorized to appoint four members of the international board.

— In eleven days over 2,000 shells fell among the delegations in Peking.

— Sousa’s band has closed its European tour, and returns to the United States in a few days.

— An electric car at Northville, Mich., was recently stopped by thousands of cricketers being on the rails.

— The Amsterdam papers are urging the Boers to “wage a relentless war against Britain, and to spare no Britisher.”

— For the first time since the Dreyfus trial, the French government will send officers to the grand German manœuvres, this fall.

— The largest gun ever built in this country, and having a reach of fifteen miles, has just been tested before army officers, in South Bethlehem, Pa.

— In point of population, Detroit, Mich., is now the thirteenth city in the United States. The population is 285,704, against 205,876 in 1890, an increase of 38.77 per cent.

— George Greville, British minister at Bangkok since 1896, has been appointed minister to Mexico, succeeding Sir Henry Dering, who has been appointed British minister at Rio Janeiro.

— Owing to the severe windstorms on the inland lakes, a great tidal wave recently swept the shore of Lake Michigan, causing the water to recede 100 feet from some parts of the Illinois shore, and then to rush back again. The Chicago River level fell and rose about four feet.

— The American crusade for the export of United States coal to foreign countries, has opened with an order from England for 75,000 tons, for shipment via Baltimore. Orders for 200,000 tons of coal have recently been received from Italy, by the Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Company.

— Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller, the well-known author of “Bird Ways,” “Among the Tree-Tops,” and books of like character, wears a green gown and a leafy hat when she goes to the woods to study the habits of the feathered songsters, sitting motionless for hours, in order to observe them closely.

— A dispatch from Washington, Ind., dated August 27, states that “at the Odd Fellows picnic at Glendale, near here, to-day, one hundred persons were poisoned by eating ice cream that had been made in tin cans.” Three came very near dying, and “all were in a critical condition for several hours.”

— Bishop Watters, president of the national Afro-American council, recently stated before that body, at Indianapolis, Ind., that “prejudice against the race [colored] is on the increase, but advised negroes to be submissive, and work out their salvation through industry, education, and character.”

— At the agricultural exhibition just opened at Toronto, Ontario, among other historic exhibits, is a sample of pears grown on pear-trees planted nearly 200 years ago, at Walkerville, Ontario, near Detroit, Mich. It is said that the trees from which the fruit was gathered are sixty feet in height, and have a girth of eight feet.

— Vice-Admiral Seymour (British), in a letter printed in the London Express, concerning the march to Peking, says: “The Germans we admired most; but for dash and go, none surpassed, or perhaps equaled, the Americans. The French had no particular rapprochement with any other nationality. The Germans and the Russians were inclined to hold together; but the Americans were with us always.”

— The engagement of Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland, to Prince Frederick Adolf, of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, is announced. Prince Adolf is only eighteen years old, two years the junior of the queen. He succeeded his father as reigning duke, April 10, 1897. It is said that he is a good-looking boy, accomplished, manly, and modest. Mecklenburg-Schwerin is a principality on the northeast coast of Germany. It has an area of 5,135 square miles, and a population of 596,857.

— There are more than 300,000 persons engaged in the United States in the culture of bees, and the annual value of apiarian products is in excess of $20,000,000. There are 110 apiarian societies in the country, and eight journals devoted to the industry. It is further said that “the present existing flora of the United States could undoubtedly support, with the same average profit, ten times the number of colonies of bees it now supports. That means an industry of $200,000,000 a year, supporting 3,000,000 healthy, happy workers.” England is the chief buyer of American honey.

— Catholic papers in Italy are now busy publishing statements to the effect that some months before his death the late King Humbert made overtures to the Vatican for reconciliation. According to the Rome correspondent of the London Daily Express, Humbert “wrote to Cardinal Giuseppe Prisco, archbishop of Naples, requesting that a trustworthy priest be sent to hear his confession. A priest was sent, but absolution was refused unless Humbert would agree to abdicate and give up Rome. The king asked time to consider, as he was anxious to receive the sacrament,” and “it was this communication to the priest that induced the Holy See to grant Christian burial. King Humbert’s letter to Cardinal Prisco will be published. A circular note from the Vatican to the Catholic powers declares that so long as Italy contests the rights of the Holy See, the pope will recognize Victor Emmanuel as king of Sardinia only.”