NEWS AND NOTES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 21, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 34.

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—British troops, numbering 28,480, are proceeding from India to China.

—General MacArthur reports 3,775 American soldiers sick in Philippine hospitals.

—The shah of Persia has ordered a Gardner-Serpollet steam automobile for his personal use.

—Rev. Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, founder of Robert College, Harpoot, Turkey, died in Portland, Me., August 10.

—An agent is visiting Nevada, Utah, and Montana, to secure 3,000 cavalry horses for the German army.

—The health department of Chicago recently condemned 75,000 pounds of poultry shipped from St. Paul.

—The Haitian government has decided to furnish lights to its cities, and not to grant to corporations concessions for this work.

—The brother and the brother-in-law of King Humbert’s assassin are under arrest on the charge of foreknowledge of the murder.

—John Crosby Brown, treasurer of the Committee of One Hundred on India Famine Relief, reports that contributions aggregate $200,000.

—The fourteenth Atlantic cable will be completed this month, or early in September. It will connect New York with Emden, Germany.

—When Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews took formal charge of the University of Nebraska, two weeks ago, there was, at his request, no speechmaking, and no ceremony whatever.

—Battery O, with its seven-inch siege guns, the largest in the army, and 175 men, started from Fort Riley, Kan., for San Francisco, August 7, on hurry orders to proceed to China.

—The German Foreign Office has promised the Protestant League at Berlin to make representations to the Austrian government against the expulsion of Protestant clergymen from Austria.

—The Chicago dry-goods firm of Schlesinger and Mayer has installed an automobile bus line from the railway stations to its store, the fare charged being the same as by ordinary conveyances.

—The question is now being asked, Where is the Chinese fleet? Although four Chinese torpedo cruisers were captured by the allied fleet, before Taku, an entire squadron managed to escape northward.

—Speaking of the Chinese problem in connection with the United States, the Saturday Evening Post says: “If we get a slice of China, our ethnological collection will be the most complete in the world.”

—Official reports announce that “the Siberian railway is now open for traffic from Tcheliabinsk to Lake Baikal, a distance of 3,047 versts (a verst being 1,500 English feet), and also from Mayovaya to Syretenska, a distance of 1,034 versts.”

—Henry Hoffman, the oldest man in Pennsylvania, died recently at his home at East Butler, aged 105 years, 2 months, and 4 days. He was born in New Brunswick, N. J., July 6, 1795. When he was 102 years old, he cut two cords of wood a day. Up to a year ago he went hunting every fall, and always brought back rabbits, and sometimes a weasel, which are hard to kill. He never used glasses.

—An exchange says that “a Bank of England note is not of the same thickness all through. The paper is thicker in the left-hand corner, to enable it to retain a keener impression of the vignette there; and it is also considerably thicker in the dark shadows of the center letters, and beneath the figures at the ends. Counterfeit notes are invariably of only one thickness throughout.”

—Mr. William Pritchard Morgan, member of Parliament, sent a message to Li Hung Chang, urging that the allied troops be allowed to enter the capital, and stating that a settlement could be made at Tien-tsin. In reply, Earl Li Hung Chang said: “In case the troops advance, the Chinese must fight. The suggestion that the allies should be allowed to enter Peking in order to escort the ministers to Tien-tsin is absolutely impossible.”

—Speaking of the Chinese situation, Admiral Dewey said, August 9: “I regard the situation in China as exceedingly grave. The difficulties that our soldiers will have to contend against are many and various. The conditions that exist there are much the same as those in the Philippine Islands.” When asked whether, in his opinion, there was really a condition of war now existing between this country and China, he said: “I should say, Most assuredly, yes. They are killing our people, and our soldiers are fighting hard for their lives.”

—The Peruvian Cabinet, headed by Dr. Rivaguero, has tendered its resignation.

—Ninety-three horses fell dead, in the streets of Chicago, August 9, from the heat.

—It is reported that 7,000 native Christians have been massacred at Paouting, east of Peking.

—Andrew D. White, United States ambassador to Germany, is at present in this country.

—Impressive funeral services were held over the body of King Humbert, August 9, in the Pantheon, at Rome.

—Colonel Grassa, a Filipino insurgent, has surrendered his command of nearly 200 men to Colonel Freeman, near Tayug.

—Fifty lives were lost recently by the sinking of a torpedo-boat destroyer by a battle-ship, at the French naval maneuvers, off Cape St. Vincent.

—The People’s Co-operative Ice Company, with a capitalization of $200,000, has been organized in New York City, to antagonize the ice trust.

—The long period of dry weather has seriously affected dairy and market farms in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut.

—Sir Francis Richard Plunkett has been appointed British ambassador at Vienna, and Sir Henry Mortimer Durand will hold the like office at Madrid.

—A plot to shoot a number of prominent British officers, and to capture Lord Roberts, was discovered in Pretoria, and a number of arrests have been made.

—Since Harrismith has surrendered to General Macdonald, through railroad communication between Natal and the Orange River Colony has been re-established.

—London, England, is installing a new municipal telephone system, at a cost of $5,000,000. It is expected that there will be 40,000 subscribers at nominal prices.

—Lord Roberts reports that the Boers are flying before Kitchener and Methuen’s forces. Mafeking, however, is again threatened, and is preparing for another siege.

—Representatives of nearly every large publishing house in America have decided to form an association to maintain prices of books. Thus we have a book trust.

—It is reported from Bitlis, Asiatic Turkey, that 200 men, women, and children have been massacred in the Armenian village of Spaghank, by Turkish troops and Kurds.

—The average population of the United States is about twenty for each square mile, while that of China is about 200 for each square mile, or fifteen times greater.

—Count Lamsdorf, recently placed at the head of the Russian ministry of foreign affairs, has been appointed permanent foreign minister, succeeding the late Count Mouravieff.

—Of course, it is but natural to expect that the French press would be “furious at the appointment of Count von Waldersee to command the allies” in China. And all because Waldersee happens to be a German!

—Burning up gunpowder costs money. When President Loubet recently visited Cherbourg, the fleet gathered there fired 24,800 salutes. Each shot cost about twenty dollars, making the total cost for powder almost $500,000.

—The Russian government recently granted permission to M. de Giers, Russian minister at Peking, and his staff, to leave Peking under Chinese protection. The other governments have directed their ministers to hold out till relieved.

—Returns from the United States census enumeration in Chicago show that city to have a population of between 1,695,000 and 1,697,000. Taking 1,697,000 as the correct figure, the gain in population since 1890 would be 597,150, or fifty-four per cent.

—The building and business of Harper and Brothers were sold, August 9, at auction, for $1,100,000, to A. E. Orr, chairman of the Reorganization Committee, the sale being merely a formal transfer to get the property out of the hands of the receiver.

—It is said that “a committee appointed by the Civic Federation to examine into the work of public schools in Chicago, reported younger pupils overtaxed; too much mathematics in lower grades; only English should be taught below high school.”

—A negro mass meeting was recently held at New Orleans, La., at which resolutions were adopted, protesting against the departure of so many colored persons from the city because of the recent troubles, sacrificing homes and other property in order to do so.

—Kaiser William, of Germany, has “succumbed to the motor-car craze, and is busily engaged in the art of running an automobile. A German manufacturer has given him three cars, of as many shapes and designs, and it is his intention to travel to the summer maneuvers in Saxony in one of them.”

—The United States has agreed to pay Spain $100,000 more for the two islands of Subutu and Cagayan, near the Borneo coast in the Sulu Archipelago, Philippines. The mention of these islands was omitted in the treaty made at Paris, and, as the United States already has possession of the islands, “the present negotiation is by way of quieting the title, as lawyers would say.”