p. 349 | NEWS AND NOTES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 29, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 22.

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NEWS AND NOTES

—The plague has again broken out in Japan.

—The street-car men in Dayton, Ohio, are on a strike.

—California raisin growers have combined to raise prices.

—The capitalization of the tobacco trust is given as $171,500,000.

—John Clark Ridpath, the historian, is very ill in New York City.

—The Olympic games, in connection with the Paris Exposition, began May 17.

—Coffee steamers are refused a landing at New Orleans, La., for fear of the plague.

—Berlin (Germany) newspapers will fight the paper trust by erecting a mill of their own.

—July 1, passenger fares on Washington State railroads will drop from four to three cents a mile.

—Stores were closed in Madrid, Spain, May 10, in protest against the government's taxation measures.

—Of the 15,000 immigrants who arrived in New York during the week ending May 19, forty per cent were Italians.

—Ex-queen Liliuokalani, of Hawaii, left Washington, D. C., May 15, for her home, with a retinue of servants and two automobiles.

—The United States health department reports smallpox in every State and Territory of the country, though not in a serious form.

—The steamer “Monarch” sailed from New Orleans, May 12, with 1,500 mules for South Africa, and the “Corinthia” carried 1,400 mules for British army officials.

—Julius Fleischmann, who will become mayor of Cincinnati, July 1, is only twenty-eight years old. When he was twenty, he was made a colonel on the staff of McKinley, who was then inaugurated governor of Ohio.

—Speaking of the relief of Mafeking, an exchange says: “The relief of a beleaguered city in South Africa relieves many people in all parts of the world. There were thousands shut up in Ladysmith, Kimberley, and Mafeking, that never saw those places.”

—William A. Clark, of Montana, resigned his seat in the United States Senate April 15, and was immediately appointed to fill the vacancy caused by his resignation, by Lieutenant Governor Spriggs, of Montana. The “trick up the sleeve” is creating quite a sensation throughout the country.

—Paderewski sailed from New York, May 16, with nearly 200,000 American dollars, as the result of his concert tour of 23,000 miles in this country. On reaching Europe, he will go to his villa near Lausanne, Switzerland, where he will complete his opera, “Manru,” which is to be produced in Dresden.

—The Boer envoys arrived in New York, May 15, and were warmly welcomed by crowds of New York Boer sympathizers. The President's cabinet, in discussing the reception to be given to the Boer delegation, decided “to make no unnecessary technical points against the delegates, but to treat them with as much liberality as is possible without a breach of the diplomatic proprieties.”

—The king of Belgium is visiting in England.

—Kaiser William has invited Sousa's band to play at his court.

—The grand vizier of Morocco, Ahmed Ben Mussa, died in Tangier, May 17.

—The Methodist Conference has decided that it is not necessary to kneel at prayer.

—The government of Peru has ratified the extradition treaty with the United States.

—The Australian Federation bill has passed its first reading in the British House of Commons.

—Owing to recent disturbances in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Parliament was prorogued, by royal decree.

—May 16 a man leaped to death from the Brooklyn Bridge, New York. He was the fourth person within a month to jump from the structure.

—By a narrow margin of two votes, the Massachusetts House of Representatives has decided not to abolish the death penalty in that State.

—The Russian minister to Korea has informed the Korean government that Masampho, in Korea, will be the winter headquarters of the Russian fleet.

—May 20, 500 Filipinos attempted to ambush 80 American scouts, near Aquasan, in Mindanao, but lost 51 killed; two Americans were killed and three wounded.

—The rebels in Colombia suffered a defeat on May 17, in the Velas district; Generals Leal and Herrera were among the killed, and 1,200 rebels were captured.

—Russia has shipped 100,000 coolies from China to Manchuria, to construct the railway to Port Arthur. The fortifications at Port Arthur are progressing rapidly.

—May 19, the United States Post Office Department extended the privilege of domestic money orders to the Paris Exposition grounds and to Porto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines.

—The Secretary of the Interior has received information that the Indians on Tongue River, Montana, are becoming restless, and that an incipient “Messiah craze” has made its appearance there.

—The Department of State has been “officially informed that the French government has decided not to grant permission to foreign militia to visit Paris in organized bodies during the Exposition.”

—The Presbyterian General Assembly strongly urges all communicants more closely to observe the “Sabbath,” and has asked the St. Louis papers not to publish its proceedings in their Sunday editions.

—Lady Roberts, wife of Lord Roberts, has gone to South Africa with her two daughters. Since the death of her son she has continually expressed the wish to visit the scene of his death and to see his grave.

—Governor Smith, of Montana, appointed Martin Maginnis United States senator, May 18, in place of W. A. Clark, whose appointment by the lieutenant governor, he declares, was vitiated by fraud.

—The Ontario government has prohibited the export of tan bark cut on crown lands. This action was taken at the request of tanners, who asserted that “the Americans were saving their own bark, by getting their supply from Ontario.”

—The fourth assistant postmaster general, Bristow, has been ordered to Cuba, to take charge of investigations into Cuban postal frauds. Postmaster Thompson, of Havana, has been suspended, and several employees have been arrested.

—The number of American exhibitors at the Paris Exposition is second only to that of France herself, and far ahead of all other competitors. Where the English have only 1,000 and Germany 3,000, the United States has 7,000.

—J. C. W. Beckham is governor of Kentucky, by a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that it has no jurisdiction in the case; and Mr. Taylor, the rival of the late Mr. Wm. Goebel, is in Indiana, under the protection of Governor Mount.

—The Boer peace envoys now in this country are Messrs. Fischer, Wolmarans, and Wessels. They have been informed by Secretary of State Hay that the government can do nothing for them, as any official act on its part would jeopardize the peace of the United States.

—And now Mrs. Dewey announces “that she has materially changed her political views since her trip through the West, and has no desire to see the Admiral elected president.” The reasons for her change of opinion are that “the strain would be disastrous to his health, and public life would interfere too greatly with her domestic happiness.”

—It is reported that “the Russian Embassy has considerably perturbed governmental and diplomatic circles in Constantinople, by inviting the immediate attention of the Porte to the deplorable situation of many districts of Armenia, resulting from brutal methods of collecting taxes and from persecutions, which has driven many to embrace Islamism, while whole communities are preparing to emigrate to Russia.”

—According to South African advices, President Kruger and the other high officials purpose leaving Pretoria almost immediately, for Lydenburg. The British prisoners will be conveyed there, and the foreign consuls at Pretoria are leaving for Lydenburg.

—The International Peace Bureau at Berne, Switzerland, has decided to make an appeal to the twenty-five powers who are signers of the conventions adopted by The Hague Peace Conference, in favor of the restoration of peace in South Africa, by means of mediation.

—May 17, the heroic garrison at Mafeking, South Africa, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Baden-Powell, was relieved, after a siege of 214 days. The relief was effected by 1,500 Cape Colony troopers, the Boers offering little opposition. In fact, the English garrison succeeded in finally surrounding and capturing a strong body of their former besiegers. London, upon receipt of the news went wild with joy. Baden-Powell has been promoted to the rank of major-general.

—The Christian Advocate states that “superstition still exists in England,” and that “Angill Castle, Westmoreland, which cost $70,000 to build, and was sold some years ago for $10,000, has now been resold for $3,250, because it is reputed to be haunted by mysterious flaming spirits flitting about the premises.” Upon this incident the Advocate comments as follows: “This does not surprise us. There is hardly a county in the United States in which a report of that kind could be started about a house, without making it unsalable.”

—After a two-hours’ debate Tuesday, May 15, the Methodist Conference in session in Chicago, adopted the following resolutions regarding the United States army canteen: “We are, however, chagrined, humiliated, and exasperated by the puerile and absurd construction placed upon the anti-canteen law, so-called, by the attorney-general of the United States; and with all due respect to his exalted station, we record the fact that we are pained and disappointed at the course of the president in accepting as final and satisfactory an opinion without binding force. Such an abuse of power is nullification in its most dangerous form. Upon the president, as commander in chief of our army, rests the responsibility for the canteen saloon, an evil which he has ample power to suppress, and which, to quote the episcopal address, is a more deadly foe to the soldier than bullet or tropic heat.” President McKinley, it will be remembered, belongs to the Methodist body.