p. 14 | News Notes

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 8, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 19.

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News Notes

—Governor Tanner, of Illinois, is critically ill.

—Fifteen cases of the bubonic plague occurred in Manila, Philippines, within one week.

—British agents are securing a trainload of bronchos in Colorado, for shipment to South Africa.

—Seven hundred men are reported to have left Dawson City for Cape Nome during last winter.

—On account of scarcity of pig iron, mills at Troy, N. Y., have been closed, affecting 1,000 employees.

—The New York police commissioners have decided that no prize fights shall be allowed in that city hereafter.

—Russia has compelled China to consent to the construction of a railroad from Pekin to Kiahta, in Eastern Siberia.

—The last Alaskan winter was the coldest on record. The temperature at Dawson was from seventeen to fifty-nine degrees below zero.

—Floods in Wisconsin recently caused great damage, blocking railroad traffic. The Wisconsin River is the highest it has been for twenty years.

—The striking Italians arrested at Croton Landing, N. Y., declare that they will appeal to King Humbert, through their consul and ambassador.

—Governor Roosevelt, of New York, has signed the bill to “secure equal rights to colored children in the public schools, and abolish separate schools.”

—It is reported that “Lieutenant Whipple, U. S. A., found a pearl valued at $2,000 in a baked oyster he was eating at the Waldorf Astoria hotel,” in New York.

—Forest fires are devastating a large tract of country in Manitoba, along the line of the Southeastern Railway, and lumber campers have had narrow escapes.

—The citizens of Austin, Tex., in a mass meeting, have decided to build a steam plant to cost $250,000, to take the place of the dam and water system wrecked by the flood a week ago.

—The fear of hydrophobia has caused the British board of agriculture to enforce the old order forbidding the temporary entrance of foreign dogs into England. Tourists will be obliged to leave their dogs at home.

—A Washington dispatch states that “the House committee on military affairs to-day (April 24) directed a favorable report on the bill establishing four permanent camps in the four main sections of the country, for use both by federal troops and the national guard.”

—An anonymous donation to the Aero Club, of Paris, offers $20,000 to the aeronaut who will start in a balloon, from Longchamp, go around the Tower Eiffel, and return to the starting point, a total distance of eleven kilometers (nearly seven miles) in thirty minutes. This competition is international.

—A dispatch from Constantinople, dated April 24, states that “in view of the steps taken by the United States government in regard to the claims arising out of the Armenian massacres, the embassies of Great Britain, France, Austria, Italy, and Germany have asked their governments for instructions as to their similar claims.”

—It is said that Mayor Jones, of Toledo, Ohio, has “given up the socialistic scheme he inaugurated in his business a few months ago. It is explained that he found that some of the men employed in the establishment were not so anxious to work as others, and he decided that they should not, therefore, have the same compensation or profits that went to the industrious employees.”

—Rev. Rockwell Clancy has been all through the famine district of India, and has the following to say: “When the famine set in, the people began to sell everything they had in order that they might get a little grain for food. They took doors from their houses and sold them, and sold their furniture and farming utensils. When they had no longer anything to sell, they sold their children. Boys don’t sell; traffic is largely in girls. I saw girls in one town sold for thirty cents apiece, just before I came away. They were bought up by Mohammedans for harems. The condition of famine-stricken India is awful to contemplate. I can not tell anything about the number who are dying, but when I left Bombay last February, there were some 60,000,000 people suffering from famine, and over 30,000,000 were in dire distress. Of these but 5,000,000 were receiving government aid.”

—Concerning the report that Mrs. Dewey has renounced Catholicism, Rev. Richard Burke, of Buffalo, N. Y., who gave Mrs. Hazen (now Mrs. Dewey) her first communion when she was received into the Roman Catholic Church, says: “I am afraid Mrs. Dewey was not well grounded in the faith. I have no doubt that she has deserted the church for political reasons. It has been reported to me that she ceased attending the church nearly two years ago; in fact, shortly after Dewey’s victory at Manila. As I understand it, Dewey was engaged to Mrs. Hazen when he went to the Philippine station. Mrs. Dewey realized that such a national hero might aspire to the presidency. To a woman of such ambition the thought probably came before it occurred to Dewey himself. About that time Mrs. Hazen began to be remiss in her church attendance, and now she seems disposed to give up the faith, lest it might be regarded as an obstacle to her husband’s candidacy. I hardly think she will make votes by it. Yet such women as Mrs. Leland Stanford and the wife of ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio, have told me they would have joined the Catholic Church if they had not feared the effect on the political careers of their husbands.”