NEWS AND NOTES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 17, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 16.

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—A rich strike of gold has been made near Jerome, Ariz.

—Aguinaldo is reported to be hiding in Singapore, India.

—The Philippines have been divided into four military departments.

—The British vice-consul in Venezuela was murdered by conspirators, April 4.

—The Topeka Capital will realize about $20,000 from the Sheldon-week edition.

—Much concern is felt in Spain over the failing health of young King Alfonso.

—General Cronje, Colonel Schiel, and 1,000 Boer prisoners sailed for St. Helena, April 4.

—Russia has secured railway grants from Kalgan to Peking, and from Luhan to Honan Fu.

—Pacific Coast workmen complain of the influx of Japanese laborers, 3,420 having arrived since Jan. 1, 1899.

—Great Britain has received news of “a serious uprising in Ashanti, and extra troops have been sent to Coomassie.

—The United States secretary of war has authorized the enlistment of competent Filipino musicians in regimental bands.

—From Pacific Coast ports more than 14,000 persons have engaged passage for the Cape Nome gold fields, on the first boats.

—Three hundred hands are thrown out of employment by a $100,000 fire in a fruit-jar factory at New Brunswick, N. J.

—The Oceanic Steamship Company, of San Francisco, Cal., secured the contract for carrying mail to Australia for ten years.

—Because of lawlessness in the Coeur d’Alene district, 1,500 citizens of Idaho have asked the secretary of war to send troops there.

—The Korean minister has left the United States temporarily to represent his government at Paris, Vienna, and St. Petersburg.

—General de Villebois-Mareuil, the noted French officer who was commanding a troop of Boer soldiers, was killed in battle, April 7.

—Both England and the United States are very much dissatisfied over the Delagoa Bay award, and may refuse to accept the sums named.

—A cargo of coal for Rotterdam has left Philadelphia. This is but the first of many expected shipments to be made to the Netherlands.

—In two recent battles with the Boers, the British casualties were 900, 450 being captured, killed, or wounded by the Boers in each engagement.

—General Otis has been relieved of his command in the Philippines, and will return to the United States shortly. He is to be succeeded by General MacArthur.

—Heavy fighting is reported to be in progress in the vicinity of Mafeking. Colonel Plumer’s relief column, it is said, was compelled to retire with loss, March 31.

—Intimate friends of Mrs. Dewey assert that she has abandoned Roman Catholicism for the Episcopalian faith. The Deweys are silent on the matter. The natural query now is, What is back of this new shift?

—The huge granite dam in front of a lake thirty miles long, at Austin, Tex., gave away April 9, owing to the flood caused by a cloudburst. Forty persons were drowned, and damage to property will amount to $3,000,000.

—The Porto Rico bill passed the United States House of Representatives the afternoon of April 11. The vote was: yeas, 161; nays, 153. Great cheering followed this announcement, on the Republican side. “The galleries, crowded to suffocation, remained silent.” President McKinley signed the bill the 12th. Accordingly it is now the law of the land—of Porto Rico.

—In Cleveland 300 plumbers have struck for higher wages.

—Over 5,000 Utah Mormons have gone to Chihuahua, Mexico.

—President McKinley has recognized Taylor as governor of Kentucky.

—The Boers have cut off the water supply from the British at Bloemfontein.

—The Arabs lost 600 men in a battle with the French, at Inrahr, Algeria, March 31.

—The Arbuckle Brothers have reduced the price of sugar five points, in all grades.

—The first shipload of American coal, 6,000 tons from Virginia, has reached Japan.

—The postmaster at Trovort, Utah, has been removed from office, as a polygamist.

—Denmark offers to sell her West Indian islands to the United States for over $4,000,000.

—Six hundred miles of cable have just been laid between Canso, Nova Scotia, and the Azores.

—Of the 1,500 cars of coke daily turned out by the Frick Company, the Carnegie Company takes 600 cars.

—Monday night, April 2, over 200 bonfires throughout the German Empire celebrated the birthday of Bismarck.

—The famous Ferris wheel, exhibited at the Chicago World’s Fair, in 1893, will be torn down and sold for scrap iron.

—More than half the striking machinists at Chicago have returned to work, and the strike has cost them over $1,000,000.

—American manufacturers of lawn mowers will push the sale of their implements in England, owing to an advance in price of the English makes.

—The National Educational Association has offered $1,200 in prizes for the best essays on seating, lighting, heating, and ventilating of public school buildings.

—Special legislation is to be asked by the residents of North Holland, Mich., to have the name of their town changed to Cronje, as a compliment to the Boer general.

—W. S. Witham, of Atlanta, Ga., is the president of twenty-seven banks in Georgia and Alabama, besides being active in the management of a number of cotton mills.

—Turkey has prohibited the importation of American pork as being injurious to public health. United States Secretary of the Interior Hay has entered a vigorous protest.

—Admiral Dewey denies the newspaper reports concerning his European trip, and says: “I have no idea where the stories connecting me with a European trip this summer, originated.”

—Dean C. Worcester, member of the new Philippine Commission, has tendered his resignation as assistant professor of zoology in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He will not teach again.

—The Inter-Oceanic Canal Company, capitalized at $100,000,000, was incorporated in New Jersey, April 4, to construct, own, and operate a maritime canal between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

—Göttingen University, Germany, has established a seminary for “the science of insurance,” with two sections—one mathematical, the other legal and administrative. There are over sixty insurance students.

—A director of the Carnegie Company chartered a special train over the Santa Fe route, from Los Angeles, Cal., to Pittsburg, that he might reach a board meeting on time. Cost, $4,000. The time record was lowered.

—Because of 600 recent conversions in Moundsville, W. Va., the mayor says that the municipal government will be run “as Jesus would.” But Jesus never did run any municipal government, and absolutely refused to be elected to any civil office.

—Rev. Dr. N. D. Hillis, of Plymouth church, New York, has withdrawn from the Chicago Presbytery and from the Presbyterian Church, as a result of the criticism, by his old professors of McCormick Seminary, of his denunciation of the Calvinistic doctrine of foreordination, in his sermon of March 24. He will unite with the Congregational Church.

—Ernest Seton Thompson, author of the book of true and excellent stories, entitled “Wild Animals I Have Known,” recently lectured in the Auditorium, at Chicago and, among other things, pleaded for the great number of noble animals ruthlessly slaughtered in this country every year. He said: “The animals have a right to life, and the pursuit of happiness according to their nature. That right is only limited by the higher right of man.” Speaking of hunting, he further asserted that “up to the point when the hunter has the hunted game at his mercy, it is noble. Then it is murder. What I advocate is the new sport, calling for the exercise of all the fine qualities of the old sport, minus murder. The weapon is the camera, not the rifle. It takes more of nerve, grit, courage, all that sort of thing, to photograph game than to end its life. I know old miners in the West, men unlettered and rude, who have hung up their weapons in their cabins, and now hunt with the camera.”