— Thus far 31,415 Filipinos have been captured, or have surrendered.
— Miguel A. Otero has been reappointed governor of New Mexico, by President McKinley.
— General Cailles, insurgent leader in the Laguna province, Philippines, is about to surrender, with more than 500 men, to the Americans.
— A statue to Bismarck was recently unveiled in Berlin, the emperor and empress being present, and the chancellor, Count von Bülow, making the address.
— The fourth annual convention of the Federation of American Zionists began the 16th inst., in Philadelphia, Pa., “with a larger attendance than ever before in its history.”
— Lord Kitchener reports “a battle with De Wet, near Reitz, June 6, in which the Boers lost 17 killed, 45 prisoners, and 71 loaded wagons; the British loss was 20 killed and 25 wounded.”
— A recent fire at the Galleys Island shipyard, St. Petersburg, Russia, destroyed “the cruiser ‘Vitjas,’ other vessels, government and other buildings, and large quantities of supplies.” Twelve lives were lost.
— The Chinese of the leading cities of the United States will petition the government to repeal the law which excludes the Chinese from this country. Wu Ting Fang, Chinese minister at Washington, will assist his countrymen in this movement.
— South African dispatches state that on the 12th inst. “a large force of Boers surprised 250 Victorian Mounted Rifles, in camp at Steenkoolspruit, killing eighteen men, wounding forty-two, and capturing the rest, except fifty-two who escaped to General Beaston’s camp.”
— Hazen S. Pingree, former governor of Michigan, died in London, England, the 18th inst., at 11:35 P. M., his son being the only member of his family present at the time. His remains will be brought to this country for burial. Mr. Pingree was mayor of Detroit for four successive terms (1889–1897), and governor of this State from 1897—1901.
— The pope is reported to be seriously ill.
— The Southern Industrial Convention was opened, in Philadelphia, the 11th inst.
— Chicago will furnish with free text-books her public-school pupils of the first four grades.
— To the czar and czarina of Russia was born a fourth daughter, the 19th inst. There still lacks a male heir to the throne.
— There are in South America 38,000,000 inhabitants, 21,800 schools, with 1,290,000 pupils, and 131 institutes of higher learning.
— The discovery of oil in Marion County, Fla., a few days ago, caused much excitement, and a rush of prospectors to the locality.
— All the trackmen of the Canadian Pacific Railway, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, are on a strike “for increased pay and shorter hours.”
— An explosion in the cartridge factory at Les Moulineaux, France, resulted in the death of fifteen employees and the serious injury of twenty.
— The Jubilee Convention of the Young Men’s Christian Association held in Boston, closed the 16th inst., with “a service attended by 7,000 people.”
— Marconi announces that he has “installed successfully his system of wireless telegraphy in a steam motor car, and that he is able thereby to communicate with a base while traveling.”
— The Fall River (Mass.) mills receive but 2 9-16 cents a yard for their print cloths. The difference between that and the price paid by the people goes to transportation and middlemen.
— The king of Italy is said to have “confided to a conservative deputy his confidence, based upon socialist speeches in parliament, that if the socialists were intrusted with the government, they would do good work for the country.”
— Sir David Barbour, financial expert in South Africa, for the British government, recommends the imposition of “a ten-per-cent tax on the profits of the Transvaal mines, to help pay the cost of the war.” The aim is to raise $250,000,000.
— The repeal of a portion of the present war stamp taxes, will go into effect July 1. After that date it will not be necessary to put revenue stamps upon bank checks, telegrams, express receipts, money orders, deeds, conveyances, or bills of lading.
— Signor Prinetti, Italian minister of foreign affairs, recently announced in the Chamber of Deputies, that it was the purpose of the Italian government “to adhere to the Triple Alliance, to open commercial negotiations with the United States and Russia.”
— It is now possible to have “almost continuous communication, by wireless telegraphy, with transatlantic steamers while at sea.” An experiment on the 15th inst., with the Marconi system, under the management of the New York Herald, proved the feasibility of the plan.
— It is ascertained, from Rome, that “the superiors-general of the orders in the Philippines, obeying instructions from the Vatican, have ordered the emigration of the friars in the Philippines to Venezuela and Ecuador.” This change may help things in the Philippines, but Venezuela and Ecuador are to be pitied.
— British census reports show that seventy-seven per cent of England’s population is to be found in the cities, and twenty-three per cent in the rural districts; also that the “males in England and Wales (exclusive of those serving abroad in the army, navy, and merchant marine) number 15,721,728; females, 16,804,347.”
— On the 19th inst. there assembled in Queen’s Hall, London, a pro-Boer mass meeting, at which resolutions were adopted “demanding that the government make peace with the Boers by offering them independence.” A crowd of 15,000 persons attempted to break up the meeting, but were prevented by the police. There is liberty of speech in England, even when such speech is against the government itself.
— France is making strenuous efforts to annex the New Hebrides. She is likely to succeed in her scheme of “making claims on the ground that French settlers own much of the land;” for it seems that “by the offer of firearms and firewater to the natives, the savage and ignorant chiefs have been induced to put their marks on papers, consenting to part with their titles to land. The ‘French New Hebrides Company’ has been thus acquiring land on the shores of Epi, until now their ‘claims’ include nearly the whole west coast of this large island.”
— The locomotive trust in this country has a capitalization of $50,000,000.
— On the 13th inst., seven persons died in Chicago, from the excessive heat.
— A mine explosion at Iron Mountain, Mich., caused the death of eight men by suffocation.
— Another submarine boat, of the Holland type, called the “Fulton,” has been launched, at Elizabethport, N. J.
— The Boer commandant Van Rensburg surrendered to the British the 11th inst., at Pietersburg, with 100 men.
— Railroad communication between Munich and Italy has been interrupted by heavy snowfalls in the Bavarian and Tyrolean Alps.
— Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria-Hungary, recently visited Prague, Bohemia, “in the interest of German-Czech conciliation.”
— King Edward, of England, recently presented medals to 3,000 officers and men who had distinguished themselves in the South African war.
— The National Metal Trades’ Association has raised $500,000 “to oppose the machinists’ demands,” 320 firms being “pledged to resist the union.”
— The United States communicated to the Powers, the 10th inst., “the impossibility of joining in a joint guaranty for the payment of the Chinese indemnity.”
— Supplies are reaching Jacksonville, Fla., by the car-load, about 6,500 persons being fed daily. Idle negroes have been ordered to either work on the ruins or leave the city.
— The United States Mint building just completed in Philadelphia, cost the country over $2,000,000. It is said to be “the best equipped structure of its kind in the world.”
— The British Parliament has given its sanction to the construction of “an electric express railway between Liverpool and Manchester, on which trains will run at a speed of upward of 100 miles an hour.”
— The queen regent of Spain recently opened Parliament for the last time, her regency terminating next year. The young king has celebrated his sixteenth birthday. As he is now of age, he will soon be looking about Europe for a wife.
— Of the Thirty-first Volunteer Regiment, which has just returned to San Francisco, it is said that “in almost two years’ service in the Philippines not a shot was fired in battle by any member of the regiment, and it lost only thirty men by death during that time.”
— The fourth national conference of the American Society of Religious Education, will convene in Detroit, Mich., July 7, lasting three days. Justice Harlan, of the United States Supreme Court, is president of the conference.
— In view of the acceptance by Cuba of the Platt amendment, the United States Cabinet has decided that “no action by this government is necessary at present.” It has certainly done enough acting for a considerable time to come.
— The Pan-American Bible Study Congress will be in session, at Buffalo, N. Y., from July 17 to July 31. Its aims are “a discussion of principles and methods of Bible study, and the exhibition and comparison of the various appliances used for this purpose.”
— Suicides have become so epidemic in Emporia, Kan., that orders have been issued by “the mayor and board of health forbidding the publication of details of suicides or attempts, in local papers.” This action is based on the theory that “publication spreads the contagion of suicide by psychic suggestion.”
— At a meeting of Baptist ministers in Chicago the 17th inst., Dr. Jenkin Lloyd Jones gave an elaborate address to the effect that “trust methods, which have been successful in building up big enterprises, might be equally effective if applied to church work,” and that “all creeds can unite upon fundamental truths, and might work together.” Said he: “The churches of Chicago will lose their fight unless they co-operate and combine. There is but one standard of truth in the world, and everybody knows what it is. Are we going to let railroads, banks, and manufacturing interests reap all the benefits growing out of this new system of co-operation and combination? Are we going to hold to the spirit of individualism in spite of the lessons taught by progress?” In the name of liberty, civil and religious, what could be more dangerous than such a call?
