NEWS AND NOTES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 9, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 15.

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—De Wet, the Boer general, is operating in the Orange River Colony.

—Another Canadian contingent of 1,000 men has just sailed for South Africa.

—Dispatches state that “deaths from plague in Bengal, India, numbered 8,000 last week.”

—By a vote of fifteen to twelve, the Senate of Wisconsin killed the anti-cigarette bill, the 4th inst.

—Pope Leo XIII has notified Martinelli, papal delegate to the United States, of his appointment as cardinal.

—The oil operators of Texas are said to be forming a billion-dollar trust, to compete with the Standard Oil Company.

—J. Pierpont Morgan, the American multi-millionaire, has offered to complete the Panama Canal with private capital.

—The Standard Oil Company, with a capitalization of $110,000,000, earns about $40,000,000 a year. It employs 40,000 men.

—The military court of inquiry has exonerated the cadets of West Point from the charge of killing Cadet Booze by hazing.

—Among the army officers arrested in the recent disturbances in Russia, is Colonel Sergieff, chief of the Russian frontier police.

—Of the many students arrested in the recent troubles at St. Petersburg, only forty-one have been released, over 1,000 remaining in jail.

—Several prominent army officers in southern Luzon, Philippine Islands, have been arrested “for stealing and selling government stores.”

—Col. Frederick Funston has been appointed brigadier-general in the regular United States army, for his stroke in the capture of Aguinaldo.

—All automobile records were recently broken at the automobile exhibit in Chicago, by a vehicle which traveled a mile in fifty-eight seconds.

—The Great Western Cereal Company is a new combine, being formed of “ten large cereal mills not in the trust.” Capitalization, $4,500,000.

—The United States Steel Corporation has just filed articles in Trenton, N. J., “amending its charter and increasing its capital stock to $1,100,000,000.”

—In the United States there are each year over 275,000 cases of typhoid fever, resulting in 32,000 deaths. The fever, in each case, is directly attributable to the use of impure water.

—In order to bring discredit upon the new anti-canteen law, the liquor element of the country are using the newspapers to reverse public sentiment. They furnish detailed accounts of all actual troubles with drunken soldiers in saloons, and vividly describe many brawls that never occurred, to show that such things would not occur should the army canteen be re-established at military posts. Just now the papers are full of accounts of a terrible “riot” supposed to have occurred at Highwood, Ill., near Fort Sheridan.

—It is evident that the labor unions of England are as much of a curse as those of the United States. In view of this, it is being strongly urged upon the Parliament of Great Britain “to pass drastic measures protecting workmen who really wish to work, from interference by their less skilled or more lazy fellows.” The limit of output is “fixed by the unions,” and “suggested by the efforts of the most ignorant and incapable workmen: for the sake of the latter, conscientious and capable workmen are held back.”

—Rev. J. W. Hathaway, general secretary of the American Sabbath Union, says he has petitions containing “over 1,000,000 signatures asking that the gates [of the Buffalo Exposition] be closed” on Sunday. At a recent mass meeting at the Delaware Avenue Baptist church, Buffalo, he read a letter from Mr. Cortelyou, President McKinley’s secretary, which contained the following: “It has been the invariable rule of the government board not to open the government building on Sundays. It will be entirely safe to inform persons interested that this rule will not be dropped from the Pan-American Exposition.”

—Herbert Spencer is failing healthwise.

—Lord Salisbury, premier of England, is sick with la grippe.

—Cape Town, South Africa, is still troubled with fresh cases of bubonic plague.

—A mine was recently found under the palace of the czar, near St. Petersburg.

—A South Bend (Ind.) capitalist will furnish means for a $1,000,000 glass factory at Ottawa, Ill.

—During the year ending June 30, 1900, the people of the United States spent $1,172,493,445 for liquors.

—The French Chamber of Deputies passed, by a vote of 303 to 220, the 29th ult., the law of associations bill.

—It is stated by E. A. R. Green that “the better class of Mexicans look for eventual annexation to the United States.”

—March 26 was the date set by Russia for the signing of the Manchurian agreement by China. But China did not sign.

—Dr. Leyds, agent for the Transvaal, states that “a combination of European merchants has formed to boycott British goods till independence is granted the Boers.”

—Aguinaldo showed such a willingness to sign the oath of allegiance to the United States that the government has become suspicious, and will not release him as was at first planned.

—Senator Proctor, who has just returned from Cuba, states that that island “will accept the Platt amendment;” and that the “better class of islanders want peace, and laugh at talk of anti-American uprising.”

—Denmark controls the butter trade in tropical countries, her dairymen shipping it “in small tins hermetically sealed, so that it is practically insured against chemical changes.” Yet the United States feeds the cows of Denmark.

—It is reported that “Denmark has communicated to the United States upon what terms she will sell the Danish West Indies; price, $4,000,000; the people by vote to express wish to remain Danish, or be transferred to America; if vote is favorable to United States, then inhabitants to become American citizens at once; products of the island to be admitted to United States free of duty.”

—Upon China’s appeal to the Powers for aid against the aggressions of Russia upon her territory, the United States government, through Secretary Hay, informed the Chinese minister, Wu Ting Fang, the 25th ult., that “in accordance with its traditional policy in complications beyond the seas, it must decline to enter a protest against the seizure of Manchuria by Russia.” Of all the Powers, Japan alone protested, threatening to herself declare war upon Russia if the latter persisted in her designs upon Manchuria.

—M. Anatole France, a member of the French Academy, says that “along with the continuous abandonment of the ancient classics, the tendency of the French language appears to be away from Latin usages and traditions, and toward Anglo-Saxon phrases.” Speaking of this, the London Academy says: “We can understand this. To an imaginative Frenchman, the acquisition of a racy English word, which he knows is understood in the East, in the West, on every sea, and in every port, must bring a sense of exaltation. Hence the English ‘hall’ is ousting the French antechambre, and the English ‘lunch’ is eaten, instead of déjeuner. ‘Un vigoureux shake-hands’ occurs in a new French novel, and even such expressions as ‘to boss’ and ‘to give ’em beans’ contribute to the growing anglicization of French.”

—In a recent Lenten sermon, Rev. Dr. William R. Huntington, rector of Grace church, New York City, declared that “the form of gambling in New York which is now most pernicious, is not that of the professional gambling establishments, but that which is carried on in fashionable private houses. Hostesses are found in fashionable life who will let young men, whose honesty is their capital, depart impoverished by losses at cards, out of drawing-rooms into which they had been invited as guests. . . . Young society men have lost hundreds and even thousands of dollars at the game provided by hostesses of social distinction. . . . Young women, reputed to be of good family and honest bringing up, exhibit with pride the jewels bought with the profits of the gambling tables. . . . To what avail is a crusade against policy shops and pool rooms, whether by five, fifteen, or fifty, so long as gambling goes on in the gilded homes of the rich?”

—P. C. Knox, of Pittsburg, Pa., will succeed Mr. Griggs as attorney-general of the United States.

—Chili has ordered 16,000 tons of standard steel rails from the Carnegie Company, the same to be delivered within two months.

—It seems that “a modus vivendi respecting the French Shore (Newfoundland) fishing industry has been concluded with France, to remain in force till Dec. 31, 1901.”

—Prinsloo, a Boer commander, and “a convoy of twenty-eight wagons have been captured by the British, who are sweeping the eastern Transvaal clear of everything useful to the Boers.”

—The United States shows its dissatisfaction with Venezuela’s treatment of her minister, by recalling Mr. Loomis. Diplomatic relations are not completely severed, however, the United States legation being left in care of a chargé d’affaires.

—Experiments prove that, under ordinary circumstances, twelve pounds of feed enables a cow to produce one pound of butter.

—The Russian government has notified China that “failure to immediately sign the Manchurian convention will result in a rupture of present relations.”

—The United States is finding out that “it costs money to be a world Power;” for, according to statistics, “the expenditures of the United States for the current year were never before exceeded except in 1863, ’64, ’65, during the Civil War.”

—Through the efforts of Father Phillips, a Catholic priest of Hazelton, Pa., the coal miners’ union has decided not to order a strike in the anthracite fields now, as such a move would throw 143,000 men out of employment. The operators having made “partial concessions to the miners,” the latter will continue work for a year.