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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 26, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 9.

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News Items

— The Italian ministry has resigned.

— Florida’s pineapple growers are about to form a trust.

— Snow fell in the city of Mexico the 17th inst., the first time for nearly fifty years.

— One of the kidnappers of young Edward Cudahy has been captured, and identified by the boy.

— There are over 300,000 Mormons in the United States, one third of whom live outside of Utah.

— The ninety-second anniversary of Lincoln’s birth was observed throughout this country the 12th inst.

— Last week there were over 2,000 deaths in Bombay, India, 922 of which were from the bubonic plague.

— Friday, February 22, was George Washington’s anniversary, and was celebrated throughout the United States.

— Over 3,000 books are under the ban of the pope, being mentioned in the new edition of the “Index Expurgatorius.”

— In his speech at the opening of Parliament, King Edward VII said that the war in South Africa must go on. He also took the “no popery oath.”

— A Montreal correspondent writes that so many in that city are sick with la grippe, and dying, that “Catholics have received orders from their priests not to keep Lent.”

— It is announced that Signor Marconi has succeeded in sending wireless telegraph messages from Saint Catharine’s, Isle of Wight, to Lizard Head, a distance of 200 miles.

— The convents in Madrid, Spain, were attacked the 16th inst. by mobs, and in the tumult a fight took place with the soldiers, four persons being killed, and 120 wounded.

— In the United States Senate, Mr. Spooner has just offered “an amendment to the Army Appropriation bill, vesting power to govern the Philippines in the President, until Congress otherwise provides.”

— The 15th inst. a concerted attempt was made to burn three of Chicago’s largest hotels: the Palmer House, Great Northern Hotel, and Grace Hotel. The fires were put out before much damage was done.

— Mrs. Carrie Nation has been arrested and imprisoned. She is offered release provided she will go home; but she refuses to promise, saying that she will “smash” every “joint” in Topeka before she leaves the place.

— February 15 shaft No. 6 of the Welling Colliery Company’s union mine, at Cumberland, British Columbia, was wrecked by several gas explosions, thus imprisoning sixty men. It is said that “all hope of their rescue has been abandoned,” fire and noxious fumes preventing the relief parties from reaching the men.

— The Cuban Constitutional Convention refuses to “formulate any provision regarding the island’s relations with the United States, until after independence has been secured.” However, the great pressure that is being brought to bear upon the convention, by the United States government, will probably cause it to change its mind.

— Count von Waldersee, commander-in-chief of the allied forces in China, recently “asked the generals under his supervision to have all their available troops ready in two weeks for an expedition lasting eighty days,” the purpose of which is to intimidate the government of China and cause it to yield to the demands of the Powers. The United States and Russia have refused to join in the expedition.

— A dispatch from St. Paul, Minn., to the N. Y. Times states that Dr. John B. Murphy, a Chicago surgeon who was in consultation with Dr. A. J. Stone during the last illness of the late Senator Cushman K. Davis, “has filed in the Probate Court his bill for medical services.” “The Chicago surgeon made two trips to St. Paul. He charges $1,000 for each trip. On each occasion he arrived in St. Paul in the morning, and left for Chicago in the evening, and was with Senator Davis not more than half an hour each trip.”

— The Spanish cabinet resigned Saturday, the 16th inst.

— A fifteen-minute eruption of Mount Vesuvius occurred the 16th inst.

— England has not yet replied to the United States regarding the Nicaragua Canal.

— General De Wet, with a force of 3,000 men, recently crossed the Orange River, into Cape Colony.

— Alexander W. Longfellow, a brother of the poet, died in Portland, Me., February 14, aged eighty-six years.

— In a recent speech in the Reichstag, Herr Bebel, the German socialist leader, attacked Germany’s policy in China.

— Maria de las Mercedes, sister of the king of Spain, was married, February 14, to Prince Charles, of Bourbon, in Madrid, Spain. Although feared, no riots occurred.

— It is not expected that the Dowager-Empress Fredericka, of Germany, will recover from her illness. Among the royal personages at her bedside are her son, Emperor William, and King Edward VII, of England.

— Sunday, the 17th inst., over 3,000 persons attended the union service held in the Seventh-day Adventist Tabernacle, this city, in honor of Ira D. Sankey. Many were turned away, owing to lack of either sitting or standing room. Mr. Sankey sang, and gave an address.

— A Chicago weekly states that “the Milwaukee Sentinel, the old republican paper of Milwaukee, has just been sold to the street-car syndicate — Charles Pfister, Frank Bigelow, and Henry C. Payne. An exorbitant price was paid. The paper had opposed the street-car ring.”

— There is some prospect of a tariff war between the United States and Russia, because of the action of Secretary Gage in imposing “a countervailing duty on Russian sugar” shipped to this country. Mr. de Witte, the Russian finance minister, has issued “a retaliatory decree, raising duties on American steel and iron goods fifty per cent.”

— The king of Greece, George I, returned home from London the 12th inst., “after an affectionate parting from King Edward.” George I was born Dec. 24, 1845, and was elected king of the Hellenes (Greeks) in 1863. He is the son of the present king of Denmark, Christian IX, and brother of the present queen of England and the Dowager Empress of Russia.

— February 20 a Brooklyn (N. Y.) detective was shot by an insane man, but escaped in the following remarkable way: “the bullet from the revolver had passed through his vest, smashing a pencil. It then passed through a wallet, which contained $110 in bills, in an inside pocket, perforating every bill, struck the buckle of the suspender, and was deflected into his vest pocket, where it lodged.”

— It is amusing to note how many blunders creep into the various papers that claim to be “first-class.” For instance, one of our exchanges, just received, says that the Empress Dowager of China has allowed Emperor Kwang Su to resume “the reigns of government,” and, in bold type, advertises a “vest pocket combination dairy, calendar, memorandum, and cash book,” as “the neatest thing out.” We have not looked through the other fourteen pages.

— A dispatch from San Francisco, Cal., dated the 22d inst., states that “the most terrible steamship disaster that the Pacific Coast has ever known occurred a few miles from this city this morning at daybreak, when the Pacific mail steamer ‘City of Rio de Janeiro’ ran on a hidden rock just outside the Golden Gate, as she was attempting to make the entrance to San Francisco.” Of the 201 souls aboard, 122 perished, including Captain William Ward, and Rounsevelle Wildman, United States consul-general at Hongkong, China. After striking Mile Rock, “a jagged sharp spur running out from half-shore to the south of North Head,” it took only ten minutes for the steamer to founder. Jordan, the pilot who boarded the ship twelve hours before she foundered, states that “unaccountable carelessness and a deliberate disregard of warnings are at the bottom of the disaster,” and that he “protested to the captain that his action in running ahead in a dense fog was foolhardy.” However, to the captain’s credit, it must be stated that all who were rescued testified that Captain Ward “made no effort whatever to save himself, . . . straining every nerve to get the women and children off in the boats.” As the purser, John Rooney, who had the passenger list, was drowned, the identity of the drowned will be unknown until the Honolulu agents can be communicated with. The “Rio de Janeiro” was three days overdue, from Hongkong, China, and carried the mails, which were rescued.