NEWS AND NOTES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 15, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 3.

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— Dr. Dowie has returned to America.

— President McKinley is ill with la grippe, but not seriously.

— During the year 1900 the output of Colorado gold was $29,226,000.

— M. Paul Deschanel has just been re-elected president of the French Chamber of Deputies.

— Ignatius Donnelly, known as the “Sage of Nininger,” died in Minneapolis, Minn., the 2d inst.

— The North American Review is to be published hereafter by the “Harper Brothers’” publishing house.

— Li Hung Chang, who has been ill for some time, has suffered a relapse. His condition is serious.

— Wm. J. Bryan recently went to Tallahassee, Fla., to witness the inauguration of his cousin, W. S. Jennings, as governor of Florida.

— Statisticians inform us that the center of population of the United States is now seven miles southeast of Columbus, Ind.

— It is announced that “the London Daily News, a Liberal organ, will change its policy, and demand a cessation of war, and the giving of liberal terms to the Boers.”

— Gen. John W. Foster is the newly elected president of the American Bible Society.

— Admiral Cervera, of note during the Spanish-American war, is dangerously ill.

— Petroleum will be adopted as the generative power on all railway locomotives in Russia.

— The first issue of Wm. J. Bryan’s new paper, the Commoner, will appear about the 20th inst.

— The German coal-mine syndicate will maintain present prices by producing ten per cent less coal.

— On account of smallpox, 3,000 soldiers in the Soldiers’ Home at Leavenworth, Kan., are quarantined.

— The Russian authorities recently arrested 300 students in St. Petersburg, “for preaching socialist doctrines.”

— Chile has appropriated “$500,000 for its display at the Pan-American Exposition” soon to be held in Buffalo, N. Y.

— Meat packers of Chicago are supplying the Russian government with 1,500 barrels of meat for the Russian army.

— The gold output of the United States during the year 1900 is estimated, by the Director of the Mint, to have been $79,322,281, an increase of $8,000,000 over that of the year 1899.

— At the biennial meeting of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, in New York, the 30th ult., “resolutions were adopted petitioning the administration to provide Jewish chaplains in the army and navy, for the soldiers and sailors of their faith.”

— Philip D. Armour, one of Chicago’s multi-millionaires, died December 7, of heart-disease, aggravated by a recent attack of pneumonia. His wealth is variously estimated at from $30,000,000 to $70,000,000. He was known as “the millionaire packer and philanthropist.”

— It seems that “in view of the impending debates on the religious associations bill, the French government has caused the real estate belonging to the monastic orders to be valued, with the result that such property is shown to be worth 1,100,000,000 francs—about $220,000,000.”

— During the month of September, 1900, the slaughterhouse at Villette, France, which supplies Paris, “dispatched daily an average of 3,044 oxen, 1,041 cows, 23,384 sheep, 2,725 pigs, and 2,999 calves.” It is said that “in ordinary times only 1,210 oxen, 450 cows, 13,929 sheep, 4,828 pigs, and 1,425 calves are required” to feed Paris.

— An Irish setter belonging to a Chicago police officer, was left with his master’s friend in Nelson County, North Dakota, last September. His master returned to Chicago, September 28, and one week later, “Sport tired of his new home, and started to reach Chicago by foot.” He finished his journey of 1,000 miles Monday night, the 7th inst., or thirteen weeks and three days after starting for home. He was exhausted, emaciated, and covered with scars and wounds. Sport is two and one-half years old. How did he know which way his master had gone?

— According to Association Men, the official organ of the Young Men’s Christian Associations, there are at present 6,192 branches of the Y. M. C. A., with 521,000 members, among 50 nations, speaking 35 languages. The 1,439 American associations have 252,000 members, of whom 32,000 are college students, 37,000 railroad men, 5,000 soldiers and sailors, 1,650 Indians, 5,000 colored men, and 23,000 boys. The annual attendance upon Bible classes exceeds 500,000; and $40,000 is annually contributed for Y. M. C. A. work in foreign lands. An average of one building for every nine days has been erected during the last year.

— James F. J. Archibald, the war correspondent who has just returned from the Transvaal, says: “The reading public is gathering the opinion that the war is over, but this is really far from the true state of affairs. All the spectacular fighting is over, and great battles are a thing of the past, but the two armies have settled down to a steady, determined struggle that could easily go on for several years. The Boers have more money than they can spend, as they worked the British mines for the first eight months of the war. The war is costing the British Empire over $400,000 a day, all of which is becoming a debt. It is upon this great debt that the Boer leaders rely to help them gain terms. General Botha said to me that they could keep up the war for seven years, and that if they could win in that period, they would consider the time well spent. The Boers have supplies enough for at least three years, and are continually capturing supplies from the British.”

— The people of more than 100 counties in Missouri are afflicted with smallpox in a mild form.

— A race riot recently broke out in Centerville, Ind., the negroes getting drunk and threatening the white residents.

— Reports from Constantinople indicate that the census of the Turkish Empire for 1900 will show a population of 55,000,000.

— The Kansas City, Mo., branch of the Armour Packing Company, recently purchased 25,000 tons of salt in Portugal, “on account of trust prices in this country.”

— The United States Rubber Company is about to cut prices twenty-five per cent, in order to force some independent manufacturers out of business, or else into the trust.

— A new use has been found for milk. A process has been discovered whereby skim milk is to be converted into lactroid, out of which buttons, combs, piano keys, telephone receivers, etc., are soon to be made.

— The public schools of St. Petersburg, Russia, are closed, on account of extremely cold weather.

— One hundred prisoners in the jail at White Plains, N. Y., recently failed in their attempt to escape by setting the jail on fire.

— Minister Wu Ting Fang recently lectured in Montclair, N. J., on “The Causes of the Unpopularity of Foreigners in China.”

— A letter written by ex-President Cleveland has been made public, declaring that he did not vote for William McKinley in the late election.

— England is buying American butter “at the rate of about 182,000 tons a year, worth $80,000,000, and every year requires an additional 10,000 tons to supply the steadily increasing demand.”

— Esterhazy, one of the accusers of Dreyfus, is almost starving in London, spending his days in public museums, and his nights in the streets. Evidently all compensation for evil doing is not postponed until the judgment day.