News and Notes

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 11, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 50.

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— Queen Victoria’s silverware is valued at $12,500,000.

— President Diaz, of Mexico, was inaugurated December 1.

— Boston bootblacks are forbidden to do business on Sunday.

— The Rogers Locomotive Works at Paterson, N. J., have closed.

— The books of the late George Griffith, clerk of the Cincinnati board of education, show a shortage of $100,000.

— The Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company, of Scranton, Pa., have started their furnaces, thus giving employment to 1,100 men.

— The Indians in western North Carolina have been offered $40,000 by a lumber corporation, for timber rights on their reservation.

— The British sloop of war “Icarus” has been ordered to Panama “to inquire into the seizure of a British steamer by the Colombian government.”

— It is said that “of 700 ten-dollar marked bills paid on a Saturday night by a Massachusetts manufactory to its hands, 400 by the following Tuesday were deposited in the bank by the saloon keepers.”

— The decision of the Swiss government in the dispute concerning the Franco-Brazilian boundary, gives Brazil 147,000 square miles of the contested territory, while France gets about 3,000 square miles.

— A Detroit (Mich.) exchange says that “many chewing-gum penny-in-the-slot machines have disappeared from Detroit since the food commissioner took samples for analysis, to see if they contained cocaine.”

— Standard Oil shares originally worth $100 are now quoted at $828.

— About 1,200 Filipino bolomen have surrendered to Captain Green, at Luzon.

— The Fifty-sixth Congress of the United States opened Monday, December 3.

— By cornering 550,000 cases of eggs, some Chicago dealers recently made about $480,000.

— The Italian Chamber of Deputies recently adopted a socialist motion to abolish court-martials.

— The live-stock show opened December 5, in Chicago, is the greatest ever held in this country.

— Queen Victoria’s fifteenth Parliament opened Monday, December 3. Speaker Gully was re-elected.

— November 30 the French Senate unanimously adopted a resolution of sympathy with Mr. Kruger.

— Fire completely destroyed the Chattahoochee Brick Company’s plant, near Atlanta, Ga., December 3. Loss, $60,000.

— Helen Keller, the famous blind, deaf, and mute student, has been elected vice-president of the freshman class at Radcliffe College.

— The government of Honduras recently paid this country an indemnity of $10,000 for the killing of an American citizen in 1899.

— Last year about 600,000 acres was sown to flax, in North Dakota, and the yield was in the neighborhood of 7,200,000 bushels of seed.

— General C. H. T. Collis, of New York, secured $25,000 damages, through the Supreme Court, against the publishers of the New York World, for libel.

— Dispatches state that “nearly all manufacturing plants at Pittsburg (Pa.) and vicinity are closed, on account of floods. Great damage is being done, and hundreds of families are homeless.”

— United States Senator Cushman K. Davis died November 27, at St. Paul, Minn. He was born June 16, 1838, and at the time of his death was chairman of the Senate committee on foreign relations.

— The twenty-seventh annual convention of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union opened in Washington, D. C., Tuesday, December 4, with “the largest delegation in attendance in ten years.”

— A treaty has been signed by Secretary Hay and Senor Correa, the Nicaraguan minister, “conceding to the United States the necessary rights and privileges within the bestowal of Nicaragua, for the construction of the Nicaraguan canal.”

— During the progress of a football game in San Francisco, thirteen spectators were killed and over eighty injured, by the collapse of the roof of the Pacific Glass Works. “Many fell into the furnaces and glass vats, and were horribly burned.”

— Mr. Ernest Seton-Thompson, author of that excellent book of true and tender stories, entitled “Wild Animals I Have Known,” has purchased eighty acres of woodland in Cos Cob, Conn., which he will lay out as a park, and where he will live.

— Dispatches state that “Christians in the province of Canton (China) have been escorted back to the towns they formerly inhabited, by French and Chinese troops, and the Chinese authorities notified that they will be dismissed in the event of renewed trouble.”

— A Washington dispatch, dated December 4, states that “the Kentucky State law requiring railroad companies in that State to provide separate coaches for colored passengers was made the subject of an opinion in the United States Supreme Court yesterday, and the law was sustained.” However, it seems that “Justice Harlan dissented, stating his opinion to be that the Kentucky Legislature has no right to classify citizens by color, in railway coaches.”

— The people of England and America are great novel readers. Proof of this may easily be gleaned from the following statement, which recently appeared in the New York Times: “On the 2d of October, just two weeks after its publication, 40,000 copies of — had been sold. The publishers report that they are sending out a steady average of 3,500 copies a day. It is now a brief month after publication, and the book has passed its 70,000.”

— There will soon be a call for more men in the United States navy; for, in his report to Secretary Long, Admiral Crowninshield, chief of the Navigation Bureau, states that “the navy has not enough officers and men available to man the ships on the various stations, and when the new ships provided for are completed, the force will be entirely inadequate to even handle the vessels properly. The present complement is 1,340 commissioned officers, 177 warrant officers, and 14,603 enlisted men. This is apart from the marine corps of 201 officers and 6,000 men.”

— It is reported that Winona, Minn., has 400 cases of smallpox, though no deaths have occurred thus far.

— The cost of extending rural free delivery of mail throughout the United States will be between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000.

— A Canadian mint will be established, and Canada’s gold coin will hereafter be made at home, instead of in England as heretofore.

— Lord Roberts has asked for 8,000 fresh troops for service in South Africa, “to replace battalions incapacitated for duty at the front.”

— Rear Admiral Rodgers has been “ordered to join Rear Admirals Remy and Kempff, in Asiatic waters. He has selected the armored cruiser ‘New York’ for his flagship.”

— It is stated, by the National Watchman, that “England has $90,000,000 invested in breweries in the United States,” and that “last year she took out of the country, as beer receipts, $8,100,000 in gold.”

— The United States Navy Department has received word that “during a typhoon, November 13, the auxiliary cruiser ‘Yosemite’ was wrecked on a reef about seventy miles from Guam.” Five of the crew were drowned.

— Emperor William has informed Mr. Kruger that he will be unable to receive him just at present, “in consequence of previous engagements.” This is simply a polite way of telling Mr. Kruger that he is not wanted at Berlin.

— The astronomical instruments of the Peking (China) Observatory were stolen by French and German generals, and are to be “divided between Berlin and Paris.” The instruments were “made by the Jesuits more than two centuries ago.” Representatives of the Powers have protested to Count von Waldersee against such a removal of the instruments.

— It appears that on November 12, half a dozen able-bodied white men were sentenced, by the mayor of Macon, Ga., to work from ten to thirty days in a gang, “for no other crime than that of passing through Macon on foot instead of traveling in carriages or railroad cars.” Commenting upon “the growing disposition in this country, for it is not confined to Georgia, to revive those persecutions of the poor which so disgraced British law even in the present century,” the Public, a Chicago weekly, says: “The report calls them ‘tramps,’ and the reporter tells of their plight as if it were a most excellent joke. If persons supposed to be tramps can be treated in this way, without evidence of any criminality on their part, the time is not far distant when the persecution will reach to classes higher up than tramps.”

— In a letter addressed to the Havana (Cuba) papers, General Maximo Gomez recently stated that he would refuse to accept any office under the Cuban Republic. He said: “As a revolutionist, I have always understood that from the moment the revolution was ended, my mission will be terminated. What remains to be done to attain the felicity of the land is not a matter to be decided by cavalry charges. The problems pressing for solution must be solved with prudence and calmness, and without the ardent patriotism that might have been necessary at other times. Cuba now presents a great field for improvement, which must be carried out judiciously. It is a field where all her children can work. My retired life and my persistent refusal of the positions that have been offered me, should be sufficient proof that my determination is irrevocable. I firmly believe that the highest distinction which a man who has fought so much can take with him to the grave, is the esteem of all, and this can only be attained by not governing anybody or anything.”

— Under the heading, “An Ecclesiastical Marriage,” the Christian Advocate says that “the formal union of the Free and United Presbyterian churches of Scotland has been accomplished. On October 30 the Free Church Assembly and the United Presbyterian Synod respectively decided to unite, which was consummated on the morning of October 31, in Edinburgh. The ministers marched from their respective halls to the Royal Institution, and then proceeded to Waverley Market, and held the first meeting of the United Free Church of Scotland. Three thousand ministers took part in the procession, and dense crowds along the road cheered them repeatedly. The Earl of Aberdeen; Dr. Joseph Parker, of London; the Rev. John Watson, of Liverpool, and delegates from Canada, Australia, Jamaica, Africa, and France, participated in the proceedings. The Rev. Robert Rainy, the principal of New College, Edinburgh, of the Free Church of Scotland, who has been in the ministry forty-nine years, and is well known as an author, was elected the first moderator of the United Free Church. Notwithstanding this union, there are as many sects as there were before; for a small minority, opposed to the union, assembled in a separate hall, and constituted themselves a Free Church Assembly.”