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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 20, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 47.

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NEWS AND NOTES

—The bubonic plague cost the city of Glasgow, Scotland, $5,000,000.

—The Texas State militia has been called out to suppress rioting at Anderson.

—Chicago packers advanced the price of meats one cent a pound November 9.

—President McKinley has retained his entire cabinet for another term of four years.

—John A. Russell, Attorney General of Porto Rico, has handed in his resignation.

—The Japanese battle-ship “Mikasa” has been successfully launched at Barrow, England.

—Eight persons were killed and fifteen injured in a railway collision at Choisy-le-Roi, France, November 11.

—The United States transport “Buford” recently sailed from Brooklyn, N. Y., with 900 men, for the Philippines.

—It is reported that “the American soldiers recently prevented the Russians from tearing down the British flag in China.”

—Robert G. Dun, senior member of the commercial agency of R. G. Dun and Company, died in the city of New York, November 10.

—General De Wet’s forces were badly beaten by the British cavalry, November 9, the general and President Steyn narrowly escaping capture.

—A Russian paper states that “an alliance has been formed between Russia, France, the United States, and Japan, to offset the Anglo-German agreement.”

—At the Lord Mayor’s banquet held in London, November 9, Lord Salisbury took occasion to rejoice “over the result of the United States election.”

—In his annual report the Commissioner of Indian Affairs says that “the impression that the number of Indians in this country is diminishing, is unfounded.”

—The Spanish Premier, General Azcarraga, recently announced that “the islands of Cagayan and Cibitu, in the Philippines, had been ceded to the United States for $100,000.”

—A company with a capital of $20,000,000 has been organized in Philadelphia, Pa., for the purpose of securing control of electric plants, railroads, and sugar plantations in Cuba.

—The estimates of the cost of the German-China expedition presented to the Federal Council provide for an expenditure of 152,000,000 marks, and a force of 863 officers and 18,739 men.

—A prize was recently offered to “the servant who had served the longest period in one family,” and Miss Mary Cuthbert won the same, having been in the employ of a Chicago family for fifty-four years.

—More than $100,000,000 worth of India rubber has been imported into the United States during the last four years. Ten years ago the annual importations of India rubber amounted to about $15,000,000; now they exceed $30,000,000, and are rapidly increasing.

—General Baden-Powell is ill with enteric fever, at Cape Town, South Africa.

—A band of fifty Carlists was captured by soldiers, near Barcelona, Spain, November 12.

—The United States will ask Great Britain to suppress the Filipino junta at Hongkong, China.

—The American Steel and Wire Company has ordered all idle plants at Pittsburg to start work.

—The admission fee to the Paris Exposition, Monday, November 12, the last day, was only one cent.

—Biloxi, Miss., a famous summer resort, was nearly destroyed by fire, November 10. Loss, about $1,000,000.

—W. C. Roentgen, discoverer of the “X-ray,” has received the Barnard medal from Columbia University.

—King Victor Emmanuel, of Italy, celebrated his birthday, November 11, by pardoning many criminals.

—A syndicate of Danish and Swedish capitalists is negotiating for a loan of $15,000,000 from American bankers.

—Alfred Lee Royce, chaplain in the United States navy, has brought action against the government for $1,500 back pay.

—Richard Croker, the Tammany leader, lost $160,000 on election bets; while a Wall Street banker, Louis Wormser, won $250,000.

—November 12, 325 cases of rifles and cartridges, consigned to the government of Honduras from New York, were seized in Panama.

—Marcus Daly, the wealthy copper-mine owner of Montana, died November 13, in New York City, after an illness of two months.

—The wharf of the American Commercial Company at Kodiak Island, Alaska, recently sank two feet on account of an earthquake.

—An English syndicate recently purchased the Portland gold mine, Cripple Creek, Colo., for about $15,000,000, thus securing 183 acres.

—The Nova Scotia coast is strewn with wreckage from the recent severe storm, twenty-five bodies having been recovered at Yarmouth.

—The trust has advanced the price of salt to $2.50 for 100 pounds. They will thus recover the money they subscribed to the campaign fund.

—Russia is to send a special agent to the United States, to study homestead legislation here, with the view of its partial application to the Russian peasant communities.

—By direction of President McKinley the Department of Porto Rico will be discontinued on the 15th of next month, after which it will be attached to the Department of the East.

—A Kansas City coal and coke company has purchased mining property at Rock Springs, Wyo., from which 600,000 tons of bituminous coal can be taken out yearly. The company will employ 600 men.

—The government of Morocco declines to pay indemnity to the United States for the murder of a naturalized American citizen. A man-of-war will probably be sent to the scene, to force the payment of the same.

—Henry Villard, the noted railroad capitalist and financier, who reported the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1854–58, and finished the Northern Pacific Railroad, died November 12, at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., of cancer of the throat.

—It seems that “the overwhelming defeat of Mr. Bryan was followed by enormous transactions, and a rise of prices on the stock exchange. On Monday, the day preceding the election, less than 500,000 shares were sold; but in the three and one-half days ending on Saturday at noon, the sales as recorded were 4,887,376 shares, to which should be added not less than 1,000,000” not included in the reported list. While stocks in general rose two points, Standard Oil rose twenty points.

—The elections in Porto Rico were held November 7, “the object being the election of the lower house of the legislature, to be organized under the act of Congress of last spring. The election was carried overwhelmingly by the Republicans, who are opposed to the American colonial policy. The opposing party, the Federals, cast only 200 votes, whereas the Republicans cast 75,000. The election passed off without the slightest disturbance. Governor Allen reports it as evidence of the capacity of the people for self-government.”

—The Tientsin, China, correspondent of the London Daily Mail says: “There is constant friction between the troops of the allies, and already there is covert taking of sides and getting into line for the severance which officers and men alike feel is practically certain to come. The Frenchmen, Germans, Russians, Austrians, and Italians are gravitating together, not so much because their interests are identical, but because of their common jealousy and dislike of England and the United States. Meanwhile, Japan sits on the fence. Frequent misunderstandings are resulting. The soldiers of one nationality are being killed or wounded by men of others. Numerous British, Americans, and Sikhs are the principal sufferers, chiefly at the hands of the French sentries, who shoot on short notice. These mishaps have resulted in grudges and bitterness.” And woe be to the whole earth when these grudges and this bitterness are revenged and let loose!

—The last of the plague sufferers has been dismissed from the hospital at Glasgow, Scotland.

—Acetylene gas headlights are being tried on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé Railroad.

—Reports from St. Petersburg, Russia, state that in portions of Siberia the grain has been completely burned up by drought.

—The apple crop of this country approximates 48,000,000 barrels this year, against 37,500,000 barrels in 1899, and 69,000,000 barrels in 1896.

—At the unveiling of the monument to the late President Carnot, at Lyons, France, great precautions were taken to prevent another assassination.

—Russia has completed her plans for a great ship canal between the Baltic and White seas, the same to have a minimum depth of twenty feet.

—Iceland, by her recent elections, has practically demanded of Denmark an autonomous government, by placing in power the party pledged to accomplish this end.

—The annual report of Second Assistant Postmaster-General Shallenberger gives the total amount expended for mail service by this country in the year ending June 30, 1900, as $57,160,598.

—President Steyn and Commandant Botha have refused to treat with the British for the surrender of the Boers, Botha declaring it impossible to treat for surrender as long as any burghers wish to fight.

—Secretary Hay, of the State Department, recently replied to Lord Pauncefote and to the German chargé d’affaires, indorsing the Anglo-German agreement as to the open door and as to the preservation of the integrity of China.

—A rich strike of cinnabar ore has been made in Brewster County, southwestern Texas, near the Rio Grande River. The ore is of such a nature that the quicksilver can be extracted economically, and the district is rapidly filling up with prospectors.

—The Philadelphia Times states that, by a gigantic customs fraud in sugar duties, the Spreckels Sugar Refining Company, of Philadelphia, has defrauded the government of $8,000,000 during the last three years. This refining company is a part of the great sugar trust.

—According to the American Agriculturist, the total yield of corn in the United States this year is 2,188,000,000 bushels, against 2,207,000,000 bushels in 1899, and 1,868,000,000 bushels in 1898. The average yield this year is 25.6 bushels an acre, against 26.4 bushels in 1899, and against about 23 bushels an acre in 1898.

—Barney Morris, who saw the rise and fall of Napoleon, and who lived when France passed through her reign of terror, recently celebrated his one hundred and eighth birthday by working as a laborer in Prospect Park, New York City. He is wiry and strong, and, with the exception of his hearing, his faculties are all nearly as keen as in youth.

—Queen Victoria has approved a part of the new Tory cabinet of England, as follows: Lord Salisbury as Premier and Lord of the privy seal; the Marquis of Lansdowne as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Mr. William St. John Brodrick, as Secretary of State for War; the Earl of Selborne, as first Lord of the Admiralty; and Mr. C. T. Ritchie, as Secretary of State for Home Affairs.

—The queen of Portugal has added to the great popularity she already enjoyed, by recently jumping into the sea and saving the life of a fisherman named Catalao. She had “just returned to shore from a rowing trip off Cascaes, a fashionable seaside resort, and saw Catalao’s boat overturned and the fisherman carried out to sea. The queen threw herself into the water, and swam to the unfortunate man, whose arm had been broken by his fall into the water, and, aided by two seamen, brought him ashore, and later took him to the royal residence, where she helped to make a bed for him, and gave him every comfort.”

—We are informed that “a news agency is to be established at Rome, under the auspices of the Vatican, for the purpose of preventing the sending out of false or deceptive news items regarding the doings of the ‘Holy See,’ by irresponsible persons.” It is stated that “the necessity for such a bureau was brought home to the pope with especial force by the great number of contradictory reports spread after the death of King Humbert, regarding the position taken by him and the high church dignitaries.” Both the Assumptionists and the Franciscans desire the management of the agency; it is predicted that the Franciscan order will secure “the honor.”

—Dispatches state that “the plurality of the popular vote secured by William McKinley in his second successful contest for the presidency of the United States far exceeds any that has ever been given a candidate for the office. It exceeds his own plurality of 596,749 in 1896 by 243,641 votes, and exceeds that of General Grant in 1872, up to the present year the greatest on record, by 77,389 votes.” Thus the national repudiation of the principles of the Constitution as a Protestant and republican government is complete. The next thing now to be looked for is the making of “provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions;” and then, for “the marvelous working of Satan, and the end near.”