News and Notes

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 25, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 52.

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— France's naval estimate for the coming year is $152,453,200.

— All of the available British mounted infantry has been ordered to South Africa.

— It is said that Wm. T. Stead is at The Hague, “drawing up a manifesto for Mr. Kruger.”

— Owing to heavy rains, the Senne River has inundated a portion of the city of Brussels, Belgium.

— Oswald Ottendorfer, editor of the New Yorker Staats Zeitung, died in New York, December 15.

— An earthquake shock of one minute's duration was recently felt at Joplin, Mo.

— Two negroes were lynched by a mob, in the jail yard at Rockport, Ind., the 16th inst.

— George von L. Meyer, of Massachusetts, has been selected as ambassador to Italy by President McKinley.

— After New Year's, the Northern Pacific Railroad will reduce passenger rates in Montana to three cents a mile.

— The natural gas supply at Akron, Ohio, gave out Monday, December 17, the coldest day thus far this winter.

— The Fowler Bicycle and Carriage Company's works at Chicago were destroyed by fire, the 19th inst. Loss, $80,000.

— Initial steps have been taken in the organization of a Hebrew regiment for the National Guard of New York State.

— The czar of Russia is rapidly recovering his health, and his physicians have declared that they will issue no more bulletins.

— Michael G. Mulhall, the famous statistician, died in England, the 13th inst. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1836.

— The extensive plow works of the A. T. Stewart Company, at Carnegie, Pa., were destroyed by fire, December 17. Loss, $40,000.

— Mr. Kruger and Dr. Leyds dined at the royal palace, with Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland, and Dowager Queen Emma, December 14.

— The German training-ship “Gneisenau” was wrecked in Malaga harbor, December 16, by a hurricane, 100 or 150 men losing their lives.

— The United States auxiliary cruiser “Buffalo,” with 250 naval recruits, has sailed from New York for Manila, by way of the Cape of Good Hope.

— Archbishop Ireland and Bishop McGoldrick, of Duluth, argued in favor of the army canteen, before the Senate Committee on Military Affairs, the 13th inst.

— Dr. Matzon, professor of law, in the University of Copenhagen, has been appointed to represent Denmark in the International Court of Arbitration at The Hague.

— The Cunard steamer “Lucania” left New York the 18th inst., with 2 or 3 sacks of mail matter, the largest amount ever carried on one boat across the Atlantic.

— The State normal and training school, at Fredonia, N. Y., was destroyed by fire, December 15, the janitor and six young lady students perishing in the flames. Loss, $200,000.

— Curiosity to see a drowning man, caused the death of 200 passengers on a steamboat in West River, China, the 15th inst. The boat was overturned by the rush of passengers to the side.

— Li Hung Chang recently informed General Chaffee that “he and all the people of Chihli Province are extremely pleased and gratified at the behavior of American troops toward the Chinese.”

— The plant of the Brown Hoisting and Conveying Machine Company, one of the largest industries of Cleveland, Ohio, was burned December 19. Loss, $1,000,000. Over 1,000 men were employed.

— A citizen of Detroit, Mich., who does not wish his name to be known, has arranged with a local shoe house to give each member of the Newsboys' Association of that place a pair of new shoes for Christmas.

— The best educated of the people now coming to the United States are the Finns. Last year 6,753 of them came over, and of these all but sixty-two were able to read and write. They are generally Lutherans.

— Because of the withdrawal, by Portugal, of the exequatur of the Dutch consul at Lorenzo Marques, the minister from the Netherlands to Portugal, and the Portuguese minister at The Hague have left their posts.

— In the German Reichstag, Dr. Stoecker, former court chaplain, recently announced that he had “private information that the reason the empress dowager hates Emperor Kwang Su, is that the latter has become a Christian.”

— An exchange says that “it is singular that no attempt has been made to improve or cultivate the blueberry, one of the best native fruits. As far as known, no single variety has ever been named and propagated, yet there is diversity of size, flavor, and time of ripening.”

— The Swedish government is waging a stern fight against drunkenness, says the Canadian Baptist. It imprisons all relapsed drunkards in houses of correction, and doses them with rum in all of their food and drink, until they become utterly nauseated with it. This treatment is said to effect a permanent cure in nine cases out of ten.

— The population of Berlin, Germany, is 1,884,345; in 1895 it was 1,677,304.

— Charles A. Towne, of Duluth, has been appointed by Governor Lind, of Minnesota, to the United States senatorship, to succeed the late Senator Davis.

— The National Civil Service Reform League, in session at New York, unanimously elected President Daniel C. Gilman, of Johns Hopkins University, president of the league, in place of Carl Schurz, resigned.

— The empress dowager of China has consented to the following peace conditions: “The early return of Emperor Kwang Su to Peking; indemnity to the amount of $200,000,000; the right of each legation to maintain a guard of 2,000 troops; and the appointment of a foreign adviser to each province of the empire.”

— Speaking of the China situation, the Spectator, of London, says: “The Chinese will win. The quarrel has been brought to the test of force; the force on the civilized side has proved insufficient.” It maintains that this result is “chiefly due to the attitude of Russia and the United States, and regards it as not unlikely that China will escape with the payment of a small indemnity and many promises on paper. Shanghai correspondents are becoming active again. One of them says that in a Chinese theater in that place the allies are represented by a soldier with an enormous mouth, who does nothing but talk, until his career is ended by his head being cut off.”

— It seems that “the disfranchisement bill in the Georgia Legislature, of which Representative Hardwick, of Washington, is the author, and which was overwhelmingly defeated last year, will probably take a unique turn this session. The governor has recommended restricted suffrage in his message, and the sentiment in the Legislature has undergone, it is claimed, a wonderful change in the last two years. The present scheme of Hardwick is to ask the Legislature to submit to the people the question of calling a constitutional convention, which shall consider the advisability of enacting disfranchisement legislation.” At the rate some things are going, it would not take very long for slavery to be re-established in the United States; and, indeed, what is to hinder, when the national government supports slavery under its jurisdiction in the Sulu Islands?