News Notes

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 23, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 17.

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—A rich strike of oil has been made near El Paso, Tex.

—The Welland canal was opened for navigation the 22d inst.

—The ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople has been deposed.

—The reports that General De Wet is crazy are, without doubt, entirely false.

—Prince Tuan is at the bottom of another “menacing rebellion in northern China.”

—Russia recently ordered the regular lectures to be resumed in her high schools.

—Owing to the profligacy of the king of Portugal, Queen Natalie may become a nun.

—General Maximo Gomez is arranging to visit the United States at an early date.

—A combination of the witchhazel manufacturers of the United States has been formed.

—The government of Korea has passed a law making death the penalty for opium smoking.

—Congress has appropriated $300,000 for the preservation of the forest lands of this country.

—Great Britain’s war expenses are such that the government will be obliged to borrow $300,000,000.

—Mrs. Carrie Nation was arrested in Kansas City, Kan., the 15th inst., for obstructing the streets.

—The French government is building a magnificent residence for its representative in Washington.

—The President has given $5,000 toward a $100,000 Canton (Ohio) hotel, which is to be called the McKinley.

—Because they could not go to the Philippines, 200 soldiers recently enlisted at Leavenworth, Kan., have deserted.

—The Boer cause is reported to be in a desperate condition, many of General De Wet’s men even can suing for peace.

—Texas has just granted eighteen charters to various oil companies with an aggregate capitalization of $5,272,000.

—Fort Wayne, Ind., and Cincinnati, Ohio, are to be connected by an electric railroad running through Dayton, Ohio.

—King Edward, of England, has made Lord Kitchener a lieutenant general, because of faithful service in South Africa.

—The corner-stone of the $100,000 Y. M. C. A. building at Colorado Springs, Colo., will be laid by President McKinley, June 6.

—Dispatches from Canada state that “much to the disappointment of Canadians, May 24, Queen Victoria’s birthday, will not be made a statutory holiday.”

—The capture of Pietersburg by the British gives the latter control of all the northern railway. The British war office has “prohibited the display of the white flag upon any occasion” by the English army in South Africa.

—Commenting upon affairs in the far East, the Springfield Republican says: “The Chinese situation appears to grow steadily worse as it grows better—particularly whenever and just as the Washington correspondents herald another great diplomatic triumph for Secretary Hay.”

—The well-known Rothschild banking house, at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, will be dissolved.

—The discovery of oil at Deming, New Mexico, has caused a rush of prospectors to that place.

—The British War Office has given orders to have the fortifications of Jamaica strengthened.

—The British war office announces that all soldiers who surrender in the field will be court-martialed.

—The international court of arbitration at The Hague will open its sessions on the czar’s birthday, May 17.

—The friends of Vice-President Roosevelt are already laying their plans to boom him for the presidency in 1904.

—An Oakland, Cal., man was recently granted a divorce from his wife “on the ground that she was addicted to smoking cigarettes.”

—Governor Hunt, of Idaho, has just issued a proclamation abolishing martial law proclaimed in Shoshone County two years ago.

—A large hospital is to be built in the Vosges Mountains for the benefit of lepers. Endeavors will also be made to treat the dread disease.

—United States Consul Wade sends word that during the last six weeks 10,000 deaths from the plague have occurred at Canton, China.

—An exchange states that “all the large plants for the manufacture of stationary engines and similar machinery are to be combined in a company capitalized at $50,000,000.”

—The Franco-German expedition to the Chinese province of Chihli has been abandoned because of assurance that the “Chinese force will withdraw from threatening positions.”

—The New York east conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church voted, the 16th inst., to admit women to seats in the M. E. General Conference, the majority being 67 votes in a total of 213.

—Ibu Rashid has recovered the kingdom of Nejd, in central Arabia. It is said that 5,000 men were killed in the battle in which Rashid defeated Mabarouk, sheik of Koweit, who had deposed him.

—The Molukanes, a Russian sect in Transcaucasia, are desirous of coming to this continent. There are 50,000 of them, and they wish to emigrate on account of heavy taxation and lack of land.

—Latest dispatches bring discouraging reports from Porto Rico, and state that “dire poverty exists over great portions of the island,” and that “hundreds of the workingmen are emigrating.”

—A student of the University of Michigan has the bubonic plague, and has been isolated in the Ann Arbor pest-house. He caught the disease while experimenting with plague bacilli in the laboratory.

—The National Conference of the Association of Catholic Colleges, in session at Chicago, recently adopted “a series of resolutions protesting against State control of education and unjust discrimination in laws.”

—According to the latest census of India, “Bengal, which has an area of 203,473 square miles,—one quarter less than the area of Texas,—has a population of 74,713,000, which is equal to that of the United States.”

—A dispatch from Sofia, dated the 17th inst., states that “the congress of the Macedonian Revolutionary league, in which all parts of Bulgaria, Rumania, and Macedonia are represented, adopted a resolution to-day demanding immediate rising against Turkey. An effigy of the Turkish sultan was burned in front of the hall in which the congress was in session.”

—Hereafter Russia intends to build her own warships. She has ten shipyards of her own on the Baltic and Black seas, wherein are being constructed “ten battle-ships and cruisers, ranging from 6,600 to 13,500 tons each.” It is stated that although at present eight warships are being built for her abroad, “they are probably the last that will ever be built for her outside her own navy yards.”

—Last week Sir Redvers Buller, better known as General Buller, delivered a speech at Plymouth, England, “warning the British government to consider well its dealings with the South Africans,” and predicting “the formation in South Africa of another English-speaking nation.” He also asserted that South Africa must be treated “as a nation, and not merely as a conquered province.” He said: “New nations are springing up around us, and must be allowed to do what is proper for themselves. Reasonable concessions must be granted. We must not repeat the error which lost us America. That first great child of the empire was lost because a fine, growing, lusty boy was not allowed to think differently from his parents.”

—Advices from South Africa say that Andries Wessels, reported to have been shot by orders of General De Wet, is alive.

—An exchange says that thousands of children “took part in the annual Easter egg-rolling frolic on the grounds of the White House at Washington, Monday, the 8th inst.”

—The Germans have built some electric cars capable of running at the rate of 125 miles an hour; and it is reported that “trains at that speed will be put on between Hamburg and Berlin.” The German electricians have thus outdistanced the Americans.

—According to the Berliner Tageblatt, “one quarter of the working people in Germany are either idle or insufficiently employed, and there is little prospect of improvement, owing to Germany’s vacillating trade policy, which drives German capital and intelligence abroad.”

—There was recently held at New York a “Get-Together-Club,” composed of about 500 persons, among whom were “many representatives of large business establishments.” The object of the meeting was to consider “measures whereby personal relations of mutual interest and affection might be established between employer and employee.”

—The Krupps will discharge 5,000 employees from their great gun factories at Essen, Buckow, and Kiel, 4,000 having already been dismissed since October. The cause of this is the industrial depression throughout Germany.

—Count Leo Tolstoi has addressed a letter to the czar, courageously appealing to him to remove existing Russian grievances. He asks for justice and education for the peasants, and says that the existing evils can not be checked by force. The letter is “warmly approved by educated Russians,” and has created a deep impression.

—Evidently this country is not having all the trade of Cuba; for statistics show that “imports into Cuba from Europe are increasing, while those from the United States are decreasing. The statement of the War Department shows a fall of $3,500,000 in Cuban imports from the United States, and an increase of over $2,000,000 in imports from Europe, the figures of European imports in nine months of 1900 being $21,559,239, and in the nine months of 1899, $19,481,660, while the Cuban imports from the United Kingdom [of Great Britain] alone in nine months of 1900 were $8,297,865, against $6,598,582 in the corresponding months of the preceding year.”