p. 12 | NEWS AND NOTES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 30, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 18.

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NEWS AND NOTES

— California will appropriate $200,000 every two years to the State University.

— William M. Jenkins has been appointed governor of Oklahoma Territory.

— Niles, Mich., and vicinity are being flooded with counterfeit five-dollar gold pieces.

— Peace negotiations between Lord Kitchener and the Boer generals have been renewed.

— Mt. Vesuvius is again in active eruption, and “trains to Naples are crowded with sightseers.”

— North African dispatches state that “Mad Mullah, with 40,000 followers, is again threatening trouble.”

— Westminster Abbey is crumbling, owing to fumes from the potteries at Lambeth. One of its columns has just fallen.

— A trust has just been formed, to fight the great steel trust of the country. The new combine will erect a $50,000,000 plant at Sault Ste. Marie, this State.

— In view of improved conditions in the Philippines, General Miles has recommended to Secretary Root “that the strength of the army be limited to 76,000,—one soldier to every 1,000 of population.”

— Floods are doing great damage to farms in Kansas.

— Mr. Steyn has been re-elected president of the Orange Free State.

— In Shanghai, China, there are six daily native papers, and one weekly.

— Peter the Great, of Russia, was six feet eight and one-half inches in height.

— A new Chilian cabinet has been formed, with Auguste Owego Luco as foreign minister.

— The British are becoming seriously alarmed over the defenseless condition of British India.

— Friedrich Franz IV assumed rule over the duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin on the 9th inst.

— Of a total of 392 cases of bubonic plague at Cape Town, South Africa, 152 have proved fatal.

— The largest beet sugar plant in the world is to be located in the Arkansas River valley, Colorado.

— The Standard Oil Company copper syndicate has absorbed the mines of Senator Clarke, of Montana.

— About eight per cent of the marriages contracted in the United States end in the divorce court.

— The Filipino Generals Morres and Morales have surrendered, after defeat, to the United States troops.

— The exhibition of Count Tolstoi’s portrait at Moscow has been prohibited by the Russian government.

— Owing to the flood in Pittsburg and vicinity, 50,000 men are thrown out of employment. Loss, $3,000,000.

— George Q. Cannon, head of the Mormon Church for over twenty years, died the 12th inst., at Monterey, Cal.

— President McKinley began his tour of this continent, in a special train, the 29th inst. The trip will last seven weeks.

— Farmers throughout the South are planting all available land to cotton, as the prospects for good returns are excellent.

— Minister Conger has arrived, from China. There is talk of his resigning. He may be asked to become governor of Iowa.

— The Boers recently captured a coal and cattle train near Molteno, Cape Colony. De Wet, with a few followers, is near Kroonstad.

— The closing down of the cotton-mills in Lawrence and Fall River, Mass., for a short time, throws 23,000 workmen out of employment.

— Sir Thomas Lipton’s yacht “Shamrock II,” which is to challenge America’s cup, was launched the 20th inst., at Dumbarton, Scotland.

— In China a French and German force of 1,400 men are ready to fight General Liu. The Chinese troops have retired over the Shan-Si River.

— The National Biscuit Company is urging its employees to take preferred stock in the company, that they may have a voice in its management.

— The socialists in Spain have decided to celebrate May-day with a general strike; but “the anarchists have refused to co-operate with them.”

— It is reported from New Guinea that two missionaries of the London Missionary Society and a number of native Christians have been killed.

— The Postmaster-General of the United States has issued an order permitting all mail-carriers to wear shirt-waists during the summer months.

— Benjamin O. Davis, of Washington, D. C., is to become a lieutenant in the regular army. He is “the first negro private soldier to rise from the ranks.”

— An exchange states that “a temperance restaurant conducted by Christian Endeavorers in Paris is said to have a daily patronage of about 700 working men.”

— By a recent decision of the United States Supreme Court rejecting the Estancia land grant, 500,000 acres of land in New Mexico will be thrown open to public entry.

— Tommy Atkins (any British soldier) will be obliged to get along without American beef, since the British government has excluded all beef except home-bred from its army contracts.

— Of the 4,500,000 inhabitants of the new commonwealth of Australia, 3,726,480 “claim to belong to one or another of the churches”; namely, 1,462,740 Anglicans, 811,730 Roman Catholics, 454,870 Methodists, 395,490 Presbyterians, 86,140 Baptists, 84,380 Congregationalists.”

— American capital is developing most of Canada’s industries. The Dominion papers are protesting against existing conditions making this necessary.

— Gen. Alexander C. McClurg, head of the publishing firm of A. C. McClurg and Company, died of Bright’s disease, at St. Augustine, Fla., the 15th inst., at the age of sixty-seven years.

— The American Woolen Company’s mills at Syracuse, N. Y., employing 1,200 hands, have been closed because “the weavers object to the order obliging them to instruct beginners.”

— Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, chancellor of the British exchequer, has warned England that “to continue the war means financial ruin,” the Boer war having already cost the English over $700,000,000.

— Dispatches state that Boer agents in this country have been inoculating the mules shipped from New Orleans, for the British in South Africa. As the result of this, many of the animals have died at sea.

— The West Indies and Central America receive $8,000,000 each year for the bananas sent to the United States; while the island of Jamaica alone sends to this country over 4,000,000 bunches per annum, worth, at wholesale, $1,500,000.

— Aguinaldo has been removed to a private residence in Manila, the guard over him having been reduced. On the occasion of Aguinaldo’s manifesto to his own people, General MacArthur released 1,000 Filipino prisoners, who had taken the oath of allegiance to the United States.

— The mayor and members of the city council of New Orleans, La., recently received a proposition from the managers of the gambling houses of that city, “offering to donate to the city a sum amounting to about $44,000 per annum, for the privilege of conducting gaming houses under city license.”

— The British Naval Department has decided to build five submarine boats for the English navy. Each boat will measure over sixty-three feet in length, and will be propelled by a gasoline engine. The surface speed will be nine knots an hour, and the speed, when submerged, seven knots an hour.

— In 1899, 45,303 sparrows were killed in Clinton County, Mich., hunters receiving on an average seventy-five dollars a month. Last year the bounty paid each month for the killing of these innocent creatures was ninety-four dollars. Are not even the English sparrows entitled to a small portion of the crops which they help to protect?

— Dispatches state that the Cuban delegates from the Cuban Constitutional Convention have arrived in Washington, D. C. They have “held conferences with the President and Secretary Root, who convinced them of the wisdom of the Cuban convention accepting the conditions imposed by Congress.” They were given a state dinner.

— Teodoro Sandico is said to be the successor of Aguinaldo at the head of the Filipinos in the field. A Filipino in Washington, Rafael del Pan Fontela, states that “the war will be steadily waged under his leadership. Sandico is a mechanical engineer by profession, and a man of high education.” He has traveled through Europe and America, and speaks fluently Spanish, two or three Filipino dialects, French, and English.

— At its last session Congress passed an act fixing the boundary line between Virginia and Tennessee “in the middle of the main street of Bristol, Tenn. There is a car line in the street, and passengers on opposite sides of a car now ride in different States. The marriage of minors, forbidden in Virginia, may be performed on the south side of a car. A Virginia criminal on the south side of the street is safe from arrest, should he so insist, until requisition papers can be obtained from Tennessee.”

— Maitre Labori, the able lawyer who defended Captain Dreyfus, and who was shot by enemies of the latter, is to be editor-in-chief of a fortnightly French magazine to be supported by a portion of the fortune of Professor Novel, the Norwegian inventor who left $500,000 “for the promotion of liberal ideas throughout the world.” Two other similar fortnightly magazines are to be supported in like manner, one in England and the other in Germany.

— The Literary Digest states that “the national congress of the Disciples of Christ, lately held at Lexington, appointed a committee of seven to take charge of a movement in behalf of an international confederation of religious denominations. According to this scheme, the different religious bodies are to retain their own creeds, but will be auxiliary to an international congress, and will affiliate with all other churches on a common platform. The ultimate aim is to create one international Church.” But that is exactly what Rome is endeavoring to create.