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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 7, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 19.

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NEWS AND NOTES

— It is reported that the shah of Persia is seriously ill.

— Last year the expenses of New York City were $162,530,510.

— A slight panic prevails in Japan, twenty banks having failed.

— The Argentine wheat crop is estimated to be 2,600,000 tons.

— The agitation against Sunday concerts is being revived in London.

— Governor Dole, of Hawaii, is seriously ill with nervous prostration.

— President Errázuriz, of Chile, has resigned because of poor health.

— The Japanese indemnity claim on China amounts to $23,750,000.

— A seat on the New York Stock Exchange was recently sold for $62,100.

— An earthquake was recently felt on the island of Guernsey, near the English coast.

— The Rt. Rev. William Stubbs, lord bishop of Oxford, and a noted historian, is dead.

— Uruguay has decreed that “no Jesuit emigrants from Europe may land” upon its territory.

— Steamships belonging to the Cunard line will be equipped with wireless telegraphy outfits.

— The Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk railway systems are said to be planning a consolidation.

— Great Britain has refused to permit “the establishment of a Roman Catholic university in Ireland.”

— On the night of the 3d inst. a large part of Jacksonville, Fla., was wiped out by fire. Loss, $15,000,000.

— The Boers in the Kroonstad district recently derailed two trains and captured twenty-five British troopers.

— The celebration of Dewey day (May 1) was practically confined to the admiral’s own home in Washington.

— An American firm recently received an order from Ecuador for $2,000,000 worth of railroad bridge material.

— Mexican troops have taken the capital of the Maya Indians in southern Mexico, and practically ended the rebellion.

— A $4,000,000 company has been incorporated in this State, to build and operate a trolley line between Detroit and Chicago.

— Numerous bands of Filipinos have surrendered and taken the oath of allegiance to the United States. However, the war is not over.

— On account of illness, Brig.-Gen. Wm. Ludlow will leave Manila for the United States, at once. It is feared that he has consumption.

— Adelbert Hay, son of Secretary Hay, and consul to Pretoria, Transvaal, has sent in his resignation, the same to take effect immediately.

— A dispatch from Rome states that “Monsignor Falconio will succeed Cardinal Martinelli as papal delegate to the United States,” and that “Monsignor Zaleski, papal delegate to the West Indies, will succeed Monsignor Falconio as papal delegate to Canada.”

— Because of opposition to the canal bill, Emperor William, of Germany, closed the Prussian Diet the 3d inst. Three members of the cabinet, Dr. Von Miquel, minister of finance, Baron Von Hammerstein, minister of agriculture, and Herr Brefeld, minister of commerce, have been forced by the emperor to render their resignation, because of their “inability to rally their constituents in support of the canal bill.”

— Mr. Tom Johnson, the new mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, has made his pastor director of the department of charities and corrections of that city.

— It seems that General Schwartzkopf perished in the burning palace of the empress, in Peking. He had returned to the building to save his favorite dog.

— Wholesale desertions from the Turkish army are reported, because of “destitution and military negligence.” The deserters are joining bands of brigands.

— With an eye to business, the Standard Oil Company has already purchased “railroad terminals, wharves, and shipping facilities, and 90,000 acres of land” in the oil fields of Texas.

— The street cars of Oakland, Cal., are operated by electric power generated on the Yuba River, 140 miles distant. It is said that this is the “longest transmission of electric power in the world.”

— Wu Ting Fang, Chinese minister to this country, advises that the United States impose “an educational test on Chinese coming to this country, requiring them to read the Constitution in English.”

— John Alexander Dowie has leased the Chicago Auditorium for two years, for his Sunday afternoon services. His present Zion tabernacle is too small to accommodate the throngs that attend his services.

— An exchange gives the following recipe as a smallpox preventive: “Pour a pint of boiling water on one ounce of cream of tartar, let it settle and cool, and take a teaspoonful every hour.” It surely can do no harm.

— Mrs. George D. Herron has secured a divorce from her husband, the noted socialist haranguer, on the ground of his scandalous conduct with another woman. Last week Dr. Herron was suspended from the Grinnell (Iowa) Association of Congregational Churches.

— The Michigan Central Railroad proposes to illuminate Niagara Falls during the summer, by means of electric search-lights, the power necessary to be derived from the rapids. The illumination will take place during the passage of trains after dark.

— Just before leaving for Rome, Archbishop Chappelle, papal delegate to the Philippine Islands, told Judge Taft, of the Philippine Commission, that “the friars were not to return to the provinces, and that only a sufficient number of them were now in Manila to act as instructors in the colleges.” Some are fondly hoping that this will simplify “the troublesome friar question;” but, with such teachers in the colleges, it will not take long to raise a new crop of friars, and the system remains untouched.

— Student riots continue in Russia. Sunday, the 14th ult., 1,500 persons were arrested in Odessa. “Revolutionary proclamations continue to be distributed in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa, Kieff, and elsewhere. The most remarkable of recent developments is a proposal to dispatch to the czar an address begging him to grant a constitution. Fifteen thousand signatures have already been appended to it, including those of many landowners, merchants, and literary men. The address is causing much excitement. It is generally regarded as a most daring step.”

— On the 27th ult. the Cuban commissioners had a “final and decisive interview” with President McKinley, asking him to ameliorate trade relations between the United States and Cuba. In reply he merely told them that “after they have formed their government, he will appoint a commission to consider the question.” Seeing they were obliged to submit to the Platt amendment, the Cuban commissioners thought to get an equivalent, in trade concessions, for their surrender of Cuban independence. But, with the sugar and tobacco trusts in control of the legislation of Congress, no trade concessions will ever be made to Cuba.