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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 31, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 31.

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NEWS AND NOTES

—Russia is moving 45,000 troops from Odessa to China.

—France and Great Britain have both taken steps to prevent shipment of arms to China.

—Within a week seven tourists have lost their lives while scaling the Alps of Switzerland.

—An American army of 22,000 will co-operate with the Powers in restoring peace in China.

—The Salvation Army officials say that they will follow the army of invasion into China.

—Major Moore, of Port Huron, Mich., says that all saloons in that city must close on Sunday.

—The Boers recently attacked Pole-Carew’s and Hutton’s forces, near Pretoria, but were repulsed.

—United States soldiers will receive twenty per cent over the pay allotted in time of peace, for serving in China.

—The German textile trade is seriously affected by the Chinese trouble, 28,000 men in three districts being out of work.

—The pesthouse of Cape Nome is filled with smallpox cases, and great excitement prevails over the rapid increase of the disease.

—Cardinal Satolli, papal delegate to the United States from 1893–97, has been appointed prefect of the propaganda, by Pope Leo XIII.

—The president of France has received a message from the emperor of China, asking the mediation of France with the foreign Powers.

—The new Russian cruiser “Variag” has left the Cramps shipyard, Philadelphia, and will have her speed officially tested off the New England coast.

—Work has been discontinued on the Manchuria railroad, which has already cost $51,500,000. The workmen, 25,000 Chinese and 600 Russians, have dispersed.

—Jackson (Mich.) proposes to increase its water supply from 7,000,000 to 10,000,000 gallons a day, by means of a direct suction system from new wells that are to be dug.

—The Hong-Kong correspondent of the London Express says that an attempt was made to blow up the Baptist chapel at Canton, with apparent intention of killing the Christians.

—President McKinley has appointed William W. Rockhill, director of the Bureau of American Republics, as special envoy to represent the United States government in China.

—The Prince of Wales has given his indorsement to the marriage of Lady Randolph Churchill and Lord Cornwallis West. The latter is about the same age as Lady Churchill’s sons.

—Reports from Yokohama, Japan, say that “several villages were engulfed by streams of lava from Mount Azuma,” and that “great damage was done in adjacent districts, and 200 lives were lost.”

—During the last seven weeks, plate and bar prices have dropped from forty-five dollars to twenty-five dollars a ton. The plan is to “freeze out” the small steel and iron mills. One at Minerva, Ohio, and one at Erie, Pa., have closed down.

—James Petoskey, one of old Chief Petoskey’s sons, died last week, at his home near the Indian camp ground, about four miles south of Petoskey, Mich. There now remain but four sons and one daughter of a family of fourteen children.

—William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., recently drove his automobile from Newport to Boston, a distance of seventy-five miles, in two hours and forty-seven minutes. He paid a fifteen-dollar fine for fast driving through the Blue Hill Park reservation.

—France has asked the United States to pay the Transatlantic Steamship Company $300,000 damages for the detention of the French steamships “Manobia” and “Lafayette” during the blockade in Cuban waters, during the Spanish-American war.

—It is said in Nashville, Tenn., that twenty-nine cars of fancy bananas were dumped near that city, by order of the “trust,” lest continued heavy shipments from Mobile should cause a drop in the price. It is said that a total of 100 car-loads has been dumped.

—It is said that sixty-four marriage licenses were secured in St. Joseph, Mich., last Sunday. The secret of this wholesale matrimonial business is that “the steamboat company sells round-trip tickets [Chicago to St. Joseph and return], two for seven dollars. This includes license, service of minister or justice of peace, a good dinner, and a wedding tour—a kind of ‘bargain counter’ matrimonial.”

—The shah of Persia is visiting St. Petersburg.

—American capitalists are exploiting the Japanese petroleum fields.

—The Canadian Bank of Commerce has absorbed the Bank of British Columbia.

—The Italian faster Succi has been declared insane, and is confined in an asylum.

—One hundred marines from the Brooklyn navy yard have been called to service in China.

—Heavy rains in northern Kansas broke the drought of five weeks, and saved the corn crop.

—San Francisco Chinese offer to fight under the United States flag, against the Boxers.

—The Eighth United States Infantry battalion has been ordered from Fort Snelling, Minn., to the Philippines.

—It is announced in Canton, Ohio, that President McKinley will make no speeches during the presidential campaign.

—The late vice-president Hobart left $1,000,000 to his wife, and $2,000,000 to his only child, Garret A. Hobart, Jr.

—A British force has captured all the Boer positions in the neighborhood of Rietfontein; the British casualties were trifling.

—It is said that “Parisians have heard the first American college yell, and it created as much of a sensation as Sousa’s band.”

—The Peary relief steamer has sailed for North Greenland. Mrs. Peary and her six-year-old daughter are the only passengers on board.

—The American hospital ship “Maine” has been accepted by the British government for service in China, instead of returning to South Africa.

—Morton County, Kan., reports to the State board of health that it had had no physician for one year, having had no sickness among its four hundred inhabitants.

—Of twenty-one contests in athletic sports at the Paris Exposition, Americans won sixteen, thirteen seconds, and twelve thirds. Besides, they did not compete in all the contests.