p. 429 | NEWS AND NOTES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 3, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 27.

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NEWS AND NOTES

— Heavy rains have caused yellow fever to appear in many Cuban towns.

— The khedive of Egypt is ill with diphtheria, on his yacht in English waters.

— Canada secured the first prize for timber exhibit, at the Paris Exposition.

— The British War Office has recently bought forty batteries of Krupp field artillery.

— The wheat crop of France is so small that 30,000,000 bushels will have to be imported.

— The Iowa Central Railroad has passed into the possession of the Minneapolis and St. Louis road.

— The Japanese cabinet has resigned, and the Marquis Ito is endeavoring to form a coalition ministry.

— The dowager empress of China has ordered General Neih Si Chang, with 3,000 men, to protect the railroad to Peking.

— St. Louis business men are protesting against boycotts inaugurated by the Federation of Labor to help out the strikers.

— Electric street-car service has begun between Detroit and Port Huron, Mich.

— The Salvation Army in Chicago sells, to the poor, ice in blocks of five pounds, at one cent a block.

— June 25 three express-cars of ammunition were sent from New York to San Francisco, for shipment to China.

— The Ohio Supreme Court has decided that the $500,000 desired for Toledo's centennial celebration is not available.

— Central Music Hall, in Chicago, will be replaced by a twelve-story commercial building to be erected by Marshall Field.

— Dr. Fujisawa, professor of the Imperial University of Japan, is visiting in this country, en route to the Paris Exposition.

— It is said that "in an excavation near Austin, Tex., ancient tiling has been found, resembling that of the buried cities of Yucatan."

— The Yaqui Indians becoming aggressive again, the Mexican government has sent against them a force of 5,500 men, under General Torres.

— The mayor of St. Louis, Mo., refuses to allow fireworks in the city, on the Fourth of July, unless the street-car strike is ended by that time.

— The White Star and Cunard Atlantic steamship lines will inaugurate their winter rates, August 1, instead of September, because of few bookings.

— An editor in Germany is under arrest for high treason, the charge being support of the Polish national fund for the restoration of the kingdom of Poland.

— It is reported that "the Spanish government has ordered the protected cruiser ‘Carlos Quinto,’ its only good man-of-war left after the Santiago catastrophe, to China."

— Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir apparent to the Austrian throne, renounces all right of any possible heirs to succession, by marrying Countess Sophia Chotek.

— June 26 the wife of Major Wood, of the Northwest Mounted Police, drove the last spike on the White Pass and Yukon Railroad, completing 117 miles of continuous road.

— A dispatch from Lorenzo Marques says that "General De Wet has 6,000 men in the Free State, General Botha 2,500 in the Transvaal," and that "there are 1,300 burghers in smaller parties."

— Oleomargarine, according to Secretary Gage, is composed of thirty-two per cent of lard, with less than one per cent of genuine butter. Yet 83,000,000 pounds of the compound were sold last year.

— Three thousand Indians from the Gila reservation, Arizona, are permitted by the government to work in the orchards and vineyards in Fresno County, Cal., fruit-growers paying the transportation.

— Signora Loretta Italia Garibaldi, a granddaughter of the great Italian revolutionist, has entered the preparatory school of the Woman's College, Baltimore, Md. She intends to make a specialty of sociology.

— Announcement has been made of the engagement of Prince Albert, heir presumptive to the throne of Belgium, to Princess Elizabeth, of Bavaria, second daughter of Prince Charles and Duchess Maria, of Braganza.

— It is reported that "seventy-two professors in Havana University have been receiving enormous salaries, some having no classes, others but one or two students. Yet some drew $24,000 a year salary, besides other government salaries."

— It appears that France is in a rather delicate position with reference to the Chinese affair. As it is, she is helping to stop the Chinese troubles, thereby thwarting Russia, her ally, who, it is said, wishes to profit from the present condition of disorder.

— It is said that "Prof. D. A. Kent, of Iowa, has been appointed by the sultan of Turkey as instructor of farming for the Turkish government. Professor Kent was recommended for the place a year ago, but Oriental dilatoriness put the matter off until now. He is at present a member of the faculty of the Iowa State Agricultural College."

— A Western paper reports that "a number of ladies, who are members of a Congregational church at Stanton, Neb., edited the Stanton Register for one week during the month of May, in order to show ‘how Mary Magdalene would have edited a daily paper.’" Commenting upon the same, the secular paper from which the report was taken, remarked: "The next experiment of this kind ought to show how Judas Iscariot would have edited a newspaper."

— Adjt.-Gen. W. P. Hall, of the United States Army, has issued an order authorizing commanding officers in the department of the lakes to receive books and magazines given by citizens for distribution among the United States troops in the Philippines. Such matter delivered to the assistant quartermaster of the department, 211 Michigan Street, Chicago, will be forwarded to Manila, without expense to the contributor. It is desired that all packages be properly prepared for shipment and addressed before delivery to the assistant quartermaster.

— The final act of separation between the Spanish princess, the Infanta Eulalia, and her husband, Don Antoine, has been pronounced. Don Antoine will reside in Paris, and the Infanta Eulalia at Madrid, the children being left at school in England.

— One hundred and twenty-five Cuban teachers left Santiago, June 21. They are coming to this country "to take advantage of the summer school educational facilities offered by Harvard University." Most of them are young women. It is said that "a priest accompanies the party as a chaperon."

— A dispatch from Philadelphia, dated June 21, the final day of the National Republican Convention held in that city, says: "Attired in scarlet robes, himself a representative of one of the most powerful organizations on earth, Archbishop Patrick J. Ryan, of this city, invoked a blessing upon the day, the convention, and its labors."

— A dispatch from United States Admiral Kempff, dated Chefoo, China, June 24, says: "In ambuscade near Tien-tsin on the 21st, four of Waller's command killed and seven wounded. Names will be furnished as soon as received. Force of 2,000 going to relieve Tien-tsin to-day." This is the first shedding of American blood in the Chinese troubles.

— As a result of a wreck on the Southern Railway, near McDonough, Ga., thirty miles south of Atlanta, June 23, thirty-five passengers were killed. Only ten persons, who were in the last car—a Pullman—live to tell the story. The train ran into a cloud-burst washout, 100 feet of the track having been carried away. It was in the night, during a terrible rain-storm, and the train was running at full speed.

— June 26 Major General Adna R. Chaffee was ordered to "take command of the United States land forces in China, and to proceed to Peking by way of San Francisco and Taku." His "immediate command will consist of the Ninth, Fourth, and Twentieth Infantry, to be sent from Manila, and the Sixth Cavalry, which is said to be about ready to leave San Francisco." Major General Chaffee expects to be "on the scene of action" by August 1.

— A dispatch from Constantinople, dated June 24, says that the United States charge d’affaires, Mr. Griscom, "to-day presented a fresh note to the Ottoman government, insisting upon an immediate reply to the demand of the United States for a settlement of the indemnity in connection with the losses of Americans at the time of the Armenian massacres. Although vigorously phrased, the note is not an ultimatum. It contained no alternative proposition as to our course in case payment is not made." It is said to have been "a disagreeable surprise to the Porte."

— A dispatch from London, dated June 25, says that "at Canton the Boxers are posting inflammatory placards, of which the following is a sample: ‘Kill all Germans, French, Americans, and English. To have peace prevail in the hearts of the people, all foreigners should be driven out. This end can be attained in a few days if we unite our strength.’ The British admiralty has ordered five more cruisers to go to China. This represents an additional 50,000 tons, the crews aggregating 3,000." It is quite significant that the Boxer placard did not mention the Russians.