NEWS AND NOTES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 24, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 30.

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— It is estimated that the Delaware peach crop will aggregate 4,000,000 baskets.

— Unprecedented cold weather is reported in Austria and Switzerland, with heavy fall of snow.

— Germany will leave her market open to American meat until fall, in consideration of reciprocity.

— The Federal Steel Company, at Lorain, Ohio, has closed, throwing 4,000 men out of employment.

— While testing a telescope in Rochester, N. Y., July 9, workmen saw a thief stealing a crock of butter, one mile away, and caused his arrest.

— The family of the late Baron von Ketteler, who was murdered by Boxers in Peking, has received a telegram of sympathy from Li Hung Chang.

— Six hundred Afridis have attacked and killed a number of Afghans who were engaged in building a fort on the Indian frontier. Indian officials fear that another war is brewing.

— A large number of Boers purpose settling in Gazaland, Portuguese territory. Many Boer herds have already been driven across the border. It is said the Portuguese welcome the movement.

— Because of the barbarous treatment of the wounded allies by the Chinese, Admiral Seymour, at the request of the men, had all the men shot who were unable to proceed with the column. They preferred to be shot, rather than to be tortured by the Chinese.

— The British secretary of war stated, in the House of Commons, that 71 guns of position, with 11,740 rounds of ammunition; 123 field guns, with 49,400 rounds; and 297 machine guns, with 4,228,400 rounds of ammunition, had been shipped to China since April, of 1895, by British firms. A German firm had supplied China with 460,000 Mauser rifles and 3,000,000 rounds of ammunition in the same period. These are now all being used against these and the other nations. Only the other day, Russian officers, military instructors in the employ of the Chinese government, fought against Russian troops and others at Tien-tsin. Indeed, if they had not, they would have lost their heads, the same as would any Chinese officer.

— General Diaz has been re-elected president of the Mexican Republic.

— Strikers in Rotterdam recently fired on the soldiers, wounding ten of them.

— Mr. Kogoro Takahira has been appointed Japanese minister at Washington.

— The world's Christian Endeavor Convention opened in Wesley's Chapel, London, July 13.

— Rain has fallen over nearly all India, and the prospects for crops have greatly improved.

— The Italian Chamber of Deputies has ratified the commercial treaty with the United States.

— The business portion of Prescott, Ariz., was destroyed by fire, July 15; loss, over $1,000,000.

— The output of the Cripple Creek (Colo.) mines for the six months ending with June, was $12,413,070.

— Dr. Mumm von Schwartzenstein has been appointed to succeed the late Baron von Ketteler, as German minister to China.

— The number of bodies recovered so far, from the débris of the North German Lloyd piers and steamers at Hoboken, N. J., is 178.

— The governor of Honan, a province of China between Shanghai and Peking, has issued a proclamation in favor of the Boxers.

— The State Department of the United States has made public its note to the European Powers, defining the policy of this country in regard to China.

— The governor of Port Arthur, China, reports that 40,000 Manchurian troops were within nine miles of Niu-chuang, July 7, and had destroyed the Russian mines.

— The French Chamber of Deputies and the Senate recently voted an additional 14,500,000 francs ($2,798,500) for the purpose of carrying on French operations in China.

— The union employees of the St. Louis street-car company have renewed the strike, recently called off. They claim that the company is not living up to its agreement.

— The commerce of Montreal for the year ending with June, was the largest in the history of that port. The customs revenue has increased more than fifty per cent since 1895.

— A steamer arriving at Victoria, British Columbia, from Sydney, Australia, reports that the British flag has been raised over Savage Island, 300 miles northeast of the Tonga Islands.

— The number of persons now receiving relief in India is 6,013,000. The governor of Bombay reports that there were 10,320 deaths from cholera, and 6,502 fatalities from famine, during the last week in June.

— The Chinese minister at Washington, Wu Ting Fang, has sent a dispatch to the Taotai, of Shantung, China, requesting him to cable any information he may have in regard to the fate of United States Minister Conger.

— England has ordered eight regiments in India, with artillery, to prepare for service in China. Italy is preparing to send 5,000 men, and the United States talks of keeping an army of 16,000 men over there during hostilities.

— During the year ending June 30 the total amount of the business of the money-order division of the New York City post office, was $149,254,375, as against $111,772,618 for the preceding year, an increase of thirty-three per cent.

— President Steyn, of the late Orange Free State, and General De Wet are retreating into the mountainous country of South Africa, with about 3,000 men. Lord Roberts reports several skirmishes, in which the Boers were defeated.

— The National Educational Association held its annual convention in Charleston, S. C., July 10-14. It recommended “the extension of the American common school system to Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands, as the best means of laying the foundations of social order and effective local self-government.”

— It is stated that “the Japanese on this side of the world are now among the elements of disturbance. In a big fishing town in British Columbia, the canners have combined, and will give no more than twenty cents a fish. The white fishermen demand twenty-five cents. Of the 7,000 fishermen, 4,000 are Japanese, and they are taking anything the canners offer. The whites refuse to fish, and have threatened the Japanese if they continue. Every Japanese has a rifle in his boat ready for the whites.”

— Since Porto Rico has fallen into the hands of the United States, cheap labor, much of it from neighboring islands, especially the British West Indies, has rushed into it. The immigrant inspector at New York, who was sent to Porto Rico to look into the condition of the islands with respect to immigration, has returned to this country, and says that Porto Rico has already a surplus of laborers. He “favors a vigorous enforcement of the Federal Immigration law,” and states that “there is considerable friction between native laborers and those who have rushed in, many of them a bad class of people from Martinique and Saint Thomas, ready to underbid.”