p. 77 | NEWS AND NOTES by A. J. B.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 4, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 5.

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NEWS AND NOTES

By A. J. B.

Leading Events, Jan. 26 to Feb. 1.

— A crusade against “docked” horses is being carried on in Maryland.

— The steel trust now has orders enough on hand to keep its mills busy one year.

— Blizzards in Oklahoma and Nebraska injure the cattle interests in those parts.

— The House of Representatives passes a bill providing for a permanent Census Bureau.

— The Germans are still angry over British efforts to prejudice Americans against Germany.

— A $70,000,000 trust is formed by the consolidation of the glucose and starch firms of the country.

— A railroad will be built between Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland, the trains to run 117 miles an hour.

— The newspapers continue to print what they do not know regarding Miss Stone, the captured missionary.

— The sway of the Dowager Empress of China seems to be complete, the young Emperor submitting to her desires.

— A debate in British Parliament brings out the fact that the Boer war so far has cost England 620,350,000 pounds sterling.

— Since the return of the royal court to Peking, China, $98,000,000 worth of gold and silver bullion have been dug up in that city.

— The ground plans of the St. Louis Exposition grounds are completed. There will be “eight main buildings, arranged in two rows a mile long.”

— The United States will buy the lands now held by the friars in the Philippines, and then “sell the lands at cost to the actual settlers in the islands.”

— Rear-Admiral Sampson will be retired from the naval service, under the age limit, the 9th inst., which happens to be his birthday. He will be sixty-two years of age.

— A Peking, China, report states that “the American missionaries intend to ask President Roosevelt for permission to erect a church on the grounds of the United States Legation.”

— Denmark will not ask the inhabitants of her West India Islands to vote upon the ceding of the same to the United States, until the U. S. Senate ratifies the treaty recently signed.

— J. Pierpont Morgan received a fee of $90,000,000 (in stock) for organizing the great billion-dollar steel trust. During the past year he made $8,000,000 each month, $275,000 each day, $11,500 each hour, or $200 each minute.

— A dispatch of the 30th ult., from Vienna, states that the News Wiener Tageblatt “asserts that negotiations are in progress for the sale of the Philippine Islands to Germany, and that the visit of Admiral Prince Henry to the United States is preliminary to the announcement of this sale.” What next?

— Professor Pearson, of Northwestern University, Chicago, announces his intention of leaving the Methodist Church. Besides disbelieving the infallibility of the word of God, he now states he does not believe in the divinity of Christ. He will join the Unitarians. What a man does not believe will never save him.

— Reports state that, owing to the execution by the British of Scheepers the Boer commandant, “the Boer rebellion in Cape Colony is steadily increasing.” Scheepers was executed January 18, “instead of January 25, as the American press erroneously stated he would be. The resolutions introduced by Mr. Teller in the Senate to the effect that ‘this is a case which certainly calls for intervention of the United States or some other government,’ was four days late.”

— Mrs. Ruth Carney, of Philadelphia, died the 26th ult., aged 108 years.

— Eighty-two new cases of smallpox were reported in London the 31st ult.

— Secretary of War Root approves of enlarging the Chicago River to a width of 200 feet.

— General Viljoen of the Boer army, is captured by the British, near Lydenburg, South Africa.

— Senator Morgan states that the French cannot give a clear title to the Panama Canal property.

— A furious gale on the Japanese coast brings disaster to a fishing fleet, and 200 men are missing.

— The President of the United States will be given full authority by Congress to select the canal route.

— Paderewski arrived at New York on the “Oceanic” the 30th ult., to make an American tour.

— The U. S. cutter “McCulloch” receives orders to join in the search for the lost British cruiser “Condor.”

— The city of Panama, Colombia, rejoices at the possibility of this country’s purchasing the Panama Canal property.

— The seals of the Dowager Empress, looted in Peking, China, were sold at auction in London, the 31st ult., for $1,930.

— Representatives of the Chicago American interview Marconi, by wireless telegraphy, while the latter is eighty miles out at sea.

— The British laugh at the proposition of Holland to end the Boer war. They say that propositions for peace must come from the Boers who are fighting.

— Bishop Coppin, of the African Methodist Church, just returned from Cape Town, South Africa, declares that “the Boers are being exterminated.”

— Two Lake Michigan steamers, the “Atlanta” and “Iowa,” of the Goodrich line, were caught in the floating ice eight miles off Chicago, the 30th ult., and held fast.

— Governor Taft states that within one year the United States army in the Philippines can safely be reduced to 15,000 men. But residents of Manila dispute this assertion.

— Von Alten, the famous German general, is appointed instructor of the Turkish army, by the Sultan. He was considered one of the best-educated officers of the Prussian army.

— The Prince of Wales visited the German Chancellor and the Ambassadors at Berlin, the 26th ult., but “was shown little civility by the public.” He reviewed the Royal Dragoons.

— All of the leading transatlantic steamship lines signed an agreement the 31st ult., “to increase rates fifty per cent on three of the principal articles of export—grain, flour, and produce.”

— A London dispatch of the 30th ult. states that “the reporters at the wireless stations at the Lizard and the Isle of Wight interviewed Marconi, while the steamer ‘Philadelphia’ was ten hours’ distant, 120 miles away. This is claimed to be the record distance.”

— An exchange states that “of the 500 inmates of the Jeffersonville, Ind., reformatory, all young men between the ages of sixteen and thirty, . . . fifty-seven per cent had never attended Sunday-school; eighty-one per cent had no trade, 312 used liquor, and 404 used tobacco in some form.”

— The French Commission to investigate the depopulation of France, held its first session at Paris, the 29th ult., Premier Waldeck-Rousseau being in the chair. The latter stated that “the task was to combat the great infantile mortality, and to increase the number of births, which latter was the most obscure and difficult side of the question.”

— A dispatch from Rome, Italy, dated the 15th ult., appears in the Chicago Tribune of January 27: “The present Pontificate, the Roman policy, France, the United States, and Christian democracy have lost in Prof. Xavier Kraus of Fribourg, in Breisgau, their bitterest and most sagacious adversary.” The lengthy dispatch is written by Kraus’s enemy, and signed “Innominato.” Kraus, it seemed, had his plans well laid to sway the next conclave of cardinals into electing a German cardinal. “Innominato” concludes by saying that his death “takes from the German party an immense force. Nobody knew his subject as he did. His fingering covered every keyboard; his learning was almost unbounded; and as he had a warm heart, an indomitable will, and skilled tact, he was a power. He died an excoriated Quirinalist and a beaten Hohenzollern.” Yet he was a Catholic priest. A. J. B.