News and Notes by A. J. B.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 21, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 3.

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News and Notes

By A. J. B.

Leading Events, Jan. 12–18.

— Fourteen lives were lost in a mine fire at Hartshorn, I. T., the 15th inst.

— Major Wolmarons and forty-two other Boers are captured by the British.

— There is an epidemic of smallpox in the lumber camps of the Adirondacks, New York.

— The Supreme Court of Kansas decided in favor of the eight-hour law, the 14th inst.

— Many are now advocating the Panama Canal route in preference to the Nicaragua route.

— The presidents of Central American republics will hold a peace conference at Corinto, Nicaragua.

— Twenty-one Filipino officers and 240 men surrender to the American troops at Taal, Batangas Province.

— An Oklahoma Territory judge rules that “separate schools for colored children must be opened in the Territory.”

— Ten miners were killed by an explosion “240 feet underground, in the Milby and Dow coal mine, at Dow, I. T.,” the 14th inst.

— Captain Perry, of the United States battle-ship “Iowa,” angers Argentina “by a toast predicting Chilean success in case of war.”

— In his sermon of the 12th inst. Dr. Minot J. Savage, of New York City, declared stock speculation “necessary to modern progress.”

— There is some talk of postponing the St. Louis world’s fair until 1904, “to permit foreign nations to make a better exhibit than could be done in 1903.”

— Arthur Lynch, the Boer colonel, recently elected to British Parliament by the Irish, will be “arrested for high treason if he attempts to take his seat.”

— Dr. Nichols, who is well acquainted with New York’s rich society, declares that a taste for liquor is increasing among the women of the “Four Hundred.”

— The Anti-Imperialist League, of Boston, Mass., has forwarded to Congress a petition asking that “a hearing be given by that body to Mabini and Aguinaldo.”

— Russia and China have “nearly reached an agreement in the Manchurian negotiations.” With Russia already in command of the territory, what can China do?

— The opening of the French ministerial electoral campaign took place the 12th inst., when Premier Waldeck-Rousseau unveiled at St. Etienne, a statue to Marie J. F. Garnier, “the explorer who contributed largely to obtaining for France her colonial possessions of Annam and Tonquin,” in Chinese territory.

— The City of Mexico experienced a severe earthquake the 16th inst., interrupting the sessions of the Pan-American Congress. A dispatch of the 17th inst. states that “no fewer than three hundred persons were killed and three hundred injured” by this earthquake, the serious casualties occurring in the town of Chilpancingo, State of Guerrero. It is in this State that most of Mexico’s seismic disturbances take place.

— The Schley affair continues to agitate this country.

— John D. Rockefeller will give $200,000 to Vassar College.

— The strike at the Allis-Chalmers’ plant, of Chicago, is still on.

— Postmaster-General Payne takes charge of the Post-office Department.

— Mr. Croker is no longer Tammany’s chief. He has been succeeded by Lewis Nixon.

— British capitalists are busy organizing a British steel trust similar to the one in the United States.

— New York capitalists are endeavoring to consolidate the soft coal interests of Illinois and Indiana.

— A syndicate plans to connect New York City, Chicago, Ill., and St. Louis, Mo., by electric railways.

— About $1,000,000 worth of ore was stolen during 1901 from the Independence mine at Cripple Creek, Colo.

— Preparations are being made to celebrate the silver jubilee of Pope Leo XIII, which begins February 27.

— Governor W. M. Crane, of Massachusetts, is selected to succeed Mr. Long, as Secretary of the United States Navy.

— The Great Western Glass Company, a $1,000,000 concern, is incorporated at Springfield, Ill., to compete with the regular glass trust.

— China threatens to deprive the United States of its “favored nation” privileges if this country continues to enforce the Chinese Exclusion Act.

— England stands by Joseph Chamberlain, her colonial secretary, in his “refusal to apologize to Germany for his speech which caused offense there.”

— Germany has ordered her war-ships “Stein” and “Moltke” to leave West Indian waters, the crisis over Venezuela being now regarded as practically over.

— A United States collier sailed from Norfolk, W. Va., the 13th inst. “with a marine guard destined for the Danish West Indies as soon as the purchase is completed.”

— A prize of $200,000 will be offered by the managers of the St. Louis World’s Fair, “for the most successful operation of a dirigible air-ship to be made on the fair grounds.”

— The West Park board, of Chicago, adds $1,600 a year to the salaries of superintendent Cooke, Secretary Fieldhouse, and Police Captain Nolan, “despite the protests of several members of the board.”

— A dispatch from Yokohama, Japan, states that “Russia, without waiting for Korea’s permission, has pushed its telegraph line across the Toomen River into Korean territory.” Japan may now show her teeth.

— President Roosevelt appoints Gen. James H. Wilson, Capt. Charles E. Clark, of the “Oregon,” and Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune, as representatives of the United States at the coronation of King Edward VII, in London next June.

— Robert Bines, of Chicago, began, on the 17th inst., the “payment, at Dowagiac, Mich., of $34,000 to the Pottawatomie Indians [$100 to each] for their title to lands along the lake front of Chicago.” He evidently believes their claims to these lands to be sustained.

— A Berlin, Germany, dispatch of the 16th inst., states that Henryk Sienkiewicz, the Polish writer, author of “Quo Vadis,” has been “summoned to appear before the law courts at Posen. He is charged with lèse majesté by the German authorities,” because of his “criticism of the language oppressions in German Poland.”

— J. Pierpont Morgan’s syndicate buys the White Star Line steamship “Celtic,” the largest vessel ever built. The White Star, “Cunard,” “Leyland,” and other cargo steamers will hereafter be controlled by Americans. The Standard Oil Co., the United States Steel Co., and the largest railroads of this country are behind this scheme.

— The United States has received from Russia “a surrejoinder to its last brief on the claims of American sealers, whose vessels were seized on the Siberian coast, in which it is claimed that the seizures were legal under the terms of the modus vivendi between Great Britain and the United States designed to protect the Bering Sea fisheries. The United States claims that Russia, having refused to join in the modus, cannot now benefit by its provisions.”

— It is thought the British sloop-of-war “Condon” has been lost on its way to Honolulu.

— The Commercial Bank of Fulton, Mo., suspends payment, the cashier having embezzled $4,500.

— According to the latest census, the United States with its colonies has a population of 84,233,069.

— The West Virginia Central Railroad has been sold “for over $17,000,000 to the Wabash or Gould interests.”

— A Catholic seminary will be established in this country, to train priests who will replace the Philippine friars.

— The New York Central decides to use electricity in the New York tunnel, on account of danger from smoke and gas.

— George W. Hinman, editor of the Chicago Inter Ocean, has purchased the paper from Charles T. Yerkes, its former owner.

— In his trial, C. F. W. Neely testified in his own behalf at Havana the 17th inst., and “denied charges of fraud” brought against him.

— Marconi states that “after completing two transatlantic lines of wireless telegraphy, he contemplates wireless communication to India.”

— Count von Bülow asserts, in the German Reichstag, that there will be “no deviation in the Kaiser’s Poland policy,” but that the Poles must learn German.

— The fourth Sunday-school convention will doubtless be held in the city of Jerusalem, Palestine, in March, 1904. At least, plans are being laid to this end.

— The Chinese emperor has issued an edict ordering those attending the Han-Lin Academy “to study ancient and modern political science and the Western arts.”

— The London Times scores Berlin newspapers for their “insulting cartoons of the British.” It is said, however, that the other English papers are “fearful of arousing British passions.”

— T. Estrada Palma, president elect of Cuba, declares that the island must have the help of the United States. He states that trade reciprocity is especially needed, and tariff concessions.

— An exchange states that “the majority of the railroads operating west of Pittsburg and east of Chicago and St. Louis, have decided to disregard the anti-pass agreement formed by the trunk lines.”

— A Cologne, Germany, woman was arrested the 15th inst. “charged with murdering fifty infants under her charge.” “Without natural affection” is the Scriptural character-sketch of many people in these last days.

— The House of Representatives Commission on Revision of the Laws, decides that a singular verb should go with the name “United States,” the expression being considered in the singular number, the same as England, Germany, etc.

— British Parliament opened the 16th inst. King Edward read the royal address in person. The event was “a brilliant spectacle,” the ceremonies and costumes being “copied from the Medieval Age of the ancient kingdom,” and recalling the days of Henry VIII.

— Prince Henry, of Germany, will soon sail for the United States, February 15, with a suite of fifteen persons, to witness the launching of Emperor William’s new yacht, the “Alice,” in American waters. President Roosevelt will be present at the launch, the yacht having been named after his daughter.

— Senator Hoar introduced in the Senate, on the 13th inst., a resolution providing for “the appointment of a committee of seven senators to examine into the conduct of the war in the Philippines, the administration of the government there, and the condition and character of the inhabitants of the archipelago, the committee to have power to send for papers and persons, to administer oaths, and to sit during the sessions of the Senate.”

— Under the startling title, “The Continental Sunday Invading the Country Everywhere,” the Christian Advocate (New York) of the 16th inst. states editorially that “Sunday trading—open grocery, dry goods, shoe, furnishing goods, and general stores—has increased to such an extent in Illinois that the Illinois State Retail Clerks’ Association has made an appeal for a Sunday closing law. Every trade unionist in the State is requested to join at least in sympathy with the association. In Ohio, Iowa, and Michigan, acts of this kind, which have stood the test of law, are in force. President Mast, of the association, declares that ‘there is no excuse for this trade.’ ‘Housewives can purchase their supplies just as well on Saturday, as well as shoes and clothing, which can be purchased at any time during the week.’ All over the country Sunday trading of all kinds is increasing. There are towns in New Jersey where nearly every line of business is included.” Such statements, appearing as they do, on the first page of the leading Methodist paper of the country, are significant. The Sunday law issue is a live one, and one of deep interest to every REVIEW reader. For full information concerning this and other questions of religious liberty, be sure to read the Sentinel of Christian Liberty, published at 11 West 20th St., New York City. The January, 1902, number discusses the Sunday question.

A. J. B.