NEWS AND NOTES by A. J. B.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 24, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 52.

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NEWS AND NOTES

By A. J. B.

Leading Events Dec. 14 - 20.

— The war in the Philippines still continues.

— Emperor William declares Germany should lead the world in art.

— An earthquake visited Manila, Philippines Islands, the 15th inst.

— Admiral Schley files a bill of exceptions to the verdict of the court of inquiry.

— The usual number of murders, suicides, robberies, arsons, and other crimes this week.

— Turkey’s menace to the Tunisian frontier is likely to cause her more trouble with France.

— Admiral Sampson’s attorneys also file a protest against the decision of the court of inquiry.

— The German cruiser “Vinila” is ordered to proceed from Norfolk, Va., to Venezuelan waters.

— The 14th inst. was Chicago’s coldest December day since 1892, the mercury dropping to ten degrees below zero.

— The Atlantic Rubber Shoe Company incorporated under New Jersey laws the 18th inst. Capital, $10,000,000.

— The United States Senate ratified the Hay-Pauncefote canal treaty the 16th inst., by a vote of seventy-two to six.

— Miss Lillian Vickers, a Bryn Mawr College (Pa.) student, was burned to death the 20th inst., while taking a full alcohol bath.

— Commandant Kritzinger is captured by General French “while trying to break through the block-house cordon” at Hanover Road, South Africa.

— John D. Rockefeller gives the University of Chicago $1,250,000 as a Christmas present. This makes the total of his gifts, to date, $10,250,000.

— Because of harsh treatment, peasants burned the castle of Count Palen, near Mitan, Russia, the 17th inst., the police being powerless against the mob.

— Germany and the United States reach an agreement as to how far the former may go in Venezuelan affairs without encroaching upon the Monroe Doctrine.

— Dispatches state that the war spirit is high in Argentine, eighty thousand men marching through the streets of Buenos Ayres, the 20th inst., in demonstration against Chile.

— The attempt of Lloyd George, a pro-Boer member of British Parliament, to hold a meeting in Birmingham, England, the 18th inst., caused a riot, in which fifty thousand persons took part. Personal violence was averted by the presence of many policemen.

— John G. Milburn, President of the Pan-American Exposition Company, receives an anonymous letter threatening his assassination because no returns are made to the “poor working men and working women who invested in Pan-American stock, and to whom silvery promises were made.” The police are investigating the matter.

— The Schuylkill, Lehigh, Susquehanna, and Juniata rivers and their tributaries overflow their banks, “creating havoc in the coal regions” of Pennsylvania, “and sweeping away” “more than a score of bridges.” The central and southern portion of New York also suffers considerable loss. The overflow was caused by “high water in the mountains of eastern and central Pennsylvania.”

— In a lecture before the Medico-Legal Society of New York the 19th inst., Dr. J. D. Quackenbos, emeritus professor of psychology in Columbia University, and “one of the leading hypnotists of the world,” declared that “he had actresses and clergymen as regular clients, and that one of the leading actresses of the country to-day, a young woman who has bounded into fame at a jump, owes her success to the suggestions given her while under hypnotic influence, which caused her to forget her stage fright.” Such is the progress being made by this devilish art. “Hypnotism—What Is It?” a three-cent 48-page tract, for sale at this Office, shows its true nature.

— Queen Sophia, of Sweden, is seriously ill.

— Dowie’s trial in Chicago continues, his brother-in-law being the prosecutor.

— Governor William Gregory, of Rhode Island, died at Wickford, the 16th inst.

— England seems to be happier than usual over the war outlook in South Africa.

— Rumors come from London of a royalist plot in Brazil, to overcome the republic.

— The Sheik of Koweyt, in Arabia, defies the Sultan, and asks for British protection.

— The arctic explorer, Baron Toll, has established his winter quarters near the Lena Delta.

— There will be no Christmas tree at the White House this year—simply the hanging up of stockings.

— The British Navy League denies Commander Clover’s statements concerning England’s navy policy.

— Eight perished the 19th inst. by the sinking of the steamer “Kanawha Bell,” near Charleston, W. Va.

— The Colombian Liberals, supported by Venezuelans, are said to have captured Rio Hacha, the Colombian seaport.

— General Miles declares himself in favor of Schley, thus calling down upon him the wrath of Secretary Long, of the navy.

— John Swinton, the well-known writer, economist, and orator on labor topics, died in Brooklyn, N. Y., the 15th inst., at the age of seventy-two years.

— Lyman J. Gage decides to resign. His successor as Secretary of the Treasury, will doubtless be W. Murray Crane, governor of Massachusetts.

— Mayor-elect Seth Low, of New York, took the oath of office the 16th inst. He will take charge of the city government of New York, Jan. 1, 1902.

— A gas explosion in the Jones and Laughlin blast furnace, Pittsburg, Pa., the 19th inst., killed nine men, fatally injured three, and injured two others.

— Eight men were killed and eleven others injured the 15th inst., in a head-on collision on the Illinois Central Railway, between Irene and Perryville, Ill.

— The National Civic Federation Conference in New York appointed the 17th inst. a committee of thirty-seven “to devise a plan of settling labor troubles.”

— Four boilers in the Black Diamond steel works, Pittsburg, Pa., exploded, the 20th inst., killing five men, injuring twelve, and wrecking the building and other structures.

— Charles Emory Smith, Postmaster General of the United States, will resign from the President’s cabinet, and be succeeded by Henry C. Payne, of Milwaukee, Wis.

— It is said that “agitation against the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States is increasing at Copenhagen.” An excellent opportunity, indeed, for Denmark to raise the price.

— The Federal grand jury of New York indicted Charles Stokes the 18th inst. He is “accused of having in his possession part of the $75,000 worth of stamps stolen from the Chicago post-office.”

— Lord Kitchener reports the capture of Commandant Badenhorst and fourteen other Boers. “Refugees are returning in large numbers to Johannesburg, and the city is gradually resuming its industrial prosperity.”

— Austria-Hungary makes strong representations to Turkey and Bulgaria regarding “outlawry and brigandage, which are flagrantly prevalent on their borders.” She doubtless does this on behalf of the United States, Miss Stone still being in captivity.

— In the Free Society of the 15th inst., the Chicago anarchist organ, appeared an open letter to President Roosevelt, scoring the latter, and hurling defiance at his recent utterances regarding anarchy in his message to Congress. The Chicago Inter Ocean of the 15th inst. prints the letter in full.

— In a speech before the Woman’s Presbyterian Society for Home Missions, Chicago, the 19th inst., Rev. H. N. McCreary, of Salt Lake City, said: “Polygamy is as much practiced to-day among the Mormons of Utah as it has ever been, and this in open violation of the laws.” He found thirty cases in Cash County alone, and states that the Mormons “openly boast that under the Constitution of the United States they cannot be interfered with, because polygamy is a part of their religious rites.”

— Anarchists are gathering in Paris, and the dispatches state that their “central board seems to be up to something.” While France “heartily hates anarchy,” still the most conservative French papers “editorially deplore any attempt at special legislation against certain opinions, however repellent.”

— On the 14th inst. Signor Marconi, the famous inventor of wireless telegraphy, received the first wireless telegraphic message across the Atlantic, the same being sent from Cornwall, England, to St. John’s, Newfoundland, a distance of about 1,700 miles. The message previously decided upon by Marconi and his friends in England, and repeatedly received by him at St. John’s, was the letter “S,” indicated in telegraphy by three short dots, thus “...”. The receiving apparatus was a wire suspended from a kite. This marks a new era in telegraphy. So certain is Marconi’s success in this, his latest experiment, that the Anglo-American Telegraph Co. served a notice on him the 16th inst., warning him not to continue his experiments in Newfoundland, as they have the monopoly of the telegraph business there, and do not wish any competitor to transmit transatlantic messages.

A. J. B.