ITEMS OF INTEREST by A. J. B.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 17, 1901

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

By A. J. B.

— Germany reports a big shortage in her wheat and rye crops.

— France decides to investigate American trusts. Her Councilor of Foreign Commerce and another government official sailed for this country the 14th inst.

— An exchange reports that “the new survey of the international boundary line will leave the greater part of the town of Blaine, Wash., on the Canadian side.”

— There are 1,815,097 more males than females in the United States, only eleven States having an excess of women. Massachusetts has 70,398 more women than men.

— London dispatches announce that “owing to the proclamation of martial law in Cape Colony and Natal, nobody will be allowed to land in South Africa after January 1, without a permit.”

— At an anti-imperialist meeting held in Boston, Mass., the 3d inst., presided over by George L. Boutell, “resolutions were adopted calling upon Congress to acknowledge the absolute independence of the Filipinos, and invite them to establish a republic.”

— It is said that seven States can be seen from the top of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee; namely, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. The elevation of the mountain is 2,500 feet above sea level, and 1,750 feet above the city of Chattanooga.

— Governor Yates, of Illinois, issued a proclamation on the 4th inst., in response to a large popular petition calling his “attention to the destitute and helpless condition of the women, children, and other noncombatants now confined in the military camps of South Africa.” He called “upon all the charitably disposed and humane citizens of this State to contribute money, medicine, food, and clothes for the use of the sick and needy prisoners in the South African camps.”

A. J. B.