NEWS AND NOTES by A. J. B.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 12, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 46.

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NEWS AND NOTES

By A. J. B.

Leading Events of Week Nov. 3–9.

—England will send 5,000 more cavalrymen to South Africa.

—Colombian rebels capture the town of Tumaco, 500 miles south of Panama.

—The Boers sustain a heavy loss in an engagement in the East Transvaal.

—The Nicaraguan Canal treaty with England is at last reported to be in sight.

—Fourteen American war-ships are maintaining a blockade of Samar Island, P. I.

—The bubonic plague makes its appearance in Liverpool, but it is carefully quarantined.

—Snowstorms were reported in several places in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa, the 3d inst.

—Nine persons were burned to death at Hurley, Wis., in the fire which destroyed the Klondike Theater, the 6th inst.

—France and Russia reach an agreement “to force Turkey to make reforms in Armenia and other provinces.”

—The American consul, Dickinson, is trying to induce the brigands who abducted Miss Stone, to take less ransom money than they ask.

—Adjutant-General Corbin and Miss Edyth Patten were married at Washington, D. C., the 6th inst., by Cardinal Gibbons, in the presence of 600 guests.

—The European press, speaking of the case of Miss Stone, casts reflections upon this country because of “the inability of the United States to protect its citizens.”

—On the 5th inst. the French squadron, under Admiral Caillard, took possession of the three principal Turkish ports of the Island of Mitylene, in the Grecian archipelago.

—In his sermon at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York, Sunday, the 3d, Archbishop Corrigan “denounced socialism as diametrically opposed to Christianity, and as tending to cause misery.”

—Li Hung Chang, the noted Chinese soldier, statesman, and diplomat, died at Peking, the 7th inst., at 11:15 A. M., after a brief illness. His demise delays the Russian occupation of Manchuria.

—On the 4th inst. the committee of the Aero Club of Paris, awarded M. Santos-Dumont the Brazilian aéronaut the Deutsch prize of 100,000 francs ($20,000) “for sailing from St. Cloud to and around the Eiffel tower and back to St. Cloud, in thirty minutes.”

—A Manila dispatch of the 5th inst. discloses the fact that “a plot to massacre the American garrison at Moncada, Province of Tarlac, Island of Luzon, has been revealed by the wife of one of the conspirators,” who hid a detective beneath the house where they met. Many arrests followed, and incriminating papers were seized.

—Tuesday, the 5th, witnessed the overthrow of Van Wyck, Tammany’s candidate for mayor of New York City, and the election of Seth Low, fusion candidate, by a 35,000 plurality. Judge W. T. Jerome was also elected District Attorney. Republicans now expect great reforms to be made in the government of that great and corrupt city.

—According to a Paris dispatch of the 5th inst. “a secret compact exists between France, Russia, and England, under the terms of which Russia is to be left peacefully in Manchuria, England in Egypt, and France is to be allowed to occupy Syria.” But compacts will go to the winds when the final scramble between the Powers begins in earnest.

—A dispatch from Jerusalem, dated the 5th inst., states that “the church of the Holy Sepulcher, surmounting Christ’s tomb (?) was the scene of a sanguinary affray on Monday last, between Franciscans and Greeks, during which there were a number of casualties on both sides. The dispute arose on the question as to which community had the right to sweep the church.” Turkish troops that had been watching for the fight, were “outnumbered and overpowered by the contending parties,” both of which pretend to be Christians — followers of the meek and lowly Jesus!

—The rebels in Java are defeated in two engagements, by the Dutch troops.

—Chile offers its services to settle differences between Venezuela and Colombia.

—A thirteen-year-old girl of Whitesville, N. Y., elopes with a man sixty-eight years old.

—As the result of the elections of the 5th, the Democrats will have a majority of sixteen in the Maryland Legislature.

—The labor unions began on the 7th inst. a campaign “to secure the re-enactment of the Geary Chinese exclusion law.”

—A delay of one year in the St. Louis fair is urged by the chairman of the Foreign Relations’ committee for fear of utter failure.

—The Mexican delegates to the Pan-American Congress propose an international court to settle all differences between the American republics.

—Edward Percival Seeger, a Harvard graduate, died at Ithaca, N. Y., the 4th inst., of blood-poisoning from a pin prick received three days before.

—Na Tung, former Boxer leader, was appointed to the Chinese Foreign Office by an edict of the 5th inst. He was also helped to office by strong Japanese influence.

—While at work on the new federal penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., the 7th inst., 450 convicts attacked their guards, killing one and wounding three. Twenty-five convicts escaped, two others being killed.

—A Calcutta dispatch of the 4th inst. states that great unrest prevails on the Kurram frontier, where a British survey party has been attacked and thirteen Sepoys killed. It is possible that a punitive expedition will be sent.”

—Over a dozen St. Louis, Mo., children died this week from tetanus (lockjaw), victims to the use of antitoxin for the prevention of diphtheria. Investigations are being made, the city having furnished the antitoxin serum administered in each case.

—On Monday, the 4th inst., London was enveloped in “a fog such as Great Britain had not experienced for years, blockading shipping, deranging railways, and throwing business into confusion. The fog descended so thickly in the afternoon that the avenues of traffic resembled the steam room of a Turkish bath.”

—On the 7th inst. Claude Couse, of the Dayton, Ohio, Daily News office, “set 3,250 lines of nonpareil, linometer count, making a total of 84,500 ems, in eight hours. The machine was speeded to seven lines a minute. To secure this result it was necessary to touch the keys 109,000 times, or nearly six times a second.” The REVIEW is set by means of one or more linotype machines each week.

—From Rome, Italy, under date of the 5th inst., comes the statement that the Voce Della Verita, the organ of the Vatican, published “a letter, dated October 28, from the Pope to Mgr. Chappelle, in which his Holiness rejoices at the excellent manner in which, in spite of the difficulties encountered, Mgr. Chappelle has accomplished his mission in the Philippines, and highly compliments him upon the result of his labors.”

—The London Gazette of the 4th inst. contains the new title of the king of England: “Edward VII, Dei Gratia Britannorum et Terrarum Transmarinarum Quæ in Dicione Sunt Britannica Rex, Fidei Defensor, Indiæ Imperator.” Freely translated the title reads: “Edward the Seventh, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British dominions beyond the sea, King, defender of the faith, and Emperor of India.” It is provided that “coins of the old style shall be lawful currency until the king’s pleasure.”

—A Paris dispatch of the 4th inst. makes public General Botha’s counter proclamation to Lord Kitchener’s recent proclamation. It was issued on September 15, and reads as follows: “Whereas, no official of the Orange Free State or the Transvaal Republic, and no general, commandant, or burgher intends to obey Lord Kitchener’s proclamation, or to trouble with it; and, whereas, the proclamation contains falsehoods, habitual to the English; and, whereas, Lord Kitchener’s proclamation has strengthened the determination of all burghers to resist to the end; now, therefore, I, Louis Botha, Commandant General of the Republican forces, with the consent of the governments, officers, and burghers of both republics, proclaim Lord Kitchener, his staff, and the officers and soldiers serving under his orders and fighting us now, to be outlaws in South Africa, and all officers and burghers in the two republics and in Cape Colony are ordered to shoot every armed Englishman whom they meet.”

—Germans are angered over “the alleged offensive references to the conduct of the German troops in 1870, made by Mr. Chamberlain, the British Colonial Secretary,” in a recent speech.

—A Paris dispatch of the 8th states that the Sultan “has notified France that he agrees to all the French claims. The Turkish embassy in Paris confirms this. M. Delcasse, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, has informed the Turkish government that the French squadron will leave Mitylene as soon as he receives official communication that the Sultan has ratified the decision of the Sublime Porte.” In recognizing the French demands the Sultan “first authorizes the working of the French schools hitherto unrecognized; secondly, he recognizes, officially, the existence of the religious and hospitable institutions already founded, and accords them customs immunity and exemption from certain taxes; and, thirdly, he authorizes the reconstruction of the schools and hospitable institutions destroyed at the time of the Armenian troubles, of which a detailed list is attached to the French note.” He also agrees to recognize the Chaldean patriarch, as demanded by France.

—In the Chicago Tribune of the 9th inst. appears a Washington dispatch stating that “the American government’s response to the request for its views, made by France, with reference to the desire of that country to enforce the collection of its claims against Turkey, marks one of the most important steps in the definition of the right of the United States to protect its interests in Europe. . . . That in itself constituted a recognition of the United States as having the same right as a power in the European concert to a voice in the determination of Turkish affairs. . . . Should France be permitted by the European concert to retain possession of the Turkish customhouse which she now holds, the United States will regard that as a precedent for the exercise of similar rights by this government, not only in Turkey, but elsewhere in Europe, should the case ever arise where it will feel obliged to resort to radical steps, as have been taken by France.” In the present instance Great Britain saw fit not to interfere, and Russia stood ready to assist her ally, France. The United States is now asserting its position among “the kings of the East” in no uncertain tones.

A. J. B.