News and Notes by A. J. B.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 5, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 45.

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News and Notes

By A. J. B.

Leading Events of Week, Oct. 27–Nov. 2.

— Snow fell at Minneapolis, Minn., the 28th ult.

— The Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, N. Y., closed the 2d inst.

— Mrs. Cynthia Prentice, Utica, Ill., died the 30th ult., aged 105 years.

— A negro was lynched at Allentown, Ga., the 1st inst., “for attacking a white woman.”

— The usual number of divorces, desertions, murders, fights, robberies, and other crimes this week.

— On the 31st the banks at Arispe and Matlock, Iowa, were robbed of $1,500 and $2,000 respectively.

— The total attendance at the Pan-American Exposition up to Friday night, the 1st inst., was 8,200,000.

— Three Kokomo, Ind., boys were indicted the 29th ult., “for the murder of a companion by stoning him to death.”

— All of the evidence in the Sampson-Schley investigation is now in. Only the decision of the court remains to be given.

— On the 29th ult. there was launched at Barrow-in-Furness, England, the “King Alfred,” the largest cruiser in the world.

— It is announced that during the month of October the public debt of this country decreased $9,563,408, leaving $1,022,032,957 yet to be paid.

— Last Tuesday the Boers attacked a British column near the Great Mariso River, but were repulsed. Forty Boers and twenty-eight British were killed.

— In a riot at Burungueo, Mexico, the 30th ult., twenty persons were hurt. It was caused by “starving residents attacking a storehouse filled with corn.”

— The French squadron ordered to Turkey to enforce payment of French claims, returned to Toulon the 31st ult. It is believed the Sultan has settled up.

— Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese minister to the United States, lectured before the students of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Friday, the 1st inst.

— A $2,000,000,000 steel combine is being formed just at present in Ohio. H. C. Frick, of Pittsburg, Pa., will be its president, and it will be incorporated under the laws of New Jersey.

— The United States Naval Board of Construction recommends the building of “three new sea-going battle-ships of 16,000 tons, two heavily armored cruisers, and eighteen gunboats.”

— A Constantinople dispatch of the 30th ult. states that “the Turkish ambassador at St. Petersburg has informed the Porte that the annexation of Crete by Greece is imminent and inevitable.”

— Halloween was celebrated in riotous fashion throughout the country, Thursday night, the 31st ult. This yearly celebration does not savor of the actions that might be expected on a “hallowed even.”

— An exchange states that on the 30th ult. the Mohawk knitting mill at Cohoes, N. Y., became idle, “owing to a strike of the knitters and winders.” This throws out of work about 500 men and women.

— A Berlin dispatch of the 28th ult. states that “during an address at a recent meeting of the Fleet society in Hanover, Captain von Weltheim, of the German navy, is represented to have said: ‘Germany’s interests in the five republics of Central America, in view of American competition, can only be maintained when we have a fleet strong enough to say to the Americans, “Hands off.” This declaration was received with stormy applause.’”

— Leon F. Czolgosz was put to death in the electrical death chair at Auburn prison, New York, the morning of the 29th ult. He refused the offices of a priest, and “asked that there be no praying over him when he was dead.” His dead body was at once “buried in quicklime in an unmarked grave in the prison cemetery, the family having relinquished their right to it at the suggestion of the prison warden, who explained the dangers they would incur of exciting a riot if they took the body away.”

— General Malavar proclaims himself Captain General of the Philippine Islands.

— Li Hung Chang is reported to be seriously ill in Peking, his life being endangered.

— John O’Brien died the 1st inst., at Pana, Ill., aged 108 years. A fall caused his death.

— Father Crowley, a Catholic priest of Chicago, officiates twice at mass after being ex-communicated.

— On the 27th ult. it was announced that “Russia and China have concluded an agreement as to Manchuria.”

— Insurgents in the Island of Cebu, Philippines, consisting of 450 men and sixty officers, surrendered to General Hughes on the 31st ult.

— On the afternoon of the 30th ult. an earthquake shock was felt in many Italian cities, including Spezzia, Genoa, Bologna, Brescia, and Milan.

— Weekly parades of United States troops in the Philippines are ordered, by General Chaffee, “to impress and awe the native population.”

— Last Thursday a mutinous demonstration was made by 600 Bashi Bazouks and their officers in Constantinople, because of arrears in their pay.

— The British newspapers announce that Edward VII has cancer of the throat, and that “growths have been removed from the right and left vocal cords.”

— It leaks out that the object of the recent visit of representative men of Porto Rico was “to pave the way to admission of the island into the Union, as a State.”

— Three white men and thirty-one negroes were killed in a race riot at Balltown, La., the 28th ult. Five days before, a negro was burned at the stake in the same town.

— On the 29th ult. a workman repairing a church steeple at Pittsburg, Pa., “went to sleep in a swinging chair 120 feet above the ground, and lost his job.” He should be grateful.

— Government officials at New York seized, the 29th ult., a $40,000 pearl necklace which a woman was accused of smuggling through. Her husband paid $24,000 duty to retain it.

— On the 27th ult. a Catholic farmer living near Rochester, N. Y., narrowly escaped lynching by his neighbors because he attempted to have the priest name his child after McKinley’s assassin. The priest, of course, refused.

— While in the fatal electric chair the morning of the 29th ult., Czolgosz blurted out statements to the effect that he was not at all sorry for his crime. As far as possible, his attempt to make an anarchistic harangue just before dying, was foiled.

— The “good citizenship” meeting at the First Presbyterian Sunday-school, Chicago, the 27th ult., was so successful that “a movement has been started to observe ‘good citizenship Sunday’ annually in all Sunday-schools and churches.” So says the Chicago Tribune of the 28th ult.

— On the 30th ult. the French Mediterranean squadron left Salins, France, “for a four days’ cruise, ostensibly for the purpose of exercising the crews in firing and the use of wireless telegraphy.” However, it seems that “half of the squadron, under command of Admiral Caillard, will immediately proceed to the Levant, to give effect to the French demands upon the Sultan.”

— The United States army will no longer recognize Spanish titles in southern Luzon. General Wade has just issued the following order: “The use of the titles Don, Señor, Señora, and Señorita in official communications is not approved. Officers will in future employ instead the titles Mr., Mrs., and Miss. Spanish words will in no case be used when there is an English equivalent.”

— The steamers “Queen” and “Valencia” arrived at Port Townsend, Wash., the 30th ult., with 800 passengers each. “On the ‘Queen’ were 100 stowaways who succeeded in boarding the vessel by climbing up the anchor chains while the vessel was at anchor in the roadway at Nome. Passengers report that 500 men were left at Nome, all of whom are penniless, with no means of making a living during the winter, and a reign of terror is predicted.”

— The Boers have inflicted another heavy loss on the British. According to a London dispatch dated the 2d inst., “the Rustenberg column, under Col. G. Benson, has met with a serious reverse in the southern part of the Transvaal, in the area of Commandant-General Botha’s operations. Colonel Benson and eight other officers were killed and thirteen officers wounded, besides fifty-eight noncommissioned officers and men killed, and 156 wounded.” Two British guns were also captured. A. J. B.