News and Notes by A. J. B.

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

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 39.

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News and Notes

By A. J. B.

Leading Events of Week Ending September 21.

— Czolgosz, the assassin, will doubtless be electrocuted about November 8.

— The British Association of Science recently began its annual meeting in Glasgow, Scotland.

— President Roosevelt objects to having a personal guard of detectives about him continually.

— Six men were killed, and many others injured by a recent gas explosion in a coal mine at Spring Gulch, Colo.

— The bail of Emma Goldman, the arrested Chicago anarchist, has been fixed at $20,000 by Justice Prindiville.

— Seven men were killed and five wounded as the result of a recent explosion in an Oakland, N. J., powder mill.

— The Jewish calendar year 5662 began Friday night, the 13th inst., with solemn ceremonies in all Jewish synagogues.

— Two French torpedo boats collided near Ajaccio, Corsica, the 18th inst. One sank in the deep sea. The crew was saved.

— In connection with the Czar’s visit to France, an effort is being made by Russia to borrow of her ally the sum of one billion francs, or about $200,000,000.

— It is proposed that all the anarchists of this country be deported to some Pacific Ocean island possession of the United States, there to be permanently isolated.

— Possibly Congress may vote Mrs. McKinley the sum of $50,000, “a pension of $5,000 a year, pay Mr. McKinley’s doctor bills and funeral expenses, and grant her free use of the mails.”

— It is reported that hereafter the mails from Australia to England, which have heretofore been sent via the Suez Canal, will go “by way of the United States, as much less time is required by this route.”

— Special prayers in memory of the late President McKinley were held in all the Continental capitals and throughout the British colonies. King Edward, Queen Alexandra, and other royal personages attended a memorial service in the English church of Copenhagen.

— The funeral of William McKinley, twenty-fifth President of the United States, took place at Canton, Ohio, his home town, Thursday, September 19, amid great mourning on the part of the whole nation. Memorial services were held the same day throughout the land, all shops and factories being closed.

— Out of respect to the death of President McKinley, King Edward, of England, ordered his court to go into mourning for one week. It will be remembered that the United States government and people showed a corresponding amount of respect and sympathy on the occasion of Queen Victoria’s demise.

— France went wild in greeting the Czar and Czarina of Russia, who landed at Dunkirk, France, the afternoon of the 18th inst. The bands played the Russian hymn. The royal personages were guarded against all anarchists or other would-be assassins, the streets being cleared of people and occupied only by soldiers.

— The Peary arctic steamer “Erik” from Cape Sabine, Ellesmere Land, recently arrived at North Sydney, Cape Breton, with the news that “in May, 1900, Lieutenant Peary had reached latitude 83° north, longitude 25° west (160 miles beyond Lockwood’s farthest), and rounded the northern limit of the Greenland archipelago, the most northerly known land in the world.” It would not be surprising if an American were to reach the north pole first.

— The British cruiser “Indefatigable,” of 7,000 tons, ran on the rocks near Quebec, P. Q., the morning of the 18th inst., and knocked a hole in its bottom. She had come to Quebec to take part in the naval demonstration and welcome in honor of the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York, and was on its way to Montreal together with its sister second-class cruiser, the “Tribune,” to be there before the royal party.

— There is talk of the Irish tongue being revived.

— Dr. Rixey declares Mrs. McKinley out of danger.

— General Funston is in a Manila hospital, afflicted with appendicitis.

— An effort will be made to exclude all anarchist immigrants from the United States.

— J. A. Wilman, a United Brethren minister of Huntington, Ind., was recently tarred and feathered because he had denounced Mr. McKinley.

— M. Santos-Dumont, the Brazilian aéronaut, wrecked his second air-ship in Paris the 19th inst., and has decided not to try again this year for the prize.

— Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota, died at Faribault, the 16th inst., aged seventy-eight years. He was “the senior bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church in America.”

— A huge tank in the building occupied by A. M. Rothschild and Company, of Chicago, fell through six stories the night of the 19th inst. Damage, $250,000 and four persons hurt.

— As the result of a recent collision between a freight and a passenger train on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford road, near Avon, Mass., six persons were killed and twenty-five injured.

— Word was recently received from Mr. Baldwin, an American arctic explorer, stating that “he was in latitude 78, longitude 38, seeking a passage northward through the ice, and that all was well.”

— According to the Chicago Tribune, former Secretary of State Olney was recently denounced at a meeting of his neighbors “for refusing to help punish an employee who approved of Czolgosz’s deed.”

— In co-operation with other Boer leaders, General Botha is planning a raid into Natal, South Africa. In view of this, the authorities at Pietermaritzburg ordered a muster of the Natal corps on the 19th inst.

— To all appearances the great strike in the mills of the United States Steel Corporation, begun over two months ago, has practically failed. The striking leader has been “obliged to abandon the attempt to have the [Amalgamated] Association’s wage scale adopted by the non-union mills, the purpose for which the strike was ordered.”

— Herr John Most, editor of Die Freiheit, of New York City, was recently arrested for printing, on the day after the assassination of President McKinley, an editorial abounding in anarchistic sentiment. A leading religious weekly insists that he be tried as an “assassin,” since he “unmistakably justifies murderous acts,” and since, according to the Century Dictionary, the word “assassin” may be applied “to a man who attempts it whether he succeeds or fails.”

— President Roosevelt attends the Grace Reformed Church at Washington. Its seating capacity is but 125. Rev. John M. Schick is the pastor. When Vice-President, Mr. Roosevelt selected this church because he desired that his children should be “so near to their Sunday-school that they could walk, and not compel the coachmen and horses to work on the Sabbath;” that is to say, on Sunday, which he considers to be the Sabbath. He is a communicant of the Dutch Reformed Church.

— A dispatch from London, dated the 10th inst., states that it is reported from Simla, India, that “fighting has occurred at Peiwar Kotal Pass, at the upper end of the Kurram Valley, between the Ameer’s troops and the Jargis, a tribe which has long complained of Afghan oppression. Some hundreds of the tribesmen moved across the British border, camping on the hills. The Ameer’s troops surprised them, crossing the boundary in pursuit. The local British authorities warned the Afghan officer in command that he must prevent his men from transgressing the frontier.”

— According to the Public, of Chicago, “the Boers have celebrated Lord Kitchener’s surrender proclamation, which matured on the 15th, by winning on the 17th one of the greatest victories of their guerilla warfare. The event took place near Scheeper’s Nek. According to Lord Kitchener’s official report, they ambushed three companies of mounted British infantry, and after severe fighting overpowered them. The British loss was 16 killed, 30 wounded, and 155 captured. The Boers are said by the British commandant, who escaped, to have numbered 1,000, and to have been under the command of General Botha. Another affair is reported by General French, who says that the Boer Commandant Smuts ‘rushed’ a British squadron at Eland’s River Poort, killing twenty-three and wounding thirty-one.”

— Chicago stenographers have formed a labor union.

— An anarchist community of twenty-five families has been forced to leave Guffey Hollow, Pa.

— Four Mormon missionaries have arrived in Japan, and have begun an active campaign.

— France has presented additional claims against Turkey, which must be settled before diplomatic relations are resumed.

— The celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the death of King Alfred the Great began in Winchester, England, the 19th inst.

— Because of the President’s assassination the Virginia Constitutional Convention rejected the provision for free speech, in its Bill of Rights.

— Mr. Cortelyou, Secretary to the late President, has been asked by President Roosevelt to retain his post of Secretary to the President.

— The “Illinois,” which was commissioned in the United States Navy the 16th inst., is the fastest ship of its class in the world. It will probably join the North Atlantic Squadron.

— Some Chicago capitalists have completed arrangements for building a large irrigation plant whereby to redeem 20,000 acres of arid land in Wyoming.

— King Edward and Queen Alexandra, of England, the Russian Dowager Empress, and other royal personages arrived at Helsingborg, Sweden, the 20th inst., on the royal yacht “Osborne,” to visit King Oscar, of Sweden, at Sofiero Castle.

— A hotel proprietor of Vincent, Wis., was recently compelled to kneel before the United States flag and kiss McKinley’s picture because he had spoken disrespectfully of the dead President, saying that the latter “was not worth the bullet that killed him.”

— Morocco has received a joint note from the leading Powers of Europe “backing up the demand of Spain for the release of Christians recently captured and imprisoned by Moorish tribes,” and demanding “compensation for their capture, and the punishment of the tribes.”

— Word comes from Willemstad, island of Curacao, that “the Colombian Liberals and the allied Venezuelan troops were defeated by the Colombian government troops on September 13 and 14, at Curacao, in the suburbs of Rio Hacha.” This town was not bombarded, the Venezuelans not having ammunition for the larger guns of their fleet.

— Theodore Roosevelt is the twenty-sixth President of the United States. He is also the youngest man who has ever become President, being but forty-three years old. He was born Oct. 27, 1858, “of a family eight generations of which have lived in the same city [New York], and of mixed Dutch, Scotch, Irish, and French Huguenot ancestry.”

— A Lisbon dispatch dated the 20th inst. declares that “a hurricane has swept over the Azores. The chief sufferers were those on the islands of Flores and Corvo, where there was serious loss of life, owing to the collapse of buildings.” In cabling for relief for the people, the Governor says he is “unable to state the extent of the devastation, owing to the destruction of the telegraph line.”

— According to a French journal L’Electr ic ien, the Marconi company now proposes to “establish a wireless telegraph service between England and Australia;” for it seems that “Marconi has perfected his apparatus to such a degree, we are assured, that a perfect connection will be secured if stations are established at the following points: the English coast, Cape Finisterre, Gibraltar, Malta, Algiers, Sardinia, Sicily, Cape Malea (Greece), Alexandria, Aden, Socotra, Colombo, Sumatra, Perth, Albany, Adelaide, and Melbourne. The same company is hoping to be able to organize a service between Europe and America. But this will be found to be a task far more difficult to accomplish.”

— Not all Jews favor the Zionistic movement. In its issue of the 5th inst., the American Israelite says that “only a small part of Palestine is fit for agriculture, and this portion is fully occupied and has been for centuries. While it is possible that by extensive irrigating canals the area of tillable soil might be increased, it is certain that this would require a long time and an immense outlay of money, of which the entire £2,000,000 the Zionists are trying to get into their colonial fund would only be a part. To encourage further immigration to Palestine is now worse than a folly; it has become a crime.” But, we ask, why is it at all necessary for the Jews to return to Palestine? Cannot all those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ be saved just where they are? A. J. B.