News and Notes

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 3, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 36.

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— Colombia is enforcing a strict press censorship.

— Snow fell for an hour in Alpine Pass, Colo., the 29th ult.

— It is thought that the food outlook in Russia is growing steadily worse.

— Much damage was done by the recent gale which swept over the Barbados.

— Vice-president Theodore Roosevelt is being boomed for the 1904 presidency.

— W. H. Hunt, of Montana, has just been appointed governor of Porto Rico.

— On account of bad crops, Korea has forbidden the exportation of any of her rice.

— An international good roads congress will be held at Buffalo, N. Y., the 16th inst.

— Martial law has been proclaimed by Turkey, in the Sassoon district, because of “alleged Albanian plots.”

— One of Colombia’s high officials has telegraphed that “all insurgent guerilla bands have been destroyed.”

— General William Ludlow, former military governor of Havana, died of tuberculosis at Morristown, N. J., the 30th ult.

— Owing to a great rush of business, fruit packers at South Haven, Mich., are unable to secure enough women to work in the factories.

— The Russian vessel “Neptune,” bound from Pensacola, Fla., to Montevideo, was recently wrecked in the Gulf of Mexico. The entire crew perished.

— Lord Kitchener claims to have sworn evidence to the effect that the Boers have killed wounded Englishmen; and he has been instructed to make reprisals.

— Diplomatic relations between Bulgaria and Turkey have been severed, because of the refusal of Turkey to withdraw her troops from the Bulgarian frontier.

— The town of Grand Bourg, on Marie-Galante, French West Indies, was practically destroyed by fire during the latter part of August; 3,000 people being made homeless.

— Ten years ago twenty-nine per cent of the people of this country were living in towns of 8,000 or more inhabitants. To-day 32.9 per cent of the total population of the United States are found in the cities.

— Emperor William, of Germany, refuses to see Prince Chun, the Chinese envoy sent to apologize for the murder of Baron von Ketteler, unless the prince prostrates himself—a thing which no Chinese ever does save to his own sovereign.

— A New York dispatch states that Venezuela has “decided to place a report of its differences with Colombia before the State Department at Washington.” The United States will doubtless be willing to arbitrate for the republics of both Americas.

— The Press-Post, of Columbus, Ohio, has been obliged to suspend business because the compositors “refused to set up copy furnished by non-union journalists.” Perhaps these compositors would refuse to eat bread made from wheat raised by non-union farmers, or baked by non-union bakers.

— A Chicago newspaper reports that on the 25th ult., “a negro, Henry Noles, accused of murdering a white woman, was burned at the stake near Winchester, Tenn. He had been taken from the sheriff by a mob, after a sharp fight, and was burned in the presence of 6,000 persons, hundreds of whom helped on the murder by throwing oil and fence rails upon the fire.”

— President Schwab, of the great steel trust, has refused to accept the arbitration plan submitted to him by Simon Burns, President of the Knights of Labor, and leader of the window-glass workers. Mr. Schwab says that there is nothing to arbitrate. The operators state that the old men are “secretly asking to be taken back, regardless of union rules,” and that their mills will soon be operating again, with non-union men.

— Last week Mrs. Carrie Nation wrecked a brewery exhibit at the Elks’ carnival, Danville, Ill.

— The painters and structural iron workers of San Francisco, Cal., have won their strike for shorter hours.

— It is estimated that 400 human lives, 200 ships, and $75,000,000 have been lost in trying to reach the north pole.

— The Colombian gunboat “La Popa” recently ran on a rock near Savanilla, and sank. Fate of crew is unknown.

— The value of Colombian currency has so fallen that one American dollar is now worth forty-one in Colombian paper money.

— The new Harlem River bridge connecting “the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx,” was formally opened the 22d ult.

— Because of opposition on the part of labor unions, Mr. Carnegie’s offer of $75,000 to Wheeling, W. Va., for a library, has been rejected.

— According to an interview secured with Mr. Kruger by a reporter of the Gaulois, of Paris, the Boer leader counts upon only 10,000 men still in the field.

— A dispatch from Copenhagen states that that city is full of Russian detectives, in anticipation of the coming visit of the Czar. Two Russians have already been arrested.

— Government officials claim to have discovered “a wide conspiracy in Nogales, Ariz., to admit Chinese into the United States. A revenue collector and a Chinese inspector have been arrested.”

— A Boer convoy of eighty-six wagons loaded with ammunition and supplies, was recently captured by British troops, near Klerksdorp, South Africa. Much stock and eighteen prisoners were also taken.

— Steyn, De Wet, and Botha have defied the exile proclamation by Lord Kitchener, and have announced their “determination to fight to the last ditch.” As long as these are in the field, the South African war will continue.

— The United States has informed the Chinese legation at Washington that “hereafter the Treasury Department would refuse landing permission to Chinese ostensibly bound for Mexico, unless it could be absolutely satisfied of their good faith.”

— President Shaffer, of the Amalgamated Association, and leader of the great steel strike, has named Bishop Potter, Archbishop Ireland, and Seth Low, as men whom that association would like to have act as arbitrators in the strike now in progress.

— Canada will sell 500 of her famous “thousand islands” in the St. Lawrence River. These are distributed “between Kingston and Brockville, and range from five acres to one fiftieth of an acre in extent. Only two islands will be sold to the same applicant.”

— The following statement concerning affairs in China has been handed out by a Methodist bishop who was “specially commissioned to visit China to investigate the causes of the Boxer outbreaks:” “Great wrongs the Chinese have committed, but with a tenth part of the provocation, we would have done a thousand times more and greater.” The Powers have treated China as they chose simply because she on her part refuses to be anything but a peaceable nation.

— A Madrid dispatch dated the 29th ult., states that “while the British fleet in Spanish waters was maneuvering to-day, a torpedo which had been launched, stranded on the shore in front of La Linea. A party of man-of-warsmen was sent to recover it, but were prevented from doing so by a detachment of Spanish carbineers. The landing party was strongly reinforced from the fleet, overawed the carbineers, and took the torpedo.”

— A dispatch from Paris, dated the 29th ult., states that Dr. Koch has “announced that he will inoculate Dr. Granault with bovine tuberculosis, to test the theory that human and bovine tuberculosis have nothing to do with each other, and that man cannot catch the disease from cattle.” Several gentlemen in the United States have offered to be thus inoculated, some stipulating that, in case of death, their families be provided with an annual income.

— Evidently J. Pierpont Morgan, the American millionaire, is not satisfied with simply the Leyland Line of steamships; for, according to reports from Glasgow, “Mr. Ellerman, of the Leyland Line, has bought for J. P. Morgan and his associates the old City Line of fourteen steamers, engaged in the East Indian trade, for about $5,000,000. If these be added to the Leyland Line’s property, that line’s fleet will consist of seventy-four vessels, having a tonnage of 301,000.”

— A $100,000 fire recently occurred at Chipley, Fla.

— The new Chicago post-office will be completed in 1903.

— The population of Detroit is estimated to be about 332,000.

— The United States will soon be able to produce all the beet sugar it needs.

— A New York company, with $2,000,000 capital, will develop 18,000 acres of asphalt land in Kentucky.

— The number of Americans permanently located in London has increased thirty per cent the past two years.

— Lord Kitchener will be obliged to return to England soon, on account of the serious state of his health.

— Three men recently made the trip from St. Joseph, Mich., to Chicago in a rowboat, having “a perilous experience with fog and squalls.”

— There has just been incorporated at Albany, N. Y., the College of Heraldry in America, its purpose being “to make genealogical researches.”

— It is reported that 704 Turkish men and women have been exiled to Yemen, Arabia, charged with “supposed complicity in a plot to set fire to the Sultan’s palace.”

— The new German tariff law was “apparently planned to drive out American competition in foodstuff.” A great increase is made thereby in duty on cereals, meats, and live animals.

— According to the leading Chicago newspaper, the rogues’ gallery at the central police station of that city is “made up largely of boys and dead men,” while the pictures of real crooks are “seldom shown to victims, and tucked away on a dusty shelf.”

— An exchange states that “the French Anti-Alcoholic Union, founded five years ago by Dr. Legrain, has to-day 435 local societies, with over 40,000 members,” and that “temperance cafés are now being opened in various towns in France.” May the good work go on!

— There are two sides to every question—even the tipping system so prevalent in Europe. It is stated that “a restaurant keeper in a German city has testified that he gives his waiters only six dollars a month; whereas, if he forbade fees, and undertook to give their equivalent, each waiter would cost him seventy-five dollars a month.”