NEWS AND NOTES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 6, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 32.

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— King Menelik, of Abyssinia, is seriously ill.

— A heavy earthquake was felt in Nevada the 26th ult.

— Cases of bubonic plague are reported from Constantinople.

— The Peruvian Congress was opened in Lima the 28th ult.

— Dr. Kuyper is Premier of the new Netherlands Ministry, just organized.

— August 8 is the date set for Count von Waldersee’s reception at Hamburg, Germany.

— Owing to the fears of the people as to its safety, traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge is “unusually light.”

— The “Shamrock II,” challenger for America’s cup, sailed from the Clyde, for New York, the 27th ult.

— The new United States battle-ship “Maine” has been launched from Cramp’s shipyard, Philadelphia.

— General Baden-Powell recently arrived at Southampton, being “formally welcomed by the mayor and civil authorities.”

— During a recent fight between the “Mad Mullah” and British troops, the former was routed, and seventy of his men were killed.

— Owing to the agitation against American products, the new German tariff law shows that duties in that country are “heavily increased.”

— A report from Lord Kitchener states that “a detachment of Steinacher’s Horse has been forced to evacuate Bremersdorp by a superior force of Boers.”

— A recent attempt to open the shows on the Midway, at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N. Y., failed, “the places being closed by order of the police.”

— The new steamer “Celtic,” of the White Star line, is now said to be the largest vessel afloat. She is 700 feet long, has 75 feet beam, is 49 feet deep, and her gross tonnage is 20,880 tons.

— There died at London, the 28th ult., the Rt. Rev. Brooks Foss Westcott, bishop of Durham. He is well known throughout this country as “the joint editor of Westcott and Hort’s text of the New Testament,” as well as by his commentaries on the epistles of Paul.

— Owing to the failure of feed crops in the West, an extra amount of live stock is being forced upon the market. For instance, Wednesday, July 24, there were received at the Chicago stock yards 2,397 cars of live stock, carrying 34,785 head of cattle, 38,456 head of hogs, and 22,234 head of sheep.

— Jerman Riesco has been proclaimed President of Chile.

— A recent fire destroyed fifty houses at Port au Prince, Hayti.

— President McKinley has proclaimed free trade between Porto Rico and this country.

— The new Danish Cabinet favors the sale, to the United States, of the Danish West Indies.

— The United States training ships “Enterprise” and “Hartford” recently arrived at Kiel, Germany.

— Davenport, Iowa, had a $1,000,000 fire the 25th ult., hundreds of families barely escaping with their lives.

— The British battle-ship “Glory” is “ashore on the Chinese coast, between Hongkong and Shanghai.”

— Germany will vigorously push her claims against Venezuela “for damages to Germans during recent revolutions.”

— The mines in the Transvaal are to be reopened, and a permanent British garrison stationed at Johannesburg.

— Because of disturbances in Albania, the Austrian garrisons in the Balkans have been placed on a war footing.

— The steamer “St. Paul” recently arrived at San Francisco, bringing from the Klondike six tons of gold, valued at $2,500,000.

— The British War Office is now being “ridiculed for its fight against the London Mail,” and Secretary Brodrick is getting “little sympathy.”

— The National Reform Association is planning to hold “fifty local National Reform conventions during the coming year, or before June 1, 1902.”

— Permanent barracks are being erected in Shanghai, China, for the French and German troops. This means that they will probably stay there for some time.

— About 10,000 of the striking New York tailors will return to work, several manufacturers having signed agreements with the Garment Workers’ Union.

— A recent dispatch states that “Russia withdraws her proposal to increase the Chinese duties ten per cent, and accepts, with reservations, the British plans.”

— The constant use of tobacco helped, by its effects on the heart, to precipitate the death of the late Prof. John Fiske, who was prostrated by the heat the 4th ult.

— Russia has just demanded of Turkey two coaling stations on the Persian Gulf, and also some others in Asia Minor. Turkey does not feel that she can resist.

— The bill providing for the change in the oath of the King of England, to avoid offense to Catholics, has passed its second reading in the British House of Lords.

— Violent rains have caused the Danube and other Austro-Hungarian rivers to overflow, and as a result many have lost their lives, and great damage has been done to property.

— It is reported from Buffalo, N. Y., that “Father Zucher, a Roman Catholic priest, has been driven from his parish for opposing saloon influence, and his appeal to Rome will avail nothing.”

— A recent decree of Emperor William, of Germany, announces that “an antarctic expedition will leave Kiel in August, to establish observation stations at the farthest attainable points south.”

— Twenty-five persons were recently arrested in Pittsburg and Allegheny, Pa., for violating the Sunday-closing ordinance. Most of those arrested were “keepers of small groceries, fruit and drug stores.”

— A New York paper states that “an agreement between the Vatican and the United States government, with regard to the religious orders in the Philippines, is said to have been reached.” Of course!

— The city of Battle Creek, Mich., is rapidly becoming the greatest center in the world for the manufacture of health foods and other cereal products. Food factories are springing up in almost every direction.

— A Topeka, Kan., dispatch, dated the 22d ult., says: “Mrs. Carrie Nation was to-day fined $100 and given thirty-days’ jail sentence, by Judge Hazen in the district court, for disturbing the peace and dignity of the city by a Sunday joint-raid last March. There is no appeal, and Mrs. Nation must serve her time in prison.” She may be pardoned by the governor.

— A decree has been issued by the Sultan of Turkey, to establish medical schools in four cities of his dominion.

— The Czar has issued an order calling for the recruiting of 308,500 men during the present year, for the Russian army and navy.

— The death sentence passed on thirty-four Boers, has been commuted, by Lord Kitchener, to penal servitude for life, at Bermuda.

— Nicaragua has been obliged to close three of her four national colleges “because there are but few persons in that land seeking higher education.”

— A recent session of the Belgian Chamber had to be suspended, owing to “disorderly scenes in connection with the debate of the Education bill.”

— Aly Noury Bey, Turkish Consul at Rotterdam, has been “condemned to life imprisonment, for writing against the Sultan.” He refuses to return home to serve his sentence.

— Baron Iwasaki has purchased the library of the late Professor Max Muller, comprising about 13,000 volumes, and will present the same to the University of Tokio, Japan.

— Dispatches state that “insurgents are operating in large numbers near Panama, and the government orders citizens to concentrate, in order to repel attacks and protect property.”

— Japan has withdrawn her request for an increase of her Chinese indemnity from $23,000,000 to $27,000,000, because “insistence on her demand at this time would slack the negotiations.”

— Over 100 persons are injured, as the result of combats in Lemberg, Galicia, brought about by “attempts by the police to break up parades of the unemployed.” The town is now guarded by troops.

— It is reported from Peking, China, that the resident members of the Regency Board have received “a communication from the throne, laying down injunctions to imitate the ways of Japan and Western nations.”

— July 26 George Kennan, the noted American author and lecturer, was “ordered by the Russian authorities to leave the country within twenty-four hours.” It was Mr. Kennan who exposed, in his magazine articles and public lectures, the evils of the Siberian-exile system.

— That the Sultan of Turkey does not relish the recent demand of the Russian government “to release the Servians arrested [by Turkey] in Albania, and also to restore the arms taken,” is seen by the fact that, although he has agreed to do this, still “the arrests continue, and Russia repeats her demand in peremptory terms.”

— A very successful and interesting test of the effectiveness of the Marconi wireless telegraph system was made in New York harbor, the 27th ult., between the steamer “Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse,” of the North German Lloyd line, and the Cunard liner “Lucania.” “The ‘Lucania’ sailed for Liverpool at one o’clock in the afternoon, while the ‘Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse’ remained berthed at pier 51, North River. For more than an hour the two vessels were in constant communication with each other; and until the ‘Lucania’ passed out of the Narrows, there was no difficulty in reading her signals.”

— Washington dispatches state that “the most important question connected with the Philippine administration, relating to the property holdings of the religious orders of the Roman Catholic Church, is nearing a settlement. The case is being conducted with great secrecy, but it appears to be the plan of the administration to have the Spanish priests and brothers withdraw from the Philippines, and have their places taken by American priests, mostly of Irish and French antecedents, who are in sympathy with American ideas. As to the land question, it seems likely that the present holdings of the religious orders in the Philippines may be purchased and made subject to taxation. One of the most serious and oppressive measures to which the Filipinos were subjected under Spanish rule, was the heavy taxation of their own modest holdings, while the great estates of the religious orders made no contribution whatever to the support of the government.” Dispatches from Manila, however, state that the Catholic authorities there declare that “they have no intention of withdrawing the friars from the islands, and they reiterate their belief that the friars will be welcomed by the masses of the Filipinos, as their spiritual advisers, when the people become thoroughly assured that the friars can no longer exercise temporal authority.” But it will be very difficult, if not impossible, to make Rome give up her temporal power in the Philippines. Rome never changes.