NEWS AND NOTES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 16, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 29.

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— Mr. Kruger announces that he has abandoned his intended trip to America.

— Storms have entirely destroyed the banana and corn crops of southern Hayti.

— More than one third of the population of the United States live in towns and cities.

— In Japan there are 3,638 miles of railway, 832 of which are owned by the government.

— During 1900 twelve nations spent over $10,000,000 each for American farm products.

— Chinese troops have just been sent to Chichou “to occupy the country surrounding Peking.”

— The Havana customs receipts for June, 1901, were $235,000 less than for the same month, 1900.

— Amid great pomp the funeral of ex-Governor Hazen S. Pingree occurred at Detroit, Mich., the 6th inst.

— The Khedive of Egypt visited, the 6th inst., the Sultan of Turkey, at the Yildiz palace, Constantinople.

— From the time of its opening until the 8th inst. the attendance at the Buffalo Exposition was 1,779,868.

— It is reported that the railroads are unable to furnish enough cars for the transportation of the Kansas wheat crop.

— Owing to the withdrawal of the obnoxious government bill for refunding the public debt, order has been restored in Argentina.

— The British are erecting blockhouses along the railroad from Pretoria to Pietersburg, “to protect the line from Boer raiders.”

— Because of the illness of Lord Lansdowne, the British Foreign Office is not ready to consider the new Nicaragua Canal treaty.

— The British House of Lords has begun its debate on the proposal to change the king’s oath of accession in order not to offend Catholics.

— The twentieth international convention of the Christian Endeavor Society began in Cincinnati, Ohio, the 6th inst., with “the largest attendance on record.”

— The United States Secretary of War has issued an order “authorizing Governor General Wood, of Cuba, to go to Washington, for consultation on Cuban affairs.”

— The attorney-general of Ontario has ruled that “Sunday steamboat excursions in Canada are illegal,” and “the practice will at once stop throughout the Dominion.”

— Japan will send a number of war-ships to the unveiling, the 14th inst., at Kurihama, of the monument commemorating the landing there of Commodore Perry, July 14, 1853.

— There are 27,000 Chinese in Hawaii.

— The United States will provide a prison ship for its navy.

— The output of gold in the Black Hills is greater than ever before.

— Newcastle, Pa., has refused Mr. Carnegie’s offer of $40,000 for a free library.

— On account of illness, General Wood may be obliged to give up his position in Cuba.

— Russia and France are said to be negotiating for “another loan of 125,000,000 rubles.”

— During the five years ending March, 1901, nearly 600,000 persons died of the plague in India.

— The number of Cuban schools has increased from 312 in 1899 to 3,567 at the present time.

— The Supreme Court of Tennessee has decided that a woman cannot practice law in that State.

— An embassy from the Llama of Thibet is traveling to St. Petersburg, to have an audience with the Czar.

— President McKinley has approved of Governor Taft’s Philippine Cabinet, the majority of which are Americans.

— Andrew Carnegie will erect in Pittsburg (near the Carnegie Institute) a monument to his friend James G. Blaine.

— The Paris Temps states that France will brook no interference on the part of other nations, with her plans in Morocco.

— A trust has been organized for the purpose of controlling the lead fields of southern Missouri. Capitalization, $20,000,000.

— Newspapers state that press dispatches from the South African war are “distorted and padded by censors, for political reasons.”

— Prof. John Fiske, of Cambridge, Mass., lecturer and historian, died at East Gloucester, Mass., the 15th inst., as a result of the heat.

— King Edward’s coronation will occur in Westminster Abbey next June. Such is his recent proclamation through the Official Gazette.

— Speaker Henderson, of the United States House of Representatives, was recently received by King Edward VII, at the Marlborough House, London.

— Secretary Long, of the Navy Department, has written to the Carnegie company, urging “its co-operation in hurrying work on armor for war-ships.”

— New York, says the Union Signal, is the fourth State to give tax-paying women the right to vote upon questions of taxation. Iowa, Louisiana, and Montana are the other States.

— In an address before the teachers’ convention at Detroit, G. Stanley Hall, president of Clark University, declared that the higher education unfits women for wifehood and motherhood. He does not favor co-educational schools.

— R. G. Dun and Company report that there were 5,804 commercial failures in the United States during the first half of 1901, with liabilities amounting to $71,644,244; the first half of last year there were 5,362 failures, with liabilities amounting to $100,570,134.

— It has been decided, by Mr. Tracewell, Comptroller of the United States Treasury, that “the Secretary of the Treasury is not authorized to refund the duties which the Supreme Court held were illegally collected in Porto Rico,” and that “an act of Congress must authorize their return.”

— It is claimed by the Baptist Standard that the majority of the population of Ireland is not now Catholic, but Protestant. We are inclined to doubt this statement, but it would not be surprising if the emigration from that country were rapidly diminishing the preponderance of Catholics over Protestants; for doubtless it is in the Catholic districts that emigration seems most desirable to the inhabitants.

— A dispatch from Washington, dated the 10th inst., states that the Sultan of Turkey has “at last paid his indebtedness to Uncle Sam, amounting to $95,000.” Said sum was paid to J. G. A. Leishman, United States minister at Constantinople. Thus are settled the claims of the United States for “destruction of the property of American missionaries at Harput and Marash, together with a number of individual claims, including that filed by the family of Frank Lentz, of Pittsburg, Pa., the bicyclist who was murdered by Turkish soldiers, when on a tour through Armenia.” Until this claim was settled, the United States chargé d’affaires called on the Sultan regularly each week, as a gentle reminder.

— Kidnapping in Illinois is now punishable by death.

— A curfew law is to be enacted in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

— The manufacturers of strawboard are planning to consolidate.

— Dispatches state that Socialists threaten a revolution in Belgium.

— Nebraska alone will this year produce more than 260,000,000 bushels of corn.

— About 700 Porto Ricans have sailed for Honolulu, to work on the plantations of Hawaii.

— The population of St. Petersburg, the capital of Russia, is approximately 1,500,000 persons.

— The steamer “Dolphin” has arrived at Seattle, Wash., with $800,000 in gold from the Klondike.

— The Standard Oil Company is backing a consolidation to control the salt product of the world.

— A Chicago lawyer estimates that Dowie will clear $15,000,000 through his land deals at Zion City.

— Japan, though a rich and prosperous nation, is at present suffering from “a great scarcity of ready money.”

— One ton of frogs’ legs is consumed every day in New York City, the season lasting from April 1 to October 1.

— There has appeared among horses “a new disease similar to the grip,” fully 10,000 horses being afflicted therewith.

— The China Merchants’ Company has presented a claim of 400,000 taels against the United States, for looting at Tientsin.

— Since the introduction of total abstinence in the French army, the soldiers are said to be forty per cent more effective.

— An 800-mile railroad will be constructed through the Alaskan gold fields, the first surveys having already been made.

— The Hessian fly is ravaging the Michigan wheat crop. Rye and oats are doing well, and early potatoes are in fine condition.

— About 40,000 glass workers of the country are at present enjoying their regular summer vacation of one month. Thus nearly every glass factory in the United States is closed.

— President David Starr Jordan, of Stanford University, California, suggests that Hawaii be annexed to California, as a congressional district, “to settle the political difficulties of the islands.”

— Protestantism is still making good progress in France. The trouble with many Frenchmen is that they confound Christianity with Romanism, and think that Protestantism is “synonymous with rationalism and the negation of Christianity.”

— French papers report such a poor wheat crop in that country that “the importation of American wheat will be enormous, orders having already been placed in the United States for double the amount imported in 1900, the value of which was $2,600,000.”

— According to the Christian Herald (Detroit), “the Central Federated Union, New York, is to co-operate with the Actors’ Church Alliance in having Sunday work done away with in the theaters.” Among the leaders in this movement are Bishop Potter, Father Ducey, and Rabbi Silverman.

— This country formerly shipped large quantities of cotton and manufactured goods to Madagascar; but the seizure of the island by France lost that market to the United States. The only nation permitting this country to trade with her dependencies on equal terms with herself, is Great Britain.

— The imperial policy of the United States is one that exactly suits the brewing companies, for reasons which the representative of one of them states thus: “It has opened up a new and excellent field for us, and we have not been slow to take advantage of it. The natives of the Philippines, Cuba, and Porto Rico, as well as the Chinese, have taken very kindly to American beer, which is an entirely new beverage to them. Our company is shipping hundreds of thousands of casks of bottled beer to Manila right along. Last week we filled an order for 10,000 casks, and we have had single orders as high as 30,000 casks. I do not believe that a great deal of this is consumed by the soldiers or other Americans in the islands, for I am informed that it is nearly all used by the natives. Our shipments to Cuba and Porto Rico are also very large, and are constantly increasing, but they are not as good markets as the Philippines. We are not kicking at all about expansion.”