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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 2, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 27.

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NEWS AND NOTES

— Port Limon, Costa Rica, is partially destroyed by fire.

— The plague epidemic in Hongkong, China, is more violent than ever.

— Horace N. Allen, of Ohio, has been appointed by President McKinley as minister to Korea.

— The foreign ministers in China have denied the request that 3,000 Chinese soldiers be allowed to go to Peking now.

— The British House of Commons has just voted to spend about $80,000,000 more for horses for the South African war.

— Two Shreveport, La., negroes, accused of murder, were lynched the 19th ult. Another negro was lynched near La Grange, N. C., the same day.

— An explosion of fireworks in a Paterson (N. J.) store the 21st ult. resulted in the death of seventeen persons and the serious injuring of many more.

— The Paris-Lyons Railway, of France, has just received ten American locomotives—a trial order. Each one is guaranteed to run seventy-five miles an hour.

— Striking miners at Matewan, W. Va., recently fired on a posse of United States deputy marshals sent to serve injunction papers on them, and drove the marshals away.

— The British forces have again defeated the forces of the “Mad” Mullah in Somaliland, Africa, killing 100 of his followers, and nearly capturing Mullah himself. In the previous engagement 500 of his men were killed.

— The United States Secretary of War has made public President McKinley’s order “establishing civil government in the Philippines on and after July 4.” William H. Taft, of the Philippine Commission, is appointed civil governor of the islands.

— A flood swept through the Elkhorn Creek Valley, W. Va., last week (in the Pocahontas coal field). Keystone and other towns were wrecked, from 60 to 200 persons are reported to have been killed, and the property damage is estimated at $2,000,000.

— The sudden rise in property values in the oil districts of Texas is well illustrated by the fact that J. N. Page, a hard-working man of Georgetown, has just sold for $665,000 a tract of fifteen acres of land (four miles south of Beaumont), for which he paid less than $200 in 1899.

— Francis B. Loomis, minister to Venezuela (now recalled on account of recent dispute) has been appointed minister to Portugal. Herbert W. Bowen, minister to Persia, will become minister to Venezuela. Lloyd C. Griscom, of Pennsylvania, will become minister to Persia.

— J. Pierpont Morgan has just given $1,000,000 to Harvard University.

— General Gomez, of Cuba, recently left Havana, for a visit to this country.

— The survey of Cuban harbors to find places for American stations is nearly completed.

— A great broom trust is being organized at Urbana, Ohio. Capitalization, $6,000,000.

— Forest Park has been selected as the site for the St. Louis Exposition, to be held in 1903.

— Wu Ting Fang has been re-appointed as Chinese minister to this country for another term.

— An international salt trust is to be formed by American, Canadian, and British manufacturers.

— David Nation, husband of Mrs. Carrie Nation, recently issued a notice of his separation from his wife.

— About 2,000 Christian Scientists recently made a pilgrimage to the home of Mrs. Eddy, Concord, N. H.

— The steamer “Dolphin” has arrived at Seattle, Wash., with Klondike gold on board valued at $1,350,000.

— The shah of Persia is ill with the gout, and has invited the heir to the throne to take part with him in state affairs.

— It is thought that Secretary Hay’s retirement from the United States Cabinet will be hastened by the death of his son.

— Rebellion against England is said to be spreading in Cape Colony, it being reported that 6,000 have just joined the Boers.

— By order of the President, General Chaffee has been appointed military governor of the Philippines, relieving General MacArthur, who returns to this country.

— Four Dowieite elders who attempted to hold a public meeting in Fountain Square, Evanston, Ill., the 26th ult., were egged out of town by a crowd of 700 angry citizens.

— In his Fourth-of-July proclamation, Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has prohibited “the sale or gift of cannon firecrackers or toy pistols.” Good! That will save some lives.

— General Ma, the Chinese insurgent leader, is at Tientsin, “in communication with the foreign commanders concerning the pacification and reconstruction of the country.”

— A flow of crude petroleum oil has been discovered on the farm of W. W. Stevens, six miles northwest of Niles, this State. The sinking of an artesian well led to the discovery.

— Last week M. Fournier, one of the contestants in the automobile race from Paris to Berlin, rode the 285 miles between Paris and Aix-la-Chapelle, at the rate of forty-five miles an hour, exclusive of stops.

— The Michigan State Commission of the Pan-American Exposition has decided to close the Michigan building on Sundays, “except for one hour, 12 to 1 p. m., during which time mail will be distributed.”

— Adelbert S. Hay, son of the United States Secretary of State, and late consul at Pretoria, South Africa, fell from a hotel window in New Haven, Conn., the 23d ult., and was killed. He was born in 1876.

— It is stated by representatives of the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, N. Y., that “unless an average daily attendance of 80,000 is secured from now until the end of the exposition, it will prove a financial failure.”

— After three sittings, the 22d ult., the French Senate finally passed the associations bill at one o’clock Sunday morning, by a vote of 173 to 99. This bill is intended to give the government control of the religious orders of the country, and has already been passed by the Chamber of Deputies.

— An exchange states that last week “seventy-five masked men assembled in the vicinity of ex-Judge B. P. Willis’s house in Mount Holly, N. J., bent on treating Harry Allen Baxter to a coat of tar and feathers. Entering the large yard, they made an effort to enter the rear door. Then something happened. The judge’s ten-year-old son asked them promptly to retire. At the same time he leveled a shot-gun at the gang, which beat a hasty retreat. ‘I’ll shoot the first one to enter,’ he said, and immediately the enthusiasm of the mob dropped to the freezing point, and it quickly retired. This ten-year-old boy should be appointed sheriff in a Southern State.”

— The funeral of Hazen S. Pingree will be held in Detroit the 6th inst.

— The International Vegetarian Congress opened in London, England, the 25th ult.

— An anti-clerical mob recently attacked the Catholic church and the archbishop’s residence at Valencia, Spain.

— The receipts of the United States government for the fiscal year ending June 30, exceeded the expenditures by $77,000,000.

— The Episcopal Church, through a recent report of its joint commission, forbids its clergymen from joining in wedlock divorced persons.

— A Belgian physician claims to cure almost instantly boils, abscesses, and anthrax, by injecting into them oxygen in its natural state.

— Representatives of the Japanese government recently visited Chicago “for the purpose of investigating the American horse, with a view to its introduction in Japan.”

— As the result of a fight between striking street laborers and the police, at Rochester, N. Y., eleven policemen and twenty workmen were injured; but the rioters were dispersed.

— Hoshi Toru, former Japanese minister to the United States, and a member of the late Ito Cabinet, was assassinated at a meeting of the City Assembly, in Yokohama, the 21st ult.

— Battle Creek publishes more papers and magazines, with the exception of Detroit, than any other Michigan city. During the month of May 68,000 pounds of second-class matter were mailed at this office.

— In a speech delivered by Emperor William, of Germany, not long ago, he said that he “could but rejoice over every German who goes forth seeking ‘new points where we can knock in nails on which to hang our armor.’”

— The Seventh National Bank, of New York City, has been closed by order of the comptroller of the currency. Cause, heavy loans on doubtful security. National Bank Examiner Forrest Raynor has been placed in charge as temporary receiver.

— The claims for damage done to mission property in China are to be settled by the various provinces, and are “separate from the general indemnity demanded by the Powers, and must be paid by the provinces in addition to their share of that.” These claims amount to about $7,000,000, or 10,450,000 Chinese taels.

— An exchange states that in imitation of “the American administration in the Philippines,” the Virginia constitutional convention has “voted against incorporating into the oath of office of the delegates a pledge to support the Constitution of the United States,” and asserts that “the reason is in each case the same—intention to violate or evade the Constitution.”

— The United States battle-ship “Massachusetts” succeeded, last week, in passing through Hell Gate channel into Long Island Sound, being the only war-ship of her class that has ever made the trip. Upon hearing of this, the Secretary of the Navy issued “a stringent order that hereafter no battle-ship shall go through Hell Gate, except under conditions of exceptional emergency.”

— Italy evidently has designs upon Turkey; for, in the Italian Parliament, Signor Guicciardini recently stated that “in case of a rising of the Macedonians against the sultan (which is not improbable at any moment), Italy would step in and look after her own interests in Albania.” It is also stated that while Russia opposes the extension of Austria’s power along the Adriatic, she will not discountenance Italy’s movements in that direction.

— One year ago the 20th of June the siege of the legations at Peking, China, was begun. The present situation is thus summed up by an exchange: “The empress dowager has the same strong hold of affairs; her former generalissimo, Jung Lu, is in favor at the court; General Tung Fu Hsiang, who commanded the Chinese troops and ordered them to attack the foreigners, is scot free; Prince Tuan, the chief criminal in the Boxer uprising, has received comparatively light punishment, and his son is still the heir apparent to the throne. The perils of last year, the plotting of the court, the outrages, the edicts ordering the extermination of foreigners, and the pandemonium caused by the Boxer uprising, have been largely forgotten. The savage attacks on the various missions and the massacres of innocent missionaries, are ignored, while commercial schemes are given pre-eminence.” The Chinese puzzle is not yet solved.

— Prussia has decided not to exclude American life-insurance companies, as it has heretofore done.

— Great fear is being expressed in the religious press, that the coming St. Louis World’s Fair will not be closed on Sunday.

— An electric railway will be built “from Athens to Piraeus, in Greece, to be furnished with cars made in the United States.”

— Dr. Harris, United States commissioner of education, says that the college courses in this country are too long, by at least one year.

— An anonymous donor has given $100,000 to Columbia University (New York City) “for the establishment of a chair for the study and teaching of the Chinese language and literature.”