NEWS AND NOTES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 11, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 24.

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— Chicago automobile drivers must not exceed a speed of eight miles an hour.

— The police board of Kansas City, Mo., has refused to close saloons on Sunday.

— There may be a special session of Congress in July, to consider Philippine matters.

— Lord Pauncefote, British ambassador to Washington, has gone to England on a vacation.

— The convention of the American Medical Association began its session in St. Paul, Minn., the 5th inst.

— For the assault and murder of a white woman of Bartow, Fla., a negro was burned at the stake at that place the 29th ult.

— A man seventy-two years old, and his four sons, were recently lynched at Lookout, Modoc Co., Cal. Their only crime was petty thievery.

— John D. Rockefeller will deliver the convocation address at the University of Chicago, the institution to which he has given so many millions.

— Owing to the protest of the foreign embassies, the Turkish government has rescinded its order prohibiting the entry of typewriters into Turkey.

— The London Daily Mail states that Dr. Theodore Herzl, founder of the Zionist movement and the Palestine Association, has “obtained from the sultan of Turkey valuable concessions toward his project of Zionist-colonization in southern Palestine.”

— A Jewish university is to be established in New York City.

— It is reported that Mrs. McKinley does not show signs of rallying.

— Owing to strike riots, Corunna, Spain, has been placed under martial law.

— Large sales of oil territory are made in Texas, the boom now being at its height.

— The city of Chicago reaps a yearly revenue of $35,000 from its 17,897 licensed dogs.

— The United States War Department has bought the “secret recipe for making maximite.”

— Hereafter, newspapers giving premiums are to be barred from the second-class postal rates.

— During the month of May the public debt of the United States was decreased $10,268,761.

— The various churches of Jacksonville, Fla., are worshiping in tents erected near their burnt edifices.

— Unless the Cubans accept the Platt amendment as it reads, Congress “may take steps to annex the island.”

— British manufacturers lay the blame for England’s failure to control the world’s markets, to British trade unionism.

— Five hundred members of the London bar recently gave a dinner to Maitre Labori, the lawyer who defended Dreyfus.

— When the promotions now planned are made, there will be vacancies for 700 second lieutenants in the United States army.

— Sunday, June 2, the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo remained open, the Midway shows and the government buildings being closed.

— Secretary Gage ordered seventeen Filipinos on their way to the Buffalo Exposition to be sent back, on account of their filthy condition.

— The manufacturers of collars and cuffs are forming a trust, to be called the American Shirt and Collar Company. Capitalization, $20,000,000.

— Gen. John B. Gordon was unanimously re-elected commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans, at their recent reunion at Memphis, Tenn.

— In a speech at the Chamber of Commerce banquet, at London, Andrew Carnegie stated that the time would come when the Powers of Europe would “combine to crush England, but that America would prevent it.”

— Over fifty persons were poisoned at a high school banquet at Parker, S. D., the 4th inst. The pressed chicken they ate had been boiled in a tin boiler with a copper bottom. Two of the persons may not recover.

— At a recent Cabinet meeting at Washington, it was decided to reject the Cuban acceptance of the Platt amendment. Until Cuba submits to the letter and spirit of that amendment, the United States troops will remain on the island.

— The Boer leaders are making “a formal appeal to The Hague arbitration court, promising to abide by the decision of the tribunal regarding the issues involved in the South African war.” Possibly Great Britain might now be induced to arbitrate the question.

— The Chicago grand jury, which investigated the facts concerning the death of Mrs. H. W. Judd, “decided to vote no indictments against John Alexander Dowie, who, because of not securing medical treatment, was charged with being responsible for the woman’s death” at his Zion institution.

— The Association of Military Surgeons of the United States army, in session at St. Paul, Minn., recently adopted a resolution “in favor of the repeal of the Anti-Canteen law” passed by Congress. Since the army chaplains were most active in the interests of the Anti-Canteen law, it will be interesting to note what they will now have to say.

— Dispatches from China state that on the 5th inst. “a serious affray occurred between international troops at Tien-tsin. Some British fusileers, acting as police, sought to prevent French soldiers from house-breaking, when they were attacked with bayonets and bricks. The British fired in the air. A number of Germans joined the Frenchmen, making 500 men in all. In the affray which followed, a French soldier was killed, and several on all sides wounded. The arrival of a German officer and a strong guard ended the fray.” English-speaking troops do not seem to be in favor with the Continental troops there.

— Queen Helena, of Italy, gave birth to a daughter the 1st inst.

— Señor Michael Gener, Nationalist, has been elected mayor of Havana, Cuba.

— President and Mrs. McKinley reached Washington from San Francisco, the 3d inst.

— After the end of the present school term, Armour Institute (Chicago) will bar girl students.

— Ninety Indiana coal operators, in control of twenty-nine mines, will consolidate their interests.

— Hereafter Armenians who have become naturalized Americans or Russians, will be prohibited from entering Turkey.

— Montreal capitalists are endeavoring to form a combine “to control the Japan tea trade of Canada and the United States.”

— Count William Bismarck, youngest son of the late Prince Bismarck, died in Varzin, Prussia, the 30th ult. He was born in 1852.

— The monarchs of Europe will soon hold a conference having for its object the organization of a detective force to “track conspirators.”

— It is reported that the government of Russia “refuses to yield to the demands of the ecclesiastics who asked for the impeachment of Tolstoi.”

— Governor Gage, of California, has offered a reward of $5,000 “for the arrest and conviction of the persons implicated in the lynching at Lookout.”

— Owing to the failure of the Turkish sultan to issue a permit for the exploration of Ur of the Chaldees, the Smithsonian Institution expedition is delayed.

— Edward VII, of England, received on the 1st inst. at Windsor Castle, the visiting members of the New York Chamber of Commerce, the queen also being present.

— At a recent meeting in Peking, China, the generals of the allied troops decided to “transfer the administration of the city to Chinese officials gradually during June.”

— Owing to the probability of a reconciliation between General Booth and his son Ballington, the Salvation Army and the Volunteers of America may unite their forces.

— The census reports show that Rhode Island is the most densely populated State in the Union. It has 407 inhabitants to the square mile. In this list New York State is fourth, with a density of 152.6 persons to the square mile.

— The newspapers state that Dowie recently announced himself as “the physical and spiritual embodiment of Elijah,” before an audience of 5,000 people. Having asked all who believed his statement to stand up, “over 3,000 persons stood up and received the declaration with cheers.”

— Joseph Merrill, a Carrollton, Ga., sheriff, successfully defended, on the 7th inst., a negro murderer in his keeping, from the fury of a lynching mob. In thus upholding the laws of the State, he was obliged to shoot into the mob, killing one man and wounding two others. There is no excuse for lynchings in this country. Such proceedings never occur in England nor in Canada.

— A New York exchange states that Emperor William, of Germany, recently dismissed “one of the best-known preachers in Berlin, who was one of the pastors in the garrison church, for preaching too long. His sermon was in length three quarters of an hour. Emperor William sent word to him to curtail it the next time to a quarter of an hour. But when the Sunday came, it was forty-five minutes. So the kaiser gave instructions to have him removed to another sphere of activity. Where the Church and State are united, the sovereign can do many things that would not be allowed in any other situation.”

— In an interview at the Auditorium Hotel in Chicago, Chauncey M. Depew, the New York senator, expressed himself as strongly in favor of a third term for President McKinley. He said: “There is absolutely nothing in the way of a third term for President McKinley, in my opinion. The country has been phenomenally prosperous under his administration, universal confidence is reposed in him, and there is a vast national pride in the results of his work. The third term is not a bogy. There were entirely outside circumstances in the cases of Washington, Grant, and Benjamin Harrison, that prevented a precedent being set for the nomination and election of a president of the United States for the third time.” Evidently the spirit of imperialism and of world-politics is steadily gaining ground in this country.