News and Notes

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 28, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 22.

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— Mrs. McKinley’s health is rapidly improving.

— The Canadian Parliament has been prorogued by the governor-general.

— Corea is reported to have leased to Japan 450 acres of land desired by Russia.

— The diplomatic relations between France and Portugal are very much strained.

— M. W. Pretorius, first president of the Transvaal, recently died at Johannesburg.

— The medical school of Northwestern University has extended its course to five years.

— The new agricultural college of the University of Illinois was recently dedicated at Urbana.

— This government authorizes Russian war-ships to buy stores in the United States free of duty.

— The Turkish sultan has apologized to the foreign ambassadors for having stopped their mails.

— Grover Cleveland’s daughter Esther is ill with diphtheria, the residence being under quarantine.

— Some lives were lost, and much property destroyed, in the recent flood at Elizabethton, Tenn.

— The former Spanish cruiser “Reina Mercedes” will be fitted up as a training ship for American sailors.

— Sir Thomas Lipton’s yacht “Shamrock II” was totally disabled in a recent trial race, King Edward being on board.

— Distillery refuse at Hodgensville, Ky., is said to have intoxicated thousands of fish, wagon-loads of which were caught.

— Paul du Chaillu, the famous African explorer, is visiting friends in Chicago. He will soon start for a three-years’ trip in Russia.

— Andrew Carnegie has just given $10,000,000 to four Scotch universities, to found free scholarships for his fellow countrymen.

— General Cailles, the Filipino commander, states that he is willing to surrender to the Americans “if his men will be freed after taking the oath of allegiance.”

— The French government is trying to develop “a second Egypt along the course of the Niger River.” A recent expedition proves that river navigable and the country fertile.

— The trustees of the University of Chicago are opposed to the plan of the students to erect a tablet giving Stephen A. Douglas a share of the honor of founding the institution.

— A bottle was recently found on the coast of Scotland, containing the news that the steamship “Croft,” long missed, was, at the time, sinking in the middle of the Atlantic.

— The rebellion of the students at West Point has been quelled, five being dismissed, and six suspended for one year. Rigorous measures are being taken to suppress hazing in that academy.

— The French minister to Morocco has been appointed governor-general of Algeria, because “his knowledge of Morocco can thus best be utilized in any expected movement against that country.”

— Escorted by British and Japanese bands and Indian troops, the last of the American troops left Peking, China, the 23d inst. Only a legation guard is left to protect the interests of the United States.

— Western dispatches state that on the 21st inst. “a dam on Pike’s Peak burst, releasing 65,000,000 gallons of water. The water flowed down the mountain in a stream twenty feet deep, to Arkansas River. No loss of life is reported, but the water supply of Victor, Goldfield, Altman, and Anaconda is partially cut off.”

— Mrs. Emma Lucy Judd, victim of a recent Chicago fire, died while being prayed for by the healer Dowie. The coroner’s jury holds that “her death was due to the criminal negligence of the Dowieites,” and warrants have been issued for Dowie and three of his followers, one of whom has been arrested. The papers state that “Dowie is in hiding, to avoid arrest.” About thirteen years ago John Alexander Dowie was an Australian convict. To-day he is worth over a million dollars, the results of his pretensions to heal.

— Floods in and about Denison, Tex., have caused great damage.

— The Michigan National Guard encampment will be held this year at Manistee.

— Several derelicts (floating wrecks) are reported to be in the path of European steamers.

— The Chinese emperor refuses to return to Peking until the departure of the foreign troops.

— It is the intention of the Turkish government to establish a consulate at Manila, P. I., “in the interests of Mussulmans.”

— The Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo was dedicated Monday, the 20th inst., Vice-president Roosevelt being present.

— The contract to furnish seeds to the United States government next season, has been secured by a firm in Toledo, Ohio.

— The Mother’s Congress of Michigan will hold their third annual meeting at the Hotel Cadillac, Detroit, the 28th and 29th inst.

— According to a Vienna paper, the Monroe doctrine of the United States is “being extended to mean Europe for the Americans.”

— John R. Tanner, former governor of Illinois, died suddenly at his home in Springfield, the 23d inst. The cause of his death was rheumatism of the heart.

— Emperor William, of Germany, is charged with “scheming to minimize the influence of the Franco-Russian alliance, so that it will not interfere with his designs on Austria.”

— The new Canadian mint will be located in Ottawa, and will cost $400,000. In it will be coined Canadian gold, silver, and bronze, and British gold current throughout the empire.

— It is proposed by Norwegian legislators that “girls who do not know how to sew, knit, wash, and cook, shall be refused permission to marry,” and also that “daughters of wealthy men are not to be excepted.”

— In New York City nearly 6,000 bricklayers are idle, owing to the refusal of the Mason Builders’ Association to pay the men for “two weeks during which they had ceased work pending the settlement of a strike.”

— Dispatches from Washington state that the treasury officials are “taking steps to have the Chinese exclusion act extended to Cuba, to prevent Mongolians from coming to the United States through that gateway.”

— The police of Germany have been instructed by their government that “persons who have emigrated to the United States to avoid military service, and who have been naturalized there, cannot return to Germany for permanent residence.”

— After eight months of imprisonment and torture, Bresci, the assassin of the late King Humbert of Italy, committed suicide the 21st inst., by hanging himself in his cell at the Santa Stefano penitentiary. He tore his underclothing into strips, of which he made the rope.

— The Trumbull Avenue Presbyterian church, of Detroit, Mich., has voted to pay $600 a year “for the support of a missionary at Batanga, Kamerun, West Africa.” Rev. James S. Cunningham, a former member of that church, has been chosen as the said missionary.

— The German government has on trial, at Elberfeld, doctors and various other officials who have been charged with “fraudulently enabling youths to evade military service.” One of them supplied the youth with “pills which produced jaundice in whoever used them.”

— The advocates of the Sunday closing of the Pan-American Exposition recently instituted “proceedings against the mayor and the police commissioners of Buffalo, for permitting work contrary to State law on the grounds of the exposition on Sunday, May 5, and Sunday, May 12.”

— Turkish dispatches state that “the customs authorities of Turkey have prohibited the entry of typewriters into that country, and have ordered the return of 200 machines now in the customhouse, to the consignors.” This was done on the ground that “their use prevents the discovery of the authorship of seditious writings.”

— Twenty-nine children were recently lost in a single day, in Central Park, New York City. In view of this and other similar occurrences, a police sergeant of that city suggests that “all children under seven years of age be labeled with name and address sewed under boys’ collars and upon the hems of girls’ skirts.” This suggestion is a good one, and should be adopted by parents in all large cities.

— Great distress is being caused by the famine in Honan province, China.

— The total amount thus far received by the relief association at Jacksonville, Fla., is $113,900.

— The street railway strike at Albany, N. Y., has been settled, concessions having been made by both employers and employees.

— Senator Albert J. Beveridge, of Indiana, is visiting Russia “to study the commercial conditions of that country.”

— The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has acquired control of the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Railroad, having purchased a majority of its stock.

— Rev. Dr. Minton, of San Anselmo, Cal., has been elected moderator of the 113th Presbyterian General Assembly, now in session at Philadelphia.

— King Edward, of England, has decreed that his birthday shall be celebrated on the same day as his mother’s birthday (May 24) each year. He was born Nov. 9, 1841.

— The German foreign office is supposed to be negotiating a tariff understanding with Russia, “in order that the two Powers might form a commercial combine against the United States, and protect continental markets from American aggression.”