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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 26, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 13.

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—Bread riots recently occurred in Ripoll, Spain.

—Governor Wells, of Utah, vetoed the Evans bill favoring polygamists.

—A Russian regiment has just been ordered to proceed from Port Arthur to Tien-tsin.

—England will buy 100,000 more horses in the United States for her troops in South Africa.

—Sir Edwin Arnold, the English poet, author of “The Light of Asia,” has become totally blind.

—Within one month Andrew Carnegie has given $11,700,000 for libraries throughout the country.

—John D. Rockefeller recently sold all his iron mines, railway and lake transportation facilities, to the great steel combine.

—The shops of Marseilles, France, are closed “for fear of pillage by riotous dock workers.” Troops routed 2,000 of the strikers.

—Rev. F. B. Meyer, of London, arrived in New York the 15th inst., and “will make an evangelistic tour with W. R. Moody, of Northfield.”

—The miners’ convention, now in session at Hazelton, Pa., “threatens a general strike on April 1, if the operators refuse to confer with it.”

—Vickers’ Sons and Maxim, London, have “bought the rights of the Holland patent on submarine boats for the world, except the United States.”

—General MacArthur has announced the surrender of “Mariano Trías, the only lieutenant general in the insurgent army, with nine officers and 199 well-armed men.”

—In view of Russia’s exactions regarding Manchuria, “Li Hung Chang has appealed to the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and Japan to intervene in China’s behalf.”

—Kitchener has reported the killing of Philip Botha, brother of the Boer commander-in-chief, and also says that the “Boers of Orange River Colony have disbanded and scattered.”

—The United States now has “forty-two warships in Asiatic waters, with the ‘New York’ en route, and the ‘Philadelphia’ and ‘Iowa’ on the Pacific, at San Francisco.”

—Adjutant General Corbin recently sent an order to General Chaffee “directing evacuation of China by American troops by the end of April, leaving only a legation guard of 150 men at Peking.”

—Wu Ting Fang, Chinese Minister to the United States, delivered the convocation address before the University of Chicago, the 19th inst., in which he said many true things about civilization—Chinese and modern.

—The Union Pacific Railroad has obtained control of the Southern Pacific Railroad. This transaction is “the most gigantic railroad deal in the history of the country. The two roads control 15,000 miles of track.”

—It seems that “a monument is to be erected by the French government to Nicot, who introduced tobacco into France, and gave nicotine its name.” The monument will stand “in front of the government tobacco factory in Paris.”

—The area of Siberia is about 4,825,000 square miles, while that of the United States, including Alaska, is only 3,550,000 square miles. The present population of Siberia is about what that of the United States was 100 years ago.

—Another negro, accused of crime, but unconvicted, was recently lynched in Tennessee; another, near Spellman, Ga.; and a negro woman in Tennessee was killed by a white mob “on suspicion of being an accomplice in a small theft.”

—Dispatches state that the “transfer from military to civil government in the Philippines will take place about June 30. Judge Taft will probably be the governor, and General Chaffee will be under his orders as military commander-in-chief.”

—A Washington dispatch states that the Russian ambassador there “has been learning accurately of the naval strength of the United States in Asiatic waters;” and that “this is an indication that Russia is attempting to learn just what she may have to face if the worst should come.”

—The Boer general, Botha, has rejected General Kitchener’s terms for peace. The war will go on.

—The Tennessee Legislature has enacted a law forbidding the education of white and colored children together.

—An exchange states that the General Assembly of Indiana has enacted a law “forbidding Christian Scientists and Dowieites from attempting to heal or treat patients without having undergone an examination before the State medical board.”

—Speaking of the students’ riots in Russia, the Springfield Republican says that “the lethargy into which the liberal movement in Russia has fallen of late years is due somewhat, probably, to the general reaction against democracy throughout the world.”

—Rev. Arthur Edwards, D. D., editor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate, and “senior editor” of the Methodist Church, died at his home, 2818 Indiana Ave., Chicago, Wednesday evening, the 20th inst., at 9 o’clock. The cause of his death was la grippe, followed by rheumatism. He was born at Norwalk, Ohio, Nov. 23, 1834.

—In a late speech in the German Reichstag, Von Buelow, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, said: “That we must advance our interests in eastern Asia is a fact which has become historic. It was in that sense I said three months ago that we must have our place in the sunshine. I say to-day that we will keep that place in the sunshine, and not let ourselves be pushed into the shade.”

—Rev. Elijah Kellogg, author of that well-known oration, “Spartacus to the Gladiators,” and of numerous clean books for boys, recently died at his Maine coast home, Harpswell, at the age of 88 years. He was born at Portland in 1813, and went to sea when but a boy. From 1855-65 he was chaplain of the Boston Seamen’s Friend Society, or “the sailor’s preacher.” Of him it is said: “He was as good a farmer as preacher or writer.”

—Two more attempts have been made upon the life of the czar of Russia, who has “fled from his capital, and is now secreted in his imperial palace at Gatschine, thirty miles from St. Petersburg.” Latest dispatches from Berlin, Germany, state that “sedition is rampant in Russia,” and that “the empire is on the verge of revolution.” “Everything goes to show the existence of a gigantic nihilist plot, beside which the clashes between students and Cossacks pale into insignificance.” “Dark hints are given that at the head of the conspiracy is a high official so powerful that the secret police, despite convincing proof, hesitate to proceed against him.”

—In his recent article in the Independent, on “China and the Missionaries,” Herr von Brandt says: “Responsible statesmen in America and England, who are in a position to know the true facts of all cases, can be quoted in support of my argument. Secretary Olney directed the American minister resident at Seoul, in January, 1896, to advise the missionaries to limit themselves austerely to missionary work, instruction in schools, preaching the gospel, the care of souls and the sick; and, where this advice is not enforced by the directors of mission organizations, it needs to be by the envoys of governments, if their countries are not to be dragged into discomforting entanglements with the east Asiatics.” Mr. Olney evidently “had a good working grasp of that phase of the Chinese situation four years before the Boxer uprising.”

—Serious trouble between Britain and Russia is brewing in China. The 15th inst. some British workmen were working on a railway siding at Tien-tsin, when they were driven off by Russian soldiers. This brought two companies of British troops to defend the British workmen. Then the Russians sent still more troops. Both sides then decided to await orders from their home governments. The Russians pretend that the railway siding in dispute belongs to them. The British and Russians still face each other. The matter was then referred to Count von Waldersee, head of the allied forces in China; but, according to the latest dispatches from London (March 21), Wogack, the Russian general, “has refused to accept Count von Waldersee’s arbitration at Tien-tsin, and demands that the British not only withdraw, but apologize for removing the Russian flag. General Barrow refuses to do either, and in so refusing has the support of the British government. British re-enforcements are being sent.” In a dispatch from St. Petersburg a French diplomat is quoted as saying that “an Anglo-Russian war is impossible, as Russia need only threaten to support the Boers to bring Great Britain to her knees.” With the Manchuria problem looming up, however, the Tien-tsin incident will be regarded secondary, and the Manchurian affair is now regarded “the plague-spot in Anglo-Russian relations.” The British and Russian troops may withdraw from the territory, “pending decision on conflicting international claims.”