NEWS AND NOTES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 27, 1900

—Belgium uses annually 195 quarts of alcoholic beverages per capita; England, 141; France, 137; the United States, 70.

—In seventeen years, the circulation of the Ladies’ Home Journal has increased from 20,000 copies (fifty cents a year) to its present circulation, 923,000 copies, at one dollar a year.

—The Naval Construction Board of this country has adopted a program for 1901, which contemplates the building of thirty-two vessels—three battle-ships, two armored cruisers, twenty-two gunboats, and five auxiliary cruisers.

—It is stated that Mrs. Ellen Corcoran, who “sold papers at the bridge entrance to Park Row, New York, for many years, has amassed sufficient money by her labors to buy a tenement costing $45,000. The rentals of the building amount to $4,700 a year.”

—Recent news from the Orient states that “from 4,000,000 to 6,000,000 Chinese north of Peking are in danger of starving, their crops having been a total failure. One million piculs of tribute rice were to be dispatched from Shanghai and distributed among these hungry hordes, from Tien-tsin and Peking, but the military officers at Shanghai gave orders that no rice should be sent out of Central China.”

—There are now 224 Russian ships of war.

—The czar of Russia is seriously ill, of typhoid fever.

—The quarantine on Cuban and Porto Rican vessels has been lifted.

—King Oscar, of Sweden and Norway, has practically lost his memory.

—The work of removing the Dewey Arch in New York City has begun.

—Lord Roberts has decided to adopt the reconcentration plan to pacify the Boers.

—A student was killed in a recent cane rush, in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston.

—Having gained several important victories, the rebels in Colombia are marching against Panama.

—The eleventh anniversary of the establishment of the republic was celebrated throughout Brazil, November 14.

—Commandant-General Botha has sent to Lord Roberts a statement of the terms on which he will surrender.

—John W. Tyndall, editorial writer on the Chicago Inter-Ocean for twelve years, died in Chicago, November 15.

—Steps are being taken whereby the work of the Anglo-American Joint High Commission may be resumed.

—During the Paris Exposition, which closed November 12, more than 50,000,000 persons passed through its gates.

—Rev. G. Campbell Morgan, of London, has accepted the call to Northfield, Mass., to take up the work of the late D. L. Moody.

—The General Missionary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church opened its annual session in New York City, November 14.

—In his report the Chief of the Naval Bureau of the United States recommends the use of wireless telegraphy on several vessels of the navy.

—Six members of the University of Cincinnati football team have injured themselves while playing, so that they will be disfigured for life.

—President McKinley will urge the early ratification of the Hay-Pauncefote agreement, and the building of the Nicaragua Canal, by the United States.

—The October exports from the United States amounted to $163,093,597, breaking all monthly records in the history of the commerce of this country.

—A negro rapist and murderer was recently burned at the stake, at Limon, Colo., the girl victim’s father starting the fire. The negro’s name was John Porter.

—A column of the allies has reached Tsha-Tau, on the Great Wall of China, northwest of Peking. A large force of Chinese cavalry had just evacuated the place.

—Although the cable censorship has been raised at Manila, General MacArthur has ordered the cable companies to “furnish him a copy of all press dispatches.”

—November 19 United States surveyors found 100 bodies in a swamp just west of Galveston, washed there by the great storm and tidal wave of September 8.

—November 21 being “a day of public penitence in Prussia, all public buildings, the reichstag, and the theaters in Berlin were closed. No evening papers were published.”

—The assistant cashier of the German National Bank at Newport, Ky., is short $201,000 in his accounts. United States Bank Examiner Tucker has taken possession of the bank.

—The American consul at Canton, China, has been notified that the board of reconstruction has been ordered to pay $10,000 as the first installment in settlement of American claims.

—In order to control Carolina pine, fourteen lumber companies of Virginia have formed a trust with North and South Carolina firms, the Belmonts of New York financing the combination.

—By the recent elections in Hawaii, Robert W. Wilcox, the independent Royalist candidate, was chosen as delegate to Congress. He is said to favor the restoration of Queen Liliuokalani.

—Recent dispatches state that “a law has just gone into operation in Norway, permitting the conditional discharge of a convict, for good behavior, after he has served two thirds of his sentence.”

—Miss Louise, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan, was married the 16th inst., to H. L. Satterlee, a New York lawyer, who gave the officiating clergyman, Dr. Rainsford, $1,000 as a fee.

—During the coming year six submarine boats of the Holland type will be constructed by the Electric Boat Company of Manhattan, who will establish a permanent testing plant at New Suffolk, L. I.

—November 16 $1,100 worth of copper wire was stolen by Chicago thieves with a wagon. The police were looking on at the time, but thought that the robbers were employees of the telephone company.

—An insane woman hurled an ax at Emperor William, of Germany, as he was driving in an open carriage in Breslau, but he escaped injury.

—December 12 will be commemorated in Washington, D. C., as the centennial anniversary of the establishment of the District of Columbia as the seat of the Federal government of the United States.

—There are about 400 lepers in France, many of whom are missionaries and nurses who have contracted the disease while caring for sufferers in distant countries, some also being soldiers and officials from the colonies.

—Count von Waldersee has informed the Chinese peace commissioners that “if the Chinese troops were withdrawn from the territory now occupied by the allied forces, the latter would dispatch no more military expeditions.”

—In his annual report, Lieutenant-General Miles makes a plea for the general reorganization of the United States army, and recommends a permanent force of one soldier for each thousand of population. Besides this national army, there will, of course, be the State militias.

—The Standard Oil Company is evidently making huge profits, for the “dividend of ten per cent, declared a few days ago, makes forty-eight per cent for the year thus far, and seventy-five per cent since the present company was organized, in June, 1899. The sum disbursed in dividends since that date, therefore, is $73,125,000, and the dividends paid in the last five years amount to a little more than $170,000,000.”

—The bubonic plague has broken out among the natives near King William’s Town, South Africa.

—The steamship “Oregon” arrived at Seattle, Wash., November 17, with $300,000 in gold, from Cape Nome.

—John Alexander Dowie recently sent over to this country, from Nottingham, England, twenty-five lace workers. These will probably be deported from the United States, Dowie having paid their expenses in coming here, and contracted for their labor.

—It is stated that the German government has “begun steps to induce the British government to relinquish the German prisoners who fought on the Boer side in South Africa.” There are about 300 of these prisoners on the Island of St. Helena, and 250 on the Island of Ceylon. It will be interesting to watch these negotiations.

—A dispatch from Manila, dated November 19 (the first uncensored news by cablegram since the American occupation), states that “last week witnessed a very considerable increase in rebel and American activity in the field. Many skirmishes occurred and several small engagements in northern and southern Luzon. The termination of the rains permits a resumption of operations on both sides. The Americans are undertaking a series of aggressive movements against the insurgents, notably upon the Island of Samar, against General Lukban, whose forces hold the entire island with the exception of three coast towns, each of which is garrisoned by two companies of the Twenty-ninth Infantry and a platoon of artillery. The rebels are continually shooting into the garrisoned towns, and our forces have not been sufficient to retaliate effectively.”