NEWS AND NOTES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 6, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 45.

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—The estate of the late John Sherman is valued at $2,500,000.

—The wreck of the “Maine” is to be raised from Havana harbor, Cuba.

—M. Pichon, French minister at Peking, China, is ill with typhoid fever.

—The temperature of a person’s mouth is practically constant at about 98.5°.

—A Pittsburg company, with $12,000,000 capital, will erect a steel plant at Welland, Ontario.

—Standard Oil stock is now held at $602 for a $100 share; a year ago it sold for $460 a share.

—The presidency of Washington and Lee University is to be offered to ex-President Cleveland.

—The boot and shoe factories of the city of Quebec have closed, 10,000 workmen having struck.

—Edward Dewey, brother of the admiral, died suddenly at his home in Montpelier, Vt., October 29.

—October 27 a force of 1,400 Filipinos battled with 100 Americans, in Luzon, forcing the latter to retreat.

—John Sherman left $10,000 to a biographer, and Henry C. Hedges will probably be chosen to write his life’s history.

—The United States received 2,475 awards at the Paris Exposition, or 649 more than any other country, France excepted.

—The State of Colorado prohibits not only the docking of horse-tails, but the bringing of any docked horse within its borders.

—Natural gas having been discovered near Spokane, Wash., a company has secured a lease for twenty-five years on 15,000 acres of land.

—Charles M. Hays, general manager of the Grand Trunk Railroad, has retired, to accept the presidency of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

—The Coats’ thread combination, of Scotland and America, have announced a yearly profit of over $12,000,000, and recommended a dividend of fifty per cent.

—President Kruger will proceed to The Hague, and appeal to the Powers to intervene in the South African settlement, on the basis of Article 3 of The Hague convention.

—The assay office in New York City has received the largest nugget of gold in its history, from a British Columbia mining company, weighing over 753 pounds, and valued at $154,000.

—An iron and steel company of Florence, Ala., has shipped 1,000 tons of pig iron, at twelve dollars a ton, to Manchester, England, the same being their second shipment to that country.

—The new Russian battle-ship “Retvizan,” recently launched at Cramp’s shipyard, Philadelphia, is the largest battle-ship ever launched in the United States, and the first ever built here for a foreign nation.

—Prof. Friedrich Max Müller, son of the German poet, an authority on languages, religion, and mythology, died in London, England, Tuesday, October 30. He had been connected with Oxford University for over fifty-four years.

—The total population of the United States, including Alaska, Hawaii, and the various Territories, is 76,295,220. The population of the forty-five States in the Union is 74,627,907. In 1890, or ten years ago, the total population of the country was 63,069,756. During the ten years there has been a gain of 13,225,464, or twenty-one per cent. The increase of population between the years 1880 and 1890 was considerably over 12,000,000, the percentage of gain being 24.8.

—Cornelius L. Alvord, Jr., during the last few years, stole $700,000 from the First National Bank of New York City, without being detected. He had been twenty years in the bank’s employ, six years as its note teller, and “had the implicit confidence of its officers.” October 23 one of the bank’s bookkeepers discovered that something was wrong in Alvord’s accounts, and the latter disappeared until he was arrested in Boston, October 29. He said that the money was all spent, and that he had expended $50,000 a year for some time, and had made false entries on the books to account for the money he stole regularly.

—A plot to kill President Loubet, of France, was recently discovered in Lyons.

—October 31 fifteen lives were lost by a severe earthquake at Caracas, Venezuela. President Castro, in leaping from a balcony, broke his leg.

—The vessel “Simon J. Murphy,” with her record-breaking grain cargo from Chicago, grounded at Buffalo, and the owners had to “lighter” the cargo.

—October 27 Julian Arnold, son of Sir Edwin Arnold who wrote “The Light of Asia,” left New York for England, in charge of Scotland Yard detectives. He is accused of embezzling trust funds valued at about $700,000.

—In order to keep up with the large-city procession, Paris will add to itself a population of 1,000,000, by annexing its great suburbs. This move will not be made until after the close of the exposition.

—October 27 the Boers ambushed fifty British cavalrymen near Springfontein, Orange River Colony, capturing all but seven. On the same day a British force met and dispersed a number of Boers under General De Wet, near Frederickstad.

—The annual report of the United States commissioner of education shows the total of pupils in all schools, public and private, for the year ending July 1, 1899, to have been 16,738,362, of which 15,138,715 were in the common schools.

—A statement issued by the comptroller of the currency shows that there are in this country 5,898,091 depositors in savings banks, with aggregate deposits of $2,389,719,954,—an average of $404.33 each. In 1896 there were 5,065,494 depositors, with average deposits of $376.50 each.

—The Outlook states that “when the police in Denmark find a man helplessly drunk in the street, they drive the patient in a cab to the station, where he sobers off. Then they take him home. The cabman makes his charge, the police doctor makes his, the agents make their claim for special duty, and this bill is presented to the landlord of the establishment where the drunkard took the last of the drinks that caused his intoxication.”

—Robert Spaulding (colored), a native of Dutch Guiana, was recently refused naturalization papers by Judge Kirkpatrick, in the United States court at Trenton. It is stated that “the papers were refused on the ground that the federal laws permit the naturalization of white males only. Spaulding is a graduate of Howard University, Washington, D. C., and is now a student at Princeton University, and had expected to take up the study of law. His inability to become naturalized will prevent his admission to the bar.”

—At the fruit fair recently held at Walla Walla, Wash., the Blalock fruit farm’s exhibit was the largest, displaying 400 boxes of apples, of different varieties. In this lot of apples there were several fifty-pound boxes containing only thirty-six apples, or an average of 22⅔ ounces to the apple. It also appears that “from this farm alone this year several hundred boxes have been packed for shipment that averaged eighteen ounces to each apple.” Two tons of excellent honey formed another portion of this farm’s product, the apples and honey being “only a small portion of the farm’s total production this year.”

—The following is but a portion of a lengthy petition recently sent to Washington by the National W. C. T. U.: “Statements are appearing in the public press to the effect that houses of prostitution are being established, maintained, and inspected in the Philippine Islands, for the use of our soldiers, by the consent of the army authorities of those islands, or under their direct supervision. We are unwilling to believe that our government will allow to be introduced among the soldiers that infamous system which brought such just contempt upon England when the condition of affairs in India became known to the world. We beg the President of these United States and the secretary of war to see to it that no such stigma is allowed to attach itself,” etc., etc.

—By an explosion of chemicals in the Tarrant building, drug house, Greenwich and Warren streets, New York, at noon, October 29, thirty persons were killed and 104 injured. Twenty-one are missing, so far. The property loss is estimated at $1,500,000. The New York Sun says that “both sides of Warren street, between Greenwich and Washington streets, were laid in ruins, and buildings for blocks around were wrecked in all degrees. For half a block to the north and south of Warren street, the west side of Greenwich street, and the east side of Washington street are almost as hopelessly wrecked as is the short Warren street block, of 160 feet frontage. In all, something like forty places of business are either wholly or partially destroyed. Never in the history of New York has there been an explosion which wrought such havoc so far as mere property loss is concerned.” There were three explosions, in quick succession, the second doing the bulk of the damage. Many more deaths would have resulted had it not been that many of the employees were out at their noonday meal. It is said that “great buildings as far away as the east side of the City Hall Park, and even down to Wall street and beyond, as well as for a corresponding distance to the north, and westward to the river, were shaken to their very foundations,” and that “the movement felt was more like the swaying upheaval of an earthquake.” The fire that caused the chemicals to explode is thought to have started from an electric wire in the laboratory of the drug house.