News and Notes

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 23, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 43.

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— King George, of Greece, has arrived at Paris.

— The population of Connecticut is 908,355; in 1890 it was 746,258.

— A $2,500,000 railroad station was recently opened in Nashville, Tenn.

— The British government has requisitioned 10,000 more Indian troops for Hong-Kong.

— Up to October 12 the total contributions to the Galveston relief fund were $979,595.

— Prof. Max Muller, of London, is ill, his condition being very critical, owing to a relapse.

— The Pennsylvania Railroad has ordered 150,000 tons of steel rails, at twenty-six dollars a ton.

— Teller, sixty miles northwest of Cape Nome, may soon supersede the latter place as a gold-mining center.

— It is reported that the United States would like the Danish West Indies, but will pay only $3,000 for them.

— During his trial for complicity in the murder of Goebel, of Kentucky, Henry Youtsey has become insane.

The Negro Baptists of Virginia have purchased a hotel at Wytheville, the same to be used by them for a college.

— Since October 1, 3,000 Spanish immigrants have arrived in Cuba, and 12,000 more are expected before November 1.

— The Carnegie Steel Company will hereafter “export its products by an all-water route from Lake Erie ports to Europe.”

— Dr. James Carlyle, the last surviving nephew of Thomas Carlyle, the English writer, died in Toronto, Ontario, October 16.

— Over 200 extra men are at work in the Brooklyn navy yard, seven cruisers and battle-ships being repaired and refitted there.

— By order of the military government, trial by jury was inaugurated in Cuba, October 9, and the writ of habeas corpus established.

— October 14 an American force rescued Captain Shields and fifty-one men who had been captured by the Filipinos in the Island of Marinduque.

— Lord Curzon, viceroy of India, reports the general condition of the crops to be excellent. The number of persons receiving relief at present is 2,746,000.

— The copper-plate engravers at Tiffany’s, New York City, although making from $50 to $100 a week on piece-work, are striking, to have their union recognized.

— The Independent says that the discovery has been made that innocent negro men and women have been kidnapped, and forced to labor in convict camps in Georgia.

— October 11 the allied forces under Field Marshal von Waldersee started at Pao-Ting Fu, and the German troops were ordered to occupy the railroads from Yang Tsun to Peking.

— Of 65,000,000 Paris Exposition tickets issued, about 15,000,000 are still unsold. In order to dispose of them, a series of fêtes will be held, several tickets being required for one admission.

— It is rumored that Sir Redvers Buller may succeed Lord Wolseley as commander-in-chief of the British army, owing to the fact that Lord Roberts declines to accept the position “without a free hand.”

— The Union Signal states that, “under the leadership of the Catholic priests, large numbers of the striking miners are taking the temperance pledge. Last Sunday (September 30) at St. John’s church, Pittston, Pa., the Rev. Father Garvey induced 1,300 members of his congregation to pledge themselves to abstain from all intoxicating drinks as long as the strike shall last, and at Holy Savior church, in Wilkesbarre, the Rev. Father Curran did the same with 800 men, who are strikers.”

— A Kentucky farmer cleared $500 on a five-acre watermelon patch.

— A minor Vatican official has been arrested, charged with complicity in the recent theft.

— In Germany there are 544,283 children below fourteen years of age engaged in industrial pursuits.

— An apple was raised in Kittitas County, Washington, this year, which was seventeen inches in circumference, or nearly six inches in diameter.

— The Italian government has sent to Washington, D. C., a protest against the “excessive liberty” accorded to anarchists in the United States.

— While cork and poplar are the lightest woods in the world, pomegranate is one of the heaviest, being more than one-third heavier than water.

— Marked agricultural prosperity is reported throughout the cane and sugar districts of Cuba. In three days 1,860 Spanish immigrants arrived at Havana.

— The new bridge to be built over the St. Lawrence, at Quebec, will have one span in it that will be the largest in the world. The structure will cost $5,000,000, and will not be finished until some time in 1904.

— A recent lawsuit in Liverpool, England, has revealed the fact that “millions of eggs are annually imported to Belfast, Ireland, from Russia, and then sent over to England and Scotland, and sold as fresh Irish eggs.”

— Rev. Charles Knippenberg, an American citizen, agent of the Missouri synod of the Lutheran church, at Hamburg, Germany, has been notified that he must serve a year in the imperial army or be expelled from Germany.

— Washington dispatches have confirmed the alarming news that yellow fever is raging in Cuba. It is said that in Havana “not a single block is exempt from the scourge, while in some as high as seventeen cases are reported.”

— Mr. Chamberlain, secretary of state for the colonies of Great Britain, speaking at Stourbridge, England, October 9, said: “Great Britain’s foreign policy, as I sum it up, is to remain on friendly terms with every great country in Europe, and on something more than friendly terms with the United States.”

— A dispatch from Pretoria, dated the 18th inst., states that “the Boers are daily tearing up portions of the railroad and cutting the telephone and telegraph wires. Their attacks are intolerable. The repairing linesmen can not leave the garrisoned points without considerable escorts. The only remedy seems to be to corral all the burghers and deport them, as apparently none can be trusted.”

— The great coal strike was practically ended October 17, the terms of the miners having been acceded to by the coal operators. The figures of the strike which began September 17, are as follows: “working days of strike, 26; number of men out, 137,000; loss to miners, in wages, $5,200,000; cost of State troops, $35,000; loss to railroad employees, $65,000; number of lives lost, 6; number of persons injured, 40.”

— It is stated, upon good authority, that “the criminal record of the American army in the Philippines can not be equaled by any army in Europe. The official report shows that during a period of less than eleven months, with an average number of 21,078 enlisted men, there were 12,481 cases of court-martial—an average of thirty-eight a day. The report further shows that from two to twenty American soldiers each day were brought before the police courts, charged with drunken outrages.”

— A Berlin dispatch of October 17 states that according to the Kölnische Zeitung “Prince Hohenlohe has tendered his resignation as imperial chancellor, and that it has been accepted,” and that “Emperor William has designated as the retiring chancellor’s successor Count von Buelow, minister of foreign affairs.” It seems that the reasons which led Hohenlohe to retire were “his rapidly growing infirmities, and his distinct disapproval of the emperor’s personal policy in China,” and that he had “expressed strong criticisms upon what he called the kaiser’s ‘sentimental and impulsive interference in the troubles in China.’”

— The heirs of Anthony Pollok, a victim of the “Bourgogne” disaster, “offered, soon after that event, prizes amounting to 100,000 francs ($20,000) for improved devices for life-saving at sea.” It is said that as a result of this offer, “over five hundred appliances” are now on exhibition in the Palace of Navigation and Commerce, in the Paris Exposition. One of these devices is the Salvator belt, patented by Lainé. It is made up of “four rubber pouches, which may be worn constantly on the person, under the clothes; when the wearer blows into a tube, the belt is inflated, and may then support two persons. If one of the pouches is torn, the others remain inflated.”

— “The sacredness of the cow,” says the Congregationalist, “has been enormously costly in India this famine year. When the rains failed and the pastures dried up, instead of killing and curing the cattle for food, as our American Indians would have done, and so helping to tide over the famine time, the cattle starved with their masters. And now that the rains have come again, the vital question of plows comes up. The cattle are dead; and unless the land can be plowed, there can be no harvest. It has become necessary to find plows light enough to be drawn by men. The government agents and agricultural experiment stations have addressed themselves to this need, and put on sale such light plows.”