NEWS AND NOTES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 16, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 42.

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— October 3 the corn palace in Mitchell, S. D., was opened.

— Renewed activity is reported among the rebels of Colombia.

— Paris reports say that a reopening of the Dreyfus case has been decided upon.

— The price of cotton in India has risen, and many spinning mills have been closed.

— Large fields of anthracite coal have been discovered in the Cascade Mountains, in the State of Washington.

— The Russian novelist and reformer, Count Leo Tolstoi, has been excommunicated from the Russian Church.

— It is reported that the Infanta Maria Mercedes, sister of the king of Spain, is engaged to the Duke of Abruzzi, the arctic explorer.

— The Carnegie Company at Pittsburg, Pa., announces to its 15,000 employees that a new wage scale will be adopted the coming year.

— It is thought that King Leopold will abdicate the throne of Belgium before the close of the present parliament, in favor of the Prince of Flanders.

— A dispatch from General MacArthur states that fifty-two men of the Twenty-Ninth Volunteer Infantry, under Captain Shields, have been captured by the Filipinos.

— The United States consul at Chihuahua, Mexico, has informed the State Department, at Washington, that, on September 16, a mob of Mexicans tore down the United States flag over the consulate.

— A Philadelphia distiller is using the seals of Princeton College and of the University of Chicago, as trade-marks on his whisky; and other dealers in whisky are using the seals of other colleges and universities.

— It is estimated by experts in London, England, that the practice of weighing the wrapping paper with goods purchased at the stores, results in a loss of $2,500,000 per annum to London buyers.

— The Northern Pacific Railroad tunnel under the Cascade Mountains was cut through solid granite for two miles. It is now ready for the rails. One thousand men have been working on it for nearly three years.

— During 1899 Berlin was visited by 1,000,000 strangers; Vienna by 500,000; Munich, 600,000; Dresden, 500,000; Hamburg, Leipzig, and Zurich, each 400,000; while Düsseldorf, Bâle, and Stuttgart each had over 250,000 visitors.

— An exchange says that “it will be a surprise to many to know that in India 30,000 students receive the degree of B. A. each year, and that there are in that country about 3,000,000 college graduates occupying various positions of responsibility.”

— The Union Pacific Railway Company has forbidden its employees to smoke cigarettes. It is related that at a recent meeting of the board of directors the presiding officer, turning to a multi-millionaire who was smoking, said: “Drop that cigarette.” The director looked astounded. “I mean it,” said the officer, severely. “I have just issued an order prohibiting cigarette smoking by any employee of the company. You get ten dollars every time you come here. So kindly drop that cigarette.” Needless to say, he was obeyed.

— The new British Parliament will meet the first of November.

— It is reported that England has bought 250 Krupp guns of Italy.

— The Peruvian Cabinet appointed August 31 has already resigned.

— Heavy storms in France destroyed crops and ruined many vineyards.

— Melbourne has been chosen as the capital of confederated Australia.

— It is feared that the prairie chicken will soon become extinct in Kansas.

— An effort is being made to introduce the American sweet potato into Europe.

— Twenty plants of the American Tin Plate Company have resumed work.

— Thieves recently secured about $71,500 from the safe in the Vatican, at Rome.

— On account of yellow fever, the State of Texas is enforcing a quarantine against southern Mexico.

— Over 169,000 free baths were given the last season at the government free-bath house in Hot Springs, Ark.

— Experiments in France have shown that chimney soot is valuable, both as a fertilizer and as an insecticide.

— A British syndicate has $700,000 deposited in a Chicago bank, to buy shares in the American Cereal Company.

— The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company has recently ordered 9,000 cars, the cost of which will be $7,685,000.

— George Von Laer Meyer, of Hamilton, Mass., has been appointed ambassador to Italy, to succeed General Draper, who resigned.

— The Reading Railroad Company's earnings the last year were the largest for six years, the gross receipts being $55,946,934.

— The coal output of Alabama is estimated at 9,000,000 tons for the year, an increase of over one million tons over the year before.

— It seems that, though several railroads are in need of new steel rails, “they refuse to pay the high rate of twenty-six dollars a ton.”

— October 7 a German force near Tientsin, China, meeting a body of Chinese numbering 8,000, was compelled to retire to Tientsin.

— The New York rice syndicate, with a capital of $7,500,000, wishes to buy the entire crop of rice produced by the Southern States.

— Carl Schurz has resigned the presidency of the National Civil Service Reform League, and also that of the New York Civil Service Reform Association.

— Sir Thomas Lipton has cornered the pork market, having 75,000 barrels in Chicago and 40,000 barrels not yet in, with which to fill a large government order.

— After Jan. 1, 1901, the Centigrade thermometer will be used in Germany, instead of the Fahrenheit, the chancellor of the German Empire having issued an order to that effect.

— The rolling mills of the Susquehanna Iron and Steel Company, Columbus, Pa., have resumed work, the 1,600 employees having accepted a cut of twenty-five per cent in their wages.

— The Southern Pacific Railroad has ordered fifty-eight locomotives from the Cook Locomotive Company, Paterson, N. J., thus insuring work at that plant night and day for six months.

— It is stated that “Rev. J. Newton Emery, pastor of Christ (Universalist) Church, Middletown, N. Y., may be compelled to emulate the example of President McKinley, and join the masons’ union. The secretary of Christ Church has begun the erection of a fine church edifice, and, when the proper time arrives, it is desired that Mr. Emery shall lay the corner stone. Union men employed on the building will object to the minister using the trowel on the occasion, unless he joins their ranks. It is believed that Mr. Emery will pay the necessary fee of fifteen dollars, and join the order, to avoid any trouble.”

— September 25, at Newport, R. I., the little submarine torpedo boat “Holland” “demonstrated its value, in mimic warfare at least. Moving, practically submerged, at a speed of about six miles an hour, showing no light and making no noise, it easily picked up the flagship “Kearsarge” of the blockading fleet, as it lay several miles to the eastward of the mouth of the harbor. The diving boat was close on the “Kearsarge” before any of the battle-ship’s officers had any knowledge of its presence. The big craft succumbed without a struggle. The mimic battle was fought in absolute darkness. That the fleet failed to show any lights, was taken as evidence that the ships were afraid to disclose their location, knowing that the submarine boat was out, and realizing that their only safety from its attack lay in escaping its notice. This proved to be true, for, even without lights, it succeeded in picking up the most important battle-ship in the fleet. The result of the night’s maneuvers may be summed up, unofficially, by the claim of the torpedo fleet officers—that they succeeded in torpedoing every battle-ship in the blockading squadron.”

— English is now a required study in the higher state schools of Prussia.

— Floods of the Pánuco and Tames Rivers, in Mexico, are causing great damage and considerable loss of life.

— The Island of Guam has been detached from the Asiatic squadron, and made an independent naval station.

— The cable department of the Western Union Telegraph Company refuses to send private messages to or from Colombia.

— In the year 1899 Minneapolis, Minn., manufactured 14,280,000 barrels of flour, or 60,000 more than during any previous year.

— Prince Albert, of Belgium, heir presumptive to the throne, was recently married, in Munich, to the Duchess Elizabeth, of Bavaria.

— The British army headquarters which were maintained for fourteen months at New Orleans, La., have been closed, having paid about $10,000,000 for horses, mules, and supplies shipped to South Africa.

— The National Steel Company, of New York, is to fill an order for 10,000 tons of steel rails for New Zealand. The shipment will be made by a train of forty cars, over the Lake Shore, from Youngstown, Ohio, where the rail mill is situated.