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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 18, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 38.

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NEWS AND NOTES

— Greater New York claims a population of 3,437,202.

— Ships of the British Channel squadron are using American coal.

— Forest fires have been sweeping over vast areas of the State of Maine.

— Lord Ampthill has succeeded Sir Arthur Havelock as governor of Madras.

— The municipal expenses of New York City next year will amount to $100,000,000.

— Orders have been cabled to General Chaffee to prepare his forces for withdrawal from Peking, China.

— Two high officials and 118 others were recently arrested for conspiracy against the life of the Turkish sultan.

— By the consolidation of twenty-two laundries in Chicago, with a capitalization of $2,000,000, prices are advanced.

— The steamer “China” recently sailed from San Francisco with $1,500,000 on board, for the United States troops in China.

— Russia has laid a cable from Port Arthur, China, to Chee Foo, thus securing through connection, on the overland wire, with China.

— Since the assassination of the late king of Italy, travelers in Germany are required to have passports, police regulations as to identification being very strict.

— Chung Li, military commandant of Peking, is under arrest, being held responsible for the death of Baron von Ketteler, the late German ambassador to China.

— United States Minister Conger has written that, “without the aid of the missionaries, the defense of the legations at Peking, China, would have been impossible.”

— Gen. S. L. Woodford, former United States minister to Spain, is engaged to Miss Isabel Hanson, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who was his private secretary while he was in Madrid.

— It is thought that, within two years, Michigan will be in a position to supply the entire demand of the United States for Portland cement, the Michigan product being equal to the best imported.

— A message from Tromsoe, Norway, reports the return of the vessel “Stella Polare,” with the duke of Abruzzi’s Arctic expedition, which reached a point in latitude 86° 33′ north, the highest point yet reached.

— It is reported that the Rothschilds’ house, the Credit Lyonnais, and the Banque de France et des Pays Bas have underwritten the Russian four-per-cent 500,000,000-franc loan, to be emitted at ninety-five per cent, with two-per-cent commission. The loan is secured by a mortgage on proposed new railways.

— It is said that “French medical men have, to a considerable extent, lately abandoned the use of tobacco. American physicians attending the Paris congress, intimate that the government monopoly in tobacco has done much to bring this about. The cigars of the ‘Regie,’ that is, those made at the government manufactory, are so bad, they say, and the tax on all other brands so prohibitive, that the thing to do in France is not to smoke at all.”

— William Kilsby, a London chemist, claims to have discovered that diphtheria and other contagious diseases can be cured by inhaling the fumes of nitric acid. He relates the cure of a virulent case of diphtheria in his own family. In order that the medical profession might enjoy the benefits of his discovery, Kilsby wrote to the Royal College of Physicians, stating that he had found an absolute cure for infectious diseases, and, by way of reply, received the intimation that the college did not deal in secret remedies.

— An English paper, the Christian, speaking of the temperance subject, says: “The Russian government has taken the drastic step of suppressing the publican, and has undertaken the production and sale of drink. The change has resulted in a large increase in the public revenue, although that was not the object in view, but rather the regulation and limitation of a traffic which, in Russia, as in every other country, is found to be productive of national evils. . . . At the same time the government has subsidized the temperance societies with a sum of 180,000 pounds. Shall we ever have an administration in England bold enough on the side of righteousness to deal as courageously with the dread traffic in these islands?”

— The wharf at Dyea, Alaska, recently burned, with 30,000 feet of lumber.

— The United States cotton crop this year will be short, as compared with last season.

— Ex-President Cleveland has declined to act on the International Arbitration Committee.

— The will of the late Dr. McGlynn leaves all his property to the Anti-Poverty Society.

— General Otis has succeeded General Wheeler, in command of the Department of the Lakes.

— Prince Eui Wha, heir apparent to the throne of Korea, will enter college at Washington, D. C.

— Because of war between rival companies, Chicago gas now costs but forty cents a thousand feet.

— A Philadelphia firm has secured the contract for $100,000 worth of wool underwear for American soldiers.

— The new power house for the street railways of Sydney, Australia, will be equipped by American manufacturers.

— The leading manufacturers of fire-extinguishing apparatus have formed a trust, with a capitalization of $9,000,000.

— Good rains have fallen in all the Indian famine districts, and the number now receiving relief is reported to be less than 4,000,000.

— Railroad trains were stopped nearly two hours, September 11, between Grand Junction and Glenwood Springs, Colo., by herds of deer on their way south.

— It is reported that “blacks in the interior of New South Wales, Australia, have risen against the whites, massacring the settlers, and burning their homes.”

— Last year the Carnegie Steel Company made ten per cent of all the steel produced in the world, and twenty-six per cent of the output in the United States.

— The board of United States army officers recently appointed, recommend three islands near the coast of Cebu, for the use of the leper colony in the Philippines.

— A fourteen-year-old girl recently swam from Fort Hamilton across The Narrows, New York Bay, to St. George, Staten Island, in two hours and five minutes.

— Tora, the Japanese wife of Sir Edwin Arnold, has become one of the most popular hostesses in London. She speaks English fluently, with only a slight accent.

— The Japanese government has intimated that, in the event of the partition of China, it has selected the province of Fohkien and the treaty port of Amoy as its portion.

— The Hamburg-American liner “Deutschland” recently made a record passage from Sandy Hook to Plymouth, England, in five days, seven hours, and thirty-eight minutes.

— The reindeers sent by the United States government from Lapland to the Klondike, have become thoroughly acclimated, and are growing rapidly. The herd now numbers nearly 3,000.

— It is reported from Australia that gold has been discovered on the 21,000 acres of land given the Salvation Army by the government of Western Australia. This land is on the Collie River.

— For refusing to permit the recitation of a prayer for the late King Humbert, of Italy, the bishop of Andria was almost mobbed in Naples, and had to be escorted out of the city by the police.

— Mr. John Brisben Walker, editor of the Cosmopolitan, ascended 11,000 feet of Pike’s Peak, Colo., in his automobile, Wednesday, September 12. This is the highest point ever reached by an automobile.

— Lord Roberts is expected to reach London by November 1, to take up his duties as commander-in-chief of the British army. At that time Sir Redvers Buller will be given command of all troops in South Africa.

— The cotton spinners of Manchester, England, have decided not to purchase American spot cotton during the month of September. This decision may lead to the closing of scores of cotton mills in this country, for several weeks.

— Advices from Virginia say that the “Jim Crow” law in that State “was first enforced against the Pamunkey Indians. They protested, and now the authorities yield this point, and allow them to ride with the whites.”

— The French paper, Le Journal Des Débats, for August 16, states that “in the list of grand prizes awarded at the Paris Exposition by the jury for class 1, devoted to works of teaching and of education, we find two whose similarity are particularly suggestive. We see, side by side, the same awards to the public schools of London and to those of the South African Republic, or the Transvaal.”

— After a long period of inaction, twenty-five mud volcanoes in Mendocino County, Cal., have begun spouting black mud.

— Prince Maximilian, of Saxony, has accepted the professorship of canonical law at the University of Freiburg, Switzerland.

— Thomas A. Edison’s latest invention, almost perfected, is designed to generate electricity without the use of engines and dynamos.

— Over twenty new cotton mills are in process of construction in Georgia. At this rate of growth, the Southern States will soon be able to fix the price of cotton.

— The Kelly Ax Manufacturing Company’s plant at Alexandria, Ind., was burned August 21, the loss being $800,000. The company employed 1,000 men when running a full force.

— The population of Baltimore, Md., is given as 508,957; of Denver, Colo., 133,859; Wilmington, Del., as 76,508; Paterson, N. J., as 105,171; San Francisco, Cal., as 342,782; Boston, Mass., as 560,892.

— A dispatch from Cape Town, South Africa, says that “the siege of Ladybrand has been raised, after several desperate attempts to capture the town and its little garrison of 150 British troops.” The Boers who attacked the place numbered over 2,000.

— There are to-day, in the United States, twelve political parties, each having nominated candidates for president and vice-president. The names of the parties are as follows: Socialist Labor, Social Democracy, United Christian, People’s Party, Middle of the Road, De Leon Socialist, Republican, Prohibition, Democratic, Silver Republicans, National Party, and the Union Reform Party.

— A London dispatch dated September 6, says that “General Buller’s column has been fighting continuously since August 21, and now finds its progress blocked by Botha among the Leydenburg Mountains, in a position which is described as stronger than Vaal Krantz or Laing’s Nek. . . . Lord Roberts hopes to turn them out by a flank movement. . . . This will be the last stand of the Transvaal Boers, who will not retreat farther northward, owing to the hostility of the natives.”