News and Notes by A. J. B.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 29, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 44.

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News and Notes

By A. J. B.

Leading Events of Week: Oct. 13–19.

—Turkey warns Greece not to make “any attempt to secure the independence of Crete.”

—The steamer “Alebar” was nearly swamped by a waterspout near South Haven, Mich., the 22d inst.

—A Chinese dispatch of the 21st inst. states that the son of Prince Tuan is “soon to be deposed as heir to China’s throne,” and that a Boxer leader will succeed him.

—A Balltown, La., mob burned William Morris, a negro, at the stake, the 24th inst. He was accused of assaulting a white woman after having robbed her husband’s store.

—It is reported, under date of the 25th, that J. Pierpont Morgan is paying $45,000, or the entire expense of the installation of an electric light system in St. Paul’s Cathedral, London.

—It is learned from a London dispatch of the 24th, that “Chile has occupied the disputed territory in the Cordilleras without waiting for Great Britain’s award.” A serious break with Argentina may result.

—Joseph Chamberlain declared in a speech at Edinburgh, the 25th inst., that the government would be obliged to make “new rules for the House of Commons, to prevent obstruction of business by the Irish members.”

—On the 22d inst. the Chicago Tribune received the following dispatch from Manila: “It is not likely that the troops will take any more prisoners, as the war against the treacherous natives will be carried on without asking for or giving quarter.”

—The French parliament reassembled the 22d, “under circumstances which imperiled the continuance in power of the Waldeck-Rousseau ministry.” The Socialists withdrew their support, but there were enough conservative accessions to sustain the ministry by a majority of sixty-six.

—From Barcelona, Spain, comes the news, dated the 24th, that “the anarchist propaganda in favor of a general strike is proving fruitful in Spain. Leading anarchists assert that committees throughout the world, representing 8,000,000 workers, are only awaiting the signal to inaugurate the universal strike proposed by the German workmen and approved by the American and European committees.”

—Botha again outwits the British, securing a better position.

—The Borden Mills, Fall River, Mass., advanced wages five per cent the 22d inst.

—Bloomfield, N. J., schools were closed the 22d inst., because of an epidemic of diphtheria.

—On the 21st inst. the Pittsburg, Pa., post-office was robbed of $2,000 in stamps and $500 in money.

—On the 22d inst. the French Chamber of Deputies defeated the bill “to fix minimum wage scale for miners.”

—On the 23d inst. a statue to Gladstone was unveiled at Manchester, England, John Morley making the address.

—Postage stamps to the value of $74,610 were taken from the vaults of the Chicago Post-office Sunday, the 20th inst.

—Three hundred sophomores and freshmen of Armour Institute, Chicago, fought all day the 24th “over class pennants.”

—Colombia insurgents were defeated by government troops in a battle near Bogota, the 23d inst., 100 rebels being killed.

—The walls of an elevator at Manitowoc, Wis., gave way the 22d inst., allowing 30,000 bushels of corn to go into the river.

—A dispatch from Buffalo, N. Y., dated the 23d, states that the Pan-American Exposition “probably will default in the sum of $4,100,000.”

—The night of the 23d, a fire at Hammond, Ind., destroyed the Hammond Packing Company’s plant. Loss, $900,000. The building covered three acres.

—On the 23d inst. President Roosevelt, while driving near Farmington, Conn., “jumped a fence and helped a farmer round up some refractory cattle.”

—Eighteen lives were lost in the Philadelphia fire, which on the 25th destroyed the nine-story building occupied by Hunt, Wilkinson & Co., furniture dealers.

—On the 21st inst. M. Santos-Dumont made his balloon trip around the Eiffel tower, Paris, France, and to St. Cloud, on time, and was given an ovation by Parisians.

—The Pan-American Congress was formally opened on the 22d, in the City of Mexico. It is composed of “delegates from every country of North, Central, and South America.”

—It is stated, under date of the 23d, that in a recent letter to a friend, General Chaffee “declared it would be necessary to keep a large force in the Philippines for twenty-five years.”

—An express messenger on a Southern Pacific train near Eugene, Ore., prevented the looting of his car by robbers the 23d inst., fighting the hold-up men off with a revolver, after the car had been blown open.

—A dispatch from Constantinople, dated the 24th, states that “the missionaries who are operating from Samakov, Bulgaria, are at last in touch with the brigands who abducted Miss Ellen M. Stone and her companion, Mme. K. S. Tsilka.”

—A message from Vienna, dated the 24th, states that “the Neues Wiener Tageblatt reports a serious inundation at Broussa, near the Sea of Marmora. The water rose with terrible suddenness in the night time, eighty persons being drowned, and 776 houses destroyed.”

—In opening the new Servian parliament on the 20th inst., King Alexander pledged himself to “uphold the new constitution, expressed gratification at the correct and friendly relations maintained by Servia with foreign states.” He also emphasized Servia’s “traditional policy of securing the friendship and confidence of Russia.”

—From Willemstad, Curaçao, under date of the 20th, comes the news that “the sum of $8,000 became due this month to the United States from Venezuela, on account of mixed American claims, and it has not been paid. The claims arose out of damages sustained during the revolutions of 1892. Venezuela agreed to pay $32,000 per year in quarterly payments,” and this is the first time she has failed to pay.

—On the 22d inst., Rear-Admiral Rodgers sent the following dispatch from Cavite: “Active insurrection in Samar. ‘New York’ leaves to-day for Catbalogan with 300 marines, to return to Basey and Balangiga to co-operate with the army. Nearly all naval force concentrated on Samar patrol. Services ‘Arethusa’ and ‘Zafiro,’ two colliers, needed and being utilized.” Evidently the Samar insurrection is no insignificant thing.

—The date definitely set for the electrocution of Czolgosz is Tuesday, the 29th.

—An unknown man attempted to blow up the residence of Ermand Shultz, near Laporte, Ind., the 25th.

—Thieves who robbed the house of D. C. Stover, Freeport, Ill., the 21st, threw away securities worth $250,000.

—General French is appointed to succeed General Buller as commander of the First Army Corps of the British army.

—Lord Curzon is recovering from his attack of spinal neuralgia, and starts November 4 on a tour of Assam and Burmah.

—On the 20th inst. was begun the celebration at New Haven, Conn., of the 200th anniversary of the founding of Yale University.

—Dispatches of the 20th announce the discovery of new plots, in the island of Samar, Philippines, to massacre American garrisons.

—M. Santos-Dumont states he may attempt to cross the Atlantic in an air-ship in 1902. He will doubtless keep putting it off a year.

—Charles Treys, of Jacksonville, Ill., is appointed “orderly to the governor” the 23d instant, and will be required to “protect the governor from cranks.”

—On the 22d the general convention of Universalists, assembled at Buffalo, N. Y., elected Hon. W. D. Washburn, of Minnesota, as president.

—The German Industrial Union held a meeting at Berlin the 21st inst., and “indorsed the proposed European trade alliance against the United States.”

—On the 24th two attempts at smuggling, by passengers of the steamship “Deutschland,” were laid bare by New York customhouse officials. Diamonds were found hidden in apples.

—Twenty-four passengers were seriously injured the 24th, in a wreck on the Kansas City line of the Chicago, Burlington, and Kansas City Railroad, near Exline, Iowa. Wreck caused by a loose rail.

—Sunday, the 20th, four Chicago preachers took for their text the entertaining of Booker T. Washington, the colored leader, at the White House, all approving President Roosevelt’s action in the matter.

—A meeting was held in Havana, Cuba, the 22d inst., which had for its object the annexation of that island to the United States. It is said that planters, manufacturers, and business men favor it. Of course!

—At Detroit, Mich., the 24th inst., Alexander Winton, of Cleveland, Ohio, broke all automobile records for one to ten miles. One mile was made in one minute, six and two-fifths seconds, and ten miles in eleven minutes and nine seconds.

—A London dispatch of the 21st inst. states that “the British cruiser ‘Pylades’ reports that it has annexed Ocean Island, west of the Gilbert Islands. The island, which has hitherto been a British protectorate, is rich in phosphates.”

—It is stated that Holland will, so far as possible, refuse to purchase British goods. For instance, “a coal merchant recently cancelled an order in Great Britain, and negotiated for 850,000 tons in the United States, to be delivered before January, 1902.”

—An exchange states that on the 22d inst., “in order that his destitute wife and children might be provided for, Joseph Pabst, of Wichita, Kan., an escaped convict, for whose capture a reward of fifty dollars was offered, caused a friend to deliver him to the authorities and collect the reward for Pabst’s family. Pabst was returned to the penitentiary.”

—The British general, Sir Redvers Buller, was, on the 22d, “degraded by removal from the command of the First Army Corps. He is retired permanently on half pay for having admitted in a luncheon speech on the 10th that in the Natal campaign he advised the abandonment of Ladysmith after having failed in his effort to relieve it by attacking Colenso.” Buller says he gave this advice “to justify the commander at Ladysmith, his subordinate, in the event of the latter’s deciding to withdraw.”

—Mrs. Anna E. Taylor celebrated her forty-third birthday the 24th inst., by purposely going over the Niagara Falls (Horse Shoe Fall) in a barrel. With the exception of a few bruises, she came out physically uninjured. An anvil was fastened to the bottom of the barrel. Mrs. Taylor entered the barrel at Grass Island at 3:50 P. M., said good-by to her attendants at 4:05, plunged over the Horseshoe Fall at 4:23, and was rescued at 4:40, the barrel being half full of water. Many other foolish persons will now doubtless attempt to make the trip in like manner.

A. J. B.