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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, May 12, 1885

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 19

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News of the Week.

FOR WEEK ENDING MAY 9.

DOMESTIC.

—The Detroit City Council propose to pass an ordinance closing barber shops on Sunday.

—The Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmira, N. Y., recently preached in favor of cremation.

—Cornell University claims the best arranged collection of shells in the world. It cost $16,000.

—The cold wave throughout the West has injured fruit and vegetables to a considerable extent.

—Secretary Manning has directed that the issue of $1 and $2 notes be discontinued for the present.

—The coal miners of the Tuscarawas and Connotton Valleys, to the number of 6,000, struck Saturday.

—From Jan. 1 to May 1, this year, 365,678 barrels of wheat flour were manufactured at Milwaukee.

—General Grant has sufficiently improved to resume work on his book by dictating to an amanuensis.

—The Bartholdi statue, which is composed of more than 200 pieces, is expected to reach New York this month.

—General Sheridan expects to leave Washington in a few days for an inspection tour of the military posts of the West.

—President Gilman, of Johns Hopkins University, favors a uniform system in the conferring of degrees by American colleges.

—A machine has been invented for pulling teeth by electricity. In a recent test seven teeth were pulled with it in five seconds.

—At Stevens’ Point, Wis., Sunday morning, 5,000,000 feet of choice grade lumber belonging to Herren & Wadleigh was destroyed by fire.

—Business failures in the United States for the week number 197, against 167 last week, and 132 in the corresponding period of 1884.

—By the tenement-house fire in First avenue, New York, early Sunday morning, eight persons lost their lives, and fourteen were more or less injured.

—Sunday morning the boilers at the Tremont House, Galveston, Texas, exploded with terrible effect, several persons being killed and many injured.

—The Sea View, Atlantic, and Ocean Houses at Hampton Beach, N. H., with several cottages, were burned early Thursday morning, the loss reaching $100,000.

—The Lanesboro Hotel, at Lanesboro, Minn., was destroyed by fire Sunday morning. The building and furniture cost upward of $50,000; insurance, $7,000.

—A disease, symptoms of which are severe coughing, choking, and bleeding at the nose, is killing off horses rapidly in the southern portion of Shelby county, Illinois.

—The situation at Plymouth, Pa., shows little improvement. Nearly a hundred families are now needy. The relief committee is doing all in its power to aid the destitute.

—The entire business portion of Cabery, twenty-four miles from Kankakee, Ill., was destroyed by fire Sunday morning. The loss will aggregate $90,000 to $100,000.

—Professor Waffle, of the Lewisburg University, received the prize of $1,000, offered by the American Sunday-School Union for the best essay on “The Lord’s Day of Rest.”

—Wainwright’s brewery in Pittsburg, Pa., caved in with a heavy crash at 3 o’clock Sunday morning. The structure, four stories, is an entire wreck, together with 10,000 barrels of beer stored in the building. The loss is estimated at $100,000.

—J. B. Martin’s pork-house at Macon, Ill., was burned Wednesday morning, the loss reaching $50,000. Half a block of buildings at Jamestown, D. T., were swept away, with a loss of $25,000.

—The Salt Lake Herald, the Mormon organ, urges the polygamists to demand of President Cleveland the removal of Chief Justice Zane, of Utah, and appoint a man in his place who will render decisions more in accordance with the Mormon faith.

—On the arrival of the militia sent to quell the riot at Lemont, Illinois, Monday morning, they were met by an excited mob, headed by the city marshal, who resisted their advance, and were repulsed, with the loss of one killed and three wounded.

—The winter wheat acreage in Kansas this year, officially reported, was 73 per cent of last year’s area, 27 per cent of the crop sown being killed. This leaves only 1,145,000 acres, the product from which is expected to reach but 52 per cent of last season’s yield.

—Reports of the condition of winter and spring wheat received by Mr. S. W. Talmadge, the statistician, show no improvement whatever, Michigan being the only State that will probably raise an average crop. The deduction is made that the loss in winter wheat States will be the greatest on record.

—In Brooklyn, Tuesday morning, the wall of one of a series of connected buildings used as manufactories collapsed, having been screwed unevenly by jacks, overturning soap-boilers on the second floor and crushing in frame residences adjoining, the embers from the cook-stoves causing a general conflagration. The disaster was rendered complete by the explosion of four boilers. Three bodies, burned beyond recognition, have been recovered, and twenty-six persons are missing, seven of whom are girls. A score or more were injured, a few of them fatally.

FOREIGN.

—There are 10,000 policemen in London.

—President Barrillos, the successor of Barrios as the head of Guatemalan Republic, is 45 years old, and has been in public life for twenty years.

—Telegrams from Qu’Appelle to Winnipeg, May 6, stated that the File Hill Indians had left the reserve and were pillaging houses and scaring settlers. The Indians will likely march and join Poundmaker.

—In Poundmaker’s reserve Tuesday, Colonel Otter’s command engaged the Indians, the fight lasting seven hours. The Canadians lost eight killed and twelve wounded, and the Indian loss is placed at fifty.

—Gen. Wolseley, in a review of the camel corps, May 8, urged the men to perfect themselves in their novel duties, as they would be wanted on the Nile in the autumn. The speech is significant, as indicating the General is not in favor of the government’s policy of abandoning Suakim.

—The scientific expedition of the French Geographical Society to Cape Horn, with the cordial assent of the French government, deeply impressed with the good work done by the English missionaries in reclaiming Terra del Fuego in South America from barbarism, have presented them with the buildings they had erected for their observations.

—Maxwell, the alleged murderer of Preller at St. Louis, was arrested Tuesday at Auckland, New Zealand, upon the arrival of the steamer in which he sailed from San Francisco. An officer from St. Louis will be sent after him, and Secretary Bayard and the British Minister at Washington will be urged to take measures to prevent the release of Maxwell on a technicality.

—The Suez Canal Commission has exempted Egypt and Turkey from compliance with the clause which interdicts all acts of hostility in the canal and forbids the landing of troops upon its banks. The exempted powers are, however, forbidden to land troops along the canal unless it is necessary for the defense of Egypt. Several powers made certain reservations.

—At Odessa, a peasant, belonging to the Bible reading sect of the Stundists, has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment on a charge of blasphemy in preaching against the image worship of the Russian church. He denied, however, the use of the words imputed to him. He was defended by a Jewish advocate, though Russian law forbids Jews to hold briefs in such cases.

—It is reported that the Mahdi’s forces have suffered fresh defeats at the hands of the insurgents in Kordofan, aided by the garrison at Senaar. The remnant of the Mahdi’s forces has retreated, according to these reports, to Abu-Haraz. The Mahdi himself is at Omdurman near Khartoum, but he has only a few troops with him and is unable to send re-enforcements against the insurgents.

—The mortal remains of Beethoven and Schubert will be transferred this spring from their present resting-place to the new Central Cemetery in Vienna. It is a melancholy fact that the remains of Mozart have been mislaid, and there is no sign to indicate where he was interred. It was to avoid such a contingency that Wagner prepared his own tomb in advance, and had it inscribed with the solitary words, “Richard Wagner.”

—The number of periodicals of all sorts published in the Czar’s empire, from the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Northern Sea down to Turkey and Persia, only equals the number published in New York City alone; viz., 625, and is but little more than twice those issued in Philadelphia. For 50,000,000 population in the United States there are 12,600 periodicals; while for the 101,000,000 in Russia there are 625, of which only 53 are dailies. The whole of Siberia, with its 4,000,000 souls, has only two newspapers and a bi-monthly of a geographical society; and the city of Kharkoff, with 126,000 inhabitants and a University, has only two dailies and two monthlies. While it takes only 4,000 persons in America to support a periodical, more than forty times that number of his Majesty’s subjects are requisite to keep alive a Russian publication.

—As a commercial power, Russia has undertaken nothing more important in recent years than the construction of a line of railway the purpose of which is to open communication with India. The road now in process of building promises, if nothing interferes to prevent its completion, to be the most direct and available highway of travel between Western Europe and India, and will be of advantage to England in a manner scarcely less direct than to Russia. The starting point of this railway is a small and comparatively new town, Krasnovodsk, situated on the east shore of the Caspian, about twenty hours’ sail from the famous oil well of Baku. The road, which is completed beyond Askabad, and which will go through Sarakhs, Herat, and Candahar, will, as proposed, connect with the Indian railway at Quetta, which will soon be in working order, so that it will require but about 600 miles of Russian railway to establish the very important connection.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

—The New York Advocate claims that the Methodist church has had 40,000 persons added to its membership in the past three months.

—The revised Old Testament will not be issued to the public until May 19. The books for this country will be shipped from London immediately.

—Two confessional boxes have been placed in the Episcopal church of St. Mary the Virgin. St. Ignatius’ church is still a step in advance, in restoring the ritualism expunged from the service at the time of severance from the Roman Catholic church, having practiced the elevation of the Host since Father Ritchie assumed the rectorship.