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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, April 28, 1885

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 62, No. 17

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News of the Week.

FOR WEEK ENDING APRIL 25.

DOMESTIC.

—There are 64,000 lawyers in this country.

—Sullivan, Ind., was visited with a $50,000 fire Sunday morning.

—Runners from Riel are among the Indians in Montana, advising them to join the Canadian insurgents.

—By an explosion of gas in a colliery near Pittston, Pa., Wednesday morning, a number of men were burned.

—Fire Saturday night destroyed the Niles, Ohio, Falcon Iron and Nail Works. Loss, $60,000; insurance, $40,000.

—The cotton mills at Wilmington, N. C., will shut down for sixty days owing to the depression in the trade.

—The President says that each member of his Cabinet accepted his position for four years.

—In the best wheat districts of Missouri, winter wheat fields are being plowed up preparatory to planting them to corn.

—Two hundred Mormon converts from England and Scotland, en route for Utah, reached New York Wednesday.

—Frosts have killed the entire wheat crop along the lake shore in Pennsylvania, and farmers are plowing the land for other crops.

—Two cyclones swept over the section near Sterling, Kan., Tuesday morning, demolishing or partly wrecking a number of houses and barns, but no lives were lost.

—A business building at Clinton, Ill., collapsed Sunday evening, destroying the stock and machinery of three firms, the loss approximating $15,000.

—Professor Bickmore says that lobsters are liable to become extinct within a few years. They are now taken from the very deepest water.

—To make a test case, the catcher of the Cleveland Club has been arrested for playing ball last Sunday, and the law and order people will make a vigorous prosecution.

—In Suffolk county, New York, over 5,000 acres of timber were burned Monday. The loss was estimated at $35,000.

—In Buffalo a piano was stolen from one of the churches Monday, and one night recently in Massachusetts a church and all in it were hauled off.

—The revision of the Old Testament has been completed, and the new version will be issued simultaneously in London, New York, and Philadelphia May 21.

—As an evidence of prosperity in South Carolina, the Charleston News mentions that there are thirteen lines of important railroads now in process of construction in that State.

—The mills at Minneapolis turned out 129,000 barrels of flour last week, against 132,200 the previous week. Prices fluctuate, but sales remain satisfactory, and well sustained values are expected.

—At Wheaton, Ill., Wednesday morning fire broke out in the hardware store of J. P. Bauer through a leak of gasoline, and before it was subdued eleven buildings were destroyed, inflicting a loss estimated at $50,000.

—The Pullman Palace Car Shops at Philadelphia burned Wednesday morning, creating heavy loss. Cars, worth $105,000, and machinery valued at $6,000 were destroyed.

—Forest fires in Camden, Atlantic, and Gloucester counties, New Jersey, have burned cranberry marshes, destroyed coke and cord-wood in large quantities, and reduced to ashes acres of cedar trees and other timber.

—Business failures for the week number 198, against 196 last week and 184 in the corresponding period of 1883. More than two-thirds of the failures are furnished by Southern, Western, and Pacific States.

—Margaret Coleman died, recently at Bement, Ill., fasted forty-five days, and for five days preceding death refrained from taking water. She had been afflicted with paralysis, but the cause of her wonderful abstinence is unknown.

—Owing to the prevalence of pleuro-pneumonia, cattle in Calloway and adjacent counties in Missouri, railways have agreed to refuse cattle shipments from points unless accompanied by a bill of health from a government inspector.

—The New York Senate has undertaken the job of regulating the skating rink. It has passed a law prohibiting the sale of liquors in these places, or the attendance of children under 16 during school hours and after 9 unless the parents accompany them.

—A waterspout Tuesday caused a sudden and unprecedented rise in the river at Kingman, Kan., several boats, with their screaming occupants, being swept away. Two women and one man are known to have perished, and it is feared that many children have been drowned.

—Health officers from sea-board cities held a conference Friday at New York, and decided upon the establishment of rigid rules to prevent the introduction of cholera. Cargoes will be closely quarantined until they are boiled or steamed, the sulphur process being considered sure.

—Among the settlers on the Dakota lands opened by President Arthur and closed by his successor, great excitement prevails. Meetings are being held, societies organized, funds secured to test the validity of the government's position in the courts. In the whole district in dispute it is claimed there are but 900 Indians, while the number of settlers is placed at 6,000.

FOREIGN.

—General Komaroff's name is said to mean “some mosquito.”

—The fast steamship Alaska, of the Guion Line, has been chartered by the British government and will be fitted for cruising purposes in case war is declared.

—The London Daily News, in its issue of April 20, believes the government has decided upon the immediate recall of General Graham's force from the Soudan.

—The French press unanimously insist that the government shall continue in its demand upon Egypt for full satisfaction for the suppression of the French newspaper Bosphore Egyptien, at Cairo.

—It is reported that there has been severe fighting recently in Western Tonquin between the French and Chinese troops. The Chinese claim to have been victorious, and admit that they suffered heavy losses.

—Near Batoche, Friday, the right column of Middleton's command engaged the rebels, the battle lasting all day. Canadians losing half a dozen killed, and a large number wounded. The loss of the rebels, who fought in Indian fashion, partially concealed in a ravine, is not known.

—A dispatch from Berlin to the London Standard says that Germany is preparing a series of enormous enterprises, the magnitude of which will surprise the world. The acquisition of the kingdom of Zanzibar by Germany, the dispatch says, is certain to be accomplished soon.

—It is estimated that there are 200,000,000 Mohammedans in the world, of whom 6,000,000 are in South-eastern Europe, 20,000,000 in Asiatic Turkey, 7,500,000 in Persia, 25,000,000 in Arabia and Central Asia, and 60,000,000 in Hindostan. Considerably more than half of all are in Asia, and the remainder in Africa, except the 6,000,000 in European Turkey.

—A recent dispatch from Cairo to the London Standard states that fears are entertained there of grave results from the peremptory demand of France for the opening of the Bosphore Egyptien newspaper office, and the punishment of the police and other officials who violated the publisher's right of domicile by invading his premises and forcibly suppressing the paper.

—The war cloud in the East is growing darker. It was announced Friday that the French government, owing to the Bosphore-Egyptien difficulty, had suspended all diplomatic relations with Egypt, causing great excitement at Cairo and Alexandria. England and Russia continue their preparations for war with unabated vigor. The recent action of France is thought to furnish strong evidence that she is concerting with Russia against England.

—Couriers from Fort Pitt report that Riel's forces captured the place and burned the houses, killing two persons. The troopers and settlers, numbering nearly 100, left five days ago for Battleford, but no trace of them has been found, and it is feared that they have been massacred.

Riel's men are suffering for want of provisions and the bad condition of the roads impedes their progress. Battleford is again threatened, and Otter's command is making a forced march in that direction, but cannot get there sooner than next Monday, while an attack is expected on Saturday.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

The National Reform Association met in annual convention Tuesday at Pittsburg, and will be in session several days.

The clergy of Portland, Me., have done an excellent thing in making an earnest request to the local press of the city to suppress the details of criminal reports.

Leading Toronto dailies are in trouble. During the tremendous excitement consequent upon the first news of the North-west rebellion they published Sunday editions, and are now in the toils of the law.

Chinamen were lately baptized into the Trinity Church of New York City, making twelve who have been baptized by the pastor, Dr. Simmons. There are two Chinese missions in New York and Brooklyn.

The Vatican is making preparations to hold next general council to consider a programme for the administration of the Catholic church. The pope has formulated the programme.

Missionaries in far-off countries, like Burmah, say that a deal of infidel literature is being distributed among natives, especially among teachers. Bundles of documents, including Ingersoll's lectures, in the native tongues, are sent into towns and villages for free circulation. It is interesting to know what man or society is so anxious to spread unbelief as to give money for this purpose. In this country, infidel lectures are a source of amusement, and shallow-minded youth are their patrons, and we know that there is nothing that is unselfish in infidelity.