Eldred.—Circumstances made it necessary for me to close my meetings in Eldred, although not half the work is done. Yet I have the satisfaction of seeing one good family begin the observance of the Sabbath; and others I believe would have done so. We praise the Lord for His goodness.
Woodburn.—One of our families from Jerseyville has moved to Woodburn, and I was requested to visit them. Here I met Brother Penniman, one of the oldest members of the State, who is now much advanced in years, but who spent the best of his days in the service of God. Our meetings at Woodburn were not much attended by those not of our faith; but they were spicy and full of interest.
Jerseyville.—The quarterly meeting at Jerseyville was one of the best that has yet been held. About fifteen were present to take part, and nearly as many letters were read from absent members. The actual number now residing in Jerseyville is not more than twelve; but the turbulent elements are gone, and all who now remain are in union and fellowship. Two were baptized, and two others made application for membership by letter. J. P. Henderson.
Mulkeytown.—It has been a few days over a month since I began to labor at this place. The attendance has been good. I have been presenting the Sabbath and the law for over a week. Several have acknowledged the truth in words, but not in their actions. I am not looking for great results, and do not regard the effort a failure by any means. Have sold quite a number of Bibles and books, and loaned and given away many tracts, which I hope will yield fruit by and by. C. L. Taggart.
Golden Gate.—I began a series of tent-meetings the 16th of June, about three and one-half miles south of Golden Gate. From the first, the attendance has been fairly good, although the farmers were busy harvesting their wheat. During the week the attendance has been made up largely of young people. The tent is far too small to accommodate those who attend on Sabbath and Sunday evenings. Associated with me are three young men who are doing all they can in disposing of our literature and assisting in the meetings. F. W. Wheeler.
Mt. Erie.—Our meetings here are still continuing, with attendance and interest unabated. We have now held thirty-one public meetings, besides visiting and reading with people at their homes, and have distributed many tracts and papers. Have just presented the specially testing truths of the message, and the people seem interested. Some have taken a decided stand on the Lord’s side. Just how many are decided we cannot tell, but we believe that before the meeting closes, a little company will be developed to hold aloft the torch of truth in this place. C. H. Thompson.
Harvey.—Our tent-meetings at this place opened Friday evening, June 28. The first week the extremely hot weather and heavy rains interfered somewhat with the progress of our services. Within the last few evenings, however, the interest and attendance have materially increased. A good spirit is manifested by the people. Our own people of Harvey and of 71st St., Chicago, manifest a deep interest in the meetings. By this means interested persons from other places are influenced to come and hear. Several of Mrs. Anderson’s Bible readers, seven of whom had already decided before the meetings opened, are attending regularly, and show much interest. C. H. Bliss, J. N. Anderson.
Galesburg.—We held our regular quarterly meeting, July 6. It was a precious experience for us all. Five new members were added to our little company. One of them had a most severe test at the time. Her husband had followed her to the church, and after she had come forward to be received into the church, he walked up to her and said, in a loud, angry voice, “Do you intend to join this church?” She said, firmly, “I do,” to which he replied, “Then you and I drop right here. I want you to understand if you join this church, I’m done with you forever.” She was so overcome that she sat down and cried like a child; but she would not yield, and after she had been questioned, and voted into the church, her husband, who had sat there watching her all the time, was so overcome that, with tears running down his face, he suddenly sprang up, and breaking right into the service, said that he saw he had done wrong, and was sorry for it, and that he wanted his wife to go right on. And as he asked her forgiveness, “Praise the Lord!” broke involuntarily from the lips of nearly every one present, and I’m sure there must have been rejoicing in heaven. Sunday we went out to a small lake, where seven were buried with their Lord in baptism. July 6 our little church was just four and one-half years old, and during all that time there has not been one death among us. The church is steadily growing. Mrs. A. C. Ames.
Pittwood.—At the earnest request of the friends living at Pittwood, I attended the dedication of their new tabernacle, Sabbath and Sunday, July 13 and 14. I was glad to meet with quite a large number of friends living near Pittwood. Representatives were present from Kankakee, Clinton, St. Anne, Martinton, Gissna Park, and Wateska. All enjoyed the meetings, and seemed hungry for the word spoken. On Sabbath afternoon two were baptized, and six united with the church, two by baptism, one by profession of faith, and three by letter. These additions much strengthened and encouraged the church.
Their tabernacle is free from debt, with the exception of a little back on the furnishings, which will be readily paid with a donation that was received the day of the dedication.
The Illinois colporteur, who is elder of the Pittwood church, reports progress in his work. He has visited and traveled over the territory a number of times, and many have become interested. To one well-to-do family he has sold over forty dollars’ worth of our books. Its members are interested in the truth; and when he visits them, one of the first questions they ask is, “Have you any more new books?” He is seldom charged anything for a night’s lodging, and quite a number have said to him, “If we are not at home when you come, put up your horse, and help yourself to anything you can find; it will all be free.” Many regard him as a spiritual father. The work in northeastern Illinois is gaining ground, which is a cause of rejoicing, and is plainly seen by the cheerful testimonies of the brethren and their liberal donations. S. H. Lane.
A. C. Ames is canvassing Galesburg for “Coming King.”
Elder E. A. Curtis and Victor Thompson are now laboring in Streator, and report an encouraging outlook.
G. E. Nord is soliciting orders for “Daniel and the Revelation,” and P. E. Brotherson is working with “Heralds of the Morning.” Both are at Rockford.
The Illinois Recorder is issued each week at Sheridan by the Illinois Conference, the editors being N. W. Kauble and C. H. Castle. Terms, forty cents a year.
Those brethren who are able and willing to work to assist in preparing for the camp-meeting to be held at Kankakee, August 24 to September 1, should write to Brother R. F. Andrews, at Onarga, Ill., at once.
The expense of sending the Sentinel of Liberty to the Illinois legislature during the last session was $28.56. Donations for this purpose, to the amount of $13.95 have been made, leaving a shortage of $14.61. Let those who are interested in this branch of the work send enough to make up the shortage, to the Illinois Recorder, Sheridan.
The Sheridan Industrial School calendar is now printed, and may be had by addressing those in528charge. A letter from Brother Clarence J. Boyd says: “We welcomed two new students the past week. Our family in the home now numbers twenty-two. These, together with outside students, make our class rooms well filled. All are progressing nicely in study and recitations. Our crops are tended. Have just finished a cistern that will hold one hundred and seventy-five barrels.”
The names and addresses of the Illinois Conference officers are as follows: President, R. F. Andrews, Onarga; Secretary, C. H. Castle, Sheridan; Tract Society Treasurer and Secretary, G. A. Wheeler, Sheridan; Sabbath-school President, Hattie E. Kauble, Sheridan; Sabbath-school Secretary, Mrs. L. K. Curtis, 514 James St., Peoria; State Agent, R. B. Craig, 820 Fayette St., Peoria. The Conference Committee consists of R. F. Andrews; N. W. Kauble; E. A. Curtis, of Sheridan; L. D. Santee, 7115 St. Lawrence Ave., Chicago; and L. H. Christian, 1544 N. Artesian Ave., Chicago.
M. L. Sabin is canvassing at Danville, for “Coming King;” Edward Howard, at East St. Louis, for “Ladies’ Guide;” Chas. Hook, at Chicago, for “Christ’s Object Lessons;” David Pritts, at Streator, for “Desire of Ages;” Archer Wright, at Peoria, for “Coming King;” R. B. Craig, at Peoria; James Prince, at Plano; C. A. Nowlen, at Strasburg, for “Daniel and the Revelation;” E. Edwardson, at Rockford, for “Desire of Ages;” J. B. Fletcher, at East St. Louis, for “Ladies’ Guide;” James Olson, at Sheridan, for “Great Controversy;” C. J. J. Holman, at Galva, for “Prophecies of Jesus;” E. Johnson, at Rockford, for “Coming King;” and W. B. Crabtree, at Peoria, for “Great Controversy.”
ATLANTIC CONFERENCE.
New York City.—A church was organized in the Bronx (the northern portion of the city) last summer. For some reason this church decided to take the name “Bronx church of Seventh-day Adventists,” rather than the “Second” church, etc. For this reason the organization recently formed takes as its name the “Second,” instead of the “Third,” church of Seventh-day Adventists.
J. E. Jayne.
Elder J. E. Jayne is President of the Atlantic Conference; C. H. Keslake, Secretary; and S. N. Curtis, Treasurer.
The addresses of the various ministers in the Conference are as follows: J. E. Jayne, Hawthorne, N. J.; H. E. Robinson, 76 Fifth Ave., New York City; E. E. Franke, 250 Spring St., Trenton, N. J.; C. H. Keslake, 181 Albion Ave., Paterson, N. J.; J. C. Stevens, 257 Fairmont Ave., Newark, N. J. The licensed ministers are G. A. King, 1352 Herkimer St., Brooklyn, N. Y.; and A. R. Bell, Newfoundland, N. J.
The offering of the Vineland (N. J.) church for the Christiania publishing house was over thirty-six dollars, there being but twenty members in the church.
The offering from Brooklyn church, No. 1, for the Christiania publishing house, amounted to $159.
NEW YORK.
By L. T. Nicola; F. Peabody
BINGHAMTON.—We began meetings in the tent here the 12th inst. Have had a very good congregation most of the time. Last night (Sunday evening) the seats were filled. Quite an interest is manifested in asking questions and expressing appreciation after the meetings. We feel encouraged, and trust that souls will be brought to accept the light. The Lord is with us. To Him be all the praise.
L. T. NICOLA,
F. PEABODY.
Bureau of Information
The permanent address of Elder Alonzo T. Jones is now 301 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, Cal.
KENTUCKY
By B. Hagle
BENDER.—May 27 I came to Bender; and from the first, the attendance at our services has been good. After considering the prophecies, we took up the Sabbath question, and one by one our hearers accepted the truth. The ministers have preached against us from time to time, then sent off for some of their great men to come and tear down our work. When they failed to give any divine authority, they ridiculed us and our work; but it has only strengthened the ones who have taken hold in earnest. Truly, they can do nothing against the truth. Some of the people have threatened to drive us out of the place, but we have had no fears; for we are protected by the power of God. He is our shield and buckler. We have gone straight forward in the work of preaching the plain truth, laying the sins of formal professors open, and calling the people to take their stand with the true people of God, and the Lord has brought out a company to keep all the commandments of God. We expect soon to organize a church with a membership of twenty or twenty-five. Nearly all have taken part in the work of circulating the Signs of the Times, as we have taken two hundred copies.
It would do some of our old Sabbath-keepers good to meet with this company in our Sabbath and prayer meetings, and hear their earnest petitions for the Lord to send the truth to others. The people here are all poor, as this is a mining town, and work is scarce in the summer. Many have no Bible in their house. I wish some one would send us half a dozen Bibles to give to those who are not able to buy for themselves.
I praise God that it has been my privilege to labor for this people. I have received urgent calls to go to other places, and when I told the company here that I must leave them soon, they said, “We don’t like to give you up; but when we think how glad we are that you came and brought us the truth, we are willing to do what we can here, and let you go and give the truth to those who have not heard it yet, as we desire to hasten the coming of our blessed Master.” “The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few,” pray the Lord of the harvest to send laborers into His harvest. B. HAGLE.
UNAVAILABLE MANUSCRIPTS.
By A. J. B.
The following prose manuscripts have been examined, and found to be unavailable for use in the REVIEW:— The Old and the New Covenant—Have Faith in God—A Dream—Man and His Soul—Our Words—Jacob’s Pillar—Daniel and Revelation—Every-day Things—The Need of Preaching Christ—The Law Our Schoolmaster—Maxims—The Ordinances—Go to Work in My Vineyard To-day—Thoughts for the New Year—The Last Battle—Figures Will Not Lie—God’s Children—Timothy—The Beatitudes—Who Is My Mother, or My Brethren?—Speaking Our Thoughts—A Story as It Came to Me—The Lord Is Merciful—Mss. without title, signed by E. V. Z.
The following poetical contributions are respectfully declined, with thanks:— God’s Ways Are Nature’s Laws—Live for Something—A Prayer—“Hain’t I Anything to You?”—How John Turned a New Leaf—An Evening Prayer—Behold He Cometh—Resurrection—At13Home, Alone with Jesus—My Faith, Christ’s Works—Poem without title, signed by L. M.
As stated last week, any of these manuscripts will be returned, if called for, to those authors only who send a sufficient number of postage stamps. Those which are not called for within four or five weeks, will be destroyed.
A. J. B.
OKLAHOMA
By G. G. RUPERT
Oklahoma City.—The work in Oklahoma is prospering, both in conversions to the faith and in Sabbath-keepers moving in. From these two sources we shall have seven or eight churches to add to the Conference. These churches have been organized during the last three months, since I came to the territory.
I just attended the Arkansas camp-meeting, which was good. G. G. RUPERT.
ARKANSAS CAMP-MEETING.
By C. McReynolds
This camp-meeting and annual Conference convened at Rogers, in the northwest part of Arkansas; and notwithstanding the dreadful drought throughout that State as well as throughout all the southwest, we were agreeably surprised to find present nearly half the membership of the Conference. From the first, it was evident that the Spirit of God was present in a marked manner. The preaching was practical, and met with a hearty response from the congregation. The night services, which were begun previously to the time of the camp-meeting, were attended by large crowds of people, and the present truths of the special message were presented with clearness and power, and a deep interest was awakened among the people.
The most perfect harmony of sentiment and action prevailed throughout all the business of the Conference. Elder A. E. Field was again chosen president. Mrs. Etta Hardesty was elected Secretary and Treasurer. The tract society and the Sabbath-school were made departments of the Conference. The Executive Committee was increased to five; and A. E. Field, E. B. Hopkins, G. Philips, D. E. Huffman, and C. W. Hardesty (who was also chosen State Agent) were selected as the committee.
Reports showed an encouraging increase in the number of books sold, and the amount of money raised for missions and the tithe has increased $676.47 over the amount received in any previous year since the Conference was organized. The business being nearly all done, I left Tuesday morning, in company with Brother B. R. Nordyke, while Elders Rees and Rupert and Prof. C. C. Lewis remained to carry on the work until the close of the meeting.
Despite the terrible drought, Arkansas has about twenty-five canvassers, who go forth with faith to sell our large books. All is courage, thank the Lord. C. McREYNOLDS.
OREGON
By Wm. Estell
DALLAS.— The Seventh-day Adventist church of Dallas, Ore., has twenty-one members, and the Spirit of God is leading the Lord’s people here. They are preparing for the soon-coming Saviour. Two were baptized into Christ, July 6, 1901. They came into the truth through hearing Brother Squires, nearly two years ago, at Falls City, Ore. They are advancing rapidly in the truth, having accepted the tithing system and the health reform.
There was a revival in our church last winter. The Lord sent it to us through reading “Power for Witnessing.” Sins were confessed, wrongs were made right, and now in the quiet time character is being built up, and the truth of the gospel is being revealed in the lives of the Lord’s people. Oh, how we thank our dear Heavenly Father for the blessed message in that book!
The writer accepted present truth a year ago, through reading “Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation.” Over two years ago I got the book out of a saloon. There was a writing desk on one end of the bar, and this book was in there. I asked the saloon-keeper if I could take it and read it. He said I could have it, as it was no good, and he did not know where it came from. I read until I came to the seventh chapter of Revelation, when I laid the book away with some unchristian remarks about it. I did not read the book again for nearly a year, but my mind was continually on the seventh chapter of Revelation; and when I took the book up again to read, I began at Revelation seven.
“Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.” “In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.”
Wm. ESTELL, Clerk.
Address of Sister N. S. Rain
WILL any one knowing the address of Sister N. S. Rain please send it to Mrs. Mary J. Dorcas, Holton, Jackson Co., Kan.
Adventist Correspondence Near Mammoth Spring
MRS. KITTIE COSTELLO, Mammoth Spring, Ark., is a stranger in that place, having recently moved there. There is no other Adventist there, and she desires to correspond with any near there, if possible.
UNEMPLOYED MAN CALLED FOR.
By F. C. Bee
I WISH to find a man that is out of work who desires a good home among Seventh-day Adventists, and is willing to work for his board for a while. My idea is this: to get a Swede or a Norwegian or some person who cannot speak English, but would like to work and learn how to do farm work and other kinds of labor. I am a poor man, and cannot afford to pay large wages. I am not obliged to do this work, but still I can make it pay, and if I get the right man, could pay small wages. Would want a strong, healthy man. Some of the work is heavy. Address F. C. Bee, Windham, Vt.
INFORMATION
By Alonzo T. Jones
Since a good many of our people, in going to the Pacific and the far Eastern fields, must pass through Oakland, Cal., I know that it is only a proper favor to them to say that at the Juanita Hotel, 322 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, they will find the most pleasant and homelike stopping-place. It is kept by one of our own people — Brother W. E. Johnson. It is within two blocks of the street-car center of Oakland, and is on one of the principal street-car lines—the San Pablo Ave. line. Also just across the street a few doors away — 301 San Pablo Ave.— are the headquarters of the California Conference and Tract Society, where all are always welcome, and where information, or assistance of any other kind, that can possibly be given, will be freely rendered.
ALONZO T. JONES.
ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPTS.
By Editor
The following prose manuscripts have been accepted as available matter for this paper:— Which Was the True Gentleman?—The Source of Strength—Nicked China—The Test of Our Discipleship—The Tithing System—Are We Living Up to Our Light and Privilege, Nos. 1 and 2—Lonely Sabbath-Keepers and Those Cards—In the Presence of the King—The Two Sauls—God's Tests Suffice—Beggarly Elements (Strange Things)—“The Curse, Causeless, Shall Not Come”—Value of Grapes as a Food—Christmas Suggestions—Limit to Evil Door's Probation—Christ the Missionary's Example—Christianity a Sword—Opinion and Practice to Be Conformed to God's Word—Results of Receiving the Truth—The Privilege of Prayer—“Let Us Therefore Fear”—The Christian a Missionary—“If Ye Know These Things, Happy Are Ye if Ye Do Them”—Our Duty to the Colored People—Preach in Regions Beyond—Unity in Diversity—Lines of Mission Work—“Bring an Offering unto the Lord”—“No Other Gods before Me”—A Time of Trouble—Without Excuse—How to Gain Spiritual Strength—A Blessing and a Curse—God's Helping Hand—The Voice of Faithful Rebuke—The Need and Importance of Voice Culture, Nos. 1 and 2—Judge Not, Nos. 1 and 2—A Very Present Help—God's Sign—Work in Christ's Lines—The Relief of Our Schools—A Testimony without Censure.
The following is a partial list of poetical contributions which have been accepted as available matter:— The Open Door—The Sorrowful Way—Christ the Hope of Glory—Time Comes Back no More—De Profundis—I Know Whom I Have Believed—Calvary—Christ Our Only Helper—Christ in You, the Hope of Glory—Our True Help—Faithful—Opportunity—Wisdom's Counsel—The World's Unknown—Some Day—Trusting in Jesus—Guide Me.
NEWS AND NOTES
—A $10,000,000 table oilcloth trust has been formed in New York City.
—The Canadian Pacific Railway demands total abstinence of all its employees.
—Cecil Rhodes and Dr. Jameson recently left South Africa, and are now in England.
—In a recent five-hour fight with the Philippine insurgents, in Batangas Province, the Americans were victorious, losing two killed.
—The Union Pacific Railway earnings last year were $21,250,000, $14,600,000 of which is available for dividends.
—It is announced that “upwards of 30,000 men are to be recalled from the Philippines, diminishing the expenditure by sixty per cent.”
—The National Tube Company is endeavoring to get its skilled workmen to “sign individual contracts to practically repudiate union labor.”
—The large floating steel drydock at Havana, Cuba, has been purchased from Spain, by the United States Navy Department, for $185,000.
—Prairie dogs are so numerous in western Kansas that the legislature has been asked to appropriate $10,000 for their extermination by poison.
—Lord Roberts has been granted $500,000 by the British House of Lords (through a message from Edward VII) for his services in South Africa.
—The Chicago post-office will hereafter give employment to “no boy who smokes cigarettes or is known to have ever been addicted to the habit.”
—The Union Signal states that two battle-ships of the first class in the Japanese navy are commanded by “Christian captains.” But the Word says that the weapons of the Christian are “not carnal.”
—Mr. Bond, Premier of Newfoundland, and Mr. Reid, the millionaire who owned nearly all of Newfoundland, have reached an “agreement by which the latter surrenders ownership of railroads, 2,800,000 acres of land, and telegraph lines, to the government.”
—An exchange seems to be of the opinion that “very high political significance will attach to the coming meeting of Emperor Nicholas, King Edward, and Emperor William at the German maneuvers near Mayence. No decision, it is understood, has yet been reached as to whether the three sovereigns will be accompanied by their foreign ministers, but such an arrangement is probable.”
—The radical reforms in second-class mail regulations now being brought about by Postmaster-General Smith, will bar from the one-cent-a-pound privilege all papers whose lists are built up by premium offers. It is hoped that these reforms will enable the postal department to clear, instead of losing, money each year, and thus enable the government to reduce letter postage to one cent.
—It has been proved that the War Department, and not the liquor organizations, is to blame for the “continual repetition of the claims of the daily press that the abolition of the canteen has resulted in the increased drunkenness of the soldiers.” High army officers state that in the United States War Department “a force of clerks has been engaged in making up figures and furnishing them to the newspapers.”
—Among the colored people in Chicago has been started a Black Cross Federation, the purpose of which is to “promote legislation for the punishment of those participating in the lynching of negroes,” to secure “the rights of full citizenship in those Southern States in which the negroes have been disfranchised,” and to “force the railroads of the South to furnish as good accommodations for negroes as are furnished for the whites;” also to foster “the education of negro children.”
—Russia intends to build a canal “from the Caspian Sea to the Ural Mountains.”
—It is reported that the pope will not break with France, in spite of her new anti-clerical law.
—The Powers will prohibit for two years the importation, by China, of arms and ammunition.
—Boxers recently posted anti-foreign placards in the vicinity of the Christian chapels in Canton, China.
—English experts recently decided, in a test of locomotives at Kingston, Jamaica, that “those made in America were better than the British product.”
—It is thought that “if the present revolutionary troubles in Colombia become more aggravated, traffic across the Isthmus of Panama will be interrupted.”
—By order of Emperor William, all German soldiers who were in Peking during the siege, will be “promoted to the rank of non-commissioned officers.”
—There will soon be a wireless telegraph line, or rather, wireless telegraphic communication, between Chicago and Milwaukee. It will be the first “line” of its kind in the United States.
—The stock of gold in the United States Treasury at present is “the largest in the history of the government, and is accumulating at the rate of from $4,500,000 to $5,000,000 a month.”
—M. Santos-Dumont’s air ship was recently wrecked at Paris, while a test was being made, the owner having a narrow escape from death. The air pump failed, and the machine fell to the ground.
—The United States war-ships “Wisconsin” and “Iowa” are ordered to “be in readiness to go to Panama to protect American interests” endangered by the Colombian rebellion. The war-ship “Machias” has already gone to Panama.
—It is reported that in his recent speech on the race problem, at Marinette, Wis., Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, “defended lynching, claiming it afforded the only means of carrying out justice in the South.” We hope this report is untrue.
—The old United States man-of-war “Hartford,” Admiral Farragut’s flagship during the Civil War, is “spending the summer in northern Europe, with about 500 young Americans on board, whom Commander Hawley is training for the naval service.”
—Dispatches state that “the Tien Chounli rising in China is growing, and that a large number of soldiers under General Tung Fu Siang have concentrated on the government premises in Shen Chow, unfurling banners with the motto, ‘Sweep China, destroy aliens,’ emblazoned thereon.”
—“The proclamation of Governor Dockery, of Missouri,” says the Literary Digest, “calling on the people to offer up prayers for rain during the recent drought in the West, has provoked much discussion of prayer and its propriety in such cases.” Many papers approve, while many disapprove.
—A dispatch from Peking, China, dated the 6th inst., states that “the foreign ministers had arranged to sign the protocol to-day, but Sir Ernest Satow, the British Minister, yesterday notified his colleagues that Great Britain would be unable to sign it. He gave no reason for his refusal. The meeting of ministers has been indefinitely postponed.”
—According to Backbone, “saloonists are objecting to the extension of the rural free delivery system. Taking the farmer’s mail to his door obviates the necessity of his coming to town so often, and hence, of course, ‘enjoying the privilege’ of visiting the booze dispensary as often as he otherwise could, without going especially for that purpose.”
—The time required for the journey from Paris to London will soon be shortened to six hours. In order to do this, the Compagnie du Nord is making “arrangements on the Calais docks by which the baggage cars will be lifted by an electric crane from the boat and placed on trucks ready on the rails. In this way the baggage will not be handled except on departure and arrival, and much time will be saved. This will be put in operation as soon as the special cars are finished and the apparatus is completed on the docks at Dover.”
—A Queenstown dispatch dated the 8th inst., states that “the big White Star steamship ‘Oceanic,’ which sailed from Liverpool yesterday for New York, collided off Tuskar Rock, Ireland, last night, in a dense fog, with the steamship ‘Kincora,’ of the Waterford Steamship Company, which sank. Seven of the crew of the ‘Kincora’ were rescued.” Eight of the “Kincora” crew are missing, and are believed to have perished. The “Oceanic” resumed its voyage, its only damage consisting in “a few dents to the port plates.”
—In 1840 there were 107,475 Chinese in the United States. Now the number is but 89,800.
—Ambassador Andrew D. White states that “in exports to Germany the United States is first among the nations.”
—It is reported that a French squadron is on its way to Turkish waters, “to force settlement of French claims.”
—The British torpedo-boat destroyer “Viper” recently struck a rock in the English Channel, and is a complete wreck.
—Governor Yuan Shi Kai is having arsenals constructed in the province of Shantung, “for the manufacture of arms and smokeless powder.”
—Liquor men, says the National Advocate, estimate that the abolition of the army canteen means a loss to the liquor trade annually of at least $2,000,000.
—The recent death of seventeen men and five women at Tampico, Mexico, was caused by “the collapse of the big terminal wharf of the Monterey and Mexican Gulf railways” at that place.
—Dowager Empress Frederick, eldest child of Queen Victoria, and mother of Emperor William of Germany, died the 5th inst., at Cronberg, aged sixty years. Her death was caused by a cancer.
—According to Mr. Chamberlain’s recent statement in the British House of Commons, General Kitchener has been instructed to “enforce the death penalty on all Boers found guilty of killing non-combatants and natives in British employ.”
—The threatened strike of all employees of the United States Steel Company began the 10th inst. Messrs. Morgan and Schwab are unwilling to yield to the demands of the labor union. If carried on, this means the most gigantic labor struggle ever inaugurated.
—Count von Waldersee arrived at Hamburg the 8th inst., and received the cross of the Order of Merit, by order of the Emperor. The Ninth Regiment of Field artillery will hereafter bear his name. On account of his mother’s death, Emperor William could not be present.
—Lord Stanley recently declared, in the British House of Commons, that “the cost of the war in South Africa, from April 1 to July 31, was 15,750,000 pounds, while the actual cost of carrying on the war during July was 1,250,000 pounds per week.” It is thought that if this great expense continues much longer, there will be plenty of pro-Boers in England.
—It seems that 7,000 Pullman porters have organized a union, with headquarters in St. Louis. They appeal to the public, stating that “their trouble is a rapid and steady decline in tips, from which they have been obliged for many years to make their living, their salaries being insufficient to pay their expenses. The regulation tip to a porter of a sleeping-car was formerly twenty-five cents; now it is ten or fifteen cents, and very often a mere ‘thanks.’ They emphasize the fact that they must have more salary from the company under the new conditions.”
—Venezuela is again in trouble. Dr. Rangel Garbiras, with 5,000 men, has revolted, and “the Venezuelan government has sent 10,000 troops against the insurgents, who are located at San Antonio de Tachuria, on the Colombian frontier. A dispatch from Curacao states that the situation is grave, and that the whole country is ready to rise against the arbitrary methods of President Castro. Complications with Colombia are feared, and there has been a suspension of constitutional guarantees.” Venezuela claims that Colombian troops accompany the rebel army.
—Another negro has been burned at the stake, this time in Alabama. He was accused of rape. A negro, his mother, and his half sister, were recently taken from a Missouri jail and lynched, their bodies being riddled with bullets. No strenuous effort was made to protect them. It seems that “a white man and his wife had been murdered,” and that “these three negroes and ten others fell under suspicion.” The newspapers state that the mobs “consisted, of course, of the best people.” Commenting upon the mob spirit of rotten-egging people, the Public (Chicago) well says: “Between these and the ‘nigger-burning’ mobs there is only a difference of degree, great as the difference is. The spirit that prompts the rotten-egging of men and women preachers of unpopular doctrines, or that drives unwelcome agitators out of a town before a mob for advocating the closing of saloons, would, if circumstances were as favorable, just as quickly hang an obnoxious negro woman and riddle her body with bullets, or burn a suspected negro man, and ravish their ears with his agonizing screams. It is all one spirit, capable of going to any lengths of lawlessness; and it is hellish beyond expression.”
