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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 16, 1908

— June 22, as a result of a race war between whites and negroes in Hemphill, Tex., nine of the latter were killed and three of the former.

— A tornado at Clinton, Minn., on June 27, destroyed twenty dwellings and two churches, killed six persons, and injured twenty-five.

— An effort is now being made to bring up the standing army of the United States to a peace footing of 250,000 men, to be divided into eight army corps.

— At the international congress of the Anglican Church, which closed at London on June 24, the bishops presented thank-offerings from their various dioceses amounting to $1,600,000.

— While Cardinal Richelmy was celebrating mass in the cathedral at Rome on June 24, a bomb was hurled at him, which exploded with deafening noise, but without injuring any one in the cathedral.

— As a result of the success of Count Zeppelin’s airship, a company is being formed in Berlin which proposes to establish a line of passenger airships between Berlin, London, Paris, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Copenhagen, and Stockholm.

— Commander Robert E. Peary, the Arctic explorer, started on his voyage for the North Pole on July 7. It is his plan not only to search for the North Pole, but to make researches along the northern coasts of Grantland and Greenland.

— An outbreak of cholera is reported among the American soldiers at Camp Gregg, on the Island of Luzon, P. I. At the time of the report ninety-three cases had been reported during the preceding twenty-four hours, sixty of which had proved fatal.

— In the early hours of Friday morning, July 10, the Democratic national convention in session at Denver, Colo., nominated William J. Bryan for the office of president of the United States. Mr. Bryan received 892½ votes, being much more than the number required for his nomination. In the afternoon of the same day John Worth Kern, of Indiana, was nominated for the office of vice-president.

— On the afternoon of July 7 the American battle-ship fleet, with the exception of one vessel, sailed for Honolulu, where it will remain for one week before continuing its cruise around the world. The battle-ship “Nebraska,” left behind on account of a case of scarlet fever, will rejoin the fleet at Honolulu. The fleet will visit the Philippines, Japan, China, and Australia, and return to Hampton Roads next February.

— On July 9 Venezuela’s representative at Washington received instructions from his government to return to Venezuela. As the American representative to Venezuela has already returned to the United States, diplomatic relations between the two countries are now entirely severed. Diplomatic relations between Venezuela and Holland are said to be at the breaking point, and a Dutch war-vessel is in readiness to take away the Dutch minister.