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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 3, 1908

— At Bardstown, Ky., on November 18, two warehouses were burned, which contained 15,000 barrels of whisky. The financial loss to the owners of the liquor is placed at $400,000. The loss to the country is not so large.

— The Cuban presidential election, which occurred on November 15, resulted in a complete victory for the Liberals in all parts of the island. Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez was elected president by a large majority.

— On November 23 the shah of Persia had posted in the principal mosques a declaration that the constitution recently granted would be withdrawn. It is reported that on the following day protests from representatives of the British and Russian governments resulted in the shah's withdrawing his proclamation.

— Of the sixty-one counties of Ohio all but seven have now voted to expel the saloon.

— Another revolution has broken out in Haiti, and the revolutionists have seized a government gunboat.

— At Kobe, Japan, on November 18, the emperor reviewed the entire Japanese navy, comprising 110 ships, exclusive of submarines.

— The game of football during the present season has been responsible for the death of ten persons, and the more or less serious injury of 290.

— A tornado which swept through the northern portion of Arkansas on November 23 is reported to have caused the loss of twenty lives, and the destruction of much personal property and valuable timber.

— Eight persons were killed and many injured, some fatally, in a collision between two trains near New Orleans, La., on November 11. On the same day by the collision of two freight-trains at Borie, Wyo., eleven men are known to have lost their lives.

— By an explosion of gas under a portion of Gold Street, Brooklyn, on November 20, twenty-five persons are believed to have lost their lives. The street was torn up for a considerable distance, and workmen and pedestrians were caught in the débris.

— The Chinese government has sent an imperial envoy to the United States to thank the American people for the remittance of the Boxer indemnity amounting to $14,000,000. The envoy, accompanied by a Chinese prince, arrived at San Francisco on November 22.

— The delicateness of the situation in the Balkans was accentuated on November 22, when a band of Servians attempting to cross the Bosnian frontier at Zvornik were repulsed by Austrian troops. Seventeen of the Servians were killed, and three of the Austrians.

— A despatch from Chicago dated November 20, states that the American Railway Association has decided to supplant the telegraph by the telephone in the operation of all the roads controlled by the association. This transformation will affect 240,000 miles of railroads.

— Advices from India indicate that the political situation there is assuming serious aspects. Sedition is growing, and the king's personal appeal to the natives is said to have had little effect. It is thought that harsher measures will have to be resorted to in order to quell the movement.

— The death of the emperor and the empress dowager of China occurring so closely together, namely, November 14 and 15, has raised the suspicion in the minds of many that the death of the empress dowager was an assassination rather than a natural death. The present emperor of China is Prince Pu Yi, the three-year-old son of Prince Chun, and the father, Prince Chun, is now acting as regent. Kuang Hsu, the deceased emperor, has been the nominal ruler of China since 1875; but the real ruler since 1861 has been Tze Hsi An, the dowager empress. Contrary to the expectations of many, there have been no serious outbreaks due to the change of rulers.