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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 16, 1907

— The differences between Mexico and Guatemala have been satisfactorily adjusted without the severing of diplomatic relations.

— The Florida House of Representatives on May 8 defeated the bill passed by the Senate proposing a constitutional amendment limiting the suffrage to white male citizens.

— The British chief secretary for Ireland, Mr. Birrell, on May 7 presented to the House of Commons the long-expected Irish bill, designed to meet the demands for Irish home rule. It really confers but little self-government upon Ireland, and is disappointing to all political parties.

— A rebellion in Chau Chufu, China, has been suppressed by decapitating seven hundred of the participants.

— In a collision of a limited with a local interurban electric car, fifty passengers were severely injured near Bowling Green, Ohio, May 5. Two of these will probably die.

— Another cyclone in Texas on May 6 practically destroyed the small towns of Ridway, Birthright, and Antioch. Cyclone cellars were used by many, or the fatalities would have been many more than the eight that are known to be dead.

— Civil and commercial suits are to be brought by the attorney-general of the State of Pennsylvania against those responsible for the State Capitol scandal. It is estimated that the profits of the general contractor for the furnishings was $3,500,000.

— For some time Mt. Stromboli has been in eruption, and continues to grow more threatening. Nearly all the inhabitants have left the island, which has been devastated by ashes. Mt. Etna, on the eastern coast of Sicily, is also active, sending out great volumes of smoke, which reflects the fires within the crater. The inhabitants of the vicinity are panic-stricken.

— Finding further resistance to the German troops in German Southwest Africa useless, 15,000 natives migrated to the northeastward to establish a new settlement. Only 4,000 reached their destination, the other 11,000 having perished from starvation.

— All Spain is rejoicing at the birth of a prince in the royal family, on May 10. A three days' holiday was proclaimed, and bull-fights, state operas, and distribution of $100,000 in lottery prizes, as well as the pardon by the king of thousands of prisoners, were some of the ways taken to express their joy.

— Thirty persons were killed and probably fifty injured in the wreck of a limited train on the Southern Pacific line near Surf, Cal., May 11. Breaking of parts of the engine derailed the train. The same day on the Mexican Central Railway twenty-five persons were injured by a derailment of a fast train near Bermejillo, Mexico.

— Seventeen hundred motor-men and conductors of San Francisco went on strike May 5, completely tying up the system for over two days. On the 9th the attempt to run the cars resulted in a riot in which one man was killed, and fifteen or twenty wounded, some of them fatally. There is talk of calling for the State militia, and possibly the federal troops.

— The unstable conditions in Russia may be judged by the fact that during the month of March there were 640 attempted assassinations, and over 400 persons were killed. During the week ending May 3 there were 172 political murders. Both revolutionists and reactionaries are arming, and are accused by public men of preparing another St. Bartholomew.

— An agreement between France and Japan is said to have been reached by which each guarantees the possessions of the other as well as the integrity of China. Some construe it to mean that Japan is getting ready for the day when she must clash with the United States, and Germany sees in it a further evidence of her own isolation among the nations of the world.

— There is reported serious rioting in various parts of eastern Bengal. Thousands of natives, both Hindus and Mohammedans, are roaming about, plundering and burning villages, and ill-treating loyal natives, many of whom have been murdered. Thirty-seven agitators have been arrested. Although for the present the Punjab seems to be the center of trouble, grave fears are entertained of a general uprising against British rule. Military reinforcements have been summoned to Lahore.

— A strike of the longshoremen of New York seriously interfered with the lading of vessels for a week. About 5,000 men were involved. Some of the great transatlantic liners were delayed two days in sailing, and others, as well as coast steamers, are sailing light-loaded. Workmen of other occupations have, in sympathy with the longshoremen, joined in the strike, until there are now said to be 30,000 strikers in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Hoboken, and Staten Island. Some have been injured in clashes between the police and the strikers.