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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · May 23, 1907

— The United States circuit court has perpetually enjoined the “drug trust” from continuing its operations.

— There is a strong movement on foot to prevent Oklahoma from becoming a State if she must come in with a constitution as at present ratified by her representatives.

— Two passengers were recently arrested on board a train for violating the new Delaware law which makes it a crime to drink liquor aboard train in the State.

— It is reported that the Russian troops have not yet been withdrawn from northern Korea, and the Japanese commander has been instructed to make a protest.

— Arab rebels in the province of Yemen, Turkish Arabia, who have been in revolt for twelve years, have practically annihilated a force of Turkish soldiers 6,500 strong.

— The lower house of the Pennsylvania Legislature has passed a bill prohibiting the buying, selling, or wearing for adornment of any Pennsylvania wild bird or part thereof.

— The French steamer “Poitou,” from Marseilles, France, to Montevideo, Uruguay, was blown on the rocks off the south coast of Uruguay May 7, and forty-eight persons were lost.

— As an indication of the moral depravity of these days, we notice that a Chicago court on the 11th inst. tried twenty-two suits for divorce in one hour and a half, granting the request in each case.

— Advises from Morocco, bearing date of May 11, state that the Rahma tribesmen are about to seize the city of Morocco. European residents have left the place, and the commander of the French cruiser states that the outlook is very threatening.

— Recently there died in New York one who had fought as an officer under the flags of eighteen different countries. He had borne the title of general for many years. Nevertheless he died penniless and alone, and was buried at the expense of another.

— At the Jamestown Exposition on May 13, the representatives of ten nationalities took part in the celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the landing of the English at Jamestown Island. About 25,000 armed men took part in the procession.

— The dangerous nature of hypnotism is being well illustrated at Worcester, Mass., where one who has long been a student of hypnotic phenomena has succeeded in hypnotizing himself. He can not now be brought back to consciousness, and is slowly dying, having been unconscious for more than two weeks.

— Parties from the interior of Honduras report that another war is beginning, the fighting this time being between the same armies which took part in the contest just closed. The quarrel is over who shall be president. The natives of Nicaragua are also involved in the struggle, the latter under the guise of peace-makers, whose object is to support one of the presidential aspirants.

— A deep-laid plot to assassinate the czar of Russia has been unearthed by the confession of the palace gatekeeper.

— At Lima, Ohio, May 14 the Grand Jury returned thirty-nine indictments against individuals and corporations concerned in the great bridge-building trust. They were charged with conspiracy in restraint of trade, and in violation of the Valentine anti-trust law.

— There is much feeling among the officials of China against Japan, because of Japan’s failure to return to China a large amount of property appropriated by the Japanese at numerous places in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War. The Chinese claim that Japan has repeatedly promised to return this property, and has failed to keep her promise.

— A new law recently passed by the New York Legislature seems to have been drawn up for the special benefit of those practising Christian science. All regular physicians are put under strict regulation, and their practitioners required to pass a rigid examination, but among those exempted from the application of this law are those who practise “the religious tenets of any church,” which will apparently exempt Christian science practitioners from the provisions of this law.

— It has been announced at Washington, D. C., by the Interstate Commerce Commission, that Attorney-General Bonaparte has issued instructions to the various United States district attorneys to institute proceedings against twenty-five different railroad companies of the country to exact penalties for violations of the safety-appliance laws. From time to time the commission has extended the time limit of the fitting of cars with safety apparatus. But the Department of Justice has now determined to make examples of the roads which persist in violating the law.

— There are serious strikes now in progress at the two principal ports of both the east and west coasts of this country. The San Francisco carmen’s strike is still unsettled. The strike of the dock laborers at New York, and at Hoboken, N. J., has given some promise of settlement, especially in the latter place. On May 10, 300 men working on the Fall River pier went out, in addition to the other dock laborers. These, however, resumed work the following day. The laborers also resumed work on the Pennsylvania Railroad pier, and on the dock of the Clyde line. Vessels leaving the port carry very light freight, and in some instances have carried back much of that which they brought with them. The grain handlers in forty elevators in New York harbor are also threatening to join the longshoremen in a strike. In addition to these troubles, 10,000 men are now idle at Colonia, Pa., who were employed at the Colonial Steel Works. Eighteen hundred longshoremen are on a strike at Montreal. The situation at this place is a little peculiar, owing to the recent passage of a law making it unlawful to enter upon a strike until after a regularly appointed conference between representatives of the two parties concerned. No arrests, however, have occurred, as it was felt by the employers at Montreal that more harm than good might result from such a procedure.