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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Feb 9, 1905

— Fire in the business section of Omaha, Neb., January 29, caused a loss of $750,000.

— The city of Schenectady, N. Y., suffered a loss of $200,000 by fire, February 1.

— A test of the Baldwin air-ship, at Los Angeles, Cal., January 29, was attended by the best success yet attained in efforts at navigating the air. The operator steered the ship at will, and maneuvered in the air for about forty minutes with perfect ease, bringing the ship to the ground again at the starting-point. The atmospheric conditions were highly favorable for the experiment.

— Ten of a party of thirteen women who were returning in a sleigh from a meeting of the Ladies’ Aid Society of the Universalist church at Hornellsville, N. Y., February 1, were killed at a grade crossing of the Pittsburg and Northern Railway, the sleigh being struck and demolished by a train. The three who were not killed were seriously injured. All the women were socially prominent in Hornellsville. The accident is attributed to the carelessness of the driver.

— Order appears to have been restored in most of the centers of the recent disturbances in Russia, but in Russian Poland the outlook continued serious long after the disturbances had practically ceased elsewhere, and as late as January 31 it was reported that Russian merchants were apprehensive of a general strike in the industrial towns of Poland. A press dispatch from Lodz, the greatest manufacturing center of western Russia, stated that the town looked like a besieged fortress. Soldiers in detachments of fifty were patrolling the streets to preserve order. All the stores were closed, and their windows boarded up, and hundreds of people were waiting before the bakeries for bread. At Warsaw a state of practical anarchy prevailed for several days, marked by rioting, pillage, and collisions between the strikers and the troops, in which about one hundred and sixty persons were killed or wounded. On one occasion the British consul-general at Warsaw, and the proconsul, were attacked by soldiers, and the proconsul was wounded by a sword thrust. This incident stirred up popular feeling in England, and the British government has demanded of Russia a strict inquiry into the affair.