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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 23, 1909

— Official German statistics, published at Berlin for the second quarter of 1909, show that 1,051 dogs have been slaughtered for food under government inspection, and 29,785 horses.

— The campaign to restrict Negro suffrage in Maryland was opened at Baltimore, Md., on September 16. It is proposed to adopt an amendment to the State constitution which will disfranchise a large number of Negro voters.

— The British antarctic expedition which is now being fitted out for exploration in the Antarctic Ocean, and which will attempt to locate the south pole, expects to keep in touch with the world by the means of wireless telegraphy.

— Eight armored cruisers of the United States Pacific fleet sailed from San Francisco September 5 for Asiatic waters by way of Honolulu. When these cruisers have joined the war-vessels already in the Philippines, the united fleet will engage in battle practise.

— The British government is about to lay a telephone cable under the English Channel, to be connected with the present land lines at Dover and Calais. It is expected to improve materially the communication between London and Paris.

— President William H. Taft, in his speech at Chicago, on September 16, declared that the administration of criminal law in this country is a disgrace to our civilization, and that the time is now ripe for the appointment of a commission by Congress to inquire into the matter and suggest remedies.

— The second section of the Denver and Rio Grande train No. 5 was held up near Malta, Colo., on the night of September 16. The express car was dynamited, and the robbers escaped.

— The town of La Paz, the oldest settlement in either of the Californias, was destroyed by a hurricane on September 8. The hurricane was accompanied by so heavy a storm that the streets were filled with water to the depth of four feet. Quite a number of persons lost their lives in the ruin of the town.

— The American aviator, Glenn H. Curtiss, who won the international cup at Reims, France, recently, for the greatest speed, accomplished a similar feat at Brescia, Italy, on September 12, winning the grand prize of $6,000, and covering the distance of thirty-one miles in forty-nine minutes and twenty-four seconds.

— A report from London dated September 12, states that the Norwegian steamer “Ekspodit” sailed from Copenhagen on that date to bring down from Greenland the Eskimos who accompanied Dr. Cook in his trip to the north pole. They are to be brought to civilization for the purpose of corroborating the claims made by Dr. Cook in reference to his discovery of the north pole.

— The discovery and the exploration of the Hudson River and the sailing of the first steamboat on that river are to be commemorated by what is known as the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, from September 25 to October 9. War-vessels of many different countries are to take part in the exercises on that occasion. One of the features of this celebration will be a vessel built after the exact pattern of the steamer Robert Fulton constructed and sailed on that river.

— A tidal-wave, on September 4, swept over the port of Mulege, on the east coast of Lower California, overwhelming the town, and destroying a number of lives and considerable property.

— A report from Germany states that the German emperor has consented to act as protector of the enterprise known as the German Arctic Air-ship Expedition. This expedition purposes to make scientific research over the polar seas by the means of a dirigible balloon.

— Reports from Galveston, Tex., state that hundreds of Mexicans are crossing the border from Texas into Mexico with the purpose of joining the forces of General Reyes. The federal army officials continue to receive rumors of an intended insurrection. The situation is said to be rendered more perilous by the present disorganization of the railroad system as a result of the recent floods.

— A report from Mexico states that Prof. Ramon Mena, who headed a government expedition to Otumba, has uncovered a buried city of great antiquity. A pyramid, similar to that discovered at San Juan de Teotihacan, has been exposed. The pyramid is sixty feet in height and measures 200 feet square at the base. The ruins indicate that the city was built by the Toltecs.

— Through the purchase by United States Ambassador Thompson of the Pan-American Railroad in Mexico, and the launching of a project by American capitalists to connect that road with the Panama Canal by rail, an all-rail journey from the Great Lakes to Panama is assured. It is expected that it will take seven years to complete the line from the terminus of the Pan-American line to the canal.

— The attack recently made upon the administration of the Department of the Interior by the chief of the Seattle division and others, has been investigated by the President, and as a result of the investigation the chief of the Seattle division, L. R. Glavis, has been discharged from the service. The matter has occupied a considerable portion of the public attention for some months, as the accusations alleged extensive fraud in connection with the location of certain coal lands.

— As a result of the Pennsylvania law which prevents prisoners from working outside of the prison walls, and which results in almost complete idleness for the majority of the prisoners, a large per cent of Pennsylvania’s State prisoners are going insane. One week’s work is followed by forty days of idleness and brooding. Because of this condition the warden is asking that each county which has prisoners in the State prison appoint a commission to inquire into the sanity of its convicts and take away those who are hopelessly insane.

— Interest in the disease that has recently come to public attention and is known as pellagra, has become so widespread throughout the country that Surgeon-General Wyman of the public health and marine hospital service has decided to issue a weekly bulletin dealing exclusively with the developments of that disease. This step is taken as a result of the requests which have recently come in from all over the country from physicians and boards of health who are watching the progress of that disease with much concern.