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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 4, 1903

— Four persons were killed and ten others hurt in a cyclone at Mendota, Ill., July 17.

— During a severe electrical storm at Alpena, Mich., July 28, six persons were killed and four others injured by lightning.

— Three villages in the district of Tchernigof, Russia, have been destroyed by a cyclone, with great loss of life, says a St. Petersburg dispatch dated July 28.

— England is seeking to establish friendly relations with France, under the leadership of King Edward, who is doing much to strengthen England’s position in this way.

— A Russian secret agent who arrived recently in Hongkong declares that there will surely be war between Russia and Japan, and that hostilities will be declared in a few days’ time.

— During field maneuvers by two battalions of Austro-Hungarian infantry, in Herzegovina, July 26, four hundred of the soldiers fell from sunstroke, the thermometer showing at the time a temperature of 130 degrees Fahrenheit.

— Later reports of the typhoon which raged over Tonquin, June 8 and 9, affirm that there was much greater damage and loss of life than was at first reported. The city of Namdin was, however, completely leveled. Over 2,000 persons lost their lives, no Europeans, however, being among the number.

— Fourteen men who participated in the recent riot and lynching at Danville, Ill., have been put under arrest, and about thirty more will probably have warrants served upon them, and be held for the action of the grand jury. All these face the probability of a term in the penitentiary.

— According to a St. Petersburg dispatch printed in the London Daily Mail, an appalling piece of savagery was recently perpetrated in the Don district of Russia, thirty-three female farm laborers being burned to death in a barn in which they had locked themselves to escape the brutality of male employees about the place.

— Hawaii wants independence. This sentiment came to the surface in a home-rule convention at Honolulu, July 28, and was vigorously applauded. It is probable that Congress will be memorialized to grant independence to the Hawaiians, who in that event intend to establish a government similar to that of Cuba.

— There is said to be more prospect of the ratification of the Panama Canal treaty by the Colombian senate than existed some time ago, but the Colombians now want $25,000,000 as compensation for the control of the Canal territory by the United States, instead of the $10,000,000 mentioned in the first negotiations.

— Foreman Miller, who was reinstated in the government printing office at Washington by President Roosevelt, reported for work Monday morning, but the threatened strike on the part of the union which had caused his discharge did not take place. It is said the union will await a decision to be given by the international brotherhood.

— A wreck on the Chicago Great Western Railway near St. Paul, Minn., July 26, caused four deaths and injuries to thirty others, some of whom can not recover. The same day, near East St. Louis, a collision between a railway train and an electric railway car killed three men and fatally injured three more, twelve others being less seriously hurt.

— The demand made by some European powers for the punishment of the assassins of the late king and queen of Servia, has been dropped. Fear of meeting a like fate is still strong in the minds of some European monarchs, however, and Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria has caused his palace to be barricaded, while the king of Portugal is seeking to protect himself by making wholesale arrests.

— At Lowell, Mass., July 29, an attempt of a careless workman to dilute nitroglycerine with nitric acid, mistaking the latter for water, at the works of the United States Cartridge Company, led to an explosion which completely wrecked two powder magazines, leveling everything standing in the vicinity, tearing down houses and trees for a distance of several hundred yards. Thirty persons were killed, some of the victims being two hundred yards distant from the magazines when the explosion took place. The roar of the explosion was heard for a distance of fifty miles.