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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · May 26, 1904

— Severe fighting is reported between Turks and Armenians at Chelouzan, in the district of Mush. The killed and wounded number into the hundreds. Seventeen villages are said to have been destroyed by Armenian insurgents in the district of Sassoun.

— The Supreme Court of the United States, by a unanimous decision rendered May 16, decided against the admission of foreign anarchists to the territory of the United States, affirming the decision of the United States Circuit Court under which the English anarchist Turner was debarred from residence in this country.

— Report of a recent plot against the life of the czar, which was to have been carried out by the daughter of a prominent Russian official named Merezhevsky, comes from St. Petersburg. The girl, when arrested, had with her a bomb which she had intended to throw at the czar. She is reported to have suffered the death penalty.

— The success which has attended the Japanese arms in the war with Russia was broken recently by the loss of a battle-ship and a cruiser belonging to Admiral Togo’s fleet which is blockading Port Arthur. The battle-ship, according to report, struck a mine, and sank in half an hour, the greater part of her crew being drowned. The cruiser is said to have been sunk by collision in a fog. The Russian land forces have also gained some successes in Manchuria.

— Pope Pius’s protest against the French president’s visit to the king of Italy has caused much discussion in France, and it is announced that it will shortly be noticed in a speech by Premier Combes, from whom some sensational statements regarding it are expected. If the Combes cabinet is not overthrown before the next political campaign in France, the issue of that campaign will, it is said, be the question of the separation of church and state. This same question is also now agitating governmental circles in Switzerland.

— A coroner’s jury in Philadelphia held an inquest, May 17, over the body of a ten-year-old boy named William Black, who two days previously had attempted to follow the example set him by his seniors in the use of tobacco. A press dispatch states: “The lad’s father said that Willie came home late Sunday afternoon, and complained of a severe pain in his stomach. Two physicians from the Children’s Hospital found the boy in convulsions. An emetic resulted in bringing to light the stump of a cigar. The boy recovered consciousness shortly before he died, and said that he had tried to smoke his first cigar.”