p. 22 | News and Miscellany

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 14, 1911

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— In a wreck occurring on the Erie and Pittsburg Railroad, September 4, four persons were killed and forty injured.

— An appalling mortality from cholera is reported among the Turkish troops at Constantinople. It is stated that 850 deaths have occurred in the last few days.

— At Toledo, Ohio, September 2, in the midst of preparations for Labor-day celebration, a thirty-five-foot craft was rammed by a barge, resulting in the death of seven by drowning.

— Dr. Cook of arctic fame is again in the limelight. He announces that he will prove before the International Geological Congress to convene in Rome, Italy, in October, that he was the first and only discoverer of the north pole. He states that he will present elaborate scientific proof of his polar attainment, and will answer specifically every charge which has been made against him.

— A great flood during the last few days has devastated a large section of country in the Chinese empire, extending from Ichang, in the province of Hupeh, to Shanghai, a distance of about 700 miles. It is believed that more than 100,000 persons have been drowned. Farmhouses and brush huts have been submerged throughout the entire district, or are floating down the river. The loss to property and to crops is extensive.

— The Italian government has been battling with a severe epidemic of cholera for some weeks. Since the beginning of the year the total number of deaths, it is claimed, has passed the 20,000 mark. Terror and superstition are causing outbreaks of violence among the inhabitants. Health measures are opposed by the people, and this makes the work of curbing the epidemic a severe one. The government is putting forth most energetic measures to meet the situation.