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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 28, 1910

— Despatches from Central America state that another revolution has broken out in Guatemala.

— Despatches from South America indicate that there is still great danger of war between Peru and Ecuador.

— Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) died at his home at Redding, Conn., on April 21, at the age of seventy-five years.

— A locomotive belonging to the National Railways of Mexico, exploded at Monterey, on April 16, killing eleven men.

— A landslide occurred at Kakoucache, Quebec, on April 18, which resulted in the death of twenty-five men employed on a ballast train.

— The present Italian cabinet, formed by Signor Luzzatti, with the support of the Radical party, is expected to initiate at once an anticlerical policy.

— A strike occurred at Schoenville, near Pittsburg, Pa., on April 18, at the factory of the Pressed Steel Car Company. The strikers number 1,000 men.

— An agreement has been reached between the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad and its employees which averts the threatened strike on that road.

— The average amount spent in Germany for liquors during the last five years reaches nearly $750,000,000 according to authoritative figures recently compiled, which is said to be more than twice the combined cost of the army and navy.

— A hurricane swept over portions of Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Alabama, on April 16, doing much damage to property, and resulting in the loss of twenty lives.

— An explosion, which occurred at the Mulga Mines in Alabama on April 21, has resulted in the death of forty-five of the miners who were in the workings at the time of the explosion.

— Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture is planning so to alter the regulations regarding the taking up of homesteads on government land, as to make it much easier for Americans to find homesteads without crossing the Canadian border.

— It is reported that the plan of Secretary Knox for the establishment of an international court of arbitration is meeting with general favor among the nations. Mr. Knox, the report states, believes that such a court would be constituted at The Hague in the near future.

— Secretary Greene of the Iowa State Horticultural Department estimates that the loss to Iowa’s fruit and vegetable crop from the recent freezing weather will be between five and ten million dollars. Other States of the middle West have also suffered heavily through the same storm and fall in temperature.

— The Atlantic Transport Line Steamer, “Minnehaha,” went ashore at Scilly, near Bishop’s Rock, England, on April 18. The passengers were safely landed. A great quantity of her valuable cargo has already been thrown overboard, and the vessel is expected to be a complete loss.

— Statistical inquiries made in 125 of the larger German towns on the feeding of schoolchildren, showed that last summer 36,000, and last winter 22,000, children came to school without having partaken of breakfast. In winter 180,000 German schoolchildren, and in summer 113,000 schoolchildren, came to school without a warm meal.

— The entire board of physicians of the Blockley (Philadelphia) Hospital has resigned, because the 160 children, many of whom are orphans, who were inmates of that hospital, and of St. Vincent’s Home for Orphans, were being used for medical experimentation by physicians of the William-Pepper Clinical Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania.

— Mr. William J. Bryan, who recently returned from a trip to South America, announces that he will enter the contest for State-wide prohibition of the liquor traffic in the State of Missouri. This question is to be voted on next November. Mr. Bryan stated that he would not deserve the confidence reposed in him if he kept silent “in the presence of so gigantic a conspiracy against the home, society, and the state.”

— A despatch from Peking, China, dated April 21, states that the lawlessness and rioting which was reported last week at Chang-sha, the capital of Hunan province, is spreading. Riots have occurred at Ningshiang, where a Protestant mission is located, and a mission school at Yiyang has been burned. Chinese marines from a Chinese cruiser have arrived at Chang-sha, and are guarding the foreign settlement.

— During the year ended March 1, 95,270 persons left the United States for western Canada to take up government homesteads.

— During a conflagration at New Haven, Conn., on April 13, six firemen were caught in a trap by the flames and burned to death.

— The corporation known as the steel trust announces increases in wages to its 225,000 employees, which will amount to about $9,000,000 annually.

— On April 11 the city of Lincoln, Neb., decided by a one-thousand majority vote to continue the prohibition of the liquor traffic in that city.

— The wage dispute between trainmen of the New York Central and officials of the company was settled on April 12 by both parties agreeing to submit their differences to a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission as arbitrator.

— Through the investigations of special detectives, it has just come to light that the Central Illinois Railroad has been systematically robbed for some time. The amount thus taken from that road is now placed at $5,000,000.

— At a convention of woman suffragists held in Washington, D. C., on April 14, at which President Taft was invited to speak, the delegates strongly hissed the President’s remarks that were not in harmony with the ideas of the delegates.