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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Aug 8, 1907

— Turkish troops in European Turkey annihilated a Greek band, killing forty and capturing nine on August 1.

— Eighteen persons were killed, and at least fifteen were seriously injured, as the result of a fire in a tenement-house in New York, July 29.

— A general strike has been declared at Lodz, Russia, calling out 32,000 men. July 30 the electric cars were demolished, and the strikers fired upon the troops sent to disperse them. About thirty persons were killed.

— The Hague Conference has adopted the principle that debts shall not be collected by force except after a recourse to The Hague Court. It is thought this will practically prevent war between the Old and the New World.

— A South polar expedition started from London, July 30, commanded by Lieut. E. H. Shackleton. The equipment includes a motor-car provided with several sets of runners, in which an attempt to reach the pole will be made during the summer of 1908.

— Sixty Koreans and forty Japanese are said to have been killed August 1 in an encounter that arose incident to the disbanding of the Korean army by the Japanese.

— Although July 25 was a legal holiday in Porto Rico, being the ninth anniversary of the landing of American troops, there was no celebration of the anniversary in any town of the island.

— Dock laborers of Belfast, Ireland, are on a strike for increased pay and shorter hours. The police have sympathized, and are demanding more pay because of the extra work the strike entails. Soldiers have been ordered to the scene, and others are held in readiness. The police of Cork are said to be in full sympathy with the police force of Belfast in demanding more pay.

— An unexplained phenomenon occurred at McGregor, Tex., July 28. Over an area three miles long by two miles wide the heat was unendurable for about an hour and twenty minutes. The mercury registered 179° in the sun and 117° in the shade. A peculiar haze moved over the territory affected. According to report, scores of persons were overcome, and many domestic animals dropped dead.

— One reason recently put forth against self-government for the Philippines is the slight interest manifested at the election of members of the new Assembly, which took place July 30. The registration of voters did not exceed 60,000, which is only about ten per cent of those entitled to vote. From one of the districts of Manila, Dominador Gomez, a notorious criminal, was elected to the legislature.

— An agreement for the peaceable settlement of the controversy between the State and federal courts in reference to the new railway rate law of South Carolina was reached July 27. By its terms, the Southern Railway will adopt the prescribed rate not later than August 8, and the several cases before the courts will be appealed and argued together before the United States Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of the law.

— For some time it has been expected that Nicaragua would at any time open hostilities against Salvador; but it is now reported that the attack will not be made. Nicaragua's minister to Mexico has suggested that Salvador's claim for damages because of the recent raid upon Acajutla and Sonsonate be submitted to President Diaz for arbitration. Until this matter shall have been adjusted, Salvador and Guatemala will decline to take part in a Central American conference at Washington.

— After a trial of many weeks, William D. Haywood, secretary and treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners, has been acquitted of the charge of complicity in the murder of the ex-governor of Idaho, Frank Steunenberg. Since their release some of the jurors have declared their belief in his guilt, but, as a large majority were for acquittal because of the judge's ruling, they were convinced no jury would convict, and so voted for acquittal rather than disagree, which would necessitate a new trial, greatly adding to the expense of prosecution, which now amounts to more than a quarter of a million dollars.