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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jul 11, 1907

—By the overflowing of the river Lithos more than 100 persons were drowned in the town of Trikala, Thessaly, June 18.

—Although order has been restored in Lisbon, Portugal, the troops are still kept under arms for fear of a renewal of the rioting.

—An area of ten acres, in which were situated over 200 dwellings and some business blocks, was burned over, June 29, at Bisbee, Ariz.

—The Moroccan bandit, Raisuli, has effected the capture of General Maclean, the commander of the sultan’s bodyguard, who will be held as a hostage until the sultan agrees to pardon Raisuli on his own terms.

—The commercial telegraphers of Chicago are threatening a strike if their demands are not granted, and Labor Commissioner Neill has gone to Chicago to prevent it if possible, and will then go on to San Francisco, where the telegraphers’ strike is still on.

—The Montenegrin authorities are reported to have discovered a military plot against the government, and fifteen officers of the army were arrested July 2 on charges of high treason.

—Two of the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad’s ferry-boats collided between Jersey City and New York, July 2. Two men were knocked overboard, but both were rescued.

—Fourteen killed and several wounded is the result of a rebel attack upon the town of Quevedo, Ecuador, which was repulsed by government forces. Citizens who are suspected of sympathizing with the revolutionary movement are being imprisoned by the government.

—A new combination, of Honduras, Guatemala, and Salvador, has appeared in Central America, where President Zelaya has been maneuvering for several months, by means of revolutionary plots, to consolidate the five republics under one government. Its aim is the defeat of the consolidation proposed by Zelaya.

—The principal leaders of the revolt among the wine growers of France have been arrested, and the military are in full control. By a vote of 120 majority, Premier Clemenceau was supported by the Chamber of Deputies. In some municipalities the people refused to vote for officers to take the places of those recently resigned.

—Tornadoes are reported from Rochester and Merkel, Tex., July 2. In each place several persons were injured, and numerous houses demolished. But more serious in its consequences was the storm which swept a path over 100 miles long and from a few rods to more than a mile wide in western Wisconsin, July 3. Twenty-one persons were killed and many injured.

—Space forbids recounting at any length the deaths and injuries resulting from the fourth-of-July celebration. Suffice it to say that in New York City alone the papers the next morning reported “seven dead, six dying, and 423 persons treated at hospitals for injuries more or less serious.” There were also 116 fires. When will people take a saner method of celebrating independence day?

—The street cleaners of New York City have been on a strike, and there have been many clashes between them and strike breakers. The entire police force was ordered on reserve to protect those who were willing to work. Before the matter was adjusted, the accumulating refuse became a serious menace to the health of the tenement dwellers of the east side. At the same time the drivers of the ice wagons of the American Ice Company were on a strike.

—Sentence has been pronounced against several prominent men of Western States, convicted of conspiracy to defraud the government of public lands. Fines of $1,000 each, and three months in jail, are imposed on three men in Iowa. In Idaho four men were sentenced to fines of $1,000, or jail sentence of eight months, or both, and in one case a man was given a penitentiary sentence of eighteen months in addition. A government inquiry as to land frauds has resulted in indictments (by a Denver federal grand jury) of fifty-five men, for defrauding the government of coal and timber lands.