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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 25, 1902

— The “republic” of Hayti appears to be on the brink of another revolution. Two of the most prominent men on the island, one a supreme court justice, have been thrown into jail.

— The British Parliament is considering a plan providing for a pension for all workers in England over the age of sixty-five years, who are worthy people, and whose weekly income is not over $2.50.

— The beet-sugar men in Congress, who have been persistently opposing a tariff reduction on Cuban sugar, have at last capitulated, and the reduction so much desired by Cuban interests seems now assured.

— William Jennings Bryan, the politician, has removed from his residence in Lincoln, Neb., to a thirty-acre tract several miles out, upon which he is building an imposing residence. The location is not far from Union College.

— Seven life savers on the coast near Chatham, Mass., were drowned through the overturning of their lifeboat in the heavy sea, March 17, after having rescued five men from a stranded vessel. The rescued men shared the fate of their rescuers.

— Communication by wireless telegraphy between ships and their ports of departure or destination is to be established on the Great Lakes. Preliminary experiments have already been made on a ship running between Detroit and Cleveland, with good success.

— The North River pier in Hoboken, N. J., which was the scene of a great fire two years ago, was visited by another conflagration, March 18, which destroyed a number of ships and docks, and cost two lives. About a million dollars’ worth of property was destroyed.

— Late dispatches from St. Petersburg tell of student riots in that city on an extensive scale, the apparent purpose of which is to inaugurate a revolution, as indicated by such shouts from the rioters as, “Free Russia,” and, “Down with the autocracy.” Wholesale arrests were made. The situation is probably worse than is indicated by the reports.

— The attorney of the Interstate Commerce Commission has begun injunction proceedings at Kansas City against a number of prominent Western railway lines, with the object of preventing them from discriminating in freight rates, which railways are now commonly supposed to do, in favor of the trusts. The matter is creating a big stir in railway circles.

— A blizzard, which raged over a vast section in the northwestern part of the United States and adjoining Canadian territory, March 15–17, accompanied with intense cold, caused great loss of live stock and an almost complete paralysis of traffic. Many railway trains were stalled in the snow, in many places even snowplows being powerless to clear the way. Several persons who were unprepared for storm lost their lives.