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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 26, 1907

— Yellow fever has now disappeared from Port of Spain, Trinidad.

— Cholera is reported from thirteen provinces of Russia. So far there have been 2,320 deaths among the 4,512 cases reported.

— A mistake in the dispatcher's order cost the lives of twenty-five persons in a collision near Canaan, N. H., September 15. As many more were injured.

— By the collision of an express-train and a freight on the Mexican Central Railroad, September 19, sixty-three persons were killed, and forty-five were injured.

— There had been reported, up to the nineteenth of this month, thirty-five cases of bubonic plague in San Francisco. Twenty have died, and there are twenty suspects under observation.

— Many of the passengers and crew are missing from the Japanese steamer “Tafoo Maru,” which burned on the Yanktse River September 18. It is estimated that 100 lives were lost.

— During a fire which started in a mine near Kotaro, Japan, September 17, the water reservoir broke, flooding a part of the village. Thirty persons were drowned, and 100 houses burned.

— An explosion within the shield of a twelve-inch gun after target practise by the Japanese battle-ship “Kashima,” killed five officers and twenty-six men, September 9. Four other officers and twelve men were more or less injured.

— The failure of the brake and safety devices on a car lowering workmen into a mine at Negaunee, Mich., precipitated the car to the bottom of the shaft. Of the eighteen men in the car, eleven were killed, and the others were fatally injured.

— Fourteen of the eighteen men named by the investigation committee as responsible for the graft in connection with the furnishing of the Pennsylvania Capitol building have been arrested, and are under $60,000 bonds each to appear for trial.

— It is reported that, on account of the excessive number of convents for nuns in the city of Rome, the pope has not only decided to refuse permits for the establishment of new ones, but is inclined to suppress some of the existing institutions, and order the nuns to return to their families.

— On the nineteenth of this month Redlands, Cal., experienced a sharp earthquake shock. No damage is reported.

— The federal suit for the dissolution of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, the holding company of all the subsidiary companies of the so-called oil trust, is bringing to light some of the unjust methods by which its enormous profits have been secured. During the years 1899 to 1906 inclusive, the profits were $490,315,934. In one year one of the subsidiary companies realized a profit of 1,000 per cent on the capital invested.

— Some months since the Nobel Peace Prize of $37,000 was conferred upon President Roosevelt in consideration of his good offices in arranging the conference that terminated the Russo-Japanese War. This sum he gave for the establishment of what is now known as Roosevelt Foundation for Industrial Peace. It is now decided to add $1,000,000 by popular subscription to this for the organization chartered by Congress.

— Abdul-Aziz, the sultan of Morocco, whose brother, Mulai Hafid, has proclaimed himself sultan, recently left Fez with an army of 5,000 men for a march through the disaffected districts to Rabat. He has received numerous accessions till his troops number 15,000. The population of Rabat is divided into two camps, each favoring one of the rival sultans. Peace negotiations at Casablanca between the hostile tribesmen and the French proved futile, and General Drude will again assume the offensive.

— Anti-Jewish riots continued for three days in Odessa, during the week ending September 14. More than 100 persons are reported to have been killed, and many were flogged by the members of the League of Russian People, commonly known as the Black Hundreds. It was only on the threat of the Jewish and Christian business men to leave the city unless the rioting was stopped, that the governor-general brought in sufficient troops to maintain order. Outbreaks were also reported from other cities of the empire.

— Representatives of the five Central American republics met in Washington, D. C., September 11, in a preliminary meeting to carry out the suggestion of the United States and Mexico for a permanent peace understanding. General good-will characterized this meeting, which was adjourned to the seventeenth, when the ministers of these republics represented in Washington signed a protocol, providing for a peace conference to settle all disputes among their respective states. The conference will be held in Washington sometime between the first and fifteenth of November.

— The plan for the organization of a permanent court of arbitration which was proposed by the American delegation, was rejected at The Hague, September 18. The particular point upon which the conference was unable to agree was the selection of judges. The British delegate secured the approval of a plan to pass the general scheme for the organization and procedure of the court, leaving blank the article for the appointing of judges, and to submit this to the governments, recommending that they consider among themselves how best to overcome the difficulty that has baffled the conference.