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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 5, 1907

— Several sharp earthquake shocks have recently been felt in the Danish West Indies.

— Nine cases of bubonic plague have been discovered in San Francisco, seven of which have resulted fatally.

— The empress dowager of China has announced her intention of resigning her power into the hands of the emperor at the Chinese new year.

— During a strike of the railroad employees at Boulder, Colo., August 10, the freight depot was fired by one of the strikers. The fire spread to a car containing a ton of dynamite. The explosion which followed killed five persons. Property loss, $500,000.

— The International Socialist Conference convened at Stuttgart, August 18. There were in attendance 884 delegates representing twenty-five different nationalities.

— Fifteen persons were killed and fifty injured in a head-on collision of an interurban trolley express with a local car near Charleston, Ill., August 30. A confusion of orders is said to have been the cause.

— An action has been begun in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to enjoin Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell, and other officers of the American Federation of Labor and several of its subsidiary organizations from using the boycott and so-called “unfair list.”

— A new cotton worm has been discovered in three different counties of Arkansas. The insect bores its way into the cotton stalk just above the ground, and eats its way to the top through the pith, killing the plant. It is said that one third of the crop has been killed in some places.

— Delegates from various manufacturing and employers’ associations met in New York, August 19, and discussed the proposal to form a national federation, which shall have for its purpose the furtherance of peace in the industrial world by combining the efforts of all the employing interests.

— During the year 1906 there died from plague in India 59,619. One thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven persons were inoculated, and only one death among them is reported. Evidently, however, the people do not look with favor upon this procedure, for of those inoculated 1,146 were inmates of a jail.

— At the State Department at Washington favorable replies have been received from each of the Central American republics to the proposal of President Roosevelt, who acted in concurrence with President Diaz of Mexico, that representatives of the five republics hold a conference with the view of reaching an agreement upon a plan for permanent peace.

— The Hague Conference has disposed of the question of limitation of armament by passing a resolution introduced by the first delegate of Great Britain; namely, “This conference confirms the resolution adopted by the conference of 1899 regarding the limitation of military burdens; and as military burdens have been considerably augmented in almost all countries since 1899, it declares it highly desirable to see the governments earnestly resume the study of this question.”

— The brother of the sultan of Morocco has been proclaimed sultan at Marakesh, the southern capital. The same authorities have condemned the present sultan as a traitor to his country and his religion, and declared him deposed. He is held a prisoner in Fez by another brother who is a member of the newly appointed cabinet. The new sultan is expected to march to Casablanca, and the natives believe that he is coming to try to get an official mandate from the French government to restore order, thereby establishing himself on a firm basis.