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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 20, 1907

— Two fatal cases of bubonic plague have occurred on the island of Trinidad, West Indies.

— It is estimated that the damage by a cyclone which swept Kurrachee, India, June 6, may reach $6,000,000.

— The village of Serai, fifty miles east of Van, on the Turco-Persian frontier, was destroyed by an earthquake. Slight shocks were felt at Van.

— Six cadets and five sailors from the battle-ship “Minnesota” were drowned in Hampton Roads June 11, while returning in a launch from the shore. Cause unknown.

— Four whites and seven negroes were killed recently in a race riot near a small town thirteen miles from Yazoo City, Miss. The trouble started over differences between a man and his colored tenant.

— Slight earthquake shock was felt at Jamaica on the 13th with no damage. On the same day at Valvivia, Chile, a severe shock destroyed buildings and railroad bridges. Thirty-nine persons were killed.

— United States Senator John T. Morgan, of Alabama, died at his residence in Washington June 11, after a ten days’ illness. He had served in the national legislature over thirty consecutive years.

— A French schooner capsized in a squall thirty miles off the coast of Barbadoes, West Indies, June 7, carrying down twenty-eight passengers that were below at the time. The captain and twenty-one men escaped with their lives.

— Mayor Eugene Schmitz of San Francisco was found guilty on the 13th of extorting money from keepers of French restaurants.

— On account of the inability of the exposition management to get sufficient help, 600 business men of Norfolk, Va., quit their work, and with picks and shovels put the finishing touches to the grounds, in order to be ready for the visit of President Roosevelt on the 10th.

— Revolutionists in Salvador have captured the port of Acajutla. They were armed by Zelaya, president of Nicaragua, in direct conflict with the recent treaty which provided that Central American States refer their differences to the United States and Mexico, for arbitration.

— For some time the operators of the Western Union Telegraph Company have had some grievances and a general strike has threatened. President Small of the Telegraphers’ Union has sent a copy of the grievances to President Roosevelt, “not as president of the United States, but as the most prominent and influential citizen in the country,” and will abide by his advice.

— Upon complaint of a mother whose boy was missing, the police of Washington invaded the house he was said to have entered, and arrested the woman who lived there, on charge of selling liquor to little children. Several children from twelve to fifteen years of age were found lying about the rooms in a drunken stupor, caused by liquor they had obtained for a few pennies each.

— A very general strike of French seamen the past week seriously interfered with navigation. The government offered marines to man some of the mail boats, but the officers refused to sail with them, and torpedo-boats were used for delivery of mails. The seamen demanded from the government an increase of the old-age pensions of the men of the naval reserve, which was granted June 3.

— Reports say that the internal condition of Russia is growing more serious. Murder is common, and pillage has become a means of livelihood. During the week ending June 8, eighty persons were killed, and seventy-eight were wounded. At Odessa, because of fear of the terrorists, two police inspectors, five subinspectors, and thirty-seven policemen requested to be allowed to resign or to be transferred. The request was denied.

— Pastor Roden, a Spanish missionary from Abyssinia who has returned to Berlin to revise the existing Abyssinian version of the Bible on behalf of the British Foreign Bible Society, reports a tribe of Hebrews, who, although adhering to the Jewish religion in every particular, have entirely outgrown the Hebrew language. This missionary reports that the progressive Emperor Menelik is favorable toward the missionaries, and, were it not for those in high position in their religion, would grant the missionaries considerable liberty. He reports that the friendly advances of Germany toward Abyssinia have been heartily welcomed, especially the kaiser’s gifts of automobiles and beer-making machinery. So it is wherever the Spirit of God opens the door to the gospel, Satan crowds in as many devices to ruin men as possible.