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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 11, 1903

— A plague of grasshoppers prevails in the vicinity of Haigler, Nebraska.

— Earthquake shocks were reported at Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah, July 23.

— A railway collision between freight trains near Cumberland Falls, Ky., August 1, killed six men and injured others, one fatally.

— The Catholic federation received a letter from President Roosevelt during its session in Atlantic City, endorsing the work of that organization.

— The country between Lindsborg and Ellsworth, Kan., was inundated by a cloudburst, August 2, twelve miles of railway track being washed away, and several towns flooded. Great damage was done to crops.

— Labor unions in Texas refuse to allow their members who belong to the State militia to take the oath of allegiance to the government and swear to support the national Constitution, as the militia are now required to do by a State law which went into effect July 1. Such members have the alternative of resigning from the militia or being discharged from the union.

— Cardinal Sarto, “patriarch of Venice,” was elected pope on the seventh ballot of the conclave of cardinals at the Vatican, August 4, by a nearly unanimous choice. He takes the title, “Pius X.” His election is well received by the European powers, and no immediate change in the policy of the Vatican is anticipated, but it is believed by some that the relations between the Vatican and the Italian government will be more friendly. One or two new American cardinals are also anticipated, as the new pontiff is not bound as Leo was said to be, by a promise to Cardinal Gibbons that he would create no other American cardinal.