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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 7, 1903

— A new city hall is projected in New York City, to be forty-five stories in height.

— Twenty persons lost their lives by a cloudburst in southwestern Texas, July 2.

— Great damage was done to property at Peru, Ind., and vicinity by a rain storm, July 2.

— There is growing hostility between Austria and Hungary, and grave apprehension is felt that an open rupture will be the outcome.

— Bulgaria has sent a note to the European powers asking that Turkey be restrained from military operations on the Bulgarian frontier.

— The completion of the Pacific cable line between the Philippine Islands and San Francisco is announced from Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands.

— President Loubet of France recently refused to receive a visiting delegation of English Catholics whose object was to protest against the expulsion of the Catholic religious orders from France.

— Snow flurries were reported from all parts of Montana, July 2. There have been recent cold rains, and the crops are generally in a bad condition.

— The reform element in the Jewish church are considering the advisability of drawing up a new creed, the outlines of which were submitted to the gathering of Jewish rabbis at Detroit, July 2.

— Grasshoppers have completely devastated a section in Montana around Forsyth, seventy miles long and fifty wide, and the plains are dotted with carcasses of cattle which have died of starvation.

— Silver ore from the mines of Chile, South America, is shipped to the United States for smelting. Fifty-two car-loads of such ore came through Texas recently, for Colorado smelters. The ore was valued at $8,000,000.

— A report from Walla Walla County, Wash., stated recently that vegetation in that section was menaced by army worms, which were observed traveling in a column one hundred and fifty yards wide and three miles long.

— Russian troops have entered Korea, according to a dispatch from Seoul, dated June 28.

— The State of Texas has begun actions against labor unions under its anti-trust law, such unions being regarded as labor trusts.

— Ten persons were killed in the Heron Lake region of Minnesota by a cyclone which swept over that region June 30. Near Wilder, Minn., the same day, a cyclone destroyed property for a distance of eight miles, three persons being killed.

— The English education act which stirred up the opposition of the non-conformist churches in England, is being enforced by the seizure and sale of household effects wherever people refuse, as some are doing, to pay the education dues.

— A bug which is an exterminator of the cotton weevil is reported to have appeared in Caldwell County, Texas. The bug does not injure the cotton plant, and if reports of its work are true, will be worth many millions of dollars to Southern planters.

— Count Cassini, the Russian ambassador, has returned to Russia, and it is rumored that he may not resume his political position in this country, his government being displeased at his failure to prevent the action taken by the United States over the Kishineff affair.

— An automobile race of 370¾ miles in Ireland, July 2, was run by the winner in six hours and thirty-six minutes. England, France, Germany, and America were represented in the race. Only one machine was wrecked, the occupants being severely hurt, but not killed.

— The Jewish petition to the czar in regard to the Kishineff massacre will be forwarded to the Russian government, it is stated, notwithstanding the objection of the latter to receiving it. Relations between the United States and Russia are somewhat strained, but the chief difficulty is in regard to the “open door” in Manchuria.

— The present year is a record-breaking one as regards foreign immigration to this country. The New York Times says: “The number of immigrants coming through the port of New York for the fiscal year ended last night [June 30] was 125,133 greater than for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902. The totals are 604,924, as against 479,791.”

— There is considerable excitement at Tien-Tsin, China, over the gathering of the British, American, and Japanese fleets in the northern part of the gulf of Pechili, and it is believed that much significance is attached to their movements. It is asserted that no less than fifty-seven Russian war-ships are assembled at Port Arthur. The Japanese reserve officers, who were on leave in north China, have been called home.

— The Methodist Protestant, Congregational, and United Brethren churches in Pennsylvania are trying to effect a union, and subcommittees from each were appointed to meet and decide on a plan of action, to report the same at a meeting of the advisory committees of these churches in Pittsburg, July 1. It is expected, however, says a Pittsburg dispatch, that the Congregationalists will make demands which will prevent the union from being realized.

— A shocking mine disaster is reported from Hanna, Wy. By an explosion of fire-damp in one of the coal mines there 200 miners who were under ground at the time are believed to have been killed. Twenty-eight dead bodies were recovered soon after the explosion.

— A terrible railway accident is reported from Spain. Between Bilbao and Saragossa, June 27, a train which was filled with passengers fell from a bridge over the Nejerilla River, and a large proportion of the passengers were killed by the fall, or drowned in the river. One report states that one hundred dead bodies have been recovered.

— Prohibition in Maine is at last to prohibit in the strictest sense of the word according to a Bangor dispatch of July 1. The State supreme court is responsible for this change in the situation. The judges of that court have given notice that the possession of a United States internal revenue liquor stamp will subject the possessor to a jail sentence, instead of the customary fine, and the result is that “all over the State hotels and restaurants last night [June 30] closed their bars, and wholesalers went out of business.” How long this condition will continue remains to be seen.