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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 18, 1902

— The latest trust reported is a perfumery trust, with $5,000,000 capital.

— The Illinois State anti-trust law has been pronounced unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court.

— Three explosions of natural gas at Peru, Ind., March 12, wrecked two buildings, killed one person and seriously injured seven others.

— The death of a year-old child, due to suffocation caused by the inhalation of its breath by a cat, the child being asleep in a carriage, is reported from Denver, Colo.

— John P. Altgeld, ex-governor of Illinois and a prominent figure in Western political circles, died March 12, at Joliet, from an apoplectic stroke, following a speech delivered at a pro-Boer meeting the evening before.

— John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy, has tendered his resignation to President Roosevelt, and the latter has accepted it. He will lay down the duties of his office, May 1. His place will be filled by William H. Moody, of Massachusetts.

— King Edward VII has contemplated making a visit to Ireland at an early date, but has been advised that Irish sentiment toward England would make his tour unpleasant if not unsafe in some districts; on which account the king has abandoned it indefinitely.

— The steamboat “Providence,” plying between Vicksburg, Miss., and Lake Palmyra, on the Mississippi River, was overturned by a squall at Ione Landing, in the early morning of March 12, while crew and passengers were asleep, and twenty-one persons were drowned.

— Special precautions against the spread of the plague are being taken at Melbourne, Australia, says a dispatch from that city to the London Times. Thirty blocks are being cleaned, rats are being destroyed, and garbage is being burned. It is hoped that the disease will not spread.

— A statistician who has been comparing the daily mail of sovereigns, finds that the pope receives the most—about 23,000 letters a day. He has, however, thirty-five secretaries to help him. King Edward has 1,000 letters and 3,000 newspapers a day, the czar and the kaiser 700 letters each, the king of Italy 500, and the young queen of Holland from 100 to 150.

— Strikes have been in progress the past week at Boston, Mass., Cleveland, Ohio, Pittsburg, Pa., Norfolk, Va., Columbus, Ohio, and on the Rocky Mountain division of the Northern Pacific Railway. The most serious situation was at Boston, Mass., the strike there being mainly directed against the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railway, for handling freight delivered to it by non-union teamsters.

— The Spanish cabinet, which has been headed by Premier Sagasta, resigned from office, March 13.

— Cecil Rhodes, the South African empire builder, is critically ill in Cape Town, with but slight prospects of recovery.

— A large gold field filled with “blanket” ore, eleven miles in extent, has been discovered by prospectors on the West Coast of Africa, near Grand Bassam.

— The town of Tchengeri, in Asia Minor, was totally destroyed by an earthquake on March 8, four hundred of the inhabitants being killed, and many others injured.

— Prince Henry concluded his American visit, March 11, on which date he sailed for Europe on the “Deutschland,” after an exchange of compliments by wire with President Roosevelt.

— The Industrial Educator, published at Keene, Tex., is authority for the statement that fuel oil in any quantity, up to 100,000 barrel lots, is offered for sale at Beaumont at nine cents a barrel.

— King Edward VII neglected to send an embassy to Pope Leo to inform the latter of his ascension to the throne; in consequence of which Leo declares that he will not send an embassy to the coronation of King Edward.

— St. Joseph, Mich., at the mouth of the St. Joseph River, is to be made the deepest and most commodious harbor on the east shore of Lake Michigan. A line of steamships is to be run between St. Joseph, Milwaukee, and Duluth.

— The British arms in South Africa sustained a serious reverse March 7, in the defeat of a force under Lord Methuen, two hundred prisoners being taken, together with the commander, who was wounded. The prisoners were subsequently released. The Boers took four guns and a large quantity of provisions.

— Dr. M. K. Allen, health officer of Louisville, Ky., has forbidden the manufacture and sale of Limburger cheese in that city, and declares that any one found guilty of such action will be prosecuted. A committee of German citizens called on him to protest against the regulation, but the officer was deaf to their entreaties.

— An Illinois Central passenger train ran into a cyclone 135 miles north of New Orleans, in the early morning of March 12, and suffered serious damage, all the windows in the train being broken, though the passengers escaped injury. The storm overturned trees and telegraph poles, and is believed to have caused some loss of life.

— Since the gas explosion in Chicago, which brought death to the Trostel family, at Archer Avenue and Twenty-second Street, residents of that neighborhood have lived in dread of a repetition of that occurrence; and on March 12 the odor of escaping gas caused three families to spend the night with friends in another neighborhood.

— News was brought to San Francisco, March 10, by a steamship of the Pacific Mail Company, that in the early morning of March 4, the towns of La Libertad and Acajutla, on the Central American coast, were swept by a tidal wave, with great destruction of property and loss of life, the full amount of which had not been estimated. The disaster came without any warning.

— A fire in the business section of Chicago, near the lake front, March 12, destroyed one large building and damaged others, causing a loss of about $200,000. Three hundred firemen, with thirty-five fire engines, six chemical engines, and two water towers, fought the flames. The magnificent building of the Chicago public library, which was in close proximity, was saved from damage by a “water curtain.”

— The improved methods of transmitting power by electricity has made possible the development of another great water-power on the Pacific coast, the falls of the Nooksack River in the Cascade Mountains. They are to be made to furnish light to every city on Puget Sound from Seattle to Vancouver, about two hundred miles by the coast, the city nearest the falls being New Whatcom, Wash., fifty miles away. The undertaking will cost several million dollars.

— The Spanish treaty claims commission, which has had under consideration claims to the amount of several million dollars filed by relatives of the sailors killed in the “Maine” explosion in Havana harbor, has given a decision against the claimants, holding that the victims of the explosion having been at the time in the employ of the United States government, executing a government commission, they do not have in the matter the status of individual citizens, but that of agents of the United States.