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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 21, 1903

— The pope’s personal fortune, which is said to be smaller than was supposed, has been bequeathed to the church.

— A sanitarium at Bonner Springs, Kan., was destroyed by fire, July 16, the steward and three patients perishing in the flames.

— An express train was wrecked near Liverpool, England, July 15, by jumping the track. Eight passengers were killed and fifteen injured.

— Fighting between Bulgarian and Turkish troops is frequently reported from the Bulgarian frontier, and the mobilization of Turkish troops continues.

— Destructive floods in Silesia, Germany, have done much damage to crops, besides inundating a number of villages. Thirty peasants are reported to have been drowned.

— The Russian government has sent word that it will neither consider nor receive the Jewish petition which was to be presented by the United States relating to the Kishineff massacre.

— Three persons were killed and fifty injured by a railway collision near Lees Summit, Mo., July 12. By a similar accident near Savannah, Mo., July 14, one man was killed and twenty seriously hurt.

— A destructive tornado passed over a section of Nebraska near Cozad, July 14, wrecking nearly every building in a strip of territory ten miles long and three miles wide. One man was killed, and three other persons were injured.

— Generals Joubert and O’Donnell, Boer commanders in the late war in South Africa, are to head a Boer colonization movement to Mexico, for which 100,000 acres of land was recently acquired by them.

— The victims of lynch law are not confined to the black race. A white man who was under sentence of life imprisonment for murder committed two years ago, at Flemingsburg, Ky., was taken from jail by a mob, July 15, and hanged to a neighboring tree; the people of the vicinity being enraged because the criminal had appealed his case for a new trial, and had money and influence at his command with which to defeat the ends of justice.