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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 24, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 42, No. 2.

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Another Drouth.

Some parts of the country are suffering for want of rain. The crops in Michigan will be injured more than in past dry seasons, the drouth coming earlier. Already news of disaster begins to come in. The following are from the Detroit Post of June 21:
LANSING, June 20, 10 P. M.
Large fires are raging in the woods about Lansing, and large parties of men are out fighting the flames in the hope of saving the crops in the fields that are in imminent danger of destruction.
MILWAUKEE, June 20.
Michigamme, Mich., was entirely destroyed by fire yesterday. Over two hundred houses were burned. The loss on property is immense. Eight lives were lost.