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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 24, 1907

— Priests and students are beginning to respond to the order of France that they shall serve in the army the same as other citizens. Fifty-five hundred are affected by the order.

— The worst flood in twenty years is raging along the banks of the Ohio River and its tributaries. In the immediate vicinity of Cincinnati alone fully 15,000 persons have been driven from their homes.

— A tidal wave has devastated some of the Dutch East Indian Islands. According to an official dispatch, 300 persons perished on the island of Tena, while forty are known to have been drowned at the island of Simalu.

— A New York alderman has been arrested for receiving a bribe of $500 each for the votes of himself and ten of his colleagues in the contest of choosing a recorder. A member of the common council of Pittsburg has been convicted of soliciting a bribe in that city.

— The worst typhoon in ten years swept over the islands Leyte and Samar of the Philippines, January 10. One hundred lives were lost in Leyte, and the barracks and officers’ quarters on Samar were destroyed. Communication with these islands was cut off for six days.

— According to New York report two former officers of the Palma administration in Cuba are in that city, and a third is in Europe, to again foment trouble in the island. These reports state that arms and ammunition have been shipped clandestinely from New York to Cuba for possible future use.

— By an explosion of gas at the base of a blast furnace in Pittsburg, Pa., January 9, tons of molten metal were showered about the thirty-five workmen near by. Of these three are dead, seven are dying, and twenty-four are missing. It is feared they were engulfed by the molten mass from which they were last seen fleeing.

— Encouraged by some successes, strikers in the mill district of Orizaba, Mexico, cut the wires of telegraphic and telephone communication, and began pillaging the shops and houses. When a body of troops arrived, it met with resistance. The soldiers fired upon the mob, killing thirty and wounding eighty. Not long after thousands of the strikers suffering from hunger from being idle returned to work, at least seven of the ringleaders of the trouble were executed by the government.

— Train wrecks seem to be chronicled with increasing frequency and horror. A single paper has brought the news of nineteen dead and thirty injured near Terra Haute, Ind., from the explosion of a car of powder on a siding; and sixteen killed and ten injured at Fowler, Ind., caused by the engineer of a fast train on the Big Four Railroad passing a block signal in a fog; also minor casualties to trains at Denmark, S. C.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Meridian, Miss.; De Soto, Kan.; Peoria, Ill.; and two at Hammond, Ind.