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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Oct 13, 1904

— A strike of coal drivers, which was inaugurated with some violence, was begun in Cincinnati, October 7.

— A dispatch from Seattle states that telegraphic communication has now been established between that city and all parts of Alaska.

— The revolt of the Hereros against German rule in German Southwest Africa is reported to be broken, the natives having been driven into the desert, where many of them died of thirst.

— A Madrid telegram states that Sunday bull fighting in Spain has just been abolished by vote of the Institute of Social Reforms, and that this is considered a death-blow to the bull-fighting business in that country.

— Report of the defeat of a Portuguese force operating against rebellious natives in Portuguese West Africa has been received at Lisbon. Of five hundred men who comprised the force, over half were killed and fifty more wounded.

— Disastrous floods are reported in southwestern Oklahoma and southeastern Indian Territory. A bridge connecting the towns of Lexington and Purcell, in Oklahoma, was swept away, and seven men who were trying to save the bridge were drowned.

— Mount Pelee is again in eruption, according to word brought by the captain of a British steamer who passed near the volcano on September 30. The mountain was throwing up, he says, stupendous black clouds and balls of fire. This is believed to account for dust clouds recently reported throughout the Windward Islands.

— Postmaster-General Henry C. Payne died in Washington, October 4, at the age of sixty years, after an illness of one week. Disease of the heart was the cause of death.

— Reports from various points in New Mexico which were visited by the recent floods in that territory show that at least twenty persons lost their lives by drowning. Railway traffic was paralyzed in several places, and the property loss was great, amounting to $100,000 in the town of Roswell alone.

— There has been a scarcity of news for some days from the theater of military operations in the far East, and no great activity is reported on the part of either of the contending armies. A report that the Russian fleet had made another sortie from Port Arthur failed to be confirmed. The Russian Baltic fleet has not yet sailed for its reported Asiatic destination.

— An automobile was recently driven from Chicago to New York City at an average speed of twenty-four miles an hour, the whole time consumed in making the trip being fifty-one hours and five minutes. The highest speed attained was fifty-eight miles an hour. This performance breaks the previous record between those cities by nearly fourteen hours.

— The funeral of the French sculptor Bartholdi took place in Paris, October 7, and was largely attended by public officials and students. It is stated that Bartholdi died poor, his time and labors spent in the enterprise represented by the statue of Liberty in New York harbor, and in raising the money for the same from the French people, of which work he had charge, being largely responsible for the depletion of his financial resources.

— A recent court decision in New Hampshire upholds the practise of Christian Science as a means of healing in that State. A suit was brought by a patient to recover damages for alleged injuries received from Christian Science treatment. The plaintiff received judgment in the lower court, but on appeal the decision was reversed, the court holding that Christian Science treatment is legal where the practitioner employs the regular approved methods of that cult.

— Another “model saloon” is to be established, its location being in the town of Henry, Md. It will be under the direction of the Davis Coal and Coke Company, and will not be allowed to open its doors in the morning until eight o’clock, when the miners will have gone to work. It is designed to run opposition to a neighboring saloon of the ordinary type. The idea was suggested to the coal company by Bishop Potter’s “model saloon” in New York City.

— The cruelties practised on the natives of the Congo State, in Africa, which is nominally under Belgian rule, led to a memorial signed by many eminent men in Europe and in America, petitioning President Roosevelt to intervene to secure humane treatment for the victims of the land owners in that section of Africa. The president, after considering the matter, has replied that not sufficient cause has been shown for intervention.