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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Mar 31, 1904

—Within the past eighteen months there have been three suicides among the professors in the University of Ohio.

—Vigorous sanitary measures are required at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., to stamp out a threatened epidemic of typhoid fever.

—Sir Edwin Arnold, the noted English poet and Orientalist, died at his home in London, March 24, after a brief illness. He was seventy-two years of age.

—The city of Butte, Mont., is reported to be sliding slowly down the side of the mountain on which it is situated, the last reported movement having been made March 14. Several buildings and sections of the street railway tracks have suffered damage.

—News comes from Panama that the new Panama “republic” is about to dispose of its navy, consisting of two vessels, by sale or charter; that a loan of $100,000 is to be negotiated in the United States; and that the standing army of the republic is to consist of two hundred and fifty men, including officers.

—It is reported that the Japanese have succeeded in closing Port Arthur by the sinking of vessels at the mouth of the harbor. Skirmishing between the Russian and Japanese land forces in the vicinity of the Yalu River is also reported. There are conflicting rumors regarding the condition of the Russian fleet and fortifications at Port Arthur.

—A storm which swept over Kentucky, March 26, unroofed houses in Louisville, and injured a number of people, besides flooding a large section of the city. Great damage to property was also caused in Daviess County, Kentucky. On the same date a storm in Greene County, Arkansas, killed three persons, injured a large number, and caused widespread damage to property.

—In southern Colorado the State militia have been called out to preserve order in the districts affected by the striking coal miners. The president of the Western Federation of Miners was put under arrest at Ouray, and Governor Peabody and Attorney-General Miller are considering the advisability of deporting from the State several officials of the United Mine Workers of America who have come to the scene of the disturbance from other parts of the country. President Mitchell sends word to the strikers to remain firm. In Las Animas County the governor has proclaimed martial law.

—Great damage, estimated at several millions of dollars has been done by floods in southern Michigan, principally along the banks of the Grand River and the Kalamazoo. At Grand Rapids 3,000 buildings were flooded, 1,500 families were imprisoned in their homes, 10,000 employees were thrown out of work by the shutting down of factories, and the city was for some time in darkness by the flooding of its lighting plant. Train service was badly interrupted for several days. A number of deaths by drowning were reported. Disastrous floods are reported also from southwestern Indiana, along the tributaries of the Ohio River in Ohio, and in the Mohawk Valley, New York.

—Negro clergymen in some of the Northern States are advocating armed resistance on the part of negroes when threatened with mob violence by the whites. The pastor of an African Methodist church in Brooklyn, N. Y., Rev. F. M. Jacobs, urged this course before his congregation as being the best remedy for lynchings, and in justification of it said: “They may call this an incendiary sermon, but before the Spanish-American War every pulpit in the land was demanding revenge for the victims of Spanish treachery.” When war is advocated even from the pulpit, there is small prospect for peace. Clergymen to-day seem largely to have forgotten the injunction of their Lord and Master, “Resist not evil.” They are poor ambassadors of the Prince of Peace.