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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 14, 1903

— The revolution in Honduras is still in progress. A dispatch from Panama, April 7, reports the capture of the town of Choluteca by the revolutionary forces.

— From present indications the wheat crop in the United States will this year be the largest ever harvested. Another month must elapse, however, before a reliable estimate can be obtained.

— Bubonic plague is reported to be raging at Hongkong, China. The disease is spreading, on account of the Chinese practice of throwing dead bodies into the streets and unoccupied areas.

— The German kaiser has recently been on a visit to the capital of Denmark, the reported purpose of which was to join Denmark with the triple alliance against the power of Russia and France.

— A labor riot at Nizhni-Novgorod, Russia, April 7, was suppressed by the authorities by the use of artillery, which was fired directly into the mob. Thirty of the latter were killed, and a hundred were wounded.

— There is almost daily fighting in San Domingo; the capital, which is in the possession of the revolutionists, being constantly attacked by the government forces. Recently the insurgents suffered a severe defeat.

— Famine is devastating Kwangsi Province, in China. Starving parents are reported to be killing their children. United States Consul McWade, at Canton, who sends this report, makes an appeal to charitable people in the United States for aid.

— Work on the construction of the Panama Canal has now been resumed, though not yet formally, under the direction of the United States government. It is estimated by Rear-Admiral Walker that 30,000 men will be needed to push the work when it is fully under way.

— Attorney-General Cunneen, of New York, has decided that Catholic parochial schools in that State are outside the jurisdiction of the State public health law, a provision of which requires students attending schools to be vaccinated. Catholics have contended that their schools should be exempt from State regulations, and this decision is a sweeping victory for their claims.

— News from Colombia by steamer reports the destruction of the village of Tiojo by an eruption of the volcano Del Tierra Firma, March 22. The loss of life is estimated at from 60 to 100 persons.

— The cyclone season has begun in the South. In White and Cleburne Counties, Arkansas, nine persons were killed and sixteen injured, four fatally, April 8; and at Hopewell, Ala., the same day, twelve persons were killed and twenty-four injured, four fatally, by cyclonic storms.

— It is reported from China that Prince Tuan has sent an ultimatum to the dowager empress demanding the deposition of the emperor, and the enthronement of Prince Tuan's son in his stead, and threatening in case of her refusal, to disrupt the empire, and make a separate kingdom out of the provinces of Shensi and Kansu.

— News from the seat of trouble in the Balkans reports a great massacre of Christians by Albanians. It is further reported by way of Constantinople that the Macedonian Revolutionary Committee intends to proclaim a general insurrection in the European provinces of Turkey about April 20, when there will be more than 100,000 men armed with rifles and dynamite bombs, in the field.

— According to Mr. S. F. Eddy, the secretary of the American legation at Constantinople, who is now in this country on leave of absence, the money raised in the United States to secure the ransom of Miss Ellen Stone, the missionary who was kidnapped by Bulgarian brigands, has been used by the Macedonian revolutionary committee to buy arms and ammunition for their adherents.

— In spite of the revelations recently made in McClure's Magazine and elsewhere, of almost incredible corruption in the city government of St. Louis, the election for members of the house of delegates, April 7, was a sweeping victory for the “ring” to which the corrupt officials belong. The latter will have full control of the lower branch of the city assembly, and boast that they will soon be in control of the whole body.

— Another great strike is looming up on the industrial horizon: the bridge and iron workers are at war with the United States Steel Corporation, and their leader, Mr. Buchanan, stated in a recent address before the Chicago Federation of Labor that a general labor war throughout the country would soon be in progress. It was, he said, his hope and expectation “that the labor organizations of the country will soon concentrate an open war against the rapidly growing combinations of capital.”

— A general strike of all classes of workingmen, including clerks, has been begun in Holland, and business in all the cities is paralyzed. As the strike affects the operation of all public utilities, such as gas, telephone, and electric power plants, sanitary and water plants, street railway employees, the resulting inconvenience and distress to the people will be very great. There is a conflict between the government and the strikers over the enforcement of laws forbidding any strike by employees of the state railways, and forbidding strikers to interfere with persons who may be employed in their places.

— From an aspect of gaiety in view of the approaching Easter festivities, the city of Rome has suddenly changed to an aspect of gloom, by reason of a general strike of mechanics which was begun in the “eternal city,” April 7. The cab lines and street-car lines were tied up, and the following day was marked by rioting and several encounters between the troops and the mob. A company of five hundred French pilgrims arriving on that date met with a discouraging reception. They left the train at a station in the outskirts of Rome, to avoid going through the city, but there were no cabs, and all kinds of wagons and carts were hired to take the pilgrims' baggage. The party arrived at Garibaldi bridge just as a detachment of cavalry charged a mob. A scene of indescribable confusion ensued. The pilgrims fled in all directions.