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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 27, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 30.

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Strained relations are said to exist in Abyssinia between French and Russian missionaries. The Russians desire to convert Abyssinia into a fief of the Russian Holy Synod in order that the czar may acquire a moral protectorate over the empire of the negus. That would be a religious conquest which would naturally pave the way for subsequent diplomatic action.
The set known as the “four hundred,” of New York, is to be reduced to two hundred, in order that the “aristocracy of wealth” in that great city may be made more exclusive and aristocratic than ever before. Those admitted to this set will be they who are able to maintain the most princely palaces, and entertain in the most royal manner.
It is stated that the victims of the Turkish soldiers in the recent Armenian massacres numbered 6,000; that at the village of Akhbi the number of persons killed was so great that the bodies, which were thrown from a bridge, dammed the river, and that the Turks freed the channel by firing artillery into the heaps of corpses.
A British army surgeon at Rangoon, Burmah, reports that he has discovered a cure for the leprosy. He succeeded in cultivating the leprosy germs, and then produced a substance which destroys them. He reports success in the treatment of leprosy patients.
A great strike of butchers and packers in the large cities of the middle states is now in force. Over 45,000 men are reported to have stopped work, and several of the packing plants have been shut down.
The intention of the United States to send a fleet of war-ships into Turkish waters unless there was a prompt settlement of the school question, has resulted in the sultan giving the necessary orders.
Contracts which prohibit contractors from employing non-union workers are void, according to a decision of the judge of the Circuit Court of Milwaukee, Wis., on July 13.
The Republic of Panama is protesting against the United States assumption of authority over the canal zone before the completion of the canal.
The Russian Government is introducing some domestic reforms to allay the popular discontent while it is dealing with affairs in the Orient.
The Philippine Government has completed arrangements for leasing and selling the friar lands to individual occupants.
One of the St. Louis Assembly boodlers has admitted his guilt, and will be sentenced to the penitentiary for two years.
At Glenwood, Ill., on July 13, a railway collision resulted in the death of 22 persons, and the injury of 70.
An organization has been formed to include the union workers in all the marine lines in all the world.
Ex-President Paul Krueger, of the Transvaal Republic, died at Clarens, Switzerland, on July 14.
The renewal of revolutionary outbreaks in Macedonia is causing anxiety in diplomatic circles.
In a collision at Midvale, N. J., on July 10, 17 persons were killed, and 50 injured.
The total of deaths caused by the General Slocum disaster is officially placed at 958.