Dowie Deposed as Leader of Zion City
John Alexander Dowie, self-styled Elijah III, and first apostle, general overseer of Zion City, has been deprived of his rulership in the Dowieite movement, and all the vast accumulation of means and houses and institutions has been stripped from him by the persons left in power while he was in Mexico. Even his own wife and son have turned against him, and serious charges have been brought by them and others. It is expected that on Mr. Dowie’s return to Zion City, there will be a bitter contest between the two factions. At the present time the majority of the members are against their former leader. Those who are conducting the crusade against tuberculosis in this country have found it necessary to publish a journal devoted to the study and prevention of that disease. This crusade is under the medical direction of Dr. Herman M. Biggs, Medical Director of the New York City Health Department. The name of this new periodical is the “Journal of the Outdoor Life,” and is published at Trudeau, N. Y., at $1.00 a year. The journal aims to be helpful to those suffering from tuberculosis or having a tendency toward lung trouble. The great strike of coal miners has taken place, and more than 500,000 men in the hard and soft coal fields left the mines. Propositions for arbitration have been made by the miners, but so far the companies have not made any move looking to the settlement of the question by that method. It is understood that the coal companies are well prepared for a long strike, having large quantities of coal stored in various places. Some of the roads are reported to have ceased shipping coal west. Serious trouble seems possible between Russia and China. The latter country is not satisfied with the slow movements of the Russian troops in the evacuation of Manchuria. Russia and Japan were allowed to maintain a certain number of railroad guards; but Russia still has a large army in Manchuria, and China is becoming very insistent in the matter of their withdrawal. The British Government has yielded to the demands of the Labor Party and has granted labor unions exemption for their funds from any process of law. This frees the unions from the payment of damages in any case where their agents have committed breaches of the peace or destroyed property. The Russian Government is again issuing a call for an international congress at The Hague, naming the various questions that it desires to have discussed, among which is compulsory arbitration in certain cases. If the other governments accept the call, the congress will convene in July next. The rebel Zulu chief, Bumbatta, with his followers, is causing much trouble in Natal, South Africa. The British force there is small, and has had to retire before the Zulus. Reinforcements are being sent to that district to cope with the insurgents. The earthquake on the Island of Formosa appears to have been fully as disastrous as at first reported. Incomplete returns from the island show that 1,087 persons were killed and 6,163 were injured in that cataclysm. The municipality of Chicago, as a result of the recent election, is to take over the street railways of that city, but has not been given the right to operate them under its own management. The Russian Government has renewed the press censorship in what Russian editors consider a most offensive form.