News of the World

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 23, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 35, No. 21.

News of the World

Seventy lives were lost in the wreck of the steamship "Ginseii Maru" which foundered off Wei Hai Wei, November 30. November 24, sixteen Chinese were killed in a railway wreck, and thirty as the result of an accident in a German mine near Hungshan. On November 25, more than one hundred persons perished at the entrance of the Port of Valetta, Island of Malta, by the burning of the British steamship "Sardinia." When the boilers became useless, the captain literally took the helm and steered toward the shore as long as the ship could be navigated, and perished at his post.

After several years of tutorship by the United States, Cuba becomes an independent state, and has elected her first president and vice-president and members of congress. General Jose Miguel Gomez was elected president, and Alfred Zayas, vice-president. General Gomez sends a cordial and grateful letter to the people of the United States for their friendliness and help. American troops were withdrawn from the island, November 26.

The all-world records have been broken by the Japanese in sending wireless telegraph messages; a 4,700-mile message has been received at Russian Hill, San Francisco, from Japan. Japan has a very powerful sending apparatus, but her receiving apparatus is not equal to it. She sent the message; the United States received it, but could not reply.

One hundred robberies in three days less than one month were recorded in the city of Oakland, Cal., in November. Burglaries and minor thefts total, according to the same report, 223, and the statement is repeatedly made that Oakland is overrun with crime.