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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 21, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 12.

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News of the Day

The United States Government is to begin suit to end the monopoly of thirty-five electric-light firms in an illegal combine. The monopoly controls ninety-seven per cent of the trade, and sells 80,000,000 incandescent lamps yearly for $18,000,000. Foreign patents are controlled by the trust, and competition so suppressed that lamps sold for ten cents abroad sell for seventeen cents in the United States.
Word has been received from the headquarters of the Seventh Triennial International Congress on Tuberculosis at Rome that an American committee of one hundred members of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis has been appointed, and that preparations have been made for the special participation of the United States in the exhibition of social hygiene which will be held under the auspices of the congress, beginning later in the year.
An armed revolt against the new President of Paraguay has been started. The revolutionists have control of the southern end of the railroad between Concepcion and Asuncion. Three thousand government troops have been sent against them. They also have five vessels, three of which are flying the Argentine flag. The Argentine government has demanded the immediate return of the seized ships.
Prof. John Fryer, for twenty years professor of Oriental languages and literature at the University of California, is considering going to Shanghai to found a new college for the blind. At present there are only two small blind schools in China. The institution he contemplates will be the largest of its kind in the Orient, fully equipped, and using the braille raised letter system.
The following is a partial list of casualties for 1910, gathered by the Chicago Tribune, aggregating 16,073 accidental deaths: "Drowned, 5,112; burned to death, 3,562; killed on railroads, 3,530; in mines, 1,004; by explosions, 951; automobiles, 920; storms, 265; asphyxiation, 239; lightning, 199; electricity, 189; elevators, 112." And over 9,000 murders have been committed.
Miss Annie Geshella, a young lady of thirty years at Passaic, New Jersey, who has fasted twenty-six days, declares: "I want to die; my heart is clean and pure. I have no confidence in the world, and there is nothing to live for." The woman has amazed the physicians because of her remarkable vitality, having shown no ill effects from her twenty-six days of fasting.
Japan has ratified the new treaty with the United States. The formal announcement states, "The Imperial Government is well convinced that the new treaty will serve not only to assure the commercial interests of both nations, but above all to consolidate the bonds of true friendship uniting them."
The linotypers and printers of Hearst's Chicago papers struck February 28. The next day, consequently, according to agreement, there were no Chicago papers of over four pages. Not a great calamity, one the public could stand quite frequently. Four pages in a daily paper is generally enough.
Dr. Theobald Smith, Professor of Comparative Pathology, Harvard Medical School, cautions that if men handling milk in the West were infected with the bubonic plague, there would be grave danger in the milk shipped East becoming infected also, with the result that the plague would spread.
Mr. W. T. Stead, of England, welcomes the reciprocity agreement between Canada and the United States as a step to bring the two great governments closer together. And so he says all Liberals regard it. America is not looked upon as a foreign country.
Insurgent Arabic tribes in Yemen, Turkey, have been subjugated by imperial troops sent from Constantinople, and interrupted communication between the port of Hodeida and the towns of Sena and Menaha has been re-established.
The Russian minister of public education has ordered the expulsion of 290 students from three universities of the empire for taking part in revolutionary outbreaks. Twelve professors in the University of Moscow have resigned.
Five Greek soldiers carrying Turkish passports have been killed by soldiers of the Sultan while passing from one blockhouse to another in Turkish territory. A break in diplomatic relations is imminent.
The United States transport Buford sailed from Seattle, Washington, March 5, laden with food supplies for suffering China. The big shipment represents country-wide contributions from rich and poor.
Massacre of the Jews by the Russians is again reported at Kief. Several families have been killed and their homes destroyed by mobs. Authorities, it is said, are making no effort to quell the riots.
A choir in a Chicago church went on a strike recently, the singers refusing to join in the services because a certain leader had not been re-instated. Strike-breaking singers were pelted with snowballs.
English Imperialists, alarmed by Germany's activity, are urging an expenditure of $50,000,000 for the construction of forty battle-ships during the next six years.
Business men of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, offer $1,000,000 to any one who will invent a contrivance that will exterminate rats quietly and effectively.
Mr. Carnegie has offered the city of Denver, Colorado, $91,000 for four new libraries provided the city expend $9,000 a year to keep them in repair.
Ten tons of frozen storage eggs have been seized by federal authorities at a plant in St. Louis on the charge that they were unfit for food.
A lamp explosion in a skating-pavilion caused the death of fifteen skaters in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the burning of the building.
Another investigation of opium smuggling resulted in the seizure of ten tins of the drug in San Francisco from a steamer from Shanghai.
Union evangelistic meetings in progress at Duquoin, Illinois, during the last month have closed with more than two hundred conversions.
Abe Ruef, the noted San Francisco grafter, began his term of fourteen years' imprisonment in San Quentin prison March 9.
During a blizzard an ice-bound derelict was found near Astrakhan, Russia, with the entire crew of thirty frozen to death.
Thirty-two passengers have been injured and seven others burned to death in a railroad wreck at Perm, Russia.
Some lives were lost and several mosques and houses were demolished by an earthquake at Monastir in Turkey.
A severe epidemic of influenza is reported from Berlin. Fourteen thousand cases are said to exist in the city.
Six thousand coal miners have gone out on a strike at Frank, Alberta, and Michel, British Columbia.
Sixteen children were killed in an avalanche that swept down on a schoolhouse at Aihga, Russia.
Ninety Mexican rebels are reported killed in a battle at Guadalupe.