p. 21 | Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 9, 1907

Current Mention

— One hundred thousand people are estimated to have been driven from their homes by the overflowing of the Dnieper, Dniester, and Divina. The inundations have caused extreme distress.

— Some wealthy American Catholics propose to purchase a strip of land sixty-five miles long from the Vatican to the Mediterranean, and add it to the pope's temporal domain. The initial cost will be about $1,000,000.

— A hurricane swept over parts of Campeche, Mexico, the night of April 30, causing the loss of millions of dollars' worth of crops and some lives. It is feared there may have been heavy loss to shipping in the Gulf.

— By the rush of water from an abandoned shaft seven miners were entombed near Johnstown, Pa., for four and a half days before sufficient water could be pumped out to allow the rescue party to reach the entombed men. All survive.

— Two encounters have recently occurred between the Cuban police and unarmed seamen of the cruiser “Tacoma,” stationed at Santiago. The seamen were returning to the boat at the expiration of shore leave. The authorities are investigating.

— Trouble has arisen in Montenegro, because the cabinet has inaugurated a campaign against the Radicals. They are accused of instigating the destruction of the printing-offices of two Radical newspapers. Anger is aroused throughout the country, and armed bands are marching on the capital.

— By the breaking away of a large part of the pier being constructed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Baltimore, eight persons are known to have lost their lives, and it will not be possible to tell the exact number of fatalities until pay-day, as many were known only by number.

— A cyclone accompanied by heavy rain and hail destroyed every house but one in the little town of Henning, about sixty miles from Fort Worth, Tex., April 27. Ten persons are known to have perished, and as many others were injured. The direct path of the storm was about 500 yards wide, and the whole area affected was about ten square miles.

— If he might be granted immunity from prosecution, Mayor Schmitz, of San Francisco, has proposed to the prosecutors to resign the office of mayor, make a full confession to the grand jury of his knowledge of municipal graft, and join the ranks of the reformers. Although he could doubtless furnish much desired information, as yet his proposal has not been accepted.

— The relations between the governments of Guatemala and Mexico are very much strained, and an open declaration of war against Guatemala by Mexico is believed by some to be imminent if General Lima's extradition is refused. More than 10,000 of the Mexican troops are mobilized on the Guatemalean frontier. The U. S. gunboat “Paducah” has sailed to Puerto Barrios, Guatemala.