Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 14, 1907

—A disastrous explosion occurred in a coal-mine at Thomas, W. Va., on February 4, and thirty men are dead as a result.

—The tomb and mummy of the famous Egyptian Queen Teie have been discovered at Luxor (ancient Thebes), Egypt.

—Governor Magoon has issued a decree prescribing the organization of the new Cuban army, by the terms of which, in addition to the 10,000 rural guard and 2,000 artillery now to be known as “the armed force of the republic,” every able-bodied male between twenty-one and forty-five years of age shall belong to the militia; the latter is liable only in case of emergency.

—The General Education Board of New York City has received from John D. Rockefeller “for general education purposes throughout the country” securities whose market value is $32,000,000, the largest single sum ever handed out for such a cause. One third of this amount is to be added to the permanent endowment fund, and the remainder is to be used for such specific objects within the purposes of the Board as the donor or his son may specify.

—Only the presence of the police prevented serious trouble during the service attending the inauguration of the French Apostolic Catholic church in Paris on the 3d inst. About seventy-five persons were ejected from the building during the service, and the thousands outside waiting to make trouble were dispersed before the close of the service. The minister of public instruction and worship proposes to the mayors that they lease church property without rent to common law associations or pastors, for a period not exceeding eighteen years. This proposal the pope rejects, inasmuch as it does not recognize the hierarchy.