Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Sep 21, 1905

— The yellow fever epidemic in the South is spreading steadily along the Gulf Coast.

— The revolt of the natives in German East Africa has not been crushed out, but on the contrary appears to be growing to serious dimensions.

— It is stated that a movement is on foot among temperance workers to petition Congress for legislation requiring total abstinence on the part of all United States army officers.

— The pope has appointed Bishop O'Connell, of Maine, a special papal envoy to the court of Japan, and hopes to induce the Japanese government to appoint a representative at the Vatican.

— The Russian revolutionary party at Baku has issued a proclamation calling for a general uprising. There is great distress on the part of families left homeless and starving.

— St. Petersburg dispatches dated September 12 tell of a "holy war" which has been proclaimed in districts of the Caucasus, and state that Tartars are massacring Armenians there without distinction of age or sex.

— Hungarian Premier Fejervary has resigned, and uncertainty exists on the question of his successor, which may possibly be Francis Kossuth, opposition leader in the Hungarian Parliament and descendant of the famous patriot.

— A Cincinnati telegram describes a project for a world federation of Roman Catholics, which is said to be favored by Pope Pius. The plan will be presented to the next national meeting of the federation of Catholic societies in this country.

— The belief prevails among men who have been employed on the Panama Canal the past year, according to Washington reports, that twenty years' time will be required to complete the canal, and that the cost of the enterprise will not be less than a billion dollars.

— From Sasebo, Japan, comes the report of the destruction of Admiral Togo's flag-ship, the "Mikasa," by a fire which started in some unknown way, and progressed until it reached the magazines, when the ship blew up and sank. Several hundred of the ship's crew lost their lives.

— The report of the Bureau of Labor of the Department of Commerce and Labor, which has just been issued, shows a general increase in the cost of living in this country, wages not having increased in a degree commensurate with the increased price of food and other necessities of life.

— There is some prospect of war between the United States and Venezuela, in which one or two European powers may participate, due to alleged injuries to American, French, and German interests in Venezuela which demand redress. The outcome will depend largely on the report of an agent of the United States who is making an investigation into the matters in controversy.

— The country is threatened with a rise in the price of coal, due, say the operators, to the increased expense which will come if a new wage scale is adopted, and to the fact that "there is general prosperity throughout the country." The non-prosperous individual is apparently not entitled to consideration.

— Dispatches from Stockholm and Christiania state that the outlook for a peaceful dissolution of the Scandinavian union is not wholly favorable, Norway standing for an arbitration treaty between the countries, and Sweden being unalterably opposed to the same. Norway declares that only on this condition will she consent to demolish her fortresses on the Swedish frontier.

— The long immunity from serious accident of the elevated railway in New York City was broken September 11 by the derailing of part of a train at Ninth Avenue and Fifty-third Street, one car falling to the street below. Twelve persons were killed and fifty injured. The accident was due to carelessness in rounding a curve, on the part of either the switchman or the motor-man.

— European dispatches tell of serious rioting at Seoul, Korea, September 14, on account of the appropriation by the Japanese forces of about fifty square miles of Korean territory and the dispossession of the inhabitants of several villages situated in the tract, on the ground of military necessity. On the same date news was received that Finland is in a ferment on account of the breaking up by Russian troops of a representative assembly at Helsingfors, called to discuss the political situation. The governor-general is threatened with assassination.