Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Oct 19, 1905

— Pope Pius has sent his “special compliments” to President Roosevelt for the latter’s work in making peace between Russia and Japan.

— France has given President Castro of Venezuela one month’s time in which to settle the difficulties between the two countries by diplomacy, before resorting to stronger measures.

— A strike of printers and bakers, which threatens to become general, is causing serious disturbance in Moscow, Russia. The strikers demand an eight-hour day and a large increase in wages.

— A Washington report states that China is collecting information regarding the deportation of Chinese from the United States as a basis for demanding a large indemnity from this government.

— News has been received by steamer that about 10,000 persons who inhabited two islands near the mouth of the Yangtze River, China, lost their lives in a typhoon which swept over that region early in September.

— There is trouble between American fishermen on the west coast of Newfoundland, and the authorities of that country, growing out of the recent abrogation of the privileges granted American fishermen in those parts.

— Germany is endeavoring to form a new triple alliance of herself, Russia, and France, but the French government has not forgotten Germany’s attitude in connection with the Moroccan question, and refuses to be a party to the kaiser’s scheme.

— At one hundred stations in the wheat belt of Kansas great piles of wheat are lying on the ground for lack of sufficient elevators and cars for storage and shipment, and a 280,000,000-bushel corn crop will need to be handled within a short time.

— The national government, through Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, is to co-operate with the American Medical Association, which has 47,000 members, in opposing the sale of fraudulent patent medicines.

— Germany is apparently making little progress in the campaign against the natives in German Southwest Africa. Recently the latter captured a German camp after severe fighting, and the native commanders have sent word to the German general in chief that they are prepared to fight to a finish.

— A violent political storm has been raised in Germany by a statement in the Paris Matin that Great Britain had made an offer of help to France in case of war between the latter and Germany. The London Telegraph’s Paris correspondent says the incident has already created “any amount of mischief.”

— Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria has prorogued the Hungarian Parliament in defiance of the Hungarian coalition. Affairs in that country do not appear to be shaping toward peace. The reading of the imperial rescript adjourning the parliament was followed by a tumult of unusual proportions, and great excitement prevails in Budapest.

— A dispatch from Tiflis, the capital of Russian Transcaucasia, states that the Tartars have taken possession of many villages, hoisted the Tartar flag over them, and expelled the Russians. The authority of the latter seems to have disappeared from a region covering over two hundred square miles.

— The Unitarian Church has been debarred from the National Federation of Churches, which is to hold a great convention in New York City next month. The Unitarian Church, acting on the supposition that it would be included with the other Protestant bodies in the convention, elected as its delegates to the same the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, chaplain of the United States Senate, ex-Secretary-of-the-Navy John D. Long, and Rev. S. A. Eliot, son of President Eliot of Harvard University and president of the American Unitarian Association; but the committee in charge of the convention, which will show about 700 delegates, declined to admit these individuals as recognized delegates, and in consequence Unitarians and Trinitarians are, it is said, brought into a sharper clash than ever before.