Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Feb 8, 1906

— King Christian IX of Denmark died suddenly at Copenhagen, January 29. He was nearly eighty-eight years of age, and was known as the “grandfather of kings.” The dead monarch’s son, whose title is Frederick VIII was proclaimed king the following day.

— A provision of the bill separating church and state in France, requiring an inventory of Catholic church property, was violently resisted by the Catholic clergy in Paris and many other places when it was sought to be carried into effect. In some places there was serious rioting, in which many people were injured. It is thought detachments of troops will be necessary to afford the government agents protection.

— An ecclesiastical council is to be held at Dayton, Ohio, February 7-9, for the purpose of planning for a union of the Congregational, Methodist Protestant, and United Brethren Churches in the United States. The combined body will have a membership of over a million persons, and will have a name to be chosen by a committee. A movement toward this union has been in progress for several years.

— The Russian revolutionists’ campaign of assassination found another victim January 31 in the person of a Russian high official named Filonoff, who was shot by an unknown person. The government is adopting the most rigorous measures to repress revolutionary activity. A St. Petersburg dispatch says: “The government is finding ample justification for its severe policy against the revolutionists in the constant discoveries

of bombs, bomb factories, and depots of arms and munitions in all parts of the empire. The Novoe Vremya today prints half a column of statistics of last week’s captures, showing the seizure of bombs in a score of cities, and the discoveries of regular bomb laboratories, explosives, and filled and unfilled bombs at Ekaterinburg, Samara, Riga, Vikutsk, Suwalki, and Ekaterinoslaf. Terrorists having in their possession from two to twenty bombs, have been arrested at Warsaw, Minsk, Vitebsk, Lodz, Odessa, Gomel, and Tiflis. There have been attempts to kill police, military, or civil officers at Warsaw, Pinsk, Riga, Gomel, Tiflis, Minsk, and other cities. Bomb factories have also been discovered here and at Moscow.”