p. 21 | Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 5, 1910

Current Mention

— As the result of an explosion in a mine near Amsterdam, Ohio, on April 21, eighteen miners lost their lives.

— The second call for troops by the Peruvian government was issued on April 25, and men are rapidly enlisting in answer to this call. The indications still point toward war between Peru and Ecuador.

— A despatch from Liverpool, England, dated April 22, states that a gigantic fraud has been unearthed in the cotton market, in which thirty firms will be heavy losers. The fraud consists in the forging of bills of lading and collecting money thereon. It involves 30,000 bales of cotton, and amounts to over $2,000,000.

— Björnstjerne Björnson, the great Norwegian poet, dramatist, reformer, and advocate of universal peace, died at Paris on April 26.

— Officers of the Cuban government have arrested sixty of the leaders who were agitating for revolution, and it is considered that the danger of the revolution is now past.

— A report from Lake Charles, La., dated April 11, states that practically the whole of that city of 15,000 inhabitants has been destroyed by fire. The property loss is estimated at $4,000,000.

— A notable air-ship race occurred in England on April 28 for a prize of $50,000 donated by Lord Northcliffe, the distance to be covered was 186 miles, from London to Manchester. The race was won by M. Louis Paulhan, a French aviator.

— Ex-President Roosevelt, during the past week, has been very enthusiastically received by the rulers and the people of both France and Belgium.

— The governor of Chang-sha, China, estimates that the damages resulting from the recent riots in Chang-sha amount to about $2,000,000. Missionaries report that there is every indication that the rioting has now completely ceased.

— The Canadian government has passed a law, which went into effect on May 1, prohibiting the export of timber cut on crown lands except in manufactured form, such as pulp, bales, boards, railroad ties, squared beams, and commercial lumber. This law means considerable loss to American paper-mills, which will now have to buy the manufactured pulp instead of the raw material.

— Within a few days twelve persons have died in Westerly, R. I., as a result of drinking poisoned whisky.

— The Supreme Court of the United States has decided not to give judgment in the Standard Oil and tobacco cases without a reargument of these cases.

— Admiral Fournier, commander of the Mediterranean squadron of the French navy, professes to see in the naval activity of the United States the precursor of a world war.

— A report from the various charitable societies of Massachusetts shows that during the past year 913,701 individuals in that State were recipients of charity, or about one in three of the population.

— The forces of the new Nicaraguan government, under the new president, Señor Madriz, are reported to be within a few miles of Bluefields, where the insurgent army is located, and a decisive battle is expected within a few days.

— A despatch from Nashville, Tenn., states that Governor Patterson, during the three years and two months that he has held office, has pardoned 956 men convicted of felonies and misdemeanors. Of these 152 persons had been convicted of murder.

— Fighting continues in Albania between rebellious Albanians and Turkish regulars. A few days ago the regulars were repulsed by the Albanians, but on April 26 despatches stated that the Turks had dislodged the Albanians. In this fighting there is said to be large losses on both sides.

— The China-Japan mail-train which left San Francisco for the East on the night of April 16 was held up by two masked men, two miles east of Benecia, Cal., on that night. The engine and mail-car were detached from the train, and the mail-car was robbed of its registered mail. The engine was then turned loose, and sent speeding down the track, and the wreck of a passenger-train was narrowly averted by the ditching of the wild engine.

— In view of the somewhat unsettled conditions in Cuba, the Cuban government has assured the United States minister at Havana that it is expected that there will be no serious outbreak from the agitation among the Negroes in Santa Clara province. The difficulty has been brought about by an agitation of the color question. The independent party of color is said to be fully organized in all the provinces, and embraces 95,000 voters. These claim that they are not being fairly treated by the present government.

— A report from St. Louis, Mo., dated April 20, states that the recently appointed ambassador to Austria, Richard Kerens (Catholic), has offered $50,000 to a Catholic chapel in that city. The report states that the gift may be refused because he insists that his name appear on the chapel. The experiences of the Catholics, of Washington, D. C., with the gift of the Caldwell sisters, who afterward repudiated Catholicism, but whose names must be retained on the institutions built by their money, accounts for the hesitancy of the St. Louis Catholics in receiving this gift of the new ambassador.