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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · May 19, 1910

Current Mention

— By a vote of 200 to 126 on May 10 the House passed the Administration Railroad bill, as amended in the Committee of the Whole.

— Fifteen persons were killed outright, and fifty injured, by the explosion on May 8 of the plant of the General Explosives Company, at Hull, Ontario. Everything within a radius of a mile and a half was torn and shattered. In Ottawa, four miles distant, windows were broken, buildings shook, and the earth trembled.

— A typhoon of unusual violence raged about the waters of Kobe, Japan, on May 12. Fifty persons are known to have perished on one boat, and it is feared that many others have lost their lives.

— President Taft has appointed former President Roosevelt special ambassador to attend the funeral of King Edward VII. Seven visiting kings — Emperor William of Germany and Prussia, Frederick VIII of Denmark, King Haakon VII of Norway, King Alfonso XIII of Spain, King Manuel II of Portugal, King Albert of Belgium, and King George I of Greece — will also be in attendance.

— Destructive forest fires are raging in northeastern Minnesota and across the line in Wisconsin.

— One of the most distressing river accidents of recent years occurred on the night of May 11, on the Mississippi River, opposite Glen Park, Mo. The $40,000 stern-wheeler, “City of Saltillo,” carrying an invited pleasure party down the river, was caught in a swift current, swept ashore, and capsized. Thirteen persons were drowned. So close was the vessel to the shore that after the first moment of panic, a plank was laid from the sinking boat to the bank, on which those who had not been thrown into the water were saved.