p. 22 | Current Mention

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 21, 1903

Current Mention

—A fire in the oil wells at Beaumont, Tex., April 15, started by the overturning of a lantern by a careless workman, caused a loss of a million dollars before it was extinguished, and threw twenty oil firms into bankruptcy.

—A cyclone which visited Burnt Corn and Peterman, in Monroe County, Ala., April 13, killed nine persons and did vast damage to property. A cyclone swept over Logan, De Witt, and Piatt Counties, Ill., April 12, causing two deaths, and destroying property for fifty miles.

—A very different answer from that of Vermont to the question of the efficiency of prohibition as a means of restricting the liquor traffic, has just been returned by the State of Kansas. Returns from a vote taken April 7 gave the most overwhelming majority for prohibition in the history of the State, and this was in spite of special efforts on the part of its opponents to make a good showing against it, and thus pave the way for resubmitting the question to the people.

—The city of Omaha is facing a great labor war, according to press telegrams from that place. One report says: “The coming of May 1 is expected to bring on one of the greatest labor wars in the history of the city, and the merchants are secretly organizing to fight the unions. Already building operations are at a standstill, owing to the walk-outs of the employees in this line, and it is said that part of the plan of defense by the employers will be to refuse to use any goods made by union men. Employees in the mills are at work only on goods to be shipped out of town. Building is at a standstill.”