Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jun 30, 1904

— Peace has been restored between the government and the insurgents in Santo Domingo.

— Paterson, N. J., sustained a loss of $500,000 by a fire which destroyed a lumber plant and several silk mills, June 22.

— Recent telegraphic advices received at Mexico City show that there is danger of war between the republics of Salvador and Guatemala, and that the troops of the two countries are marching to the border region. There are also reports of a coming revolution in Honduras.

— Secretary-of-State Hay sent a demand on the sultan of Morocco, June 22, that the captive American held by the bandit Raisouli must be delivered alive, or that Raisouli must be delivered dead. The release of the captives followed immediately.

— The Tibetans continue to oppose the most strenuous resistance of which they are capable to the British advance toward Lhassa, but it is the intention of Great Britain to force the expedition steadily forward to this point. The Tibetans have placed about 20,000 men in the field against the British.

— The three-year-old boy of J. W. Wilson, of Richmond, Va., was “given a little toddy while sick,” says a Richmond dispatch of June 22. “He liked the taste, and in the absence of his parents from the room, got the bottle from the mantelpiece and drank a gill of pure liquor. It was found impossible to revive him.”

— It is announced that United States currency is to be legal tender in the new Panama republic. In the canal zone, which will be under the control of the United States, Panama currency is to be legal tender. A gold dollar of the same value as that of the United States is to be the standard of value in the Panama currency system, and the issue of fractional silver currency is also provided for.

— A table of distances on the Russian Transsiberian Railway gives the following figures: St. Petersburg to Irkutsk, 3,778 miles; St. Petersburg to Vladivostock, 5,707 miles; St. Petersburg to Port Arthur, 5,823 miles; St. Petersburg to Peking, 6,146 miles; Irkutsk to Vladivostock, 1,929 miles; Irkutsk to Port Arthur, 2,045 miles; St. Petersburg to Moscow, 604 miles; Moscow to Samara, 682 miles; Moscow to Cheliabinsk, 2,065 miles; Moscow to Omsk, 1,874.

— A Russian force of 8,000 men was surprised in a ravine near Kai-chou by a Japanese force, June 21, and lost 1,200 men. Fighting of a minor character between the outposts of the armies of Generals Kuroki and Kuropatkin is almost continuous. The Japanese armies led by Generals Kuroki and Oku are endeavoring to effect a junction. A third Japanese army is to operate against Port Arthur. Reports of a naval battle at Port Arthur, June 23, state that several Russian ships were sunk or disabled. The Russian ships were attempting to escape from Port Arthur southward.

— A report made by Dr. H. W. Wiley, of the Agricultural Department on the basis of experiments made by the “poison squad” which have under his directions been eating food adulterated with commonly used preservatives, states that such preservatives are undoubtedly harmful to the human system. Among the most common of such preservatives are borax and boracic acid. The principal effect noted on the men of the “poison squad” was that they lost weight.