Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 7, 1906

— Recent floods in Umatilla County, Oregon, have done damage to the amount of one million dollars.

— A Shanghai dispatch states that a serious uprising is in progress in the Chinese province of Kiangsi, assisted by secret societies. The people are seeking refuge in the cities.

— News is received from Russia of a terrible famine in that country, involving twenty-two provinces whose inhabitants number twenty million. The peasants are dying of hunger and of epidemics which follow the famine. No efforts are being made to send help to the stricken district.

— The Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections has by a vote of seven to five, decided against the admission of Reed Smoot to the seat in the United States Senate to which he was elected in Utah. The case will now come before the Senate for final action, and it is expected that the decision of the committee will be confirmed.

— The young and newly-wedded king and queen of Spain received a terrible reminder of the perils which beset royalty in this age of the world, shortly after the conclusion of the marriage ceremony, May 31. While the bridal procession was proceeding to the palace, amid a continuous ovation from the dense throng which filled the capital city, a bomb concealed in roses was thrown from a window or balcony at the royal carriage, which it failed to hit only because an electric wire deflected it from its intended course. It exploded on the ground in front of the king’s carriage, killing sixteen persons and injuring many others. The king and queen escaped unharmed. The attempted assassination was, of course, the outcome of an anarchist plot.

— The Chicago meat packers have started an energetic campaign against the proposed congressional legislation which threatens to interfere with their methods and their profits in connection with the sale of their products. The meat trust is working through the cattle raisers, whom, by threats or otherwise, the trust has persuaded to deluge Congress with telegrams asking that the cost of inspection be not placed upon the packers. The latter want the cost of inspection put upon the government, because they know that they can then prevent an appropriation of money adequate to the demands of a proper inspection of their business, and the way will speedily be opened for them to resume their practise of foisting rotten meat upon the public. The president has now promised to make public the report of Messrs. Neill and Reynolds.