p. 21 | Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 14, 1910

Current Mention

— A “funeral trust” has been formed in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, a merger of nearly every undertaking establishment in the city having been effected on April 5.

— Returns from elections held in 240 cities and towns in Illinois on April 5 indicate a gain for the liquor forces. Thirty-two towns changed from “dry” to “wet,” and thirteen from “wet” to “dry.”

— Former President Roosevelt and family are being given a truly royal reception by the king and queen and people of Italy. The attitude of the Vatican toward Mr. Roosevelt has seemed to add fervor to the reception which the Italian people are extending to him.

— At McKees Rocks, Pa., on the night of April 5, bandits entered the office of the Victor Banking Company, shot and killed two of the officers of the bank, took $5,000 in cash, and wounded three citizens of the town while making their escape. They have not been apprehended.

— The Mohammed Abdullah of Somaliland, known as the “Mad Mullah,” has begun a fierce campaign against the British protectorates. In a recent raid 800 natives were killed, and vast areas laid waste.

— The United States torpedo-boat destroyer “Reid” was given its official test in the vicinity of Pensacola, Fla., on April 7, during which the vessel maintained for four hours a speed of thirty-six nautical miles an hour. Among warships this vessel now holds the world’s record for speed.

— War seems almost certain between Peru and Ecuador. The forces of Peru are rapidly mobilizing, 15,000 having enlisted in one day. Both Spain and the United States are understood to be counseling an amicable settlement of the difficulties of the two countries.

— One of the New York street-car companies has ordered sixteen of the new Edison storage-battery street-cars, the test of the one sent to New York for trial some weeks ago having proved eminently satisfactory. These cars have demonstrated their ability to operate at an expense of less than half a cent a mile.

— Tentative agreements, which are believed to be a settlement of both the coal and steel strikes in Pennsylvania, were reached on April 6 in a conference between representatives of the interested parties at Washington, D. C. These strikes have thrown thousands of men out of employment in the State of Pennsylvania, and otherwise injuriously affected business throughout the State.

— After a three-months’ investigation by a United States district attorney, and four-days’ consideration of evidence by the grand jury, the Imperial Window Glass Company, of West Virginia, and sixteen of its officers and directors were indicted at Pittsburg, Pa., on April 7, on charges of violating the anti-trust law. There are three charges against the concern: conspiracy in restraint of the hand-blown glass trade, engagement in illegal competition, and attempts to monopolize interstate trade.

— Contrary to the reports cabled last week from Egypt and Rome that former President Roosevelt would meet the Pope of Rome, the meeting did not take place. In the negotiations concerning the audience the papal secretary of state laid down conditions to which Mr. Roosevelt felt that he could not accede as a free American citizen. The papal secretary desired to bind him in advance to an agreement not to meet the Methodists. Mr. Roosevelt had not planned to address the Methodists of Rome, but was unwilling to give bond that he would not do so as the price of an audience with the Pope. The papal secretary regards Mr. Roosevelt’s course as “indefensible,” but no right-thinking American will agree with the papal secretary. The incident has naturally caused a great deal of discussion throughout the world, and has stirred up much bitter feeling on the part of Catholics toward Methodists. Some Catholic priests see in this incident Mr. Roosevelt’s Waterloo in the political world; but others (not Catholics) claim to see in it the return of the former president to office with an overwhelming majority.