Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 10, 1910

— A fire at Baltimore, Md., on February 1, destroyed property to the value of about $250,000.

— The wealth of France during the past year, according to statistics just published, has increased to the amount of $1,000,000,000.

— In New York, on January 24, the president of the Van Norden Trust Company was held up by two women and robbed of $28,600.

— At New York, on February 1, the banking-house of Fisk & Robinson, prominent among the houses dealing in government stocks and city bonds, failed, with liabilities approximating seven million dollars, of which more than one million is unsecured.

— Five persons were killed, and fifteen injured, as the result of the wreck of the Big Four night express, two miles west of Cincinnati, on January 22.

— On January 31, at Primero, Colo., seventy-nine miners lost their lives in an explosion in the main slope of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company's mine.

— Advices from Mexico state that the Maya Indians are again on the warpath, and many settlers and employees of the chicle camps have been killed by the Indians.

— On January 21 a wreck occurred on the Canadian Pacific Railroad on Spanish River. In view of the fact that two of the cars thrown from the track went under the ice of the river, it has been difficult to give a certain list of the dead, but it is expected that the death total will reach fifty.

— The stewardship of the one-million-dollar Peabody Trust Fund has been given to the city of Nashville, Tenn. The money is granted for the purpose of establishing the George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville.

— A report from Atlanta, Ga., dated January 31, states that night riders have killed one Negro in Columbus County, and have burned several Negro homes, and churches, four churches having been burned within a radius of eight miles.

— Recently the mayor of Indianapolis, Ind., imposed upon four saloon-keepers, who had been keeping their saloons open on Sunday, the penalty of attending church. The licenses of these men were revoked until they could procure from some pastor a letter stating that they had attended his church on Sunday.

— At Richmond, Va., on February 1, Gov. William H. Mann, in his inaugural address, put himself on record in regard to the liquor question by saying: “I reiterate my steadfast opposition to the saloon, and my confidence in the people of Virginia, who have the right to settle this question as to them shall seem best.”

— Representatives of the various provincial assemblies of China met in Peking recently to petition the government for the early establishment of a parliament. The government has refused the petition, and will adhere to its original plan of calling an Imperial Assembly at the end of nine years, according to the constitutional scheme.

— The great Paris flood has finally subsided, but no estimation of its damages approaching accuracy is possible. The extent to which the flood has undermined the city and the foundations of great buildings, only time will reveal. Along the valley of the Seine it is stated that at least 40,000 families have been left homeless, temporarily at least.

— Within the last five years, there have been found in and around Aberdeen, Wash., the bodies of more than forty men whose murders have been unsolved mysteries. The finding of a body on February 3, weighted down by an anchor belonging to an agent of the Sailor's Union at Aberdeen, has given a clue to the ones responsible for these deaths.

— As a result of the widely extended boycott against meats in the United States, the women of Pittsburg, Pa., have organized themselves into what is known as the Housekeepers' Co-operative Association. This association will open a series of general stores, procuring its articles of merchandise direct from farmers and other producers, and selling to the general public at a profit only sufficient to cover the expense of the enterprise.

— After what threatened to be a tariff war between the United States and Germany an agreement has been reached whereby each country is to accord to the other her minimum tariff rate. The German regulations relating to the importation of American meat into Germany, and the German customs rules governing the drawback of duty allowed on flour when exported from Germany, are treated as questions aside from the main issue, and will be settled independently.