p. 21 | Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 28, 1909

Current Mention

— A $25,000,000 union railway station is to be built in Chicago.

— Seven persons were killed and three seriously injured by the explosion of a boiler near Eldorado, Ark., on October 18.

— The night riders of Kentucky are again threatening trouble. The governor of the State has advised those who have been threatened by the night riders to remain firm, and promises them the protection of the State troops.

— A revolution is now in progress in Nicaragua, under the leadership of General Estrada. The government professes to be able to crush the revolution; nevertheless the revolutionists seem to be steadily increasing in numbers, and report gains in the number of towns captured.

— There is every indication that there will be a tariff war between France and the United States, beginning the first of November. There is prospect of a similar commercial war between Canada and the United States because of the new tariff rates on goods entering the United States from Canada.

— Knud Rasmussen, the half-Danish, half-Eskimo scientist and author, has sent out from Greenland, by way of Copenhagen, a long report of his investigations among the Eskimos concerning the claims of Dr. F. A. Cook regarding the discovery of the north pole. Because of the lateness of the season, Mr. Rasmussen was unable to reach the northernmost village where the two Eskimos live who were with Dr. Cook; but the Eskimos who have talked with Dr. Cook’s companions confirm Dr. Cook’s statements in reference to the trip to the pole. Mr. Rasmussen himself, as a result of his investigations, gives unqualified credence to the claims of Dr. Cook.

— The recent unhappy developments in Spain, and the strong protests from all parts of the world against the injustice of Professor Ferrer’s execution, have finally resulted in the resignation of the Spanish cabinet, under the leadership of Señor Maura. Señor Moret, a moderate Liberal, has formed a new cabinet. The policy of the new cabinet will be conciliation. The “conservative” cabinet, which has just gone out of existence, was known to be under the domination of the clericals, and all Europe holds that element responsible for the execution of Professor Ferrer, whose work in establishing schools independent of church control made the Jesuits his bitter enemies. Their attitude toward him and his work is in perfect harmony with the recent declarations of the Catholic clergy in France against the government schools, and also with the position of that church in America against the American public-school system.