Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 22, 1907

— The press of both Germany and England is referring to the meeting of King Edward and Emperor William in Prussia on August 13, as indicating better relations between the two countries.

— The longest automobile run ever made—from Peking to Paris—terminated August 10. The winner of the contest covered the distance of 6,900 miles in exactly two months. The route was the Gobi desert, Siberia, Moscow, Posen, and Berlin.

— The Louisville and Nashville Railroad has secured an injunction from Judge Jones of the United States court, restraining the officials of the State of Alabama from enforcing the new freight and 2½ cent passenger rates until the case has been settled in the courts.

— It has been estimated that more than a million of the people of East India would fall victims to the plague. Now it is known that this figure, vast as it is, will be exceeded, and that the mortality will reach an appalling total. During the last week for which there are official figures, 67,000 died of the plague.

— A suit has been filed in the United States circuit court of Wilmington, Del., to dissolve the powder trust and appoint a receiver.

— When it was thought the strike at Belfast, Ireland, was practically over, suddenly it became more violent than ever. From August 9 to 11 there was constant requisition for the troops, who used swords and bayonets to disperse the mobs.

— The Central American situation, which has been quiet for a few weeks, is again threatening, and it is now stated that nothing but foreign intervention can prevent the combined forces of Salvador and Guatemala from attacking Nicaragua in the near future.

— There is a large attendance at the General Conference for Christian Workers being held at Moody's school in Northfield, Mass. Among the speakers is Rev. J. Stewart Holden, rector of St. Paul's Chapel, London, who is daily lecturing on pastoral evangelism.

— Criminal and civil proceedings against seventeen persons and a corporation are recommended by the final report of the committee of investigation into the fraudulent transactions connected with the construction and furnishing of Pennsylvania's $13,000,000 Capitol building.

— About the only work of the last Russian Douma was the abolition of the drumhead courts-martial; but the system has again been revived with even greater stringency. Only seventy-two hours are permitted between indictment and execution, including the appeal, whereas two weeks were permitted under the old régime. The new military courts have jurisdiction in all the provinces, and not merely as before in those that were under martial law. A number of summary executions have occurred in the few days the new regulations have been in force.

— In the bombarding of Casablanca, Morocco, and in the resulting attacks of the mobs and Moorish soldiers, 800 Moors and Jews are reported to have been killed. Four thousand troops were landed from the five French warships now in those waters, and the Spanish cruiser has landed a body of troops to protect the consulate. The tribesmen have made repeated attacks, but the present situation is a little more quiet. However, from other cities, including the capital, disturbing reports come in, and it is thought a general uprising against Europeans is not at all unlikely.

— The strike of the commercial telegraphers has spread to many of the principal cities of the country. Appeals to President Roosevelt for his personal intervention were referred to Labor Commissioner Neill. On August 16 President S. J. Small, of the Commercial telegraphers, issued a general order to all commercial telegraphers to cease work immediately where contracts with the union had not been signed. Railroad telegraphers refuse to receive commercial messages, and have offered the striking telegraphers aid to the extent of $1,000,000. On the seventeenth twelve cable operators at Havana, Cuba, were called off, and a general strike of all union cable operators in this country and Canada is threatened.