p. 20 | Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 25, 1907

Current Mention

— An unsuccessful attempt was made to assassinate President Fallières of France July 14.

— July 17 a cloudburst in West Virginia destroyed property amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and caused the death of three persons.

— Nine persons known to be dead, two missing, and five badly injured is the list of casualties from a building collapse in London, Ontario, July 16.

— Two thousand dock laborers of Duluth and Two Harbors, Minn., and Superior, Wis., are out on a strike, and thousands of others are forced into idleness.

— An excursion train bearing about 800 passengers was wrecked July 20 near Salem, Mich. At last reports thirty-one were dead and seventy-five badly injured.

— Six persons met instant death, and twenty were injured, when a fast train on the Southern Railway collided with a switch engine near Johnson City, Tenn., July 14.

— During target practise, July 15, a sack of powder exploded aboard the battle-ship “Georgia.” Eight men were killed, and thirteen seriously injured, of whom two have since died.

— Excessive rains throughout much of Germany have caused the overflow of streams, and much country and some cities are inundated. Fifty lives have been lost, and much damage to crops is reported.

— A train on the Canada Northern Railway, near Kashabowie, ran into a cloud of moths, July 13, obscuring the view, and covering the tracks so deeply that the train was stalled. It took the train crew about two hours to clear the tracks so that the train could proceed.

— Unprecedented prostrations from heat occurred in Philadelphia, Pa., July 19. During the parade of the Elks, thousands of persons on the grand stands and streets were overcome. No less than 4,380 cases were counted, besides thousands more that were hurried to their homes. All sorts of vehicles were pressed into service to assist the patrols and ambulances. The mortality rate, however, was small. Adulterated lemonade, which was freely sold, is thought to be responsible for many of the prostrations. On the same day there were fifty prostrations and seven deaths in New York City.

— The emperor of Korea abdicated the throne July 18 in favor of the Crown Prince. In his address he states as his reason for so doing the fact that national calamities have followed so rapidly during the forty-four years of his rule that he thinks the time has come for him to follow the usual Korean custom. But it is quite generally thought that Japan has secretly forced this situation. The day following his abdication an uprising in Seoul was started by the mutiny of a company of Korean soldiers. They were joined by citizens, using stones and clubs against the Japanese, who lost in killed and wounded about twenty-five persons. It is not known how many Koreans suffered.