Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 4, 1907

— A severe earthquake shock was felt at Anglesey, England, June 26. No casualties are reported.

— Eleven deaths and many prostrations from heat were reported from Pittsburg in a single day last week.

— Three men were knocked senseless by hail-stones, said to be as large as baseballs, which fell for half an hour at Millard, Neb., June 26.

— Five hundred deaths are reported in a Chinese theater fire at Hongkong, due to the igniting of explosives concealed under the theater floor.

— The Pacific freight steamer “Santiago” was recently wrecked off the Chilean coast, all, except two persons of her four passengers and eighty-seven crew, being lost.

— Mrs. Russell Sage has given $300,000 to found an adjunct to the New York City Hospital on Blackwells Island, to be known as the Russell Sage Institute of Pathology.

— On account of the disquieting news from Central America, the new cruiser “Milwaukee” has been dispatched to that locality to protect American interests. Both Guatemala and Salvador are sending troops to the frontier.

— Railroad accidents were reported the 23d ult., from Hartford, Conn., where eight were killed and thirty-five injured; from Sharon, Pa., where eight were injured; and from Pittsford, N. Y., where four persons were killed, three fatally hurt, and eight badly injured.

— The latest development in the Japanese situation is a communication from the chambers of commerce of seven leading cities of Japan, addressed through President Roosevelt to the leading chambers of commerce of the United States. After recounting the indignities of Japanese in San Francisco, they express fear lest these things, unchecked, shall hinder the growing trade between the two countries.

— For some months the Senate committee on military affairs has been investigating the disturbance at Brownsville, Tex., last August, in which a citizen was killed. For alleged participation by some negro soldiers stationed there, President Roosevelt later discharged two companies. The committee has temporarily ceased the inquiry, and the chairman, Senator Foraker, has issued a public statement in which he declares that the inquiry has failed to show that any soldiers took part in the affray.

— At the second session of The Hague Conference Gen. Horace Porter, on behalf of the United States, reserved the right to present the question of the right to collect contractual debts by force. It is now thought that if no other power presents the subject of limitation of armaments, the United States will do so. Much interest was aroused at the conference on the twenty-ninth, when President Nelidoff refused audience to a Korean delegation which brought a protest against the treatment they are receiving at the hands of the Japanese.