p. 22 | Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · May 5, 1904

Current Mention

— A $500,000 fire visited Providence, R. I., on the night of April 30.

— A reign of terror prevails in Warsaw, Poland, the city being at the mercy of gangs of ruffians who commit murder with apparent impunity.

— Pope Pius has sent a protest to the Catholic powers against the visit recently made by President Loubet of France to the king of Italy.

— The Louisiana Purchase Exposition was opened in St. Louis, April 30, at noon, the machinery being set in motion by an electric current started by President Roosevelt in Washington.

— Cattle are dying by the hundreds on the ranches in western Texas for want of water and grass. The drought is the severest experienced in that section for many years. Thousands of head of cattle are too weak to be moved to more distant pastures, and they have been abandoned to die on the range.

— There is trouble in Wyoming between cattlemen and sheepmen. Near Laramie, April 27, cattlemen tied fifteen sheep herders to trees, burned their camp and equipment, and killed 3,000 sheep. Further trouble is expected, as the sheepmen say they will refuse to be run out. All parties are armed, and a clash may occur at any moment.

— It is stated that the British government has decided to withdraw from Tibet. Colonel Younghusband's peace mission, with its military escort, reached Gyangtse after a second conflict, similar in its results to that at Guru on March 31; but it will go no farther, nor will there be a resident imposed at Lhasa, nor such interference as was first contemplated by Lord Curzon in the internal affairs of Tibet.

— The first St. Louis fair excursion wreck, one of a number of which we are unfortunately likely to read before the fair is over, notwithstanding its Sunday closing feature, occurred at Wickes Station, twenty miles south of St. Louis, on the Iron Mountain road, Saturday morning, April 30. Eight persons were killed, seven others fatally hurt, and others received more or less serious injuries. The accident was caused by an open switch.

— Russia has secured a war loan from France of $160,000,000. The Russian Vladivostock squadron made an enterprising excursion along the Korean coast southward, during which it encountered and sank a Japanese collier with several hundred troops on board, a large part of whom went down with the ship. The Russian squadron regained Vladivostock harbor safely, aided by a fog. The Japanese have crossed the Yalu River near Wi-ju, after a serious fight, and fighting between the opposing lines of troops seems to have been continuous for several days. Japan has called out the third army reserve.

— Congress adjourned April 28, which date is earlier by about two months than the usual date of adjournment. It appropriated during this first session about $800,000,000. The expenses of running the government are rapidly on the increase. A review of appropriations for the past twelve years, submitted in the Senate by Mr. Culberson, covering the last administration of Mr. Cleveland and the McKinley and Roosevelt administrations, shows that the total expenditures under the Roosevelt administration have been $2,640,000,000, or $211,000,000 greater than those of the four years of the McKinley administration and $883,000,000 greater than those of the last Cleveland administration.

— The tornado season has opened in the West, reports from Indian Territory and neighboring sections of the southwest showing fifteen persons killed and scores injured by tornadoes which swept over that country, April 24. At Fairland, I. T., the record was seven killed and ten seriously injured; at Pryor Creek, I. T., six persons killed; two fatalities were reported in Arkansas. Heavy rains followed the tornadoes, and as a consequence many rivers are near the danger mark, and scores of smaller streams have overflowed their banks. Nebraska and Iowa were on the edge of the wind-storm, and flood conditions now prevail in many parts of those States. In many places houses were swept away. Thousands of acres of farm lands, especially in the bottoms, are under water, and much damage has been done to wheat and other growing crops.