p. 20 | Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 14, 1907

Current Mention

— The Chicago subtreasury on February 20 discovered a shortage of $173,000. The theft was of large bills each of the denomination of $1,000 or more. Up to the present time the guilty party has not been apprehended.

— A fire in a school building in Montreal, Canada, February 26, resulted in the death of the principal and sixteen kindergarten children whom she was seeking to rescue. There were 250 children in the building when the fire broke out.

— The total appropriations made by the second session of the Fifty-ninth Congress is the largest made by any one session, being $919,948,679.63. To this should be added contracts authorized for two new war-ships and for improvements to rivers and harbors $74,829,349, which makes the grand total but little short of a billion dollars.

— The socialist party has for eighteen years been in control of municipal affairs in London. But the mismanagement had become so apparent that at the county council elections held March 2, the heaviest vote on record was polled and the socialists were overwhelmingly defeated, electing but 36 members, whereas they formerly numbered 83 out of 118.

— The United States flag was hissed at a mass-meeting attended by about 4,000 union labor men, held in San Francisco, March 3. During the meeting some of the leaders declared that force should be resorted to if necessary to free Moyer Haywood and Pettibone at present imprisoned in Idaho charged with complicity in killing Governor Steunenberg.

— Because of information received that a series of outrages on important personages had been planned for March 10, a body of 1,500 picked policemen from St. Petersburg surrounded the Polytechnic Institute, which long had been suspected to be a nest of social revolutionists, the morning of March 3, and spent nearly the whole day in searching three blocks of students' quarters. They found several wagon-loads of proclamations and thousands of copies of the new organ of the revolutionary party for circulation in the army; and twelve infernal machines, a score of pyroxylin hand grenades, a quantity of repeating rifles, 200 pounds of pyroxylin, and 400 pounds of dynamite were seized.

— The Great Northern Steamship Company's giant steamship “Dakota” ran aground at Tokyo, Japan, March 3, but there was no loss of life. On the same day in the dense fog hanging over the Straits of Dover several boats went aground on Goodwin Sands, among them the Red Star Line steamer “Vaderland.” She was later floated. There were several collisions between smaller steamers, one German vessel “Helene” being sunk with a loss of eight members of the crew. In another collision the same day at the mouth of the Ems the Belgian steamer “Kongo” was sunk and eleven of her crew were drowned. In this connection we note that the marine statistics for 1906 show that eighty-two sailing vessels of all nations and thirty-nine steamships succumbed to the multifarious perils of the sea.