Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Oct 27, 1904

— A Cunard steamship from Fiume, Hungary, with 2,200 emigrants on board, is reported to have been sunk in a fierce storm off the Spanish coast.

— Six persons lost their lives, and six more received serious injuries, in a tenement house fire in Brooklyn, N. Y., which is believed to have been incendiary in its origin.

— A sensation was created at the headquarters of the Republican political party by a statement by Thomas Lawson, the Boston millionaire who is writing of the Standard Oil monopoly in Everybody's Magazine, under the title “Frenzied Finance,” that the head of the Standard Oil system had declared that President Roosevelt must be defeated in the coming national election at any cost. The alleged plan of the Standard Oil magnates is to buy up the doubtful States during the last week of the campaign.

— A disquieting condition of affairs is reported from the Isthmus of Panama, due to the hostile attitude of a disaffected element in the new republic, and Secretary Taft is to visit the Isthmus, and endeavor to restore peace. A committee of Congress will also visit Panama, and report on the existing conditions there. The United States government has kept a battalion of marines on the Isthmus ever since the new republic was inaugurated, and this force will be maintained there for the present. It is claimed by Senator Morgan, of Alabama, that there is nothing in the treaty between Panama and the United States to prevent the former's entering into an alliance with any European power, and giving the latter a protectorate over the Isthmus.

— Reports from the seat of war in the far East indicate that a renewal of the battle between the opposing armies is at hand, from which decisive results are expected. The Russian general seems inclined to assume the offensive, probably in response to orders from St. Petersburg. It is estimated that the killed and wounded of both armies in the recent great fight total eighty thousand men. No great change is reported in the situation at Port Arthur, but it is believed the resisting powers of the garrison are nearly at an end.