p. 22 | Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Sep 15, 1904

Current Mention

— The business portion of Progreso, Mexico, was swept by fire, September 8, the loss amounting to $1,000,000.

— Fourteen persons, mostly children, were killed, and twenty or more injured, in a tenement house fire in New York City, September 4.

— A report from Mexico City states that a tidal wave has greatly damaged the costly harbor improvements at the port of Manzanillo.

— Five persons were killed and three others fatally injured by a premature explosion of nitroglycerin in an oil-well near Sandusky, Ohio, September 3.

— Five young men of Cleveland, Ohio, went out on Lake Erie in a small launch, September 3, and a sudden storm coming up, the launch was overturned, and they were drowned.

— A Wabash passenger train bound from Des Moines to St. Louis plunged down an embankment near Pendleton, Mo., September 6, the result being six passengers killed and thirty injured. A broken wheel is supposed to have been the cause.

— Four persons were killed and thirty-five injured by a wreck on the Seaboard Air Line southwest of Monroe, N. C., September 9. The train was derailed at a trestle, and a subsequent examination showed that the spikes holding the rails in place had been pulled out, and some joints of the trestle disconnected.

— The strike of the butcher workmen, which has demoralized the meat-packing industry throughout the country for the last two months, has been officially declared off by President Michael J. Donnelly, of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters' and Butcher Workmen of America. The strike has cost the men $5,100,000, and the packers $7,500,000.

— The mysterious phenomenon of immense waves without wind is exciting the wonder of people on the coast of southern California. The disturbance has continued for several days, and considerable damage has been done to wharves and other structures within reach of the water. By some the phenomenon is accounted for on the supposition of submarine earthquakes, and by others it is thought to be due to some far-away storm of great severity.

— While no accurate estimate of the casualties at the great battle at Liao Yang has yet been received, it is believed the total of killed and wounded on both sides, is about 60,000. The Russian army seems to have made good its retreat to Mukden, and both armies are now resting from their exertions. At Port Arthur the Japanese have ceased assaults, and are approaching the Russian fortifications by means of trenches. An effort at intervention in the war is to be made by an international peace organization, according to the following telegram dated at St. Louis, September 10: "The powers of the world, signatory to The Hague convention, will be asked by the Interparliamentary Union at its twelfth conference to intervene in the Russo-Japanese war; President Roosevelt will be requested to call a second session of The Hague convention; compulsory arbitration will be advocated; the use of submarine mines in time of war will be deplored, and many kindred resolutions will be presented during the deliberations of next week."