p. 22 | Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Sep 8, 1904

Current Mention

— Nine persons were killed and twenty-three injured in a collision on the Grand Trunk Railway near Richmond, Quebec, August 31.

— Six persons were burned to death and three others fatally injured by an explosion of natural gas at an oil well in Calhoun County, W. Va., September 2.

— The business portion of Gem, Idaho, was destroyed by fire, September 2, about one hundred houses being burned. The financial loss is $150,000.

— Inhabitants of the island of Crete are reported to be dissatisfied with the rule of Prince George of Greece, and are threatening a revolution.

— A report from London says that the problem of aerial navigation has “probably” been solved by Sir Hiram Maxim, who has invented a flying-machine which resembles a gigantic swallow.

— The British expedition to Tibet appears to have fully attained its object. A dispatch from Simla says: “It is understood that Tibet has yielded terms that are considered satisfactory, and that the British mission will leave Lhasa earlier than was expected.”

— The strike of dock laborers in France has assumed serious proportions. A Marseilles dispatch dated September 1 says: “The strike of the dock laborers and marine workers threatens to spread to all the seaports of France, and even to the river ports, and to paralyze commerce. The outlook is the gravest of its kind with which the authorities have ever been confronted.”

— Cardinal Satolli has had a recent interview with Pope Pius, at which the cardinal, says a dispatch dated at Rome, presented to the pope “the devotion of the bishops and the American clergy, and an expression of the American Catholics for the pope, and told of the feeling of deference shown by the non-Catholics. His holiness said he was greatly moved by such manifestations, and highly appreciated such a general disposition toward loyalty on the part of the people of the United States.”

— Attempts to enforce the Sunday law which has survived on the statute-books of Pennsylvania from the times when church and state were united led to serious results in Allegheny city, Tuesday, August 30. Three detectives in the employ of the Sunday-enforcement association, which is strong in Pennsylvania, were attacked in the streets by a mob of citizens who had become enraged at their zeal in making arrests wherever they found people engaged in secular pursuits, and in defending themselves one of them drew a revolver and fired several shots into the crowd, with the result that one man was fatally injured, and died on his way to the hospital. It is probable that the Sunday-law cause has received a back-set in that city.

— The great battle which has been so long anticipated between the Russian and Japanese armies in Manchuria began Tuesday, August 30, in the vicinity of Liao Yang, on the banks of the Taitse River, and raged with great fury for several days, continuing practically day and night. The combined armies numbered about 500,000 men, and the battle will rank as one of the greatest in military warfare. A conspicuous part in the great contest was played by the artillery, with which both armies were well supplied. The first reports of the battle were favorable to the Russians, but later reports announced that the Russian commander had been obliged to abandon Liao Yang and retreat across the river, to meet a flanking movement by the Japanese General Kuroki. Reports of the losses on either side have not yet been obtained.