p. 21 | Current Mention

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 5, 1903

Current Mention

— Andrew Carnegie, the millionaire, has given $1,500,000 for the purpose of erecting a “temple of peace” at The Hague.

— The revolutionists in San Domingo have overcome the opposition of the government forces, and it is announced that order will be restored and a new government formed by a “patriotic committee.”

— A Valparaiso, Chile, dispatch announces the destruction of the town of Pisagua, in Tarapoca Province, by fire. Two thousand people are homeless, and are encamped on the foothills in the vicinity.

— Several fierce engagements have been fought in Somaliland between British native troops and the forces of the “Mad Mullah,” in which the latter has sustained heavy losses, but has succeeded to a degree in impairing British prestige in that region.

— Dr. William T. Councilman, of the medical department of Harvard University, has announced that after much research he has discovered the germ which is the cause of smallpox. This discovery will, it is stated, make it possible to diagnose the disease at a much earlier stage than physicians have been able to do heretofore.

— An Omaha dispatch states that an order has been issued by labor union leaders in that city directing union members belonging to the State militia to resign from the latter immediately, and the order has been generally obeyed. This action is in preparation for a general strike and lockout, which was expected to occur in Omaha about May 1.

— The situation in the far East, where the interests of Russia, Japan, and China, and more or less those of Great Britain and the United States, center upon the question of the Russian occupation of Manchuria, is again becoming serious. China has refused Russia’s demands regarding Manchuria, in which refusal she is strongly supported by the United States. It is anticipated that Russia will retain Manchuria in defiance of the protests of the opposing powers.

— A mining town at the foot of Turtle Mountain, in Southwestern Alberta, British Columbia, was suddenly in part overwhelmed by an eruption which split the summit into pieces, April 29, one hundred and twelve of the inhabitants being killed. “Without an instant of warning,” says the account, the mountain “was split asunder by an eruption at ten minutes past four o’clock this morning, and a minute later the little mining town of Frank, situated at its base, was overwhelmed with millions of tons of rock. The inhabitants, aroused in alarm from their slumbers by the tremendously loud reverberations of the heaving mountain, were in many cases killed by the falling stones, which crushed in their houses and killed them in their beds.” A river which ran through the town was dammed up by the fallen section of the mountain, and should this dam give way, nothing apparently can prevent a disastrous flood.