Current Mention

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 11, 1902

— The coal miners’ strike in France continues, and is marked by considerable rioting. An effort is being made to settle the difficulty by arbitration.

— Successful trials of a new air ship devised by two Frenchmen are reported from Nantes, France. The air ship was able to move against a stiff breeze.

— Immense peat beds are reported to have been found in the vicinity of Kokomo, Ind., capable of supplying the whole State with fuel for several years. When tested, the peat was found superior to bituminous coal as a heat-producer, and was devoid of smoke or odor.

— The Chinese government has promised Great Britain that the Chinese officials responsible for the recent murder of two English missionaries, Messrs. Lewis and Bruce, shall be punished, that compensation shall be paid, and that a memorial shall be erected on the scene of the murder.

— Mgr. Falconio, the “apostolic delegate” from Rome to the United States, will arrive at Washington and be invested with his new office, November 20.

— The French town of St. Pierre, on Miquelon Island, off the Newfoundland coast, was nearly destroyed by fire November 2, the loss amounting to $500,000.

— Reports sent out by the Venezuelan government state that the revolutionary army has been decisively beaten and scattered. The war, however, is not yet ended.

— “Apostle” Reed Smoot, the Mormon church candidate for United States senator, will probably be sent to Congress from Utah, as a result of the election in that State.

— Chinese Boxers are reported to be active in the province of Sze-chuen, where they attack isolated villages, burning churches and killing converts to Christianity.

— The arbitration commission appointed by President Roosevelt to inquire into the coal-mining situation in Pennsylvania, expect to complete their work and present their report by November 15.

— Owing to a failure of the rice crop in the Philippine Islands, the inhabitants are threatened with famine, and $2,000,000 Mexican money has been appropriated under the direction of Governor Taft for their relief.

— Mrs. Maria Fox Smith, the last of the Fox sisters who came into prominence half a century ago in connection with the “Rochester knockings” which marked the beginning of the development of modern Spiritualism, died in Newark, N. Y., November 3, being eighty-five years of age.

— The Doukhobor pilgrimage through the wilds of northwestern Canada, from Yorkton to Winnipeg, is still in progress, all efforts to persuade the fanatical band to return to their farms having been unsuccessful. The pilgrims expect to receive a revelation from heaven when they reach Winnipeg.

— Fourteen persons were killed and forty injured in Madison Square, New York City, Tuesday evening, by the sudden explosion of a mass of bombs such as are used in fireworks displays, in the midst of a crowd which had gathered to receive the election returns. The bombs were of iron, and were filled with a powerful explosive.

— “The success of wireless telegraphy as a means of transatlantic communication is now practically assured,” says a Sydney, Nova Scotia, dispatch, based on the authority of the commander of the Italian cruiser “Carlos Alberto,” which is now at Sunny Harbor, Nova Scotia. He says that a wireless message was received at that port from Cornwall, England, November 1.

— A press dispatch published in the London Times, dated October 31, says that “the visit paid by the Chilean naval squadron to Brazilian waters in August assumed the almost unmistakable character of a demonstration in favor of a coalition of the South American states against any desire on the part of the United States to exercise tutelage over them or interfere in their affairs.” A bitter feeling prevails in Brazil against the United States.