p. 21 | Current Mention

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 5, 1902

Current Mention

— A strike of 2,300 Chicago boiler makers, affecting thirty-five shops, took place August 1.

— The commander of the American gunboat “Ranger,” now at Panama, has notified the Colombian insurgent leaders who have gunboats there, that they will not be permitted to bombard the town or anchorage of Panama.

— The United States has inserted in the treaty with Panama for the completion of the interoceanic canal a clause providing for the lease of islands in the Bay of Panama, which are to be used for the defense of the water way.

— Sentiment favoring the annexation of Cuba to the United States has already inaugurated a movement to that end in Cuba, and a bitter feeling is stirred up by it among a large class of Cubans who had been counting on at least a period of Cuban independence.

— The lower house of the Cuban Congress has adopted a resolution repudiating the settlement made between the United States and the Catholic Church with reference to church property in the island. Should the upper house concur in the measure, the whole question of the disposition of the church property will be reopened.

— President Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers, and officials of and sympathizers with the organization, have been enjoined in the Federal court at Charleston, W. Va., from entering upon mine property, holding meetings, or asking miners to quit work in the New River coal fields. The sweeping character of the injunction is a subject of general comment.

— Cholera in its most virulent form is raging in Egypt, many deaths being reported daily in Cairo. In some cases people are taken with the disease while out on the streets, and die on the spot in a few moments’ time. There are two other centers of this plague at the present time,—Manila, in the Philippine Islands, and the Chinese province of Manchuria.

— A Singapore dispatch reports the collision of two steamships off Malacca, Straits Settlement, July 30. Forty lives were lost.

— Civil war is raging in Hayti, two battles being reported in a recent dispatch, one defeat being suffered by each side.

— Great heat prevailed July 30 at Omaha and vicinity and in sections of Illinois, some factories at Morris, Ill., being obliged to shut down.

— Heavy floods, inundating thousands of acres of land, destroying crops valued at millions of dollars, and threatening much greater damage, are reported from Texas, in the districts of the Brazos and Colorado Rivers.

— Spain, like France, is wrestling with the problem of religious associations, and premier Sagasta has declared that the government cannot yield to Rome in the matter, but will follow the example of the United States.

— The St. Vincent volcano is again active, and a severe earthquake and tidal wave are reported as accompanying phenomena in one part of the island. A great increase in the depth of the sea bed near St. Vincent is reported by the Panama cable repair ship.

— Serious outbreaks of violence are beginning to attend the strike in the anthracite coal regions. At Shenandoah a battle occurred July 30 between strikers and the police, a score of persons being shot, one being killed and four others fatally hurt. Rioters were in full control of the town for twenty-four hours.

— A serious riot in New York City, growing out of race antipathy between Hebrews and Anglo-Saxons, took place on the lower east side of the Metropolis, where many Jews reside, July 30, the occasion being the funeral of Chief Rabbi Jacob Joseph. Employees of the Hoe printing press factory threw water and missiles upon the funeral procession and the crowd, who retaliated by stoning the factory. Several persons were injured in the struggle.

— Earthquake shocks have been reported the past week from New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, and California, those on the Pacific coast being especially severe. The town of Los Alamos, in Southern California, was wrecked by the shocks, which made gaping fissures in the earth, and threw up hills and mounds over a district fifteen miles long by four miles wide. The inhabitants fled for their lives.

— For the first time in its history, the governmental injunction has been invoked against the consummation of a gamble in stocks. A “corner” in July oats, which was being operated by board of trade members in Chicago, was temporarily enjoined July 30 by a firm which the corner threatened with heavy loss, the firm alleging that as the result of the corner they are obliged to deliver oats at a fictitious value, about double the actual worth of the grain. The complainants purpose to “find out whether it is to be for all time possible for groups of millionaires to turn upside down the grain business of the country, and inflict heavy losses on the trade.”

— Parts of Europe as well as America are experiencing destructive storms. England and Belgium have thus far been the principal sufferers.

— Reports from London state that there is a growing belief among the people that King Edward will never be crowned, and no active interest is being taken in preparations for that event.

— Three attempts to wreck the New Orleans limited train on the Illinois Central Railway have been made within the past two months, the last one being discovered July 29.

— News has been received of a cyclone which raged over the Gulf of California, July 24, damaging the coast cities and wrecking many ships. The loss of life is believed to be heavy.

— The announcement comes from London that a company has been formed with a nominal capital of $875,000, which will soon be operating wireless telephones and wireless telegraphs at nominal charges.

— A Baptist pastor at Plainfield, N. J., has started a crusade against a neighboring pleasure resort because of violations of the Sunday law which occur there. Alluding to the subject in a recent sermon, he said that since this resort opened up, there had been an unusual lack of attendance at the Sunday services.

The Canadian government is to send into the region of the Albany River, a tributary of Hudson Bay from the west, a large survey party, equipped for geological, topographic, timber, agricultural, and other economic work. There is no information as to the character of the vast wilderness other than that furnished by occasional guides and Indians. It is supposed that an enormous timber belt stretches across the region, and that the district is also rich in mineral wealth.