Current Events from Around the World

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 26, 1914

Current Events from Around the World

— It is estimated that the Sulzer impeachment trial cost the State of New York $235,000.

— Forty-one persons were asphyxiated in an insurance office at Moscow, Russia, on February 7. A gas main broke, and the room was filled with fumes before the occupants could escape.

— The latest military Zeppelin airship attained an average speed of sixty-five miles an hour on her trial trip from Friedrichshafen to Potsdam, Germany, which was carried out on February 7 in the short period of eight hours.

— Women citizens of Chicago turned out in full strength February 3, to take advantage of their first opportunity to register as voters. Perfect weather conditions favored a large registration, and estimates vary at from 150,000 to 200,000.

— Remscheid, a German city with a population of 78,000, has installed a new municipal bath, and during the present year the attendance has averaged more than 2,000 bathers daily. Similar baths are to be constructed in numerous other German cities.

— Over 100 persons, composing the passengers and crew of a Mexican train, were locked in the coaches by bandits, and the train sent down a steep grade into Cumbre tunnel, which had been set on fire. Not one person escaped. Fifteen Americans are reported to have lost their lives.

— An important midwinter Bible conference was held in Washington, D. C., February 8-15. Rev. G. Campbell Morgan, of London, Dr. W. A. Souper, S. D. Gordon, Dr. Frank Palmer, Rev. John H. Jowett, Secretary of State Bryan, and other noted speakers were among those who took part.

— Mohammed V, sultan of Turkey, has recently suffered a stroke of partial paralysis. The attack left the sultan in a critical condition. Mohammed V is in his seventieth year, and succeeded to the throne in April, 1909, when the Young Turks deposed his brother, Abdul-Hamid II, and established a constitutional government.

— Modernism of a material sort is invading Palestine in various forms. One of the latest announcements appears in a cablegram from Jerusalem dated January 27, which records that a French banking firm has obtained a concession to light Jerusalem with electricity, to establish a water supply, and to construct a tramway from Jerusalem to Bethlehem.

— After three years of disappointments, Pacific Coast citrus fruit growers this year have produced a bumper crop, according to officials of the Southern Pacific Railroad. This year's crop, it is estimated, will be sufficient to provide fifteen oranges for every person in the United States. Estimates place the California shipment at 40,000 cars, more than double that of a year ago.

— Organization of the permanent force of officials and employees to operate the Panama Canal has been intrusted to Col. George W. Goethals, who becomes the first governor of the Canal Zone on April 1. It is estimated that 2,500 persons will be employed. Colonel Goethals was in Washington, D. C., this week for a final conference with Secretary Garrison regarding canal matters.

— Pres. Guillermo Billinghurst of Peru was deposed on February 4, being made captive by a military coup d'état, engineered by Dr. Augusto Durand, leader of a former revolution. It is said that he was taken by the rebels to Callao, from which port he will be deported on an outgoing steamer and exiled abroad. The attack of the rebels was sudden and well planned. It is estimated that the casualties number fifty.

— To cross the Atlantic in from twelve to fifteen hours without alighting, is the task set a "flying boat" for which Rodman Wanamaker has let the contract. The purpose of the undertaking is to make "a purely scientific test" of aeronautics, and to provide an argument for world peace, in so far as the success of the craft would show that dreadnoughts might be futile in the future. In a general way, the "Wanamaker flier" will resemble a hydroplane.

— The first woman to run for Congress in America is Mrs. Eva Morley Murphy, of Goodland, Kans., who has announced her candidacy for the Progressive nomination in the sixth district.

— It is said that King George of England owns one of the most valuable stamp collections in the possession of any individual in the world. Part of the collection of the late Earl of Crawford, "second only to that of the king, who has been collecting since his boyhood," was recently sold in London for $80,000.

— A new record was made recently in wireless transmission. It occurred in connection with the opening of a new station at Elivese, Germany. The message was sent by Emperor William to Pres. Woodrow Wilson, as follows: "I send you very best greetings, hoping that the wireless communication will become a new link between our countries." The message was received at the Tuckerton, N. J., station, and the distance covered was 4,062 1/2 miles. The message was transmitted by what is known as the Goldschmidt system. It is claimed for it that it makes practicable the sending of messages at high speed, with low cost, and also preserves secrecy.