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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 27, 1908

Current Mention

— Two young women from New York City recently indulged in a prize fight at Worcester, Mass. The contest was held in a ring in the woods, and the fight continued for three rounds.

— Mrs. Eva Touser Harter, of Columbia, N. Y., celebrated her hundredth birthday last week, one feature of the celebration being an automobile ride. Mrs. Harter retains all her faculties, and estimates she is intelligent concerning the leading topics of the day:

— A district of twenty square miles on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, was ablaze last week, destroying much timber and threatening the settlements on the island. On another island, a settlement consisting of eighty persons was swept by the flames.

— Plans are being laid for a foreign missionary conference composed of missionaries and missionary workers from all parts of the world, to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, in June, 1910. President Roosevelt has indorsed the plan in a letter to representatives of this movement.

— That magnificent ocean liner, the “Lusitania,” of the Cunard line, in her trip across the ocean last week, lowered all former records for a day's run, by making 650 knots in one day, the actual time being a little over twenty-five hours. The longest run previously made in one day was 643 knots.

— With a remarkable demonstration, after the order of the national conventions, Governor John A. Johnson, of Minnesota, was nominated for the governorship by the Democratic State convention held at Minneapolis, on Wednesday of last week. Governor Johnson had repeatedly announced that he would not accept the nomination for a third term.

— It is held that the conflict between Holland and Venezuela is of such a nature that it can not be submitted to arbitration. Preparations for war are being pushed on the part of Holland, work being carried forward at the naval dockyards night and day. The plans of Holland to secure redress from Venezuela have received the indorsement of the United States government.

— In an address before the National Editorial Association at St. Paul, Minn., last week, A. L. Lawshe, third assistant postmaster-general, predicted that the publishers of the United States would continue to enjoy the present second-class rates of postage, and that the business men of the country would obtain in due time a postage rate of one cent an ounce on first-class matter.

— In a signed article by Booker T. Washington, concerning the recent lynchings of negroes, occurs the following statement: “Within the past sixty days twenty-five negroes have been lynched in different parts of the United States. Of this number only four were even charged with criminal assault upon women. How long can our Christian civilization stand this? I am making no special plea for the negro, innocent or guilty, but I am calling attention to the danger which threatens our civilization.”

— Rear-Admiral Robley D. Evans, generally known as “Fighting Bob,” after forty-five years of service in the United States navy, retired last week.

— The government has accepted Captain Thomas Baldwin's dirigible air-ship, for which it will pay him $5,737.50. This is the first air-ship purchased by the United States government.

— The fleet of American war-ships was welcomed in the harbor of Sydney by the Australians last Thursday. It is estimated that hardly less than half a million people were assembled to join in the demonstration.

— The pastor of a negro congregation in Chicago, in a sermon, advised his members to arm themselves and thus be prepared for defense in case of an outbreak similar to the recent one in Springfield in that State. It appears that the colored people in Chicago apprehend trouble between the races.

— It is reported from London that the British government contemplates raising a loan of five hundred million dollars on nominal terms to be expended in strengthening the British navy, so that England may maintain undisputed leadership on the seas. This plan is suggested as a way of accomplishing the desired result without disorganizing the annual budgets, or casting a heavy burden upon the present generation.

— Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, who has been on a visit to Rome, is reported as expressing deep satisfaction at the treatment which he has received at the hands of the pope, who, he states, is “especially interested in America, grasping with wonderful acumen the inner spirit and breadth of the adherents of the church in America.” Cardinal Gibbons thinks it possible that another American cardinal will be appointed by the pope.

— A young colored man who had been stabbed in the heart was operated upon in one of the Washington (D. C.) hospitals last week. The first, second, and third ribs were broken by the surgeon and folded back, that the heart might be reached. The organ was lifted slightly, and six stitches were taken in the wound. Ninety ounces of blood were removed in the operation. Unless complications set in, it is expected that the patient will recover.

— An operation which is regarded by medical men as unique in the annals of medicine was recently performed at the Emergency Hospital in Washington, D. C. A boy, twelve years of age, had succumbed while on the operating table under the influence of an anesthetic. Finding that other means to revive the patient were unavailing, the surgeon in charge opened the boy's abdomen, and for seven minutes massaged the patient's heart with his fingers. Slight signs of returning life being then evident, the physician continued to stimulate the circulation of the blood by manipulating the heart with his fingers, until, after eighteen minutes more, normal pulsation was restored. The boy lived for a day and a half, and then death ensued on account of blood-poisoning from an operation on the knee. Physicians now declare that many persons who expire while under anesthetics may possibly be revived by such methods.