Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 16, 1909

— The Chinese government has sent a strong note of protest to other world powers against Russia’s claims to right of administration over the Manchurian railway zones.

— As a result of the storm of last week along the coast of Newfoundland, fifteen lives are known to be lost, and the worth of property destroyed is estimated at $500,000.

— Sixty-three lives were lost in the wrecking of two steamers off the coast of England on December 3 as a result of the terrible gale which raged over the British Isles on that date.

— Educators of the Indians from all over the United States, assembled in Washington, D. C., on December 7 to consider methods of teaching the nation’s wards. The assemblage is made up of superintendents of Indian reservations, Indian schools, and non-reservation schools. Being the first gathering of its kind, it is regarded as of the highest importance to the Indians.

— The tin mills at Bridgeport, Ohio, are preparing to continue their operations in spite of the strike. During the past week there has been considerable rioting, and several companies of militia were called out to protect the mills. One thousand cots and a large store of provisions have been taken inside the plant, and strike breakers are to be employed to continue the operations of the mills.

— Scientists believing in the Darwinian theory of the descent of man, unable to find the “missing link,” are now provided with one made to order by Prof. R. S. Lull, of Yale University, from parts of skeletons believed to have belonged to primitive men, discovered in different parts of the world. He has built up what he considers to be a replica of the animal which scientists believe to have been man’s immediate progenitor.

— An examination of the dairies supplying the District of Columbia with milk developed the startling fact that more than two thirds of the cows belonging to these dairies are affected with tuberculosis. The authorities are beginning a systematic slaughter of the diseased animals. If conditions in other parts of the country are similar to the condition here prevailing, the great prevalence of tuberculosis among human beings may be accounted for.

Field Notes

F. J. HARRIS reports two new converts at Forreston, Ill.

BROTHER J. W. WATT recently baptized six persons at Carter Camp, Pa.

At Kansas City, Mo., nine have recently been baptized and joined the First Church.

BROTHER E. F. COLLIER reports the baptism of six persons as the result of his labors in Waldron and Zearing, Ill.

ON Sabbath, November 13, Elder W. H. Heckman baptized two adults who have recently accepted the truth at Lancaster, Pa.

THERE are eight new Sabbath-keepers at Warrenton, Va., and Brother U. D. Pickard also reports a good interest in that place.

ELDER C. L. TAYLOR recently baptized two persons at St. Helena, Cal., one of whom not long ago renounced Catholicism in Jamaica.

Two elderly persons, aged sixty-six and seventy-seven years respectively, went forward in baptism recently in Wheelock, N. D.