p. 22 | News and Miscellany

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 29, 1912

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— The Chinghwa Republic is the official name of the new Chinese government.

— February 13, forty-six persons were drowned by the sinking, after a collision, of two Japanese steamers near Nagasaki, Japan.

— The city of Chicago receives $15,000,000 annually as a tax on vice. For this amount 5,000 human lives are sacrificed every year.

— Eight persons are dead and about fifty injured as the result of a tornado that swept through a section of Shreveport, La., on February 20.

— Interest in the Chinese political situation ought not to obscure the fact that in the Yangtse Valley a great famine is raging, in which nearly four million persons are facing absolute starvation.

— The Mississippi Legislature has passed an anti-tipping bill. Any employer who allows an employee to take a tip is to be fined $150. Any waiter who takes a tip, and any man who gives one, is to be fined $50.

— The Mexican government has agreed to pay an indemnity of $3,100,000 to the Chinese republic for the death of 300 Chinese at Torreon, Mexico, during the revolution last July, according to a recent cablegram. The Chinese were murdered by Mexican revolutionists.

— The Russian government is seriously considering the tunneling of the Caucasian mountains near Tiflis, thus connecting the Black and the Caspian Seas. The length of the tunnel would be sixteen miles, and the engineers estimate that the work could be completed in seven years.

— The situation in Mexico is still unsettled, and is causing much anxiety to the State Department at Washington. Lawlessness prevails in both the north and south, and the Madero government has, so far, been unable to quell the insurrection. Foreigners are leaving the country for safety.

— Biblical students await with interest the completion of an English translation of the Old Testament projected by a company of American Jewish scholars who purpose to provide a version based upon “the historical Jewish interpretation of Scripture” in the light of rabbinical tradition and learning.

— Four trainmen were killed in a rear-end collision between a freight-train and the Boston-bound express in the Hoosac Tunnel, near North Adams, Mass., on February 20. The passenger-train was not seriously damaged, but the wrecked freight-cars took fire, and it is said that the tunnel can not be cleared for several days.

— A coal strike is threatened in Great Britain which will involve about 800,000 miners. March 1 has been named by the federation as the date of the walk-out. It is reported that miners in this country and on the Continent will be asked to stop work in support of the British strike. The government is endeavoring to bring about a satisfactory settlement.