News and Miscellany

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 16, 1913

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— Statistics place the damage to property in Great Britain by suffragists since their campaign of violence three years ago at $2,700,000. The bulk of this damage has been done since the “Arson Squad” was formed. One fire alone did nearly $1,000,000 damage.

— On October 6, Yuan Shi Kai was elected president of the Chinese Republic for a term of five years. He received the necessary two-thirds vote of the united houses of parliament on the third ballot. In all parts of the country the greatest interest was manifested in this first presidential election in the history of the new republic.

— The water-front section of Nome, Alaska, was almost completely destroyed by a terrific wind-and-rain storm, accompanied by high seas, approaching the dimensions of tidal waves, on October 6. The storm raged for twelve hours. No loss of life has been reported so far, but the property damage on all sides has been very heavy. Buildings of all sorts along the water-front were leveled by the tornado-like wind, aided by the downpour of rain, which weakened the foundations. The whole section known as “sand strip,” extending along the ocean for about two and one-half miles, was laid flat or washed away. Front Street, the principal business thoroughfare, suffered almost as heavily, all the buildings on the south side of the street being wrecked.