News and Miscellany

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 27, 1913

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— It is estimated that 200,000 men have been killed in the Balkan war.

— Raymond Poincare was inaugurated president of the French Republic on February 18.

— The United States is to have a tax on incomes of above $5,000. An amendment to the Constitution which makes such a tax possible has now been adopted by a sufficient number of States to furnish Congress the necessary authority.

— The Burnett-Dillingham immigration bill, vetoed by President Taft because it imposed a literacy test upon immigrants, was passed over the President's veto by the Senate on February 18, with a majority of fifty-four votes, but the House refused to override the President's veto, and the bill is killed.

— Serious rioting continues in Kioto, Japan. A great mob taking part in a demonstration recently attacked the newspaper offices and stoned the residences of the new constitutionalist-unionist party, founded by former Premier Prince Katsura. Gendarmes were called out before the demonstration could be suppressed.

— Joaquin Miller, the well-known “poet of the Sierras,” died at his home near Oakland, Cal., on February 17.

— After Jan. 1, 1914, Reno, Nev., will no more be a paradise for divorcees. The lawmakers of that State have passed a bill requiring a residence of one year instead of six months before a divorce can be obtained.

— On February 15, fines ranging from $1 to $10,000 were imposed on the fourteen individual and thirteen corporation defendants convicted recently in the trial of the so-called bath-tub trust, for criminal conspiracy in restraint of trade.

— Hereafter, in some of the New York hotels, when a person pays his bill in the café, he is to be allowed a rebate of ten per cent. This rebate is to be retained by the waiter in lieu of the customary tip, thereby relieving the guests of the necessity of paying for service twice.

— Spain's new ambassador to the Vatican presented his credentials to the Pope and was received recently. The post has been vacant since the summer of 1910, when the ambassador of the Holy See was withdrawn from Spain because of the strained relations between the Vatican and the government of Premier Canalejas.

— Pres. John H. Patterson, of the National Cash Register Company of Dayton, Ohio, was sentenced on February 17 to serve one year in the county jail at Troy, Ohio, and to pay a fine of $5,000, for violation of the Sherman antitrust law. Twenty-eight other officials and employees of the company were given jail sentences varying from three months to one year.

— The physicians at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, Md., are now making long-distance heart examinations by the use of the cardiograph, or heart-recording instrument. They can record the heart condition of a patient 500 miles from the hospital. The specialist, hundreds of miles from the patient, can examine the heart and give the attending physician specific directions. The telephone has made this latest achievement possible.

— With the exception of an armistice of less than twenty-four hours, fighting between the federal and rebel troops in Mexico City continued until February 18. On that date Pres. Francisco I. Madero was arrested in the national palace by one of his own commanders, and forced to sign his resignation from the presidency. Gen. Victoriano Huerta, one of the Diaz sympathizers, has been proclaimed provisional president of the republic. Madero is held as a prisoner, and most of his cabinet ministers are under arrest. As the result of the conflict in Mexico City 2,000 persons are dead, and between 8,000 and 10,000 wounded. The majority of the victims are non-combatants, women, and children. Mexico is to-day honeycombed and torn asunder by many revolutionary movements. The principal of these are the Orozco movement in the north and the Zapata uprising in the south. Lawlessness has become rife, and robber bands, masquerading as revolutionists, have sent terror through the states, from the Rio Grande to Yucatan.